Being Earthbound Podcast

Episode 5: Everything Belongs - Experiencing WholenessWhat happens when we stop trying to “accept” life, and instead recognise that everything is already here?In this episode, the conversation turns towards wholeness, not as an ideal state or something to achieve, but as an embodied recognition of reality as it is. Participants explore what it means to include all of experience, rather than dividing life into what belongs and what does not.A central thread in the episode is the role of preference. Many of us associate wholeness with moments when life feels good, aligned, or comfortable. When things fall outside our preferences, whether internally or in the wider world, we often experience separation. This episode explores how that subtle rejection fragments our sense of belonging and uses up enormous amounts of energy.The discussion introduces the idea of green-lighting experience. Rather than trying to accept, approve of, or manage what arises, participants explore the recognition that everything already present is already allowed. Joy and pain, ease and difficulty, clarity and confusion are all included.For those engaged in changemaking and regenerative work, this inquiry raises important questions. How do we respond to injustice, harm, or conflict without hardening against life? The episode explores how relaxing the inner fight can create more capacity for meaningful action, clearer boundaries, and more relational ways of meeting difference.Throughout the conversation, listeners are invited to sense their own relationship with rejection, acceptance, and effort, and to notice what becomes possible when experience is allowed to be whole.Welcome to the Embodied Permaculture Project, a six-episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking, and the wider cultural shift towards alignment with life on Earth.This series is based on an 18-month project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied, life-aligned embodiment practice. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities initiative and was designed and facilitated by Earthbound.To find out more about our work, visit earthbound.fi.Coming up nextIn the final episode, participants reflect on the impact of the 18-month project on their lives and permaculture practice, and the changes they have observed along the way.If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. You can find it here. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to episode 4 of the Embodied Permaculture Project, a six-episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking, and the wider cultural shift towards alignment with life on Earth.This series is based on an 18-month project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied, life-aligned embodiment practice. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities initiative and was designed and facilitated by Earthbound.To find out more about the project, listen to earlier episodes and read articles about embodied permaculture, visit beingearthbound.substack.com/t/embodied-permaculture.Episode 4: From Masking to MutualityWhat happens when we loosen our need to manage, fix and control, and allow ourselves to meet each other more openly?In this episode, host Johanna McTiernan explores embodied relating as a pathway from masking and self-protection towards greater authenticity and mutual presence. Participants reflect on how early habits of fitting in, editing themselves, and seeking approval can become so automatic that they feel natural, even when they are rooted in tension and fear.As the conversation unfolds, we hear how embodied presence can soften these patterns. Participants describe feeling safer in their own skin, communicating more openly, and relying less on external validation. There is a growing sense of permission to enjoy life, to value one’s own voice, and to care for others without disappearing in the process.The episode then turns toward changemaking in polarised social fields. Rather than meeting opposition with more force, embodied relating offers a way to find common ground beneath positions. By resting in grounded presence, participants describe becoming more available to others and more able to hold difference without losing themselves.A simple embodied practice returns from the early sessions of the project: “down and in” — bringing attention into the body, softening the face, and settling with the breath before engaging. From this place, listening deepens and connection becomes more possible.One participant shares how this practice supported him to hold space for his wife and family when war broke out in his wife’s country of origin. Instead of rushing to solutions, he describes a growing capacity to stay present, grounded, and emotionally available.In the second half of the episode, the focus shifts to control and agency. Through a guided inquiry led by Dan, participants explore what they are — and are not — in control of in their lived experience. Questions arise around fixing, improving, and outcome-attachment, and how much suffering is created when reality does not match imagined futures.Participants reflect on fear, grief, resistance, and relief, as well as on the difference between power over and power with. The conversation gently opens into the possibility of participation without domination, choice without illusion, and action without guaranteed outcomes.Throughout the episode, listeners are invited to notice their own relationship with control, agency, and trust, and to sense what becomes possible when effort softens into presence.Coming up nextIn the next episode, we explore what emerges when layers of resistance fall away, and experience is allowed to be as it is, touching into wholeness and deep belonging.If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. You can find it here. