Ecology and Research

Interoception is an important sensory system that helps us to feel internal body signals and research indicates that our ability to clearly notice and interpret these internal body signals contributes to an embodied experience.

This presentation will discuss how the discipline of community psychology approaches embodied sexuality and how this theoretical framework is applied to dance, community building, and feminism.

Dismantling systems of domestication and embracing the wildness within us.

How plant medicine can accelerate our growth in consciousness, and help us to connect our inner selves, one another, and the natural world around us.

The development of the ecological self in relation to the discipline of authentic movement.

Embodied Spiritual Practice. Scientific framework; the 4 brainwave states and how to change them.

Movement Improvisation and Somatic Exploration across the Biomes of North America.

Join Constance Clare-Newman in sensorial practices of pleasure as we explore our inter-being with nature as an antidote to disconnection, digital distraction and stress.

A conversation at the intersection of the complexity sciences and Rewilding.

Being fully present in our reality makes us more adaptable.

Research into mental imagery and how scientific research into embodiment can facilitate clinical work.

Human beings are in the midst of an evolutionary shift: will we take our bodies with us, or not?

Find how the senses empower, make connections to world, offer creativity.

Practical tools to build bridges: It starts with listening from our hearts more than from our heads

We were born of this earth and throughout recorded time people have turned to wilderness to awaken and become whole again.

Skye Cielita Flor and Miraz Mycena provide a map of the perceptual journey from Separation to Interbeing.

Living a Physically Contemplative Life Within the World Around Us.

This will be a practical session outside in nature and preferably barefoot.

What it means to access embodied knowledge and what value is may offer to personal practice, pedagogy, or research.

Mindful movement irentegrates perspectival and participatory knowing to afford the deepest kind of self-knowledge because the self emerges from reflective awareness and sensorimotor movement.

Site specific performative explorations during COVID with my character LUG

Primal, practical, and playful, Earthgym is a fun and powerful way to connect to and learn from our Earth!

This is a crash course for everyone in neuroscience from one of the top researchers in the world!

A talk accompanied with images of my realized works in lithopuncture and geopuncture, images of group work.

An immersive session of encounter with the embodied tissues of various coastal seascapes and the body’s interior fluids, fascia and bones. Expect to be changed.

Exploring Ecopsychology and nurturing practices.

Finding a new way to live sustainably on the earth.

Experiencing Soma dialogue with Nature

Indigenous movement rituals as a way to develop self-identity and work with transitions.

Introducing a mind-body movement science applied to optimize human communications, both with the self and others, by recalibrating the body’s sensory and cognitive intelligences.

Consider how the world we design and inhabit creates the context for invasive species, and how we can change what we do to create thriving ecosystems.

Being Supported by Nature and the Ancestors through Systems Constellation.

From panic to power - using the wisdom of your own body to be the most effective activist you can be and stay healthy.

Phenomenology is the study of experience. Sondra Fraleigh defines six kinds of phenomenology and their application to dance and ecology, while Rena Milgrom improvises dance in the spaces in between.

Participants will learn what forest bathing is from one the world’s leading experts

This performative presentation will explore the body as a place of deep listening and a portal to the terrain of the inner life.

Somatic-Expressive Research Practices with Nature

Learn to undo the effects that civilization and our sedentary society have on our bodies.

Growing eco-somatic relationships with nature.

Protecting forests and planting trees – with the help of music and arts

An introduction to a metaphysical experience of West African Rhythm.

How do we live diversity within our own bodies?

Embodiment in orate and literate musical traditions

A brief exploration of how to design and facilitate transformative outdoor experiences.

Exploring bodyfulness as nature relationship

How do environmental stewardship, social justice activism, and educational reform apply on the inside?

Embodied pedagogy for learning science concepts, how movement exercises can promote understanding of physics concepts?

The capacity of psychedelic substances to increase human connection to nature, and the potential implications of this.

This Panel will explore the key aspects of research into nature connectedness.

The Art and Science of wildlife tracking is a human practice that can powerfully connect us to nature through learning to read the stories of the living world.

What it is, why it’s important and how to play your role in creating a better world.

In this session you will look with Fern Shaffer at the 9 year ritual, the materials, locations and purpose.

The fastest way to enliven and embody the future generation and heal the world at the same time! Sharing my experience of engaging children in nature based mentoring programs.

Dr. Kat Austen focuses her artistic practice on environmental issues melding disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances and participatory work. 

We will engage with embodied inquiry to inspire a perceptual shift in relationship to our natural environment.

Power Flower: Intersectionality and The Complexity of Identity and Oppression will help participants explore how "all inequality is not created equal" by examining how social identities can overlap.

Living as Nature itself

A talk about the relationship between body, mind and world from the perspective of a long-term practitioner of zazen, a form of mindful meditation.

The experience of enchantment in our lives: what it is and why it matters.

In this workshop, you will explore ecosomatic movement and disability culture.

We will see how if one lives the body differently, then different worlds are opened.

Enchanted land, the mythic link between land and body, and the sacred geographies of the animist goddess traditions of India.

Transforming our collective grief and rage through earth connection, embodied movement and action.

What links mindfulness, psychedelics, nature connection, dance, ritual and Focusing?

A guided wander outside, engaging the five senses and using mindfulness, play and intuitive movement to connect with the body and natural world.