10+ hours of guided somatic practices for energetically sensitive, intuitive creatures who want to widen their access to grounding, resource, and embodied belonging.

What are "Ecosystem Spoons"?

"Ecosystem Spoons" are the relational pathways of support that are often numbed or hidden within habituated sensing.

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.

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.

Relational Framing for Ecosystem Spoons:

The course will support you in widening your perception of different aspects of the energetic web of existence, including the nature spirits, radiant ancestors, and primordial forces who are dreaming you into creative expression. Creating space to drop in to these practices and to integrate them into your daily life as part of habitual perception can over time help your system shift to the sensory experience of a much wider webbing of connectedness.

The course is asynchronous, which allows for folks navigating sensitivity, illness, and neurodivergence to engage with these practices in much more diffuse and peripheral ways than are traditionally expected within the framing of an online class. You can play these recordings while doing dishes, while driving, while taking a bath or laying in bed.

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.

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.

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.

10+ hours of guided somatic practices for energetically sensitive, intuitive creatures who want to widen their access to grounding, resource, and embodied belonging.

CURRICULUM

  • Introduction to Relational Field Weaving

Foundational Practices for Animist Embodiment

  • Orientation to Foundational Practices

  • Sensing Relational to Ecosystem

  • Discernment and the Just Right Amount

  • Relational Backlogs and Energetic Membranes

  • Contextual Support from Rooted Ancestors

  • Bringing a “Stuck” to The Web of Holding

Longer Guided Audio Practices: Six Textures of Ecological Belonging

  • Introducing the Six Textures

  • Guided Practice Around Contact: Supported by Gravity

  • Guided Practice Around Choice: Holding and Held

  • Guided Practice Around Connection: Ancestral Support

  • Guided Practice Around Context: Pulsation Beyond Domination

  • Guided Practice Around Coherence: Creating the Container

  • Guided Practice Around Creativity: Unique Spark and Exisitingness

Longer Guided Audio Practices: Primordial Nourishment for Sensitive Bodies

  • Guided Practice: Responsibility and Support

  • Guided Practice: Edges and Returning Home

  • Guided Practice: Solidity and Flow

  • Guided Practice: Space and Membrane Bubble

  • Guided Practice: Sishephus and the Norns

  • Guided Practice: Primordial Permission

  • Guided Practice: Relational Root System

Ecosystem TeaSpoons: Bite-Size Practices for Somatic Nourishing

  • Longing as an Organizing Field of Intelligence

  • Teaching: State Shifts and Kinds of Practice

  • Guided Practice: Following Primal Intelligence

  • Guided Practice: Creating Space within Deep Structure

  • Writing Prompts: Gathering Embodied Metaphors

  • Guided Practice: Relational Contrast Between Center and Edge

  • Teaching: The Spirit of a Pattern Meets a Nature Being

  • Guided Practice: What is Becoming

  • Integration

Feedback from previous participants:

"It was the most profoundly supportive space I have experienced in forever."

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

"Powerful group container, experientially nourishing."

I have a deeper felt sense of being held by the larger field. Helpful on multiple levels. I was amazed by the depth of connection expressed and experienced by all across a wide variety of locations through Zoom. The power of community cannot be overstated!"

— Patti Gmeiner

"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

"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

10+ hours of guided somatic practices for energetically sensitive, intuitive creatures who want to widen their access to grounding, resource, and embodied belonging.

GRATITUDE TO THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE INFLUENCED THIS CONTAINER

  • Bree Greenberg for The Movement of Existence, a framework for accessing embodied power and attuning to relationship with erotic life force.

  • Larissa Kaul for their guided animist practices within the Animist Arts patreon playground, especially You Feeling Me Feeling You, which are the inspiration for much of how I invoke ecological and ancestral supports and guide somatic process.

  • Liz Koch for her teachings on attunement to subtle movement towards nourishment and fluidity, as well as the sense of landing and locating, following the biointelligence of our animal bodies.

And many more teachers and modalities who you can read about here.