We’re surrounded by language about healing, connection, and being “in tune” – with ourselves, with nature, with something bigger. And yet much of it can feel abstract, performative, or strangely disconnected from our lived experience.

So what does it mean to actually feel something?

This panel explores embodiment, ecology, and the idea that the self isn’t separate from the world, but shaped through relationship – to our bodies, to each other, and to the environments we’re part of.

From nervous systems and altered states to folklore, land, and attention, we’ll ask: what actually helps people feel more present, more alive, and more in relationship with the world around them?