Gather With Us
Join us to explore our
belonging to the living earth
through the body
Free Online Gathering
June 18th - June 24th
Recordings Available for 30 Days
This event was created to gather all those who feel the deep call to return to the wisdom of the earth through embodied listening.
We are at a critical juncture in human history, where millions of us are longing to restore our integral connection with the earth. We are remembering the profound kinship we share with the wider web of life, for the well-being of the planet, ourselves, and future generations.
This turning is becoming harder and harder to ignore as humanity navigates immense ecological and social challenges. Cultivating authentic connection to land and place can become a form of resilience, resistance, reciprocity, and healing.
This summit brings together therapists, herbalists, artists, educators, somatic practitioners, writers, and thinkers exploring how reconnection with the living world can support the return to our innate belonging.
Through a series of interactive and experiential sessions, we come together in community to deepen our sense of interconnection with ourselves, one another, and the living earth.
20 Speakers take you on a journey back to nature and the body
Over 7 days, we will explore a wide range of theory and practice covering somatics, nature connection, deep ecology, forest bathing, working with chronic illness, nervous system tending, ritual practice, expressive arts, and much more.
During the summit, we’ll explore:
Nervous system tending through nature connection
Grief, reciprocity, and ecological belonging
Trauma repair and embodied healing
Animism and relational awareness
Somatic practices for everyday life
Forest Therapy and Ecosomatics
Creativity, ritual, and meaning-making
Community in an age of disconnection
Practices you can implement for years to come
Celebrate The Solstice With Our Speakers:
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Facilitator, Teacher, & Guide, at the intersection of Mindfulness, Somatics, & Deep Ecology

Naturopathic Doctor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and the founder of the Sacred Illness® paradigm

Founder of The Wild Roots Guide and a Nature-based Somatic Coach with a background in Psychology and Herbalism

Writer, Meditation Teacher, Depth Hypnotherapist, & Founder of the Inner Forest School

Holistic Clinical Hypnotherapist & Hypnoanalyst, Holistic- Integrative Coach, and Nature Reconnection Facilitator

Mariya Garnet
Expressive Arts Therapist

Founder of EcoNIDRA™, ANFT-certified Forest Therapy Guide, certified European TreeClimbing Therapist and Gemmotherapy Practitioner.
Your Host
Hi, I'm Robyn from Innate Ecology
I am a mother of three, a cancer survivor, a former crisis worker, and a lifelong student of nature.
For years I held space for others through their darkest moments while also navigating my own which included a high-conflict separation and becoming a co-parent of three, a cancer diagnosis, and the profound isolation of early motherhood far away from my support system. Through all of it, nature was the one thing that never failed to hold and support me.
These experiences became the foundation of Innate Ecology, which is an ecosomatic framework for cultivating resilience through our kinship with the living world. This kind of resilience arises when we have no other choice but to find strength and capacity.
I created this summit because I believe this work is needed now more than ever, and because the most powerful thing we can do in times of collapse is gather together in kinship and community.
I'm so glad you're here.
Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community

This summit is part of a wider vision of cultivating relational,
embodied, and ecological ways of healing and living.
Participants will also receive exlcusive information about future immersions, cohorts, and practitioner training opportunities offered by our speakers.
What You’ll Experience:
Live talks and experiential sessions
Guided ecosomatic and nature-based practices
Conversations on resilience, reciprocity, and belonging
Teachings from therapists, herbalists, artists, and educators
Writing, reflection, and embodied inquiry
Community connection with others drawn to this work
This Gathering May Resonate With You If You Are:
Longing for deeper connection with the living world
Navigating burnout, grief, uncertainty, or transition
Drawn to embodiment, ecology, animism, or relational healing
A therapist, practitioner, educator, artist, coach, or nature-lover
Seeking grounded forms of resilience and belonging
Wanting to cultivate more reciprocal relationship with land and place

