ELIA YAKO SERRAS

An EcoSomatic inquiry into being a loving and whole huMan during times of collapse.

I think of belonging as the embodied knowing of a kind of welcomeness for all parts and expressions of you, in your multifaceted authenticity. A culture of deep belonging recognizes the innate gift and value of each life, within the web of all life. Much of modernity is plagued by what I think of as the illness and spirit of not enough. This spirit co-arises with a sibling named too much. Just as the hungry ghost can never eat enough to satiate their hunger, modern humanity will continue to consume the Earth and seek other planets to colonize or go extinct trying. What is underneath this disembodied hunger? What are some of our basic human desires, needs and longings that underlie complex globalized omnicidal catastrophes? How do we want to show up as leaders, fathers, brothers, partners, uncles, elders-in-training during this time?

This workshop will be an opportunity to explore these questions through practices of embodiment, ritual, and land-listening. It is hard to face these realities, especially in isolation. May this be a collective inquiry, prayer, and beauty-making. An invitation to open our hearts together as a sane response to collective insanity.

ELIA YAKO SERRAS

Bio coming soon...Elia is an EcoSomatic facilitator and guide for individuals, groups and organizations. His work is to empower embodied belonging through Truth, Healing, and Wholeness. Contact with wilderness saved his life as a younger man and inspired him to live and learn in communities ranging from traditional villages to contemporary Ecovillages in 11 different countries. He has trained and worked in the realms of grief tending, rites of passage, sexuality, applied mindfulness and somatic therapies.

Elia is a cofounding teacher of Great Earth School, and a facilitator on multiple Jam teams with YES! He has been working with men and masculinity throughout the US since 2018 with several organizations including Grieving Man, Mankind Project, Sacred Sons, and Kinhood.

He currently lives in a cabin in the woods on the Olympic peninsula, and can often be found singing, dancing or breaking bread wherever the village fire is burning bright. See more at EcoSomaBe.