Carly Forest is an endorsed Insight Yoga Teacher, an energy medicine practitioner and accredited enneagram teacher. Carly trained at the Spirt Rock Meditation centre in California and has spent almost 20 years deepening her practice in Vipassana and tantric Buddhist traditions. Her work honours the mystery of the natural world while inviting people into dialogue with their lives, and an embodied experience of reality. I met Carly in 2016 while she was leading a silent retreat on Denman Island (Taystay'ich). Since then, Carly has been one of my most formative teachers with her voice often reminding me to stay with my life, and my experience even in moments of discomfort.

In this conversation we explore her journey and how practice has led to a porosity in her soul. We also look at our human tendencies to numb and dissociate from experience, while opening a window to explore the benevolence reality, and the possibility for change through developing a relationship of reciprocity with the more than human sphere.