Schedule & Session Outlines
Sessions are online
Recordings available for 1 month
Live attendance optional
Global audience welcome
Sessions include both teaching and embodied practice
Thursday, June 18th
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
Mytho-Ecosomatics: Dancing the mythic aliveness of nature
In this session, Dr Brittany Laidlaw guides us into the art and practice of 'Mytho-Ecosomatics', a term coined through her doctoral research to articulate a new lens for experiencing nature’s animacy through embodied engagement with myth. This framework is rooted in the understanding that myths are not merely a collection of inherited stories or cultural artefacts but emergent expressions of nature’s consciousness encoded in storied form that may be recreated, embodied, and honoured in present time through somatic practice.
Recognising this opens new possibilities for somatic practice as a vital method for restoring relationality with the living world through mythic participation. By engaging with myth as an embodied process, Dr Laidlaw reveals how practitioners may cultivate direct, felt encounters with nature’s agency in ways that radically transform the individual and place in the process.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
The Secret Teachings of Rose
Join Seraphina Capranos as she takes you through an experiential journey with the beloved Rose flower. If possible, bring some rose petals to this session so you can join along in the plant spirit session. Seraphina takes you through the history, the spiritual historical significance, and medicinal virtues of this plant that has so much to offer our tender hearts today.
Friday, June 19th
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
Rewilding the Lineage: Ancestral earth connection practice
Simona will be guiding us in a systemic constellation meditation that opens a living pathway between body, land, and lineage. Through an embodied journey, we follow the spiral of our ancestry back through the lands that shaped and sustained those who came before us, reconnecting with the ecological roots that live within us.
Along the way, we meet a wild ancestor or ally, one who lived in attunement with the rhythms of earth and sky, and begin to sense how their wisdom can be carried forward into our lives now. This practice invites a remembering of our place within a regenerative, symbiotic cycle of life, death, and renewal, where what has been lived continues to feed what is becoming.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
Somatic Enchantment: Reviving interspecies relations through politicized somatic practice
Colonization has severed our relationships to our beyond-human kin. As a result, we have forgotten how to collaborate across species and live in ways that promote life. As empires thrash into their own demise, now is the time to re-enliven and receive instructions on how to harmonize with life through Wild Relations. We each have the capacity to attune to the ancestral memories, signals and longings of beyond-human kin that can guide us back to the reciprocity that Earth and earthlings alike require to thrive. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how politicized somatic practice can serve as a place to begin. All you need is your body, spirit and imagination to attend this workshop. The facilitator will define politicized somatics, expand on the generative potential in interspecies relating, and guide you through embodiment practices inspired by seeds.
Saturday, June 20th
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
Wildlife as Messengers
Wildlife are more than just inhabitants of the natural world, they are living messengers of Earth and Spirit intelligence.
In this experience, you’ll learn how animals act as translators of nature’s deeper wisdom, offering insight, guidance,
and energetic communication. You’ll also begin to recognize and connect with your own unique animal guides,
opening a direct and meaningful relationship with the natural world around you.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
The Healing Power of Nature: Chronic illness as an invitation home to yourself
At the heart of naturopathic medicine lies a core principle: the vis medicatrix naturae, or the healing power of nature. This is the understanding that the body possesses an innate wisdom and an inherent drive toward balance, just as the earth does.
In this session, we will explore:
The principle of vis medicatrix naturae—the healing power of nature—and what it means for those living with chronic illness
How symptoms are not failures but intelligent responses from an overwhelmed internal ecosystem
A somatic practice to begin listening to what your body is communicating and clearing the blockages that stand in the way of its natural drive toward healing
The necessary paradigm shift from seeing illness as an enemy to seeing illness as an invitation and pathway to our becoming
1 pm PST / 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT
Entering the Mystery of the Unseen
A transmission on what is held within the unseen realms, how to enter and embody the mystery to heal the blueprint of the Earth.
Opening and Closing Prayer
Earth-Based Teaching
Visonary Sound Journey
Sunday, June 21st
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
Embodied Connection
How does nature help us feel calmer and more connected? In this session, Sanne invites you to explore how the natural world can become a powerful source of support for your nervous system. Through a blend of gentle teaching and somatic practices, you’ll discover how we co-regulate with nature and how this connection can strengthen resilience, presence, and inner balance.
Rooted in psychology, somatics and nature connection, this session offers a restorative pause and a chance to reconnect with yourself through the wisdom of the living world.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
Exploring Our Domains of Perception
An embodied practice inspired by the work of Generative Somatics, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and taught to me through my lineage with Embodied Ancestral Inquiry. We will practice how to be with embodied decision making by widening our aperture and exploring our capacity for perceptual knowing. Join Caroline as we a sense into the intellectual, physical, relational, and elemental domains for guidance, clarity and emergent paths forward.