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to episode 3 of the Embodied Permaculture Project, a six-episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking, and the wider cultural shift towards alignment with life on Earth.This series is based on an 18-month project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied, life-aligned embodiment practice. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities initiative and was designed and facilitated by Earthbound.To find out more about the project, listen to earlier episodes and read articles about embodied permaculture, visit beingearthbound.substack.com/t/embodied-permaculture.Episode 3: Tuning in to the GutWhat happens when we stop trying to hold life together from the head and allow ourselves to land more fully in the body?In this episode, host Johanna McTiernan turns us towards the gut as a place of grounding, intuition, and deep trust. The conversation explores what it means to rest in not knowing, to loosen our grip on control, and to sense life from a deeper, quieter place within.For many of us, a lack of grounding shows up as anxious energy, overthinking, or a sense of disconnection from meaning and belonging. How does that affect our work as changemakers, activists and permaculture practitioners? Project participants reflect on how tuning into the body, and particularly the belly and pelvic bowl, can bring a felt sense of safety and stability that allows experience to move through without overwhelming us. From this place, boundaries become clearer, and there is more space to meet what is happening without needing to manage or fix it.The episode invites an exploration of intuition. Intuitive or inner knowing is described as something subtle, embodied, and relational. It often emerges through movement, time on the land, or moments of stillness, arriving not through effort, but through listening.This way of knowing has implications beyond the individual. As the conversation unfolds, questions arise around collective work, decision-making, and changemaking. How do we stay true to inner guidance while working with others? What changes when we stop pushing upstream against life, and instead learn to move with its currents?A recurring image in the episode is that of turning the boat downstream and allowing oneself to be carried, making small, responsive adjustments rather than forcing direction. This becomes an invitation to consider activism, leadership, and agency from a place of presence and relationality rather than oppositional struggle.Throughout the episode, listeners are gently invited to reflect on their own relationship with control, trust, and grounded knowing, and to sense what might become possible if they allowed themselves to soften their inner grip and listen more deeply.Coming up nextIn the next episode, we explore embodied relating, moving from self-protection and masking towards mutual presence, authenticity, and holding safe space for others.If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. You can find it here.We’d love to hear how this work lands for you, so please do leave a comment or share it with someone you feel would be interested. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Embodied Permaculture Project, a 6‑episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking and the culture shift from our current paradigm to alignment with life on Earth. This series is based on a project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied life‑aligned embodiment practice for 18 months. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities Initiative, and it was designed and facilitated by Earthbound. To find out more about our work, please visit earthbound.fi.Episode 2In this second episode of the Embodied Permaculture Project podcast, we ask: What is embodiment, really? And how does it support those seeking to live in alignment with the Earth?Johanna is joined by Dan, lead facilitator of the project, to explore how disconnection from the body mirrors disconnection from the wider living systems we’re part of. They trace how much of modern life draws us up into the head, away from the subtle signals of the heart and gut, and how this internal misalignment is mirrored in our external culture — from infinite growth models to ecological breakdown.Drawing on reflections from project participants, this episode explores how returning to the body supports resilience, trust, and connection. We hear stories of burnout, illness, and inherited conditioning, and what began to shift when people slowed down, grounded themselves, and tuned in to their felt experience.Together, we introduce the four principles that shaped the project:Grounding – creating a felt sense of safetyAttunement – tuning into self, others, and EarthOpening – softening into connection and flowIntegration – weaving inner work into outer workThese movements support a different kind of change: one that doesn’t push from urgency, but emerges from presence. One that reconnects us not just with ourselves, but with the land, with one another, and with life itself.If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. You can find it here.We’d love to hear how this work lands for you, so please do leave a comment or share it with someone you feel would be interested. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the Embodied Permaculture Project, a 6-episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking and the culture shift from our current paradigm to alignment with life on Earth. This series is based on a project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied life-aligned embodiment practice for 18 months. