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We\u2019re surrounded by language about healing, connection, and being \u201cin tune\u201d – with ourselves, with nature, with something bigger. And yet much of it can feel abstract, performative, or strangely disconnected from our lived experience.<\/p>\n

So what does it mean to actually feel something?<\/p>\n

This panel explores embodiment, ecology, and the idea that the self isn\u2019t separate from the world, but shaped through relationship – to our bodies, to each other, and to the environments we\u2019re part of.<\/p>\n

From nervous systems and altered states to folklore, land, and attention, we\u2019ll ask: what actually helps people feel more present, more alive, and more in relationship with the world around them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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