Our sensual connection to our bodies and the living world is under threat. We have become numb to the Earth’s touch.
But the Earth is calling us home.
Are you yearning for the analog, messy, and real? Do you desire to return to your body and shed the phantasms of the overculture? This week-long workshop offers an immersive, slow, and sensual experience in the erotic ecology pathway — a space to reawaken our sensory, pleasurable, and nourishing connection to two landscapes: our bodies and nature. Erotic ecology is a life philosophy that honours aliveness as the compass. Vitality for self, other and the Earth. If the living world is a tapestry of intimacy, then life is only possible through honouring the desire, pleasure, and sensuous experience of life itself.
From this shared ground grows flourishing relationships. From eros blooms aliveness for all. Through embodied exploration, contemplative practice, and nature rituals, you can rediscover your birthright: an intimate relationship with the natural world. This kinship reminds us that, at our essence, we are not separate from the Earth — we are the Earth.
Set amongst Hollyhock’s sacred landscape, we’ll engage in practices designed to open you to ecological eros: the ever-living and abundant source of pleasure, aliveness, and vitality.
Together, we will move through two inseparable truths: that our deepest source of climate resilience lives in the body, and that a body awake to its own aliveness becomes powerful in the most beautiful way.
This is an invitation to fall back in love with the Earth — and then to move with love and reciprocity in pace with the living world we love.
What You’ll Experience
- Guided meditations
- Creative exploration
- Writing prompts, journaling
- Nature rituals
- Movement, embodied practice
- Dyads, group work
- Walks in nature
What You’ll Learn
- Learn and practice the eight stages of interoceptive awareness, our body’s portal to sensing the Earth.
- Attune to the pace of nature and move at the rhythm of our surroundings.
- Practice attuned and consensual touch.
- Remember, feel, and embody your own aliveness.
- Awaken a felt sense of kinship with the natural world.
- Learn how to speak the language of the Earth.
- Connect your own erotic vitality to collective liberation and ecological justice.
Who This Program is For
- For those who want to navigate our love and our grief for a changing planet.
- For those who long to reimagine kinship with the Earth as a critical piece of our individual and planetary flourishing.
- For those who love our one planet home.
- For those who want to weave science, spirituality, healing and environmental justice together.
- For students of the planet. For the curious. For the heart-felt. For those carrying a question of how to alchemize their grief into pollination for the Earth.
Testimonials
“The retreat was fulfilling on many levels – to commune with nature, connect with others, and to immerse myself in the beautifully guided activities that nourished the mind, body, and spirit. Lindsay held a safe and connective space for all participants to share deeply, exposing their vulnerability, which is where the deepest seeds of connection grow from. Through open-hearted prompts and discussions, Lindsay nourished those connections among participants – between each other as well as themselves and the natural world. We had the recipe for magic to happen – which it did. We all felt moved, connected, and our cups of joy filled.”
“My heart is sooooo full. I feel nourished and light. What a gift!”
“Erotic ecology shifted the way I related to both myself and to trees: feeling a profound kinship with the more than human world. I left feeling a deeper intimate relationship with the world at large, and I will never be the same.”
“I came to retreat carrying grief: so much that I’d almost forgotten how to truly live with all my five senses. Lindsey’s facilitation of the erotic ecology workshop is what helped me find my way back. She created real room to be weird, to move, to make poetry, to play, to be surprised and delighted, and somehow it all felt safe and inviting rather than exposing. Lindsay is deeply knowledgeable and holds a space with such care, and it made room for grief alongside the play and aliveness. I left grateful in a way that’s hard to put into words.”
“The content felt so divine in terms of how we were lead on an arch of self-discovery and tapping into our senses as we start to connect more deeply and explore our relationship with nature.”
Daily Schedule
A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.
