We are pleased to share the Call for Participants for SEMINA MUNDI – Seeding the Ecosomatic Community in Italy, an international two-day generative gathering dedicated to ecosomatic practice, research, and community-building.
Semina Mundi is conceived as a space for embodied exchange, listening, and co-creation, bringing together artists, dancers, performers, theatre practitioners, scholars, ecologists, educators, therapists, activists, and cultural and holistic practitioners engaged in embodied, ecological, and participatory practices.
Dates: 21–22 March 2026
Location: CasaNave Alle Mura, Tuscania (Viterbo), Italy
The gathering aims to seed and activate the Italian Ecosomatic Network through shared practices and collective processes of imagining, designing, and planning future collaborations. Key information:
- Maximum 60 in-person participants
- Online participation available only for selected sessions on 22 March
- Application deadline: 31 January 2026
Apply here:
https://forms.gle/vGvdpE2o2P1b8bsv5
Event details and updates:
www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/semina-mundi
Read and download the full Call in English (PDF):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399497214_Call_for_Participants_Semina_Mundi_A_Generative_Gathering_to_Seed_the_Ecosomatic_Community_in_Italy.
Call for book chapter proposals
‘The breath we share: embodied and creative practices for a living and dying world’
Deadline for submissions: 15th March 2026
Publication date: Autumn 2026
This new book published by art.earth Books invites all those who explore the connection and perpetual unfolding between art, environment and embodiment in its multifaceted forms. Open to scholars, artists and researchers from diverse disciplines who wish to highlight the possibilities and impact of somatically-informed practices, research and artistic processes that speak with and to the more-than-human, in order to challenge and de-centre the dominant anthropocentric worldview and counteract our socio-ecological crisis.
Following on from the 2022 symposium Sentient Performativities: Thinking alongside the Human this publication asks where we are now three years on. By inviting multi-species and transdisciplinary perspectives it sets out to build bridges to other disciplines and thought pathways, define and expand boundaries, and make a real contribution to the sustainability, resilience, vigour and credibility of this field.
Read the full callout here (with link to submission form)
Contact Richard & Minou for any questions: editor@artearthbooks.com
IFEEA Community Event – Practices in Conversation #4 ‘Inter-Species Attunement & Hydrofeminist Practice’ December 11, 2025 at 7 pm – 8.30pm Central European Time
Registration: To confirm your attendance and receive the Zoom link for the event, please click here and register via the Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0b4yGKC9Rmm11BQOIHwkiQ
This is the fourth of a series of free community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing & conversing on eco-embodied practices – starting from what members do. Join us for a journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity. Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and will have time to ask questions and engage in the emerging conversation.
The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’:
Alina Usurelu (Romania) ‘Let Your Heart Flow with Water: Coming Home Through Hydrofeminist Practice’ https://www.alinausurelu.com/
Dila Yumurtaci (Turkey/Portugal) ‘Becoming With: Ecosomatic Practices of Inter-Species Listening and Attunement’ https://www.scribd.com/document/775873432/Dila-Yumurtaci-Portfolio
Alina Ușurelu (n.1990). She is a PhD candidate in Visual Arts at West University in Timișoara. An interdisciplinary artist-curator, a creator-facilitator of transdisciplinary research processes, working across photography, videography, installation, performance, and somatic practices. She plays with images, bodies, and words to open doors to unseen worlds for various communities. The themes she addresses in her artistic proposals include sexuality and sexual identity, mental health, community development, and kinship with the more-than-human world.
Let Your Heart Flow with Water: Coming Home Through Hydrofeminist Practice is grounded in an embodied journey with water, memory, and a sense of belonging. The presentation weaves hydrofeminist theory with somatic practice, drawing inspiration from marine life and interspecies ways of sensing. I would like to create a space that allows participants to experience the porous relationships between the body and the environment, fostering a shared awareness of dwelling, reciprocity, and exchange. Please bring a hot calming tea, a blanket, and your journal.
Dila Yumurtacı is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and facilitator exploring alternative modes of being and relating within a more-than-human world. She is a doctoral candidate at Católica University in Porto with an FCT scholarship (2024–ongoing), and holds a BA in Cinema and an MA in Visual Arts. Her recent project, Becoming With—a site-sensitive performance integrating local performers through ecosomatic methods—was presented at the Serralves Museum (Porto, June 2025) and the Sabancı Museum (Istanbul, September 2025).
Becoming With: Ecosomatic Practices of Inter-Species Listening and Attunement. For this gathering, I will introduce my recent performance Becoming With, a site-sensitive work developed in outdoor institutional spaces where attention, relationality, and attunement—particularly with other species and the surrounding ecologies—form the core methodology. The presentation outlines how the project engages local performers and community participants through ecosomatic practices and briefly introduces its research component developed with the Neurobehavioral Lab, focusing on empathy measurements. The session also features a short video excerpt from the performance and a guided practice of listening to attune to our environment.
We look forward to your presence and participation in this community practice event.
IFEEA Community Event – Practices in Conversation #3: “Ecosomatic Gestalt & Urban