Welcome to the season one finale of Soil and Stars. This week, Emily has a soulful conversation with artist and writer Cody Cook-Parrott about their new book, The Practice of Attention.

This episode is an invitation to notice where our attention goes and energy flows. Attention is the gateway to presence, and in a world full of distractions, presence is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.

Tune in to hear Emily and Cody discuss:

• Their complicated relationships with social media and how they began noticing the negative impacts of apps like Instagram
• How our creative and spiritual practices can help us live meaningful lives
• The power of writing as a contemplative practice to help us make sense of our inner worlds

Connect with Cody by subscribing to their newsletter, reading their books, and listening to Common Shapes.

Thank you for tuning into season one of Soil and Stars! Please share this episode with the people you love. Stay tuned later this year for season two.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

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Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.

In this episode, Emily sits down with the story doula, Dajé Alōh, for an expansive conversation about soul initiation, becoming a dream of the Earth, and navigating the thresholds of the creative process.

Emily & Dajé discuss:

• Practicing simple, grounded rituals to make contact with the Earth, elements, and our inner wilds
• Meeting the Mother and offering Her our whole being and heart
• Our unique soul calling as the Earth imagining herself back into wholeness
• The Creative Rites as a living framework of visionary archetypes to guide us through the initiations, seasons, and thresholds of the creative process
• Descending to soul, retrieving vision, awakening our power, and rising again

Learn more about Storywork Studio and connect with Dajé on Instagram @thestorydoula, Substack, and tune into the soft, earthen futures podcast.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

Tune in, share this episode with someone you love, and subscribe to the Soil and Stars newsletter for free or become a patron for $5/month or $50/year.

Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.

In this episode, Emily connects with politicized somatic practitioner and popular educator Eris Johnson for a profound conversation about eco-somatic practices, interspecies relations, and eco-social collective liberation.

Emily & Eris discuss:

• Listening deeply and coming back into collaborative, reciprocal relationship with land
• Expanding our movements for liberation to include the freedom and sovereignty of beyond human beings
• Widening our sense of self to include community, ecology, and cosmos
• Orienting to somatics as a practice of awakening aliveness for the sake of healing, transformation, pleasure, and freedom
• Popular education as a model that removes institutional barriers to knowledge while honoring our role as both student and teacher

Connect with Eris on Instagram and learn more about their politicized somatic offerings, including Somatic Enchantment.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

Tune in, share this episode with someone you love, and subscribe to the Soil and Stars newsletter for free or become a patron for $5/month or $50/year.

Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.