Being Earthbound Podcast

About Being Earthbound Podcast

A podcast exploring inner work for outer change and the process of coming home to our nature as Nature hosted by transformational coaches. Navigating the fertile edge between transpersonal psychology, embodied presence and holistic systems change. The promise and premise of Being Earthbound is a healthy whole-systems approach to living in the world as Nature. Isn’t it only natural and fitting then that we engage our whole system in this process of transformation? Finding the balance between our inner and outer landscapes feels like the great work of our times as we search for coherence, peace, flow and meaning in a domination culture that's badly off-kilter. What does a fully embodied, fully integrated sense of self and world offer us as we seek to regenerate, reconnect and reintegrate towards cultures of care and away from the story of separation that's wreaking such havoc? Johanna is a nature connection facilitator, Dan is a transpersonal psychology coach and breathwork instructor, and we are both trained and certified embodied meditation teachers and long-term permaculture practitioners. For more information visit www.earthbound.fi beingearthbound.substack.com (https://beingearthbound.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Dan McTiernan

Category

health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

14 Jan 2022

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026

   A New Course for Turbulent Times

   It's been a long time in the incubation process. I remember years ago, the vivid feeling of being really ungrounded, of being tossed around on the foamy brine of a culture so fragmented and polarised that it felt impossible to know up from down or truth from fiction. I was awash with tension and a dysregulated storm of static-like nervous system energy. My body had to physically stop me in my tracks and say “no more” for me to listen to the deeper calling that I’d been ignoring or making excuses against for decades previously. Ungroundedness made me unwell, unhappy and unable to connect deeply with myself and the world around me. But thank goodness I listened. I let the calling land me back down into my body, back down onto the Earth and back into Life again. I found my ground. My nervous system relaxed, my conditioning began to loosen and release, my energy returned, my love for my precious human body living this precious life on this precious living planet bloomed. And my capacity to be here for myself and others, even when things get difficult, began to increase. To say this has been transformational would be an understatement. My entire sense of self has unfolded and relaxed and integrated with Life. I feel more able to stay present to the difficulty and the beauty, the loss and the gifts of this crazy whirl we call existence. That’s helped me find purpose, connection, friendships and meaning. And all of this started by finding my ground. At every level. Physiological, psycho-emotional, subtle-energetic and spiritual. It’s our inheritance to belong to the Web of Life and the Field of Being, and it’s our deep wish to help illuminate a pathway back to that inheritance for those people called to do so. To feel a persistent, pervasive sense of embodied safety and to be available to act from that sense of deep ground, is what will facilitate the transformation our nervous systems and our dominant culture so desperately crave. Finding our ground is foundational to everything else. This is deep and rewarding work and it has to start somewhere and at some time. Why not start now with us? We created a course and a rite of passage called Finding Your Ground in Turbulent Times (https://www.aleftrust.org/finding-your-ground-in-turbulent-times-self-paced-online-course/) to support you to land again. If this feels important for you right now, please be welcome! Course intro: We live in the most ungrounded times humanity may ever have experienced.Disconnected from the Earth beneath our feet. Overwhelmed by the noise of digital life. Stuck in anxious rumination, fragmented from our bodies and communities.If any of that resonates, this is for you.Finding Your Ground in Turbulent Times (https://www.aleftrust.org/finding-your-ground-in-turbulent-times-self-paced-online-course/) is a new self-paced online course we created for Alef Trust — an 8-week embodied journey back to yourself, your body, and the Earth.Through somatic practices, breathwork, meditation, guided reflection, and live Zoom integration sessions, this course offers a genuine rite of passage for our times. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced practitioner, the path is open to you.Asking yourself:→ How do I move from rumination back into my body?→ How do I find my ground when the world feels unstable?→ How do I re-member myself as Nature, not separate from it?This course is designed to answer those questions — not through theory, but through lived experience. Self-paced | 8 weeks + 1 year of live integration sessions | £197Enrol now or find out more www.aleftrust.org/finding-your-ground-in-turbulent-times (https://www.aleftrust.org/finding-your-ground-in-turbulent-times) Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe (https://beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   15 Apr 2026