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities Initiative, and it was designed and facilitated by Earthbound. To find out more about our work please visit earthbound.fi.Episode 1In this opening episode of the Embodied Permaculture Project podcast, we introduce the journey that brought this series to life - an 18‑month exploration with 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe, diving deeply into life-aligned embodiment practice. Designed and facilitated by us at Earthbound and funded through Alef Trust’s Conscious Community initiative, the project asked: What might become possible in permaculture, changemaking, and cultural regeneration when we root ourselves more fully in embodied presence?We share why we believe embodiment is essential for the cultural shift we long for - a move from disconnection and burnout toward grounded, relational ways of being that are aligned with life. Through powerful reflections from project participants, this episode surfaces the tensions between inner and outer change, between head and body, and between working with nature and working as nature.Together, we explore the invisible conditioning we carry from industrial cultures, how burnout shows up even in nature-aligned spaces, and what begins to shift when we slow down, reconnect to the body, and rediscover our belonging in the wider web of life. We also speak to the importance of trust, community, and the deeper qualities that enable transformation, not just in our systems, but in ourselves.We created this podcast to share what we learned as fellow travellers and to invite you into this conversation about how real change happens.If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. Join us in exploring what it truly means to live as nature. In Episode 2, we ask: What is embodiment?We’d love to have you with us for the journey. This post is public so please share it with those you feel would be interested. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Earthbound is excited and proud to be facilitating the embodiment work in this important new Alef Trust project and I wanted to take a few minutes to explain why we are offering it to farmers, growers and agricultural students at this time of uncertainty and challenge for the agricultural sector. Calmer Farmer – Supporting Food Producers’ Inner Wellbeing in Service to Food Systems Transformation 🌱Feeling stressed or overwhelmed by the demands of farming in the UK?Looking for a different approach to your wellbeing?Discover how you can:Cultivate greater calm and presence, even in challenging timesFeel more connected to your body, relationships, and the landRediscover deeper joy and flow in your work📅 Join Calmer Farmer – a FREE 10-week online embodied wellbeing course for farmers and growers across the UK!This new UK-wide pilot research project explores how inner embodiment practices can support the wellbeing of farmers and their farm work.By participating, you’ll:Connect with farmers across the countryRecognize that caring for yourself is just as vital as caring for the land.Receive FREE, evidence-based embodiment practices (just 10-20 minutes a day!)📅 Enrolment open now!📅 Course starts February 23rd 2025!🔗 For more information visit www.calmerfarmer.orgPlease share this post with anyone you feel would benefit! Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Manda Scott is a force of nature. She’s the creator of the acclaimed Accidental Gods podcast and an award-winning writer of approaching 20 books. She is perhaps most known for her excellent Boudicca series which brought to life a rich and vivid portrayal of the Earth-connected cultures that existed in Britain before the invasion of Rome. I devoured those novels back in the early 2000s being drawn to them initially because I discovered Manda had “dreamed” these novels into being. This creative upwelling had been gifted her through her decades of shamanic practice and her connection with what she refers to as the “Gods of the Land”. As well as a very gifted author, she is also a teacher of 21st Century shamanic practice and works with people around the world to hone these capacities for deep connection and deep listening through her Dreaming Awake school. All of these threads of her life are coalescing currently into what she describes as “thrutopias”, the living stories that will support us to move from our current trauma-based culture to an initiatory culture that prioritises relationship over control and mutual flourishing over profit. Her latest novel, Any Human Power is just that; a necessary story for our times that acts as a guide, a support and a beacon of hope for a species and a planet that is crying out for a better story to live by.In the podcast, we discuss the calling that beckoned her on this life path, the thrutopia movement, the limbic hijacking we are currently experiencing, cutting-edge socio-political technologies for systems transformation and above all, the power of a good story well told.I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. And just before you listen, I just wanted to mention that at the very end of the interview, I ask Manda if there is anything else that needs to be shared. She closes her eyes, turns inwards and asks the Gods of the land. There are long pauses as she listens and shares what comes. I have left them in because it feels important to share this process and practice to illustrate how it works in the world and to normalise this form of active receptivity as something we can all learn to do. In fact, I believe this human capacity of deeply grounded attunement could be one of the most important to rediscover and live from.To find out more about Manda and her work and to read Any Human Power, please visit MandaScott.co.uk. To learn more about 21st century shamanistic practice visit dreamingawake.co.uk and to listen to Manda’s excellent podcast visit AccidentalGods.life. Thank you for reading Being Earthbound. