The Secrets of How the Earth Keeps Her Time - Working with the Medicine of Presence
In this short excerpt from the collaborative zine project, Bodies of Land, Marika discusses the secrets of how the Earth keeps her time, in what she calls the “practice of presence”. As we become more in tune with the Earth’s rhythms, we find that the human-made construct of time is indeed an illusion, and it is through the active practicecof observing nature that we cultivate an ability to place ourselves within the omnipresent timeline of the Earth herself.
Grief Decomposes our Love like a Body
“Grief Decomposes Our Love like a Body - How our body digests death through grief”. This short piece draws from an eco-somatic approach, paralleling the decomposition process with human physiological processes for metabolizing difficult death and difficult emotions such as grief. An ecological perspective can help us find new ways to see and understand our body as a reflection of nature.