Nature Informed Therapy 
Healing in Relationship with the living world

For most of human history our ancestors lived with a felt understanding that the world around them was alive and full of presence, spirit, relationship and intelligence. We were not separate from nature but part of a larger, living, community of waters, trees, animals, land and elements. This was not simply a theory or philosophy but a way of experiencing and relating to the more than human world as our kin or relatives. Indigenous cultures around the world continue to carry and embody this understanding through cultural teachings, practices, ceremony and relationship.

 

Nature Informed Therapy is also reffered to as Eco-Somatics

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Eco-Somatics brings together body-based awareness and our relationship with the living world. Rooted in the understanding that we are not separate from nature, but an expression of it, this approach invites us to experience ourselves as part of a larger web of relationships.

When we are struggling, our attention can become narrowed around our pain, fears or patterns of protection. Through embodied awareness and our senses, we can begin to widen our experience, opening to the life around us and discovering new sources of connection and support.

This is about remembering and restoring our relationship with the living world, allowing that relationship to become a source of nourishment, vitality and belonging.

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Eco-somatic practices and Nature based healing are informed by deep ecology, ecopsychology, spiritual and earth based traditions, and that the way we understand and practice our connection to the animate world is through our bodies. Through this connection we can remember our purpose. It addresses a primal wound in modern culture, the belief that we are separate from nature and a disconnection from our bodies. This mind-body split is a major cause of human dis-ease and environmental crisis. Through embodied practice this approach offers a way of coming home to ourselves and to our living, breathing, conscious earth. This is deeply restorative for us and for the earth herself.

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