"We have forgotten that our fate flows with that of rivers."
Just a few snippets from the conversation between Robert Macfarlane and Pella Thiel in our live podcast.
In this episdoe, writer Robert Macfarlane presents his book “Is a River Alive?” and is joined by ecologist Pella Thiel and podcast host Ingrid M. Rieser.
🎧 Listen via @forestofthought and @ontherightsofnature podcast streams, watch on Youtube or find it at @kthenvhumslab website. 🎧
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind.
Pella Thiel @pellathiel is a maverick ecologist, farmer, author and educator. Her current mission is to support the establishment of an Embassy of the Baltic Sea.
Ingrid M. Rieser is the host of @forestofthought podcast.
💧What does it mean to say that a river is alive?
💧And if a river is alive, could it have legal rights that protect it from abuse and exploitation?
💧What kinds of practices could affirm our interconnectedness with the rest of the living world?
In this live podcast, writer Robert Macfarlane presents his book “Is a River Alive?” and is joined by ecologist Pella Thiel and podcast host Ingrid M. Rieser.
🎧 Listen via @forestofthought and @ontherightsofnature podcast streams, watch on Youtube or find it at @kthenvhumslab website. 🎧
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind.
Pella Thiel @pellathiel is a maverick ecologist, farmer, author and educator. Her current mission is to support the establishment of an Embassy of the Baltic Sea.
Ingrid M. Rieser is the host of @forestofthought podcast.
A big thank you to Robert Macfarlane’s Swedish publisher Ocean Books and Robert Gioielli and Anja Rieser at KTH for making this event possible.
#rivers #naturesrights #isariveralive #robertmacfarlane #livepodcast #animism
Birth is not a "women's issue."
Listen on your preferred podcast platform or on the website - link in bio!
This is part three of the 🩸Blood Mysteries series🩸.
🎧 Pt 1: Embracing our cyclical nature with Jenny Koos
🎧 Pt 2: How we honor our nervous systems and cultivate pleasure as a pathway towards health with Kimberly Ann Johnson.
🎧 Pt 2: Birth as a rite of passage with Kristina Turner.
Stay tuned for parts 4 and 5!
When I was preparing for the birth of my daughter I began to understand just how multifaceted and paradoxical birth is, and how difficult it can be to talk about.
Birth can be beautiful and it can be traumatic, often at the same time; it’s intensely personal and highly political; it’s something extraordinary that is also entirely ordinary. You give birth to a baby and you also birth yourself as a mother, whatever that might mean.
Another paradox is that birth has become much safer the past two-hundred years because of the advancements of modern medicine, and yet that very medicalisation has also had serious downsides. Women who give birth in hospitals are more likely to have unnecessary interventions and traumatic births; the amount of women who have physiological births – that is without any interventions – is rapidly declining.
Is it possible to build a culture of birth that takes the best parts of modern medicine and combines them with a deep respect for the wisdom of women’s bodies?
Instead of seeing birth as a medical event, how do we honor it as a rite of passage?
I first came into contact with @the_kristina_turner Kristina Turner’s work when she featured in a Swedish documentary on home births. She’s been an advocate for women’s right to choose how they birth, and is the author of books on healthy births.
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How can pleasure be a pathway towards health and healing?
In the lates episode I speak to world-renowned somatic experiencing practitioner and sexological bodyworker Kimberly Ann Johnson @kimberly.ann.johnson .
We talk nervous systems, the sexual vs. the erotic, and how the possibility for healing is always present.
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What pathways towards health and healing open up when we truly understand our nervous systems and also invite pleasure into our lives?
In this episode I speak to world-renowned somatic experiencing practitioner and sexological bodyworker Kimberly Ann Johnson. She takes us through the nervous systems (did you know we have a “social nervous system”, in addition to the sympathetic and parasympathetic?), and explains how correctly understanding them can help us break out of destructive loops. We also talk about pleasure’s potential for healing, and how we can develop a more expansive eroticism in our lives.
Kimberly Ann Johnson @kimberly.ann.johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. Working hands-on in integrative women’s health and trauma recovery for more than a decade, she helps women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. Kimberly is the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good, as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, and is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.
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What could a feminism that embraces the body and its cycles look like?
Jenny Koos @vulverine@vulverinekoos takes on the over-medicalisation of womanhood in our recent episode.