Please bring a candle + something to light it with, as well as a journal and pen if you’d like to take notes.
1 pm PST / 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT
Awakening the Wisdom of Your Inner Nature
Nature holds extraordinary wisdom – and so do you. In this session, we’ll explore nature not as something outside to be observed, but as a living pulse – a life force – that moves through all things, including us. Drawing on the wisdom of Jungian thought, shamanic traditions, and the power of the imaginal, we’ll explore how humans have long understood the natural world as a doorway to inner knowing – and how you can directly access that yourself.
The session will include an experiential guided imagery practice. Please join us from a quiet, comfortable place where you can turn inward, bringing a journal and pen with you to jot down your reflections.
Monday, June 22nd
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
From Ancient Greece to Soma: Landscape, Body, Senses
This session explores how people in ancient times—particularly in Ancient Greece—related to nature through daily practices, rituals, and embodied ways of living. We will look at how landscape, body, and environment were experienced as deeply interconnected.
The session then bridges these perspectives to the present moment, inviting participants to reflect on their own relationship with nature and how it shows up in modern life.
In the final part, participants will be guided into simple, embodied practices that bring these ideas into direct experience. Through sensory awareness, breath, and guided exercises, we will explore how to reconnect with the body and environment in a grounded and accessible way.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
When the Drummers were Women: Ancient history as a map for the future
There was a time in our History when the primary percussionists and drummers were women. During those ancient times, the drummer-priestesses held the keys to experience of the divine through rhythm. They were at the center of earth-based, matriarchal societies until the ascent of patriarchal cultures and the loss of drumming as a spiritual technology.
In this talk we explore how the remembrance of the Drum can weave us back into harmony with the rhythms of our bodies, and the earth.
1 pm PST / 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT
Held by Body & Earth: Resourcing grief through somatics & nature
Grief is a natural, embodied response to loss—yet many of us are left without the support needed to move with it. In this session, we’ll explore how the body and the living world can become steady sources of resourcing as we navigate grief in its many forms—personal, ancestral, and ecological.
Through simple, accessible somatic and nature-based practices, participants will be guided to build capacity to stay present with grief, while also tending to the nervous system. You’ll leave with practical tools for meeting grief with greater steadiness, support, and relational awareness—both within yourself and in connection with the land.
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Tuesday, June 23rd
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
Stone & Bone & Coming Home: A ceremony to remember our wild belonging
This ceremony is especially for those who have always felt a bit different, a bit weird, who have felt themselves to inhabit the edges of society - and those who feel a deep and ancient longing to merge with the web of life.
Isolation. Loneliness. Disconnection. Different names for the malady of our time.
Come on a journey to thread ourselves back into the tapestry of belonging; to remember and feel into some of the myriad ways we are already deeply connected. This experience is designed to melt away the illusion of alone-ness, and to awaken a new-old knowing in your bones that you are already home, you already belong.
You will leave with a practice you can draw on any time you want to feel more supported, nourished, and connected.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 6 pm GMT
The Three Cauldrons Journey: Returning to Sea, Land & Sky
In a world that often pulls us away from our bodies and the natural rhythms of life, a deep remembering waits within you - one that reconnects you to your inner landscape and the wisdom of the Earth.
In this session, we’ll explore the ancient teachings of the Three Cauldrons through the living energies of Sea, Land, and Sky.
The Cauldron of Warming (Sea) invites you into the depths of your body - your emotions, instincts, and ancestral currents.
The Cauldron of Motion (Land) connects you to your heart, your relationships, and how you move through the world.
The Cauldron of Wisdom (Sky) opens you to insight, intuition, and your connection to something greater.
Together, these form an inner ecology - one that, when tended, brings balance, clarity, and a deep sense of belonging.
Through reflection and gentle, embodied guidance, you’ll be invited to listen to your body, honour your emotional landscape, and reconnect with your inner knowing. You’ll leave with simple practices to nourish each cauldron and a renewed connection to yourself and the living world around you.
1 pm PST / 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT
Learning to Belong Through Nature Connection & Creativity
I come to this work as someone who never saw nature as anything more than a backdrop.
Through simple, accessible somatic and nature-based practices, participants will be guided to build capacity to stay present with grief, while also tending to the nervous system. You’ll leave with practical tools for meeting grief with greater steadiness, support, and relational awareness—both within yourself and in connection with the land.
You don't need to be a lifelong nature person, nor do you have to have it all figured out. You only need to be willing to begin.
By the end of this session, participants will have:
● A foundational understanding of the eco self and why reconnecting to it matters for healing and wellbeing
