{"id":979,"date":"2017-09-02T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=979"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T23:04:41","slug":"embodying-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/embodying-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Embodying Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/embodying-nature\/jamie-in-leaves-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-145x97.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-495x330.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/jamie-in-leaves-2-670x446.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>How do we quiet the monkey mind and receive our environment? And once we are in relationship with place, how do we engage and interact?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Embodying Nature<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/EmbodyingNature2017article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-983 noopener\">Download PDF (93K)<\/a>, by Jamie McHugh<br \/>\nIn this somatic and expressive approach to becoming more fully human as elemental creatures, Jamie McHugh combines the technologies of breath, vocalization, contact, movement and stillness to occupy the soma\/psyche, open the portals of perception and invite in the spirit of place. He discovers how tree, rock, sky, and water reflect aspects of our being through this sensory-motor encounter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author Bio<\/strong>: Jamie McHugh is a somatic coach, dancer, and artist living on the California coast. The creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somaticexpression.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of Somatic Expression<\/a>\u00ae \u2013 Body Wisdom for Modern Minds, Jamie has guided somatic-expressive encounters with the natural world for the past 25 years in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos of Jamie McHugh by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetsmile.com\/about\/gregory-bartning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gregory Bartning<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we quiet the monkey mind and receive our environment? And once we are in relationship with &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/embodying-nature\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[72,351,348,349,71,352,350],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articles","tag-body","tag-elemental-somatic","tag-jamie-mchugh","tag-movement","tag-nature","tag-senses","tag-stillness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-fN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}