Last year, I was invited to write an article for the International Body Psychotherapy Journal after presenting an experiential group session at the National Association for Body-Psychotherapy's Annual Conference. The feedback from both colleagues and my clients catalyzed me to attempt writing about a practice that transcends words. I call my facilitations in nature Engaged Eco-Psychosomatics. The article delves into the science, creative agency, and healing potential for engaging with our deep inner landscapes within the reflective container of nature. Here is a link to the article:
More about Engaged Eco-Psychosomatics:
There are elements of nature accessible to all of us. Nature is a living museum calling for our engagement and appreciation. Through breath and creative agency, we can confront the realities within our storied inner landscapes non-judgmentally. As we intimately encounter our unconscious and sensory perceptions, our breath and nature can compassionately nourish our sense of being. Then, we can open our capacity for engagement with our self, others, and the world at large. Yes!
Engaged Eco-Psychosomatics joins breath awareness, somatic intelligence, and mindful attention with a creative agency further heightened and supported through convening with nature. Breath and movement provide a fluid platform to interface with the ways our embedded attitudes and forces of personality either interpret or attune to body-based feelings. As our mindful attention somatically develops, we can begin to course through our feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and emotions like a lantern with audiovisual rays. When we tune in acutely, we see our boundaries and find where our life force is flowing or blocked. In this act of compassionate self-encounter, sensorial attention and creative agency are united, provoked, and regulated. In the process, discernment is refined, and embodiment is vivified. Whether it be in a deep meditation on the dimensionality within a leaf’s appearance, or submerging and responding to the tidal flow and temperature of the ocean’s currents, nature provides an interactive medium that animates reciprocity and the restorative capacity within genuine expression.