   Finding Your Ground (Ep 1) - Kevin Schoeninger

   We live in the most ungrounded times humanity may ever have experienced. Disconnected physically from the Earth by concrete and steel, psychologically through the dominance of abstract thinking in the age of digital distraction, and spiritually through the deep-seated stories of separation we tell each other from generation to generation. We’re stuck in, or above, our heads in clouds of anxious rumination and feeling disconnected from our bodies, our communities, the places we inhabit and the Earth at large. But there is a simple and profoundly natural path back to connection, coherence, peace and flow. Johanna and I are currently developing a new course for the Aleft Trust (https://www.aleftrust.org/) called Finding Your Ground In Turbulent Times. It is a course and a rite of passage that will take you through a process of embodied remembrance of your true nature as Nature. We’ll keep you posted when it’s due to go live, but in the meantime, it felt important to check in with some of our most important teachers on our own paths to groundedness, to share their insights and experience in this essential capacity. We’ll be creating a themed series of “grounding” specific podcasts to help flesh out what we mean by the term and its profound implications from the physical, psycho-emotional, subtle energetic and spiritual dimensions. And perhaps most importantly, how to find it again in these crazy times. In this episode of the Being Earthbound podcast, I speak with meditation teacher, Kevin Schoeninger (https://raisingourvibration.net/), about grounding, embodiment, subtle energy, and why coming back into contact with the living earth matters so much to a culture artificially insulated from our home. Grounding has been one of the most important threads in my own life. It was one of the first doorways that helped me come back into relationship with my body at a time when my health was really struggling, and I was in need of something to support me to safely descend out of that cloud in and around my head and back into my body. Kevin was one of the teachers who helped me begin that return, so it felt deeply meaningful to have this conversation with him. Together, we explore what grounding actually is, why it matters, and what happens when we lose contact with the body and the earth. Kevin shares how his own path began through Tai Chi, slow walking, and learning to feel the soles of his feet on the ground. From that simple beginning, the conversation opens into a much wider exploration of presence, energy, coherence, and the deeper ground beneath the noise of modern life. We speak about the consequences of being ungrounded, the way modern culture pulls us into abstraction and disconnection, and the importance of restoring direct contact with the living world. We also explore subtle energy, interoception, the light body, and the possibility that beneath all the static, there is already a deeper peace available to us. For me, one of the most important threads in this episode is that grounding is not just a way to calm down. It is a return to reality, to relationship, and to the body as a place of presence and support. Sometimes that return begins very simply, by taking off our shoes, feeling the earth beneath us, and letting the body remember what it already knows. To find out more about Kevin’s work, including his books, courses and his meditation guidance on Insight Timer, please visit his website at https://raisingourvibration.net (https://raisingourvibration.net/) If you know someone who would find this interesting, please do share it with them! Thanks for reading Being Earthbound! This post is public so feel free to share it. And we’d love to hear your experiences with groundedness and ungroundedness! What’s your path with this been like? Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe (https://beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   2 Mar 2026

   Embodied Permaculture Project EP.6

   What changes when we stop trying to live from the head alone, and begin to meet life through the body as a living instrument of relationship? In this final episode of the Embodied Permaculture Project, participants reflect on what shifted through 18 months of applied, life-aligned embodiment practice. The conversation gathers the impacts across inner life, relationships, and permaculture and change work, showing how embodiment can reshape not only how we feel, but how we design, facilitate, lead, and collaborate. A central thread is the nervous system. Several participants describe moving out of chronic survival mode and towards grounded calm, trust, and steadier confidence. Embodiment is felt in practical ways: noticing the body without panic, listening to signals rather than overriding them, and finding more capacity to stay present even when the world is intense and heartbreaking. The episode also explores belonging and agency. Participants speak about releasing people pleasing, becoming more able to ask for help, and meeting limits without shame. Fear does not disappear, but its grip changes. There is a growing willingness to step towards the edge, to take evolutionary steps, and to bring more of themselves into groups, teaching, and public situations. As the focus turns towards permaculture practice, the conversation returns to the first principle: observe. Participants describe how embodiment refines observation into something more whole-bodied and intuitive. Designing becomes less about forcing solutions and more about sensing what is already asking to happen. Time on the land changes, too, with deeper listening, greater trust in emergence, and a more tangible experience of being in relationship with the more-than-human world. Relational work is another strong theme. Many permaculture roles involve groups, conflict, collaboration, and community learning. Participants describe becoming less reactive, more spacious, and more able to facilitate from presence. Small acts, such as grounding together at the start of meetings, are described as quiet interventions that can shift culture from the inside. Throughout the episode, nature connection moves from concept to lived experience. Several participants speak about no longer holding “we are nature” as an idea, but recognising it as something felt in the body, with profound implications for how we meet grief, death, responsibility, and our place in the wider ecosystem of life. About the Embodied Permaculture Project Welcome to the Embodied Permaculture Project, a six-episode podcast series exploring what embodied presence and life-centric inner practice can offer permaculture, changemaking, and the wider cultural shift towards alignment with life on Earth. This series is based on an 18-month project in which 20 permaculture practitioners from across Europe were immersed in applied, life-aligned embodiment practice. The project was funded as part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Communities initiative and was designed and facilitated by Earthbound. To find out more about our work, visit earthbound.fi (http://earthbound.fi). If this conversation resonates with you, we invite you to go deeper. The Embodied Permaculture online course (https://earthbound.fi/embodied-permaculture-course) is a nine-week, self-paced journey rooted in the practices and insights from this project. Hosted by the Permaculture Association Britain, it’s open to anyone — no prior experience needed, just a willingness to reconnect with your body, your land, and the wider field of life. You can find it here (https://earthbound.fi/embodied-permaculture-course). Get full access to Being Earthbound at beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe (https://beingearthbound.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

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