This four-part series explores the energetic landscape of the body and its ecological intertwining with the Arctic environment.
Across four lunar phases, the workshops trace a progression from stored earth material, to its conversion into infrastructure, to the environmental responses that follow, and finally to the shared terrain where natural processes and human systems intersect. Each session combines guided meditation, intuitive sound bath, and communal reflection. Drawing from scientific research in Svalbard alongside embodied sensing, the series invites participants to awaken bodily awareness within the systems they inhabit, allowing innate knowledge to surface and movement to begin.
1st session: NEW MOON - ENERGY AS MATERIAL
Coal / Pioneer Plants
When: Thursday March 19th at Artica Svalbrd from 17:30 - 19:30
What to bring: yoga/sleeping mat, blanket and notebook (pens and paper will also be provided)
To book email: workshops@articasvalbard.no (8 places available)
Description:
This session begins with attention to weight, density, and contact with the ground. Participants are introduced to geoscientific research on coal formation, considering how ancient sunlight became stored in plant matter over deep time and how extraction has shaped the narrative of earth material in Svalbard.
The cushion plant is introduced within the same terrain. Able to endure harsh and toxic conditions, it builds new colonies slowly and collectively. The meditation attunes to this plant as a living counterpoint within landscapes marked by extraction.
The session closes with reflection on earth material as both long-formed resource and living regenerative system.
Focus:
Coal as ancient sunlight held in plant matter across deep time
Energy resource formed over millennia and extracted in decades
Pioneer plants cultivating new growth within altered terrain
Embodied Inquiry:
What in the body feels long-formed or built over time?
What disrupts or drains what has been slowly built?
Which time scale enables the body to feel compressed, expanded, released?
News of the next workshops will be announced soon.