Rich is the land, rich in woven tapestries of scent, sound and sights.
Sounds that whisper their urgent calls for us to wake and stay awake,
calls that whisper as loudly now as in Rumi’s time:
“Don’t go back to sleep”
Awaken your senses to placed based intimacy
in a reciprocity inherent in deep listening and artful response.
Photographs by Nikyta Palmisani
We actively choose to live in the San Juan Islands, in the astonishing beauty of the Salish Sea. Each of us does so for a reason. Many of those reasons are placed-based: we love this place. Come join me in deep place based listening to earth in a form called Ecoutearth which is a combination of mindfulness, Expressive Arts Therapy and Ecopsychology. In this six week session we will explore place based knowing and relational reciprocity through the specific place in the Lopez Island ecosystem that calls deeply to your heart. This work is ideal for those who wish to deepen their relationship with place for personal edification, stress reduction, increased well-being, and environmental activism. In this time of uncertain political climate and policy, it will also help create material and art content for use in political rallies, marches, art shows, social media, and personal sharing with your community. Questions will reveal themselves for your personal exploration and research. You will be called to know more, to find out: what sustains this place, what threatens it, and what protects it? What is your part in the active support of the sacred?
No artistic experience required, and all levels of art makers welcome. For this work, you will need to pick a place or territory that you can visit weekly, or more often. Your work will be spending time listening deeply to this place, and making art in response to it. Then gifting it back to the place, and when appropriate, the world. In our meetings there will be guided facilitation of different art forms: photography, visual art, writing, poetry, song making, land art, sculpture. Each session will build upon itself resulting in a portfolio of place-hood, an intimate and embodied journal of your body’s interrelation with your chosen place. All sessions will be facilitated and guided by Nikyta Palmisani.
No artistic experience required, and all levels of art makers welcome. For this work, you will need to pick a place or territory that you can visit weekly, or more often. Your work will be spending time listening deeply to this place, and making art in response to it. Then gifting it back to the place, and when appropriate, the world. In our meetings there will be guided facilitation of different art forms: photography, visual art, writing, poetry, song making, land art, sculpture. Each session will build upon itself resulting in a portfolio of place-hood, an intimate and embodied journal of your body’s interrelation with your chosen place. All sessions will be facilitated and guided by Nikyta Palmisani.
Ecoutearth: Connect Where You Are Online Event
Saturday, April 24, 2 pm - 4 pm
In Honor of Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary
We are welcoming you to join us for an embodied practice of Ecoutearth from right where you are. More than ever we need deep connection to ourselves, each other and nature. In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, we welcome you to come back into deep connection through a lovely afternoon of expertly facilitated connection.
Ecoutearth is a combined practice of mindfulness, Ecopsychology and Expressive Arts and is accessible for anyone, anywhere.
We invite you to a Zoom call where you will be introduced to the practice, and then have ample time for a deep drop-in to your own native environment: whether that be outside, or with a view of the out of doors. In Ecoutearth, we listen through our senses, and form a reciprocal relationship with the larger body of earth through the arts in the form of an aesthetic response. This is different from a traditional work of art: it is an offering, not a product. No artist experience is required for this use of the arts as a sacred offering-- a sound, a movement, a few words, a breath. All these are offerings and ways to give back to the earth, in gratitude, in play, in reverence, in sacred relationship.
Please join us for this soul nourishing time to connect with each other and the world through mindfulness and the arts. Feel free to share this invitation with others, and pass on the zoom link. We are offering this workshop as our offering, but will also happily receive any donations via Paypal or Venmo.
Ecoutearth: Connect Where You Are
Time: Apr 25, 2020 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/338073867?pwd=cHVBenVrTjF5YnFYTWJkVEVsazBkQT09
Meeting ID: 338 073 867
Password: 622259
Blessings!
Contact Nikyta at [email protected] to register or for any questions.
Saturday, April 24, 2 pm - 4 pm
In Honor of Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary
We are welcoming you to join us for an embodied practice of Ecoutearth from right where you are. More than ever we need deep connection to ourselves, each other and nature. In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, we welcome you to come back into deep connection through a lovely afternoon of expertly facilitated connection.
Ecoutearth is a combined practice of mindfulness, Ecopsychology and Expressive Arts and is accessible for anyone, anywhere.
We invite you to a Zoom call where you will be introduced to the practice, and then have ample time for a deep drop-in to your own native environment: whether that be outside, or with a view of the out of doors. In Ecoutearth, we listen through our senses, and form a reciprocal relationship with the larger body of earth through the arts in the form of an aesthetic response. This is different from a traditional work of art: it is an offering, not a product. No artist experience is required for this use of the arts as a sacred offering-- a sound, a movement, a few words, a breath. All these are offerings and ways to give back to the earth, in gratitude, in play, in reverence, in sacred relationship.
Please join us for this soul nourishing time to connect with each other and the world through mindfulness and the arts. Feel free to share this invitation with others, and pass on the zoom link. We are offering this workshop as our offering, but will also happily receive any donations via Paypal or Venmo.
Ecoutearth: Connect Where You Are
Time: Apr 25, 2020 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/338073867?pwd=cHVBenVrTjF5YnFYTWJkVEVsazBkQT09
Meeting ID: 338 073 867
Password: 622259
Blessings!
Contact Nikyta at [email protected] to register or for any questions.
Site Specific Land Art with a focus on Mandala Making and Meditation Workshop
Lopez Island, Washington
Saturday September 9th from 11 am - 4 pm
Co-faciliated by Nikyta Palmisani and Vancouver Based Ecoutearth Founder, Kayla Hochfelder
In this workshop you will be invited to gather objects, listen deeply to the land and place, and find what space is calling for a sacred honoring through art and altar making. Techniques for gathering, containing, creating, composing and documenting will be taught. The process will be a silent, mindful meditation on shape, object and place resulting in your own nature based mandala. All objects used are found within the landscape without harm or disruption. Your mandala will be beautifully photographed and a digital and/or physical print of your photo will be sent to you following the workshop.
Please bring your brown bag lunch. Tea and organic, gluten free snacks will be provided.
$75 for workshop, $50 for Ecoutearth class participants.
No one turned away for lack of funds-- please speak to Nikyta to explore donation options.
Contact Nikyta at [email protected] to register or for any questions.
Lopez Island, Washington
Saturday September 9th from 11 am - 4 pm
Co-faciliated by Nikyta Palmisani and Vancouver Based Ecoutearth Founder, Kayla Hochfelder
In this workshop you will be invited to gather objects, listen deeply to the land and place, and find what space is calling for a sacred honoring through art and altar making. Techniques for gathering, containing, creating, composing and documenting will be taught. The process will be a silent, mindful meditation on shape, object and place resulting in your own nature based mandala. All objects used are found within the landscape without harm or disruption. Your mandala will be beautifully photographed and a digital and/or physical print of your photo will be sent to you following the workshop.
Please bring your brown bag lunch. Tea and organic, gluten free snacks will be provided.
$75 for workshop, $50 for Ecoutearth class participants.
No one turned away for lack of funds-- please speak to Nikyta to explore donation options.
Contact Nikyta at [email protected] to register or for any questions.