Ponder While We Wander

Location: Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/   Natasha and Amber amble along in the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island, Washington, USA and explore creativity as an important force for individuals and humanity as a whole. If you are looking for an invitation or support to sink into your cre...

Location: Penn Cove, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/   Rest is important, so why is it so hard? Amber and Natasha discuss some of the messages and individual and collective challenges to getting rest and give some examples of nature that invite us to take a deeper perspective to rest.   Explore more about Ponder While We Wander http...

Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Location:  Ft Townsend, Port Townsend, WA   Come walk with us while we explore the “love of life” humans have with natural environments. Amber and Natasha share ways in which this enhances our lives and can be integrated into everyday living. We find some banana slugs, evidence of other animals around, and breathe in the forest air, and you’re invited to co...

Schmitz Preserve Park Seattle, WA- USA   Is it time for a relationship check-in with nature?   Have you thought about your relationship with the outside world lately? What happens when we shift from inside to outside? What if our connection with nature was more relational than transactional? We explore this and more as we walk a muddy trail in Seattle, WA- USA.   Explore more about Ponder While We...

Denny Park Seattle, WA- USA   Join us for a discussion where we explore what labyrinths are, how you can walk them, and how walking them can be an important contemplative practice for our times.    https://labyrinthlocator.org/labyrinth/denny-park/440/   Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/   Episode Resources https://...

Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park   We explore the topic of how we do hard things as we launch our discussion from an article of a study about social support and our perception of how steep a hill can be. There are also some surprise raccoons. Come explore if it matters who you’re standing next to or not when we do hard things!    Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilew...

Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park   Jumping off of the work of Dr. Vaughan Wilkins and the field of applied Ecopsychology, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa explore the theme of Enculturated Zoochosis. Metaphors applicable to living in modernity and the challenges we may be having are discussed while observing some of the urban wildlife of Discovery Park in Seattle, WA. Could we be experienci...

Welcome to Ponder While We Wander, a container for invitations and  inspiration for connection to ourselves, others, and nature. This video gives you an introduction to us, how we got here, some of  our hopes, and an introduction to the podcast Ponder While We Wander.   This is a project of love from two friends who happen to be therapists, and we’re looking forward to seeing where it goes.   Than...