Ecosomatic Connectedness and Cultural Regeneration: A Practice-Based Conversation

This conversation engages the authors’ experience of ecosomatic practice to open up the door to speak of place, land, sensing, with-ness and spaciousness as multiple embodied relations that are not only individualized and present but also communal and cross-generational. Some of these words are more poetic than "ecosomatic connectedness". The key differentiating aspect considered here is the exploration of how these elements which are shared across the field of ecosomatics are connected with cultural regeneration, which then opens up the door to talk about civilization, de/anti/non-coloniality, roots, heritage, belonging, etc. In the conversation the authors play the reciprocal role as facilitators of each other’s felt-thinking challenging the standard academic model of answering the questions asked by the moderator individually as part of a panel. We believe that shared facilitation is a response to knowing that we are nature-body and a way to further the ways in which ecosomatics can help us come into resonance with one another.