ECOSOMATICS
A process based embodied experience to build connection with oneself and the Earth
Inspiring healing, harmony, and creative expression.
'Soma' means wholeness, it is the mind and body together.
It is a step towards a relational way of being and liberation, free from hierarchies and dominance of mind over body and man over nature.
And a step into the unknown, moving beyond what we know, inviting what is not already known.
Through movement we can invite a new way of being and experiencing the world, where our bodies aren't seen as tools for 'doing' or exploiting, but rather receptive and generative, fluid containers of wholeness, healing, space, creative expression, and being.
Creating new shapes inspires a variety of responses to choose from, where space is created beyond our conditioned tendencies and habitual ways of responding. By tuning into the body we can begin learning a new language of relating with ourselves and others to deepen our awareness on how we react, respond, and move in the world, and create choices that didn't previously exist.
Through cultivating compassion, awareness, and capacity to be with the multitudes of our entangled being we can co-create a new reality starting from where we are.
This work can help us move beyond the stories of despair about the current state of the world without bypassing the grief and to inspire movement from our collective state of freeze.
CONTACT & TOUCH
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
RESOURCE & REGULATE
BREATH & VOICE
ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
MINDFULNESS
Cultivating presence and experiencing the felt sense
RITUAL
“The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects them as separate and distinct entities called subjects and objects. What disembodied realism...misses is that, as embodied, imaginative creatures, we never were separated or divorced from reality in the first place. What has always made science possible is our embodiment, not our transcendence of it, and our imagination, not our avoidance of it.”
George Lako, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Imagining a new world requires that we fully inhabit and embody the current one, to feel how connected we are and how our choices do matter. Through embodied imagination, improv exercises, movement, witnessing and being witnessed by each other, meditation poetry and writing prompts we explore the body and mind's innate wisdom and ability to heal and connect. We bring our whole selves into the conversation of social and environmental justice recognizing the ecosystems that live inside of us and that we live in. We stand in our dignity and experience our vitality to belong to ourselves, one another, and the earth as beings that matter. We free ourselves from unnecessary suffering caused by our disconnection with ourselves and the environment, being in a constant state of business, not knowing how to relate to yourself when things are 'off'. We understand our true nature is one of compassion and caring, we clear the blockages, and deepen into the present moment.