Caring for Earth includes caring for ourselves.
To help us find ways to stay active throughout our lives, I’m joined by Katy Bowman as she shares her work on the importance of incorporating regular, whole-body movement throughout the day, with a focus on stacking activities to make sure we stretch, flex, reach, push, and pull, during our regular routine. In this way, we can express a full range of motion, inhabited in our bodies, without needing to worry about making time to go to the gym, unless we want to. Throughout the conversation, she includes numerous ways to redesign our current habits into ones with more use of our body, while framing the conversation as one not of exercise but with movement as a form of nutrition and how we can look for and address any deficits we may find.
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I carried the thought of permaculture design as self-care into this conversation with Katy; the idea that permaculture starts with our self and our well being as a Zone 00. As we perform a needs and yields analysis for the landscape, our communities, or invisible structures, we should do the same for our selves. Doing this analysis ensures that our needs are being met and our yields are useful and utilized. When we discover places we are lacking, we can address that deficiency. Doing this over time, we can design our lives around our needs, strengths, and abilities, so we can perform this work, as we are able, throughout a lifetime.
Caring for our selves, we are better equipped to care for the land, all life on Earth, and each other.
But, that’s just a few of my thoughts on this in the moment. What are yours? Let me know by leaving a comment below.