Somatic Practice and Reciprocal Respiration
Embodied expertise formalised as essential components of ART; Land Practice and the Voynich Method, tailored to the specific nature and sensitive nervous system of our species of the land.
‘Our bodies formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds and shapes of an animate earth-our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structures. To cut the connections is to rob our senses of their integrity, and to rob our minds of their coherence.‘( David Abram)
This long-term, sustained personal and collective practice is aimed at cultivating mindfulness, vitality, care, and awareness of the fertile space within the mind, body, heart and the multispecies wonder with ineffable subtleties- the world saturated with mindfulness. Rooted in corporeal exercises and various modalities involving physical, mental, imaginative, and respiratory engagement, this practice serves as a supportive tool for the multifaceted unfolding of ART of Multispecies Visionary Institute.
Drawing from expertise in techniques, and broad array of practices like yoga, breathwork (Buteyko method), Earth Forum, Forest Schooling, and ecstatic improvised dance, I explore a bespoke embodied practice as technologies of the self and anthropotechnics that integrate various methods born from regular experiences, responsive to both context and individuals.
Artist Talk with Somatic Practice, Sunderland University 2024
Focusing somatic practice as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand, Scotswood Community Garden 2023
Focusing somatic practice as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand, Scotswood Community Garden 2023
Greetings from The Mother of Herbs, Somatic practice and Reciprocal Respiration with Multispecies Visionary Institute, Hinterlands, Baltic 2023Focusing somatic practice as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand at Newcastle University 2022Experimental somatic practice with storytelling and laughter, group tutorial, Newcastle University 2022‘Telling the Bees’- focusing practice by the beehives at Scotswood Community Garden, site visit as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand 2021
‘Telling the Bees’- focusing practice by the beehives at Scotswood Community Garden, site visit as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand 2022
‘What the Garden wants? ‘
- focusing/somatic practice and reciprocal respiration at Multispecies Garden Vision Council, Berwick July 2022
Yoga session for Hannah Christy’s ‘Sun Bun’ at Newcastle University, 2020
Yoga session for Hannah Christy’s ‘Sun Bun’ at Newcastle University, 2020
Deep Listening to the Plants, Multispecies Thinking and Making 2023Experimental Environmental Constellations-(Querkus), Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand 2021
Focusing somatic practice as a part of Multispecies Thinking and Making Strand at Newcastle University 2022
Rewilding Motherhood, Day Long Retreat at Dilston Physics Garden, collaboration with Katie I 'Anson, 2019