Body-Land, Space and Mud

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; those spaces as both connector, and as a container of consciousness. We spoke about dorsal Practices, inspired by the work of Alexis Pauline Gumbs in her most recent book ‘Undrowned’, and the ways they offer us stability and a different way of experiencing ourselves move through and inhabit space. We merged into the territories of Mud (one of my favourite places of all), as protector, generative field, composter and place of release. Please enjoy our rich conversation. Emily can be found at emilymorter.com.au Alexis Pauline Gumbs books can be found via her website More about The Saltwater Songlines Project can be found on its sea grotto home.