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Jessica Bockler is an applied theatre practitioner and transpersonal psychologist. She’s one of the founding directors of the Alef Trust which is a global leader in transformative education and training in consciousness, transpersonal and spiritual psychology and offers Masters, PhD and professional certificate programmes.As well as academic excellence, Alef is also taking an active role in supporting transformational changemakers around the world. Through their Nurturing the Fields of Change community programme they are facilitating more embodied, more connective and more deeply transformative approaches to change work and activism across a range of fields including agriculture, social justice, climate and conflict resolution to name a few. Jessica has the great gift of bringing people together in spaces of mutual support and creative emergence that have the potential to support a new regenerative paradigm and a way of being in the world that fosters peace, growth and healing.In this conversation, we explore the huge potential this community of transformational changemakers offers its membership and the wider world. I hope you enjoy it.If you are looking for a community like Nurturing the Fields of Change, we’d love to welcome you. You can find out more and register at:https://fieldsofchange2024.sutra.coIf you know others who may be interested in this episode and the NFC community please share it with them! Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Russell Scott is someone who has had his feet in the inner and outer worlds of transformational change for many decades. He’s a highly experienced retreat leader and clearing therapist and is the author of an excellent book on the value of independent seeking on the spiritual path as a means to fully own and inhabit our experience. He also spent many years running an ecological retreat centre that ran courses on permaculture, ecological building and the like. So I was drawn to him as someone who values this synthesis of inner and outer work as a means to real cultural change. He’s a wise and kind soul and I hope you enjoy this podcast conversation as much as I did.Russell offers one-to-one clearing sessions and mentorship as well as group Coming Home (aka enlightenment intensive) retreats. He also offers facilitation training in these processes and I really recommend his book, Awaken the Guru In You. You can access all of his resources and offerings at his website www.awakentheguruinyou.com Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Lynn Marie Lumiere is a non-dual psychotherapist and has been one of a small group of curing-edge pioneers developing this field of psychology since the 1990s.She has over 40 years of psycho-spiritual exploration and transformational work experience and works with clients one-to-one and in groups from around the world specialising in couples and relationship work.She has been a regular speaker at the Nondual Wisdom, Psychotherapy and the Science and Nonduality Conference. She is a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy and co-author of The Awakening West. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships which was published in 2018.What drew me to Lynn Marie and her work was the multi-faceted approach to psychotherapy she adopts, giving equal weight and attention to both nervous system and physiological regulation and healing, to the deeper recognition of our true non-dual nature through meditative pointing out and enquiry, and to the need for us to work through our psychological conditioning, wounding and developmental trauma. None of these alone, in her opinion, are sufficient to experience complete psychological and existential wholeness and well-being.It’s the weaving of this complex dance of modalities and approaches that makes her work unique and fascinating and I hope you enjoy our conversation.To find out more about Lynn Marie and her work as well as to access her books and courses please visit lynnmarielumiere.com To find out more about Earthbound and the embodied ecological coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

This is a conversation with Tom Travers. He is a colleague of mine working as part of a team of eight instructors and coaches in the fields of movement, health, embodiment, meditation, injury recovery and mindful longevity within the Movement Plus membership programme app.Tom has been working in the movement arts for over two decades. His personal practice is a fusion of meditative movement, somatic awareness and working with the Bo staff. Focusing on the mastery of foundational skills he weaves together breath, mantra and dynamic movement into each practice to support deep healing of the body/mind.This was a really sincere and intimate conversation exploring his recovery from childhood trauma, to the flourishing experience of life he now experiences and the gifts of that journey that can help the clients he works with. During the podcast we discuss left brain/right brain imbalance and its repercussions, recovering from childhood trauma and moving beyond victimhood, the universe presenting us with unexpected opportunities, the difference between concentration and awareness, and the importance of practice being fun and inviting rather than effortful and daunting.We also discuss the power and depth of trusting simple techniques for movement and meditation, the value of small daily practice vs. sporadic deep dives such as long retreats, the householder's path rather than the path of a renunciate, spiritual versus human awakening, the difference between faux and real intimacy and so much more.To discover more of Tom’s work and to try Movement Plus membership for free for 7 days please click here.To find out about the being-centric embodied coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Homesteading can be pretty hard on the body. We’ve been at it for a decade now, and I’m 47 this year, and it’s fair to say that I’ve had some pretty disruptive injuries over the last few years. A rotator cuff injury, a torn Achilles and a lower back injury that has recurred for years. So I made the decision last year to try and tackle the injury list but also my general flexibility, strength and fitness in a more holistic way that matched the years of