How can we look at our bodies as being portals into a greater kinship with our ecosystems? What does it mean to look at our wounding—physical, spiritual, emotional—not as an imperative toward self-healing, but as a compass directed toward the wounding of another species or landscape?
In this weekend exploration with writer Sophie Strand, we cocreate myths and meditations that help us to root our bodies into the intelligence of our extended webs of kinship and ecosystems.
For most of human history, myth was a durable mode of knowledge transmission, kept alive and resilient by communal storytelling. Practical information about survival and sustenance was nested within compelling narratives that prized the epic stories of multi-species communities over the monologues of human individuals. Through storytelling, meditation, walking, conversations, questions, and co-dreaming, we:
- Reroot several popular myths back into their ecosystems in order to recover their original wisdom
- Compost old stories and develop mutual listening: to each other and to the land
- Reframe trauma and pain with ecological metaphors drawn from time spent outdoors
- Wander through the forests of Omega and create new sensory maps from smell and sound
