Date: Saturday September 5th, 10am-4pm
Location: This workshop takes place on our land project Owl Song Sanctuary in Siler City, North Carolina. The location is confidential but the address will be shared with you after your enrollment.
About the workshop: Description:
What if we are each part of something larger, inherently and inextricably connected to all life around us and through time? Can you feel that? Do you want to know the science behind it? Do you want to be in practice with other people and the land to feel more into it on the daily?
In this one-day workshop, we’ll explore the microbiome as something that connects our bodies, our food, and the living systems of the land. Through a blend of learning, hands-on preparation, and embodied practice, you’ll deepen your understanding of microbes as collaborators in both personal and ecological health.
We’ll begin with an accessible introduction to the human microbiome: what it is, how it functions, and why it matters. From there, we’ll move into the kitchen to learn to ferment and prepare and share a meal centered around fermented foods, experiencing firsthand how microbes transform what we eat.
In the afternoon, we’ll expand the lens outward, exploring how microbial life shapes soil, ecosystems, and our relationship to place. And how our political, social, and personal actions shape this microbial reality. Through a guided land listening practice, you’ll have the opportunity to attune to the living world in a more direct, embodied way.
We’ll close the day in circle, integrating what we’ve learned and experienced together.
Who this is for: This workshop is for anyone curious about fermentation, gut health, ecology, or deepening their relationship with the land, no prior experience needed.
What’s Included:
Foundational teaching on the human microbiome
Hands-on experience preparing and eating a fermentation-centered meal
Exposure to a variety of ferments
Guided land listening practice
Group reflection and integration circle
Lunch and beverages included
About the Teacher: Kasha Hoʻokili Ho is co-founder of The Embodiment Institute. She contributes to programmatic strategy, design, and operational management for The Embodiment Institute. She also leads the land-based learning work of TEI through our 99 acre farm, Owl Song Sanctuary. Kasha uses fractal theory to assess, design, and enact new systems of collective abundance. She has been designing social change processes with communities for social, economic, and environmental justice for twenty years. Kasha is a facilitator and movement builder, trained through the American Friends Service Committee, the Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, Movement Generation and Native Hawaiian movements. In Hawaiʻi, she co-founded Emergent Island Economies Collective, a consulting cooperative based on ancestral island values of interdependence, sacredness, and cooperation. Kasha continues to provide strategic direction, planning, facilitation, and management for community based organizations throughout the country.
About the fee: Your fee supports the work of the Embodiment Institute, including the growth and sustainability of our land project. We value both accessibility and class analysis, and leveraging privilege to support others in our community. We ask that you pay on the scale according to your ability, in order to support access, and engage in interdependence in action. The practice of choosing a rate that is both affordable and heartfelt is a mindfulness and justice-seeking practice. We will not question your self-determined rate.
Date: Saturday September 5th, 10am-4pm
Location: This workshop takes place on our land project Owl Song Sanctuary in Siler City, North Carolina. The location is confidential but the address will be shared with you after your enrollment.
About the workshop: Description:
What if we are each part of something larger, inherently and inextricably connected to all life around us and through time? Can you feel that? Do you want to know the science behind it? Do you want to be in practice with other people and the land to feel more into it on the daily?
In this one-day workshop, we’ll explore the microbiome as something that connects our bodies, our food, and the living systems of the land. Through a blend of learning, hands-on preparation, and embodied practice, you’ll deepen your understanding of microbes as collaborators in both personal and ecological health.
We’ll begin with an accessible introduction to the human microbiome: what it is, how it functions, and why it matters. From there, we’ll move into the kitchen to learn to ferment and prepare and share a meal centered around fermented foods, experiencing firsthand how microbes transform what we eat.
In the afternoon, we’ll expand the lens outward, exploring how microbial life shapes soil, ecosystems, and our relationship to place. And how our political, social, and personal actions shape this microbial reality. Through a guided land listening practice, you’ll have the opportunity to attune to the living world in a more direct, embodied way.
We’ll close the day in circle, integrating what we’ve learned and experienced together.
Who this is for: This workshop is for anyone curious about fermentation, gut health, ecology, or deepening their relationship with the land, no prior experience needed.
What’s Included:
Foundational teaching on the human microbiome
Hands-on experience preparing and eating a fermentation-centered meal
Exposure to a variety of ferments
Guided land listening practice
Group reflection and integration circle
Lunch and beverages included
About the Teacher: Kasha Hoʻokili Ho is co-founder of The Embodiment Institute. She contributes to programmatic strategy, design, and operational management for The Embodiment Institute. She also leads the land-based learning work of TEI through our 99 acre farm, Owl Song Sanctuary. Kasha uses fractal theory to assess, design, and enact new systems of collective abundance. She has been designing social change processes with communities for social, economic, and environmental justice for twenty years. Kasha is a facilitator and movement builder, trained through the American Friends Service Committee, the Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, Movement Generation and Native Hawaiian movements. In Hawaiʻi, she co-founded Emergent Island Economies Collective, a consulting cooperative based on ancestral island values of interdependence, sacredness, and cooperation. Kasha continues to provide strategic direction, planning, facilitation, and management for community based organizations throughout the country.
About the fee: Your fee supports the work of the Embodiment Institute, including the growth and sustainability of our land project. We value both accessibility and class analysis, and leveraging privilege to support others in our community. We ask that you pay on the scale according to your ability, in order to support access, and engage in interdependence in action. The practice of choosing a rate that is both affordable and heartfelt is a mindfulness and justice-seeking practice. We will not question your self-determined rate.
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