Show Notes
"Your skin does not separate you from the natural world. It's a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it." - Alan Watts
Many of us go through our lives seeing our skin as a gentle boundary between our inward selves and the outside world. But what if the skin is actually a mirror – a porous portal between our souls and the soul of the world? In this episode of the Regenerative Mystic Podcast, we chat with Kalpana Arias, founder of Nowadays on Earth to chat about how to grow ecosomatic consciousness: the capacity to commune with and be attuned by the natural world through the body. In this episode, we explore how to communicate with nature and the collective benefits of forming a relationship with the natural world that not only affects our individual and local systems but has the potential to impact the world at large.
Keynotes of this Episode:
06:26 - Kalpana's take on direct observation
09:51 - What is the language of nature?
12:17 - Conversation is in our movement
15:11 - The skin as an interface and we are a collective of mirrors
17:01 - What is the myth of individualism?
19:00 - Living Systems Theory
26:00 - Growing your language and getting in tune with your body
19:15 - Dropping in and being present with our bodies
33:00 - Expanding time through the body
About Kalpana Arias
Kalpana is a tech-anthropologist, climate activist, and ecosomatics educator currently working at the intersection between technology, nature, and urban design. In 2020 they founded Nowadays On Earth; a platform advocating for contact with nature in the digital age as a response to our global deprivation of green spaces and our need for human-nature relationships for individual and planetary wellbeing.
Resources Mentioned:
Living Systems Thinking
Alan Watts - Your Skin is Not a Boundary
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