BY KALPANA ARIAS
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
Kalpana Arias is a climate activist, somatic therapist and founder of Nowadays On Earth, a research-led platform exploring our relationship between nature and our bodies in the digital age.
BY KALPANA ARIAS
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
Kalpana Arias is a climate activist, somatic therapist and founder of Nowadays On Earth, a research-led platform exploring our relationship between nature and our bodies in the digital age.
BY KALPANA ARIAS
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
Kalpana Arias is a climate activist, somatic therapist and founder of Nowadays On Earth, a research-led platform exploring our relationship between nature and our bodies in the digital age.
BY KALPANA ARIAS
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
The world’s biodiversity and ecosystems are collapsing at alarming rates, and though nations are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, our world is still burning. The primary cause of that is the marketisation of ‘natural capital’ leading the world into ecological decline. This climate crisis is challenging us to rethink the traditional systems and models we’ve been conditioned to believe are ‘essential’ to life on our planet, and asks us to question our relationship to nature, and our role as part of our planet’s living ecosystem.
While we actively pursue systemic change to avoid climate breakdown, it is through our understanding of the mutable exchange occurring between people and environments that we can build climate resilience and catalyse ecosystem-based solutions for this crisis. With continued urbanisation and the rise of technology disconnecting humans from nature, there is a growing response and increase in social awareness of our need for contact with nature for individual and planetary wellness.
One method of connecting to nature is by rediscovering your relationship to your own body and developing your somatic awareness. For example, our structural mechanisms are made up of bones, membranes, fluids and tissues, also composed of cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and nuclear
forces, integrated together as one living matrix. In these systems we find evidence of our body’s evolution within Earth’s ecology. However, it is through your own felt sense of body and Earth as one, that you experience the dissolution of the Earth-body split, countering our cultural dissociation and separation from nature.
We can begin demystifying the wisdom of our body (and Earth's) through an understanding of esoteric anatomy and a somatic approach to the elements,
compounds, and structures that make up our existence. Within our cells there is an expression of motion generated by the energy current of the inner body. This intrinsic rhythm, both fluid (water) and electric (fire) animates the subtle body, facilitating low-energy nuclear transformation of elements and radical self-
regeneration through movement.
The body is continuously regulating the effects of fire and fluidity. Using principles of reciprocity, harmony and balance, it achieves homeostasis (stillness)
by generating movement that causes changes and fluxes in our inner landscapes. This requires the emergence of states of exertion activated by fire with states of rest induced by the coolness of water, impacting our bodily cycles and simultaneously responding to environmental factors as it finds equilibrium. An experiential understanding of the motion within our living matrix gives us an insight into the alchemical process of fire and how movement itself is a regenerative force catalysed by our own bodies.
It is our relationship to our bodies, our environment and immediate surroundings that will guide the regeneration of our post-industrial world. The human body is programmed with natural guiding principles that have a direct impact on its surroundings, so by incorporating a bodily dimension within the process, design and
development of climate solutions we’ll experience a paradigm shift grounded in the self-balancing processes of nature. Through our body’s and psyches’ insights we can develop effective ecological responses to the challenges being faced by frontline communities and marginalised groups worldwide.
Kalpana Arias is a climate activist, somatic therapist and founder of Nowadays On Earth, a research-led platform exploring our relationship between nature and our bodies in the digital age.