In this workshop, somatic exercises were intertwined with questions of planetary breathability.
As breathing beings, we reconnect with ourselves, fellow beings, and our environment with every breath we take. In the foreseeable future, providing access to clean air might become a crucial task for society. One challenge that workshop participants addressed involved developing specific climate scenarios that were not based on extrapolations of abstract data but instead emerged from somatic practices and collective experiences.
How can we tune in to the vital experience that makes air flow through our bodies? What do the molecules traveling through environments carry with them – nourishment, pollutants, memories? How are we – individually and collectively – connected to the planetary carbon cycle through the bodily practice of breathing?
