How can an embodied engagement with seascapes (and beyond) shift our environmental awareness ?

There is a need to change from within in order to arrive to change around us. Embodied experience, emotional stimuli and creating deeper relationships with our natural environment are necessary. The route to connectedness begins on the ocean floor, where life came from. If all biological beings are 70-90% water, ‘there is no body that is not beholden to water’ as Astrida Neimanis notes.

Practicing Sailing, an original form of slow travel and the historically first way to exchange, learn and transfer cultures and materials up to then completely foreign, we connect to the human scaled history. Floating at sea or anchored in a bay, not in your natural human habitat; you feel the intrusion of your presence, or the hospitality of this ecosystem. Perhaps it will be the first time the perspective is flipped in a very direct way. Exposed to the elements, this internal processing is facilitated. An initial feeling of being outside looking in, replaced by the erasure of otherness, of binary thinking, a relational approach slowly growing.

This workshop is an embodied, sensory encounter with the deep knowledge of the sea and a reflection of the ways in which we coexist and live with and from the sea, while we develop a new sense of care for the ecosystem and explore reciprocal interventions in natural spaces.

For booking and more information, contact: efrosyni@taat.live