A GUEST POST BY NICA CELLY Jerry Mander, author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, at his typewriter. (Roger Ressmeyer/VCG via Getty Images) Yes, this button-up and vest vibe will be in my autumn '26 repertoire This is a brief dalliance from our regular scheduled programming to welcome a very special contribution from Nica Celly , a dear friend & collaborator on Understory : a retreat exploring body, word and landscape. I hope you enjoy her words and insi

WHAT DELINEATES VIBRANCY FROM INERTNESS? “We are alive to the degree that we are in love.”  -- Anaïs Nin (beautiful art by Juan Gatti) We will return to Bridges and Baskets (a series exploring the anatomy of connection and support) soon! Until then, please enjoy this very special announcement post! I once held a human brain. And then I held a heart. It was 2004 or 2005, during my training at the Canadian College of Massage, when my class participated in a cadaver lab; takin

A SERIES EXPLORING THE ANATOMY OF CONNECTION + SUPPORT Whilst I typically enjoy my time outdoors unfettered by human interference, I have a real soft spot for a forest bridge! Welcome to Bridges and Baskets , a series exploring the anatomy of connection and support. My hope is to illuminate the cooperative nature of our bodies - tracing the organic shapes and patterns of the human form through a morphological lens, and nurturing a more narrative understanding of ourselves as

WE ARE NOT LIKE NATURE. WE ARE NATURE. I found this really, really, really, really old picture of you :) Have you ever seen the...

THE PARADOX OF SOMATIC ANATOMY Living root bridge in Nongbareh, India. These bridges have been built for centuries by the indigenous...

MOVING FROM OBJECT TO SUBJECT Humans have been co-evolving with Nature for hundreds of thousands of years, for better or worse. Somewhere...

REFLECTIONS FROM A COOL INLAND CREEK I was recently in Southern Oregon attending an in-person Forest Therapy training when I encountered...

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF FOREST BATHING I know that you know that going outside is “good” for you - I would love to shine a light on...

PART THREE At the threshold of connection is receptivity. 

PART TWO When we last left off , our precocious protagonist (aka, me) was sent off into the forest by her intrepid alternative school...

PART ONE “it’s so quiet, as if an alligator could slither up beside me and rest.”