EMBODY THE
WAY OF NATURE
RETURN HOME TO YOUR BODY
RETURN HOME TO EARTH
GROWING CULTURAL LIFEWAYS OF BELONGING THROUGH EMBODIED EARTH COMMUNITY PRACTICE
EMBODIED PLACEMAKING | ANCESTRAL REMEMBRANCE | DECOLONIAL SOLIDARITY
We believe that belonging is hardwired into our blood, bones, waterways and stones. It is nature's intelligence awakened from within and enacted between bodies/lands, giving rise to relationships steeped in an ethic of care and reciprocity. Eco-somatics, or embodied earth practice, is a framework for nurturing this ancestral way of being in relationship with life. We all come from people who at one time engaged in communal, earth-honoring, body-based practices that supported harmony and balance between people and places. As relational beings woven into an ecological tapestry of interdependence, belonging is your birthright while at the same time a devotional practice of remembering your way home.
As politicized, embodiment practitioners reclaiming euro-traditional folkways, our culture-making approach is rooted in the understanding that belonging arises from an earth-honoring way of life as old as creation. We also understand that systems of oppression work hard to sever us from this innate and vital connection with our body/lands/stories. We borrow from biology the term homing to describe our innate ability to navigate the dislocation of modern culture towards an original place of embodied belonging. This is what our work is in service to: reconnecting to embodied intelligence, restoring a secure attachment with earth, and recovering ancestral technologies of animist wisdom through earth-centered and body-based practice.
Together, let us foster a resilient earth culture for generations to come.
“Our bodies know that they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. Guided by longing, belonging is the wisdom of rhythm. When we are in rhythm with our own nature, things flow and balance naturally."
- John O'Donohue
Eco-Somatics is a field of embodied research and practice that nurtures ancestral technologies of Embodied Belonging. With roots in indigenous knowledge systems, it combines the work of somatics and ecology to create a framework for developing our felt sense of self to include the relational field of our living ecology and cosmos.
Somatics recognizes the body as a source of wisdom and innate intelligence from which we can orient our lives, while Ecology recognizes the interconnectedness of all phenomena, and that there is intrinsic value and consciousness that exists in the wider ecology.
Therefore, eco-somatics helps us to understand in an experiential way that our interconnectedness to the living world happens through our bodies, because our bodies are an extention of earth. Belonging is embodied to the extent that one is attuned and responsive to the wisdom of the earth / body continuum.
Reclaim your ancestral roots and reconnect to earth wisdom. In the Sacred Grove we engage in rituals that honor rhythms of Sun, Moon and Stars, explore seasonal and astrological teachings that support you through life changes, and nurture embodied earth-based practices that deepen intimacy with land and more-than-human relatives.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tue, Apr 23Apr 23, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PMThe bright light of the Full Moon reflects a time of illumination, culmination and fulfillment of that which was set in motion six months ago on the Scorpio New Moon.
We are being called to mend our estrangement from the web of life,
to remember our belongingness to the living world,
and to allow space in our lives to be re-enchanted by the song of Earth.
WELCOME!
We are Jess & Michelle. We are humbled to have you here.
We specialize in transformative, body-centered and nature-based resourcing practices that support you to restore your primal connection to the living earth, nurture embodied wisdom, and reconnect to your sacred role / responsibility in the web of life.
We believe that earth is calling to humanity through the collective discomfort and cultural crises of these times and is asking each of us to rise and reclaim our purpose in service to planetary healing and liberation. For us that means nurturing ecological / collective intelligence through an ongoing process of decolonization toward a land-back future and rooting our work in the commitment of dismantling systems of oppression, white supremacy, extractive capitalism, and settler colonialism.
We are heading the call to embody the dream of earth by weaving ourselves back into kinship with the living world. We are remembering our way home by recognizing our shared struggle in the fight for liberation and right to exist in harmony with the more-than-human world. We are apprenticing ourselves to the way of nature by living in alignment with natural rhythms, cultivating a reciprocal relationship to place, and awakening to the dream of earth stirring in our souls.
When you embody the way of nature, every cell of your being awakens to the power of life pulsing through your veins, awareness of interdependence (and trust in that) grows, and this compels you to live ever more boldly in service to that which generates life and liberation. You experience the soul pleasure of being awake to the wholeness of your life unfolding in a web of kinship.
Wild Fern Studios
Wild Fern Studios
WE SUPPORT YOU TO
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REPAIR EARTH/SPIRIT + MIND/BODY DISCONNECTION
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NURTURE EARTH LITERACY & WILD FLUENCY
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BEFRIEND GRIEF AS A COMPANION TO BEING HUMAN IN THIS WORLD
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MARK & RITUALIZE THRESHOLD MOMENTS, RITES OF PASSAGE + TIMES OF TRANSITION
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ORIENT TO SEASONAL + CYCLICAL LIVING
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INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY TO PERCEIVE WITH YOUR SENSES
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PARTICIPATE MORE ACTIVELY IN THE FORCES THAT SHAPE THE WORLD
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NURTURE ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE (ATTUNEMENT TO RELATIONSHIPS, FEELINGS & FORCES)
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SLOW DOWN, FIND PLEASURE IN SIMPLICITY, & CULTIVATE SENSUAL ALIVENESS
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LISTEN TO THE WAY YOUR SOUL SPEAKS TO & THROUGH YOU
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CREATIVELY ADAPT TO THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE
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RECONNECT TO THE WILD, EROTIC POWER OF BEING FULLY AWAKE
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