Jenny Koos a.k.a. @vulverine is a tireless fertility awareness expert and Holistic Reproductive Health practitioner. She has championed fertility awareness and women’s empowerment through body literacy in countless debates, lectures, client sessions and social media for 15 years. Her first book on fertility awareness was published in 2022.
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How is the disregard for women’s bodies connected to the disregard for nature?
In the latest episode, Jenny Koos @vulverine@vulverinekoos talks about what happens when we ignore the fact we are mammals.
What could change if we embraced women’s cyclical nature, and used bodily knowledge to live with more vitality and acceptance? Why does the medical community focus on medications rather than holistic health? What could feminism that takes the body seriously look like?
Jenny Koos a.k.a. @vulverine is a tireless fertility awareness expert and Holistic Reproductive Health practitioner. She has championed fertility awareness and women’s empowerment through body literacy in countless debates, lectures, client sessions and social media for 15 years. Her first book on fertility awareness was published in 2022.
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From menarche until menopause, women have a rhythmical companion, whose presence or absence tells us something about our bodies.
The menstrual cycle is considered by many medical professionals to be the fifth vital sign and yet the general knowledge about it both in the medical community and society at large is very poor.
Many women struggle with pains, mood swings, and many couples struggle with infertility without understanding the underlying cause of these.
So, why isn’t the cycle considered more important?
Could the disregard for women’s bodies be tied to the disregard for nature?
What could change if women stopped berating their bodies for not being the same every day of the month, and instead began to adapt to its rhythms?
What if cyclicality and non-linearity in work and life became more accepted in society?
Jenny Koos a.k.a. @vulverine@vulverinekoos is a tireless fertility awareness expert and Holistic Reproductive Health practitioner. She has championed fertility awareness and women’s empowerment through body literacy in countless debates, lectures, client sessions and social media for 15 years. Her first book on fertility awareness was published in 2022.
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🌟 New mini-series on the podcast! 🌟
How did we ever come to believe that body and mind could be separated?
The idea never seemed so laughable as during my pregnancy and birth, where the often-uncomfortable stretching of my belly worked in tandem with the often-uncomfortable stretching of what it meant to be me.
The body is the site for the transformation of the spirit – I guess that is true for all of us, but I see it most clearly in the bodies of women. We come into adolescence with our first bleeds, our bodies can grow new bodies, and we become matriarchs as our bleeds stop coming.
There’s a mysterious red thread made of blood, and its comings and goings stitch our life together.
I’ve often felt reluctant to focus on female biology, because it so easily slips into biologism and ideas about how women “should” be. But I think it can also open up for many unknown and beautiful possibilities, and is too important to not talk about.
So in the coming episodes several brilliant women help me to explore these blood mysteries, and how biology, feminism and the sacred are interlinked.
This series is mostly about women’s bodies (probably because I’m a woman), but I think that even if you’re not a woman - actually, especially then - you will find it meaningful. We all have women in our lives, and we all have bodies infused with mind and spirit.
Read the full post introducing the series on the Substack, link in bio!
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On snow as a world-expanding substance
"The snow becomes a carrier of messages, in a way. It makes me aware of what I otherwise would miss. Take the wind; usually so elusive and ephemeral, its workings are suddenly made visible to the naked eye. It could be the signs of a gentle breeze that has sent crystals tumbling to form soft peaks and smooth gullies. Or it could be markings of the raging, howling gale that has been here to carve out great tunnels and sculpt towering waves of snow and ice around the house. This wind has formed drifts of snow, several meters high, that hug the cabin like a tall, white collar. Standing atop these drifts I am suddenly floating high above my normal eye level. I look down at the top of the roof and realize it’s a view I’ve never seen before. New perspectives, snow-borne.
The wind has often been experienced as the life-giving breath of the divine; words like spirit, anima and atman have their etymological roots in the words for breath, wind and air. When I look at these snow etchings, am I seeing the fingerprints of the Gods?"
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📸 Photos by yours truly
#goethe #organofperception #snowmagic #photography #forestofthought #podcast
"We are also kinds of plants."
In the latest episode I speak to philsopher Michael Marder about Hildegard of Bingen's ecological theology and what we might learn from plants 🌿
Thanks to @lerinhystad for bringing Michael to sweden in connection to the launch of their unique book/project Electronic Flora!
#podcast #forestofthought #michaelmarder #hildegardofbingen #hildegard #plantthinking #philosophy #aristotle #vegetalsoul #plantphilosophy #ecologicaltheology #lerinhystad #electronicflora
