This past year has been full of explorations of river, rock, trees, topography, and what matters about these. Once again, I find myself dividing up things - reducing them to their parts then putting them all back together into ‘landscape’. One of the tenants of somatic work through work is ‘Whole-Part-Whole” (from Irmgard Bartenieff)

The Pacific Northwest is the land of watersheds and systems thinking. Inherent in the ecological research (at least freshwater) is a very holistic (though hierarchical) viewpoint.

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