Returning to explore the “insistence of homeostasis” with Liz Koch and its suffocating effect on Longing, Desire, and Creative impulses, Wilderness Guide (and Elemental Qigong instructor) Sarah Byrden fleshes out how Desire and Destiny are rooted in the Kidney energy. Through the Water Element our true desire eventually flows out into the world through the bounty of the Heart. What happens though when domestication entraps our capacity to fully root, awaken, and flourish?

Frank Carbone brings listeners into the deep conversation of our embryological gestures that when slowed down reveal our patterns and how they shape our next moment and potential as creative adults. This rich conversation includes Frank being born into an Italian family and working for the NYC Sanitation Department to his many years studying with Emilie Conrad & Ray Castellino. As a facilitator, moving artist, and cranial-sacral therapist working with newborn infants unfolding into life, this I assure you, is a Whale of a Tale evoking both curiosity and innovations.

The breath between form and formlessness shapes our humanness. Dissolving to show up fully in life, brings folding and unfolding queries with the tides. Who is this creature? What are elemental and foundational expressions that support and nourish being human? Why is it vital to dissolve to reappear? How does tracking wild bio-intelligence enhance all life? Liz Koch, author of Stalking Wild Psoas, introduces Sarah Byrden of The Elemental Self and invites all of us to consider meaning-making myths and embryological stories — conversing with the more than human we explore being alive as a soulful flourishing.