We live in the most ungrounded times humanity may ever have experienced. Disconnected physically from the Earth by concrete and steel, psychologically through the dominance of abstract thinking in the age of digital distraction, and spiritually through the deep-seated stories of separation we tell each other from generation to generation. We’re stuck in, or above, our heads in clouds of anxious rumination and feeling disconnected from our bodies, our communities, the places we inhabit and the Earth at large.

But there is a simple and profoundly natural path back to connection, coherence, peace and flow. Johanna and I are currently developing a new course for the Aleft Trust called Finding Your Ground In Turbulent Times. It is a course and a rite of passage that will take you through a process of embodied remembrance of your true nature as Nature.

We’ll keep you posted when it’s due to go live, but in the meantime, it felt important to check in with some of our most important teachers on our own paths to groundedness, to share their insights and experience in this essential capacity. We’ll be creating a themed series of “grounding” specific podcasts to help flesh out what we mean by the term and its profound implications from the physical, psycho-emotional, subtle energetic and spiritual dimensions. And perhaps most importantly, how to find it again in these crazy times.

In this episode of the Being Earthbound podcast, I speak with meditation teacher, Kevin Schoeninger, about grounding, embodiment, subtle energy, and why coming back into contact with the living earth matters so much to a culture artificially insulated from our home.

Grounding has been one of the most important threads in my own life. It was one of the first doorways that helped me come back into relationship with my body at a time when my health was really struggling, and I was in need of something to support me to safely descend out of that cloud in and around my head and back into my body. Kevin was one of the teachers who helped me begin that return, so it felt deeply meaningful to have this conversation with him.

Together, we explore what grounding actually is, why it matters, and what happens when we lose contact with the body and the earth. Kevin shares how his own path began through Tai Chi, slow walking, and learning to feel the soles of his feet on the ground. From that simple beginning, the conversation opens into a much wider exploration of presence, energy, coherence, and the deeper ground beneath the noise of modern life.

We speak about the consequences of being ungrounded, the way modern culture pulls us into abstraction and disconnection, and the importance of restoring direct contact with the living world. We also explore subtle energy, interoception, the light body, and the possibility that beneath all the static, there is already a deeper peace available to us.

For me, one of the most important threads in this episode is that grounding is not just a way to calm down. It is a return to reality, to relationship, and to the body as a place of presence and support. Sometimes that return begins very simply, by taking off our shoes, feeling the earth beneath us, and letting the body remember what it already knows.

To find out more about Kevin’s work, including his books, courses and his meditation guidance on Insight Timer, please visit his website at https://raisingourvibration.net

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