We tuned to all the layers of spatial and temporal support with our bodies, our connection to rooted ancestors, the land we are relating with, and the homelands we come from, and then we sensed into the wider field of support that is holding all the differentiated beings. We dropped into sound and movement there and located the sense of a pulse that sustains our relationship to embodied life force. We felt connection to our own tone of expression and welcomed the presence of resistance and protection while simultaneously sourcing from creativity.
Firstly, I’ve been in an epic redesign of my website that I’m excited to share with you:
In feeling into more contexts for making this work accessible, I decided to create some additional entry points to playing with the practices, so I brought back Ecosystem Spoons as an online course for supporting folks with energetic sensitivity in widening their access to grounding, resource, and embodied belonging.
The course is included within the Mycelium Membership which starts at $55/month!
And it’s also available for one time purchase with all sliding scale contributions going to Alembic Seed Resourcing Fund, a creative incubator for visionary artists and practitioners navigating life rhythms shaped by chronic illness or neurodivergence. (I’m so excited to start this resourcing process for Alembic, which will allow me to do pro-bono consulting work for visionary creative projects and also to subsidize a scholarship fund for the Mycelium!!!)
And you can gift the course to somebody else if you want to support this vision and help it to circulate outward to all the places it can nourish!
WHAT ARE ECOSYSTEM SPOONS?
"Ecosystem Spoons" are the relational pathways of support that are often numbed or hidden within habituated reality.
We are living in a society where there is a near-universal deficit of "spoons," as people are navigating exhaustion within a dominant culture shaped by overriding the discernment of the body, dissociating from the wider contexts of our relatedness, and feeling immense isolation because of a lack of authentic nutrients.
The Ecosystem Spoons Course emerged out of a year of intensive practice with an online somatic support group for people who are living with energetic sensitivity, chronic illness, and/or neurodiversity that requires them to slow down to a different rhythm of reality underneath the pushing through of the dominant culture.
Through sensing into pathways of support beyond the rational human mind, Ecosystem Spoons offers an embodied experience of the way that perception can begin to shift when a wider sense of holding is possible.
“Time slowed down during our group in a way that felt deeply calming and restorative.”
There is so much that I struggle to access on my own and the regular, loving reminder from you that that makes total sense and is an ok place to be right now felt so supportive and helpful to my often pressure-full system. The potent magic of the group container helped me reconnect to the wider web in ways that have been holding me on my own, even in moments when I am having trouble connecting, because my body remembers more of what's possible now, and more of what's real and available...The guided time in our bodies was soooo helpful and dynamic. As I turn my energy back towards myself and divine energy and all the ecosystems of which I am a part for the first time in years, I feel really intimidated and out of my league sometimes. The way you guided us and also the topics you dove into throughout the groups felt really accessible and unintimidating, even as the subject matter was experientially complex and profound. I felt SO supported in Ecosystem Spoons! " —Parker Rice
Through over 9 hours of course materials, with bioavailable nutrients easily metabolizable in 10-30 minute recordings, Ecosystem Spoons will start to teach your nervous system to access primordial nourishment through simple perceptual and expressive practices.
These practices are meant to infuse into the cracks of your daily life experience, to meet you where you are in moments of overwhelm or isolation. They are energetic accompaniment in the way that those who cooked the food would sing together or those out foraging would find their footsteps synchronizing as they walked.
You will likely experience subtle energetic “state-shifts” as you engage with the practices, things like yawning, greater relaxation or energetic circulation, and a wider sense of flow or creative possibility.
"A support group for the chronically ill that doesn’t turn into a fix fest or victimpalooza or the ghosts of abelism - praise be!"
This feels like a nourishing counter point to the systems and cultures we currently try to survive in. Dancing with ways to pull these ways of engaging into everyday life." —Kate Munson
These practices will also offer a soft place to land for the crunchy, uncomfortable, resistant parts of you who are convinced that they can’t be part of a wider holding. These practices can support experiences of discomfort such as physical pain and emotional stuck places. Without trying to fix or change or heal anything, this frame of practice offers subtle guidance to help you attune to the presence of your animal body and the energetic support that is present around you.
"I LOVED it! It felt warm, welcoming, gentle, and supportive."
I’m so grateful for the threads that lead me to Ecosystem Spoons. It has felt really special to find a space to explore the nuances and complexities of living with invisible illness/sensitivities, alongside others who are interested in outlooks and approaches other than the clinical/medical. I could feel the cohesion growing over the weeks and my appreciation for the group grew week on week too....Sharing and feedback from other group members gave me an insight in real-time into the energies, emotions and messages that were alive in my own system, which helped to bring some clarity and ease... The group sat really well alongside my own practice and helped to facilitate a gradual and general shifting and settling..."
—Susie Crampton
The guided practices are invitations into entrainment with a wider field of holding, a field that is accessible to us all the time but that our learning nervous systems first expect to be resonated with by other bodies than our own.
Over time, our own direct relationship to this field of nourishment develops as we access our own creative potency and the expression that is wanting to emerge through us.
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