● A lived, embodied sense of what nature connection can feel like — through story, poetry and experiential practice
● A simple, accessible take-home practice for beginning to meet their own eco self in the natural world
● An invitation to use creative expression, particularly poetry, as a bridge back to themselves and the living world
Wednesday, June 24th
7 am PST / 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
The Plant as Teacher, the Body as Home: Amazonian Plant Dietas and the Art of Becoming
In the Peruvian Amazon, indigenous and mestizo healers have long known something that Western knowledge systems are only beginning to approach: that plants have interiority, agency, and something like will — and that a human body can become a vehicle for that intelligence to move through.
Plant dietas are extended periods of isolation, dietary restriction, and intentional relationship with a specific plant. They aren't symbolic or metaphorical. They are a literal technology for inviting plant consciousness to take up residence in the body, to teach from the inside out.
In this session, Mariya shares this knowledge with permission, in service of the wellbeing of all relations, drawing on 17 years of engagement with these traditions to explore what dietas actually involve, what gets transmitted through them, and what that might mean for those of us working in modern therapeutic and healing contexts. We'll look at the logic of the dieta — why the body, why restriction, why relationship — and at what becomes available when we take seriously the possibility that plants are beings we can be taught by, not just used.
You'll leave with a grounded understanding of this tradition and some threads to carry into your own somatic and relational practice.
10 am PST / 1 pm EST / 4 pm GMT
Animist Artistry: The xrole of the artist in restoring human connection with the living world
We live in a time of profound forgetting. In the age of disconnection, the artist is forced into the role of content creator, to build a brand and to perform for 'the algorithm'. All the while, the earth, once understood as a living intelligence, is continually reduced to a resource for our overculture of domination to extract from. Animist artistry is a creative practice of embodied dialogue with the earth, who is calling us back into right relationship. The animist artist does not create about nature but from within it, beginning with the body.
When we return to the body as a sensing, knowing, interwoven vessel and the earth as a living collaborator, our art stops performing and starts channeling. It carries medicine. It restores what has been severed within ourselves and the wider culture. In this workshop, we explore the roots of image-making and myth, somatic practices for receiving creative guidance from the earth and body, and how your wounds, your medicine, and your expression are inseparable on the journey to remembering our innate ecological relationships. We enter the understanding that art is not a personal possession but as a force moving through culture, in service to a more beautiful world.
1 pm PST / 4 pm EST / 9 pm GMT
Wild Resilience: Cultivating resiliency through kinship in times of collapse
In this session, explore how ecosomatic practice can help cultivate resilience in a world that often feels deeply unsettling. Many of us are navigating both personal and collective challenges that range from subtle unease to profound crisis.
Drawing from her background as a former crisis worker and cancer survivor, Robyn will guide participants through teachings and experiential practices integrating nature connection with psychological research on stress, post-traumatic growth, and resilience.
Together, we explore how authentic relationship with the living world can support greater stability, meaning, agency, and belonging in times of uncertainty and change.
Please bring a pen and journal for a guided Wild Resilience writing practice.
Pre-Recorded:
Trees and our (Mental) Health: The Medicine of TreeClimbing, Forest Therapy, EcoNIDRA & Gemmotherapy
Trees can become our greatest allies in mental health and restoration. In this session, Kat Mertens explores the synergistic "medicine" of the woods: from the somatic grounding and focus of mindful TreeClimbing to the sensory immersion of Forest Therapy, deep resting in EcoNIDRA and the potent vitality of Gemmotherapy (tree bud medicine).
You’ll learn how these nature- and reciprocity based practices regulate the nervous system, slow down our brain waves, reduce stress, restore our microbiome and immune system, revitalize the fascia, bring hormonal balance and foster a profound sense of belonging. To integrate this "tree medicine," the session will conclude with a short, experiential EcoNIDRA™ journey - a fusion of yoga nidra and nature connection designed to leave you deeply restored and reconnected with (your inner) nature.
Rooted Seasons: Listening to the Creative Season You’re In
A 60-minute self-recorded workshop on the four creative seasons and how they shape the way we build, share, and market our work. Through two guided practices, an embodied visualisation and an intuitive writing exercise, you’ll sense the season you’re actually in and receive what it’s asking for. You’ll leave with the first draft of a three-month plan shaped to your creative rhythm, alongside a downloadable workbook to keep.
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FAQ
Are all sessions live?
Most of the sessions are live, but a few are pre-recorded.
You'll be able to access the recording of each session until July 24th if you can't make it live.
Is there any cost for this series?
No, this series is entirely free.
There will be offers shared by the speakers if you wish to work in a deeper way with any of us.
How can I access the sessions?
A zoom link will be sent out via email prior to each session so you can join live. Just ensure the event emails are not being sent to your junk folder :)
We won't bombard you with emails, but we'll keep you informed of the schedule for each day and how to access session recordings.
What if I have trouble signing up or accessing the sessions?
If any questions arise, please get in touch via: hello@innateecology.com and we'll be happy to assist!














