The Saltwater Songlines Podcast

You can watch this Episode on Vimeo: Part 1 - 20.13 - https://vimeo.com/910284028/ Part 2 - 33.33 - https://vimeo.com/910289722/ Raymond Besant is a wildlife cameraman and photographer from the Orkney Islands in Scotland. He regularly films as a long lens cameraman for both the BBC and National Geographic, in far reaching locations such Arctic Norway, Gabon, and the Tibetan Plateau. In this conver...

Every time I see a portrait made by my colleague Carlos Alejandro, I am humbled. The truth is, the breath is swept away from me. The very essence of the human being, whom Carlos has portrayed, is present. Carlos refers to this, as witnessing, as seeing someone's Story. As Carlos stands in himself, the one being photographed, experiences full space to be present with and completely inhabit them...

I loved this slow marination of conversation with my colleague Sandrine Harris. Delicious as molasses. We wove our way through exploring Marrow as fundament and vitality, spoke of how the journey through trauma restoration and recovery takes time, and is a both a field of support and eventually an invitation to rediscovering pleasure and curiosity, playfulness, and the capacity to once again recei...

You can watch a Video of this conversation on Vimeo here . An Australian Aboriginal legend tells of the moment birds arrived amongst us. The breaking of a rainbow scattered shards of colours. As these shards fell to earth, they became glowing jewel like birds. The Film Flyways , follows critically endangered migratory shorebirds as they travel their ancient migration routes around the planet. Usin...

Stephanie Gottlob is a somatic movement artist who spent over three years travelling in her Van, immersing in various Biomes of remote locations in North America, Canada, and most recently in the Marine Biomes of Mexico. In this second recorded conversation, we speak more deeply about her experiences of scuba diving in the Yucatan, Mexico. I’d read Stephanie’s write up and viewed her stunning imag...

I wanted a Cathedral of Light. And I wanted a Sea Grotto. I wanted people to walk into a vast galleried Space of towering Light, and I wanted them to be ensconced within a teal oceanic cave of endless shushing waves on rocks. I wanted both. Could I have both? On the same website? Apparently, I could. Enter Christina Paul. Listener to my depths, uplifter of all that I have walked. Her artistry in h...

Welcome to my second conversation with Melbourne based Wholistic Osteopath and Doula, Emily Morter. We spoke together about the body as Country (meaning ‘sentient landscape’), and how it is to experience oneself, to be listened to, heard and met from the place of Body as part of the Land. To move and work from a place of listening to the spaces within the body, rather than the fluids of the body;...

Rather than simply an esoteric, erudite field of the human being coming into its anatomical form, embryology underlies and supports everything that we will become, how we move, how we express ourselves, and how we regenerate. During this conversation with Melbourne Wholistic Osteopath and Doula, Emily Morter, we explore these areas along with their subsequent pathways of the birthing and post birt...

A journey into the echoes of sand (or soil) as earth's connective tissues; in relationship with our fascia. More Eco-Meditations from The Saltwater Songlines Project can be found at www.saltwatersonglines.com

I recorded this meditation for my community several months ago. Deep replenishment for you. Lay down your fluid form; and enjoy. More Eco-Meditations can be found at www.saltwatersonglines.com

I encountered Freya's glorious ochre paintings on Instagram. My heart blew open. I deeply wanted to speak with her, about her experiences of Place and of co-creating her paintings with the land. In Freya's words, 'I was born on precious Menang Nyoongar Land in Western Australia; this is my home. Despite being Non-Indigenous and therefore lacking a direct ancestral connection to my home land I neve...

From Donegal, Ireland, Easkey is a surfer. She is a five time national champion surfer who has surfed waves globally, including very big waves; Easkey is the first Irish woman to be nominated for the Global WSL Big Wave Awards.  As a marine and social scientist, Easkey holds a Doctorate in Environment and Society.  Named an ‘Agent of Change’ by Surfer magazine in their special Ocean Edit...

I made this Meditation as a free offering with a small group of my dear community. Walking gently through the ecosystems of the body, in quiet tenderness, nourishing you in replenishment and rest. I experience the body as part of the living breathing One we call 'Earth'. She is, more accurately 'Sea' this being 2/3 of her body, like ours. Her tissues and our interior ecosystems are entwined; inter...

Dr Samantha Clark is a Writer and an Artist living in The Orkneys. I was first drawn to her mesmerising art work because of its luminous fluid field;  interwoven undulating netscapes and endless circles painstakingly drawn over layered paintings that include silver and aluminium. The effect is hypnotic; a living surface of the Dreaming. And then I read her book, The Clearing , and was compell...

Stephanie is a somatic movement artist who has spent the last three years travelling in her Van and immersing in various Biomes of remote locations in North America. In our conversation, we speak about her recent journeys to Marine Biomes in both the USA and Mexico. I asked her, from the presence of Ocean herself, several questions. Stephanie shares her experiences of the Marine as a place 'almost...

From Leisa, ‘I’m full of curiosity about the world in which I live and am passionate about making change, however small, to help conserve the planet and all that live upon it. For decades now I have been volunteering for organisations that are working to protect the environment. Initially with Friends of Fogg Dam in the Northern Territory protecting a wetland and for the last 7 years I’ve been a t...

Speaking with and listening to earth; the slow practice of hands, heart and presence. Yasuna Iman, is a multidisciplinary artist developing a visual abstract language on handmade paper and wood, using rust, maple, botanical pigments, and other raw materials sourced in the natural world. She creates sculptural paper wall pieces called Paperscapes from hand foraged maple fibers, as well as Earth map...