Ecopsychology approaches nature as mirror, model, and mentor to the human psyche. We are embedded in the larger web of life, and so our wellness as – individuals and as the human species – contributes meaningfully to the life of Earth. Ash guides individual clients and students to make meaningful contact and conversation with the living world around us through reflective, creative, and embodied practices. As we learn to trust in our senses and imaginations in nature, we receive the wisdom of “the wild” as it is expressed in the land, cycles of seasons, elemental forces, and the diverse members of our ecological communities. These experiences have the power to illuminate what is genuine, what is whole, and what is needed. We remember our belonging here in the web of life – and because our own growth is embedded in Earth, we apply our growth in service to all life.

Ecosomatics and ecopsychology are good medicine for anyone in our times and offer skillsets intrinsic to our species when given the opportunity to develop. These practices are particularly supportive to those of us experiencing climate anxiety, environmental grief, and/or activist burnout.

Ecosomatics integrates the fields of somatics and ecology to cultivate the felt sense of ourselves as members of the living world. Through sensory awareness; through sensitivity to inner and outer environments; through moving, sounding, touching, and breathing responses – we attune to the place in which we stand and develop more fulfilling relationship to the land and our more-than-human relations. We discover and cultivate qualities of presence; states of consciousness; and options for action beyond our individual, human selves. Through ecosomatic inquiry, we become more fully ourselves, and grow capacity to respond more sensitively to messages from our larger Self (Earth).