holistic inner work I’ve been engaged in. And that led me to an organisation called Movement Monk, an online membership programme they run called Movement+ and an inspiring mindful movement and healing instructor called Benny Fergusson.Movement+ is pretty much my ideal approach to fitness, physical and mental healing and longevity practice as it combines a truly holistic approach to the body, one that encourages me to really attune to my experience, to learn to make friends with my body and to explore and discover through movement instead of just following some dogmatic fitness regime. But there is also so much emphasis on our psychology and existential experience of being this body in this life that I knew it was exactly what I was looking for to help integrate all aspects of being me even further.Benny’s own journey is one of being a national level Australian athlete to starting his own fitness businesses, then experiencing a sudden and highly debilitating spinal injury in the form of scoliosis that forced him to question everything about the way he had been working with his body and engaging with his life. This led him to a multi-year process of discovery including training in the Shaolin traditions, Tai Chi, Qigong, standing meditation, Indian martial arts, and many other modalities. And eventually, this new, much more connected and compassionate approach allowed his body to heal, which in turn gave him the skills and experience to help others in their physical and psychological healing.He now leads a team of instructors offering recorded and live classes helping people recover from injury and pain, discover mindful and holistic approaches to fitness, and move forward with their lives with more confidence and well-being. The benefits of Movement + for me have been great so I can wholeheartedly recommend it to you, so if you feel inclined to find out more, you can access a free 7-day trial via the link. Here’s my conversation with Benny. If there is someone who you think might benefit by listening to this episode, please do share it with them.Thanks,Dan and JohannaYou can find out more about the embodied, being-centric coaching we offer at www.earthbound.fi Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Most of us carry around negative core beliefs and conditioning, often from our childhood and often for the whole of our lives. A deeply judgmental inner authority voice telling us we're no good, not enough, always lacking in some fundamental way. This voice can hold us back in all kinds of very unhelpful ways, restricting our flourishing and development. But it needn't be that way! Holly Copeland and I discuss various fascinating approaches to releasing held conditioning and developmental trauma that allow for growth and healing to occur.This is my second conversation with Holly. She’s a Human Potential Coach, neuromeditation teacher, Biofield Tuning practitioner and breath work coach, to name just a few of her skills. In this episode we explore the fascinating subject of psycho-vibrational healing through Biofield Tuning, breathwork and awareness practices. (Explaining along the way, what the human Biofield is and how we can work with it.)We discuss the potential to work with psychological conditioning and trauma at the level of embodied, somatic enquiry and at energetic or vibrational levels and how the two modalities overlap and interweave. And how waking up to our natural awareness is both crucial to, and a natural consequence of this psycho-vibrational healing work.You can find out more about Holly’s Awaken, Heal, Breathe programme, her Biofield Tuning work, and you can book a free 30-minute discovery call with her at her website Heartmindalchemy.comTo listen to part 1 of this conversation please visit: https://www.earthbound.fi/podcast-holly-copeland-pt-1 Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

What’s the difference between an ego-oriented traditional coaching model and transpersonal coaching? Why is it so effective at combining the ineffability of spiritual practice with the practicality of daily life? And why do I believe this form of coaching unlocks the foundations of what constitutes a flourishing human and a flourishing planet? I invited my teacher and mentor, Jevon Dangeli, to share his decades of experience pioneering transpersonal coaching to make the case for this incredible transformational process.To find out more about Jevon and his work please visit jevondangeli.com and to discover more about the transpersonal coaching training he offers and the new journal we discussed please visit aleftrust.comBiography:Jevon was a Judo coach and personal fitness trainer in his 20’s. In 1998 he began studying a variety of complementary healing methods, travelling extensively to learn from leaders in this field. He has been developing the Jumi (judo mind) practice Since 2001. Jumi is a way to help people of all ages to access and embody Open Awareness (OA).He is also a certified NLP Trainer, Transpersonal Coach, and Hypnotherapy Practitioner who has provided live training in these areas since 2004. He has written 9 books and recorded over 30 audio programmes, as well as a comprehensive video series where he teaches psychological methods for personal and professional growth.His training and experience along with several paradigm shifting insights lead to the establishment of the Authentic Self Empowerment (ASE) approach that combines the holistic aspects of NLP with mindfulness and transpersonal psychology. Since its inception in 2007, the ASE approach has evolved according to the principles and applications of OA. Today, applied OA is the foundation of the methods taught at the ASE Facilitator training, and in the online one-year post-graduate level certificate course in transpersonal coaching psychology through Alef Trust, accredited by IACTM. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Holly Copeland spent 26 years working in wildlife and ecological conservation before health and meaning crises led to a dramatic shift in career and approach to her Life-centric call to service. This is a conversation with friend and colleague Holly Erin Copeland. Our paths first crossed as subtle energy meditation teachers and it became very apparent that our background, current practice and worldview intersected in really interesting ways. Our motivation to be part of and to help nature thrive, illness as a catalyst for deep transformation, and an unfolding experience of living through deep embodiment that opens up emergent ways of participating in life even in spite of the ever-mounting crises we face as species and as a planet. Holly is now a certified NeuroMeditation teacher, human potential coach, Reiki master and sound healer. She is a practitioner and teacher of non-dual awareness and subtle energy meditation techniques. You can find out more and work with her at www.heartmindalchemy.com Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

In a world swamped by antithetical division, we desperately need those people and communities actively cultivating synthesis. Finding intersection, integration and common ground amongst so much seeming separation is a sacred calling and Will Meecham embodies that calling perfectly.Raised a rational atheist he initially pursued meaning and purpose through academic knowledge and became a successful ophthalmologist while all the while feeling the call to self and world tugging at him in a very different direction.Serious mental and physical ill-health led him to finally heed that calling and seek to heal himself while simultaneously exploring the possibility of healing the rift between science and spirituality.What arose out of that exploration is his creation, Mindful Biology, a profound and elegant body of ideas and perhaps more importantly, practices, that open a doorway back into the living world and back to our true nature by experiencing our sensate body intimately, and through our bodies to feel ourselves as part of the beautiful whole of Life.To sign up to Will’s beautiful classes and to read and watch more about Mindful Biology please visit mindfulbiology.orgWill's Bio:Because of a traumatic childhood, Will struggled to make peace with life and found solace in Nature. He entered college to study field biology but found little support for that path. Lacking confidence and seeking approval, he gravitated toward more technical fields, such as biophysics, neuroscience, and medicine. He trained as an oculofacial surgeon but spinal problems forced him to leave the profession at age 41. The setback triggered an existential crisis that culminated in visionary experiences. Afterward, he explored a number of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and meditative disciplines. After about ten years, he was hired to teach anatomy and physiology at a yoga institute, where a style of teaching he calls Mindful Biology evolved. It uses a compassionate framing of basic biology to help us experience the grandeur and sweetness of Nature within our bodies. More information and upcoming class schedules are available at MindfulBiology.org. Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

I first became aware of Mark Allen’s work and his model for Holistic Activism about a year and a half ago. I was immediately drawn in because of the many intersections I found between his work and our Earthbound coaching approach. How do we recalibrate the way we are in relationship with ourselves, each other and with the world? How do we affect regenerative change in the world? And how to do that through mutuality, healing and respect while also avoiding the exhaustion and burnout so many of us experience? Mark has spent many years as an activist and has seen first-hand the toll it can take on mental and physical health, relationships and the movements activists care about. He believes there is a better way and Holistic Activism is his vision for it. To dive deeper into Marks’ incredible work please visit holisticactivism.net. There you can download the Holistic Activism Booklet, a guided meditation and find out about his ongoing events and trainings.For 1-1 transpersonal coaching and group embodied meditation courses please visit www.earthbound.fi Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

Bruce Parry is an explorer and documentary maker well known to the UK for the BBC documentary series he has made whilst living amongst many indigenous communities around the world.His latest major film is Tawai: A Voice From The Forest which he made independently. It’s a fascinating film that listens deeply to some of the last remaining indigenous egalitarian communities on Earth so that our industrial culture might learn other ways of being that still persist to this day in which it’s possible to live fully in harmony with each other and with the whole of life. Ways which used to be much more common and could one day become so again.Bruce has spent many years travelling around the planet but a few years ago decided to settle back in the UK and to a small Welsh homestead in need of regeneration. He hopes to share this project with others looking to learn from wiser cultures and yearning for a life fully reintegrated with nature. He also hopes the seeds of heart wisdom he has brought back from tribes such as the Penan and Mbendjele can germinate and thrive in Western Industrial culture at a time when it’s so needed.Bruce is such a generous spirit and his message is so crucial in the times we are living in. I strongly recommend you watch Tawai: A voice from the forest which you can stream via the website www.tawai.earth. And for more information about Bruce and his work please visit bruceparry.com Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe

This is a guided embodied meditation. Enjoy the inner sensations of being alive and being part of Life! Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe