OH MY GOD what a juicyyyy episode! I sat down with someone who has shaped entire eras of my life: philosopher, ecosomatics thinker, and regenerative guide Ximena Gabilondo!

What begins as a reunion between past-life versions of ourselves ( jungle farming Maia and ecofeminist-activist Ximena) quickly becomes a masterclass in ecology, embodiment, and personal power. Together we explored why so many of us feel disconnected from our bodies, our creativity, the earth, and our own desire, and what it actually takes to reclaim the natural intelligence living inside us.

Ximena unpacks ecofeminism in a way that lands not in the mind but in the BONES: how the violence, extraction, and objectification done to the earth mirrors what has been done to women’s bodies, and why liberation can only happen through the body, not around it.

The conversation travels through:

🦢 The split between mind and body that created our current systems

🦢  Why optimization culture is just capitalism wearing yoga pants

🦢  The invisible ways we treat ourselves as products instead of living beings

🦢  Reclamation as a lived, somatic practice (not a concept)

🦢  The erotic as the force of life, creation, and connection

🦢  Ecosomatics and remembering your body as part of the earth

🦢  How patriarchy and capitalism depend on your disconnection

🦢  The power (and threat) of women who feel pleasure without permission

🦢 Lilith, Eve, witches, and the ancient fear of women who can see

This is one of those episodes that rearranges your insides, I AM SURE. You may want a notebook. You may want to lie on the floor. You may want to leave your whole life.

And that's ok because that's what Ximena does to our psyches.

Lil Glossary:

🦢 Ecofeminism: How the domination of land and the domination of women come from the same worldview, and how seeing this changes everything.

🦢 Ecosomatics: Reconnecting to the body as land, as ecosystem, as a living landscape with its own intelligence.

Catch part II for: Eco–erótica

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