This episode is an exploration of contact, the dance of relationship between the most ancient core of self and the vast aliveness of beings and flow and root systems and warmth and drying mud and plant matter. I pray with the river and the river speaks in return. A dance of feet and mud and poetry. And a wild splashing puppy engaged in play.

I highly recommend that you check out this particular episode of the podcast in video format if you are able to, to get a sense of the way that river and mud and so many other beings were conspiring in the creation of this experience: 

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Gratitude for listening and blessings to you and all the beings you are in relationship with.   

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:  I want to name that I am speaking from an entangled root system of animist somatics that will have aspects of my teachers and collaborators voices in my own words. What I speak is a transmutation of many voices, including Kris Nourse, Azul Valerie Thome, Francis Weller, Annemiek van Helsdingen, Susan Raffo, Liz Koch, Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, Larissa Kaul, Deb Dana, Suzanne Simard, and Sarah Peyton. Other influential beings in my unfolding have been the moon, a birch tree in Vermont, an oak tree in California, and the turtles of Bass Lake marsh on Dakota land in Mni Sota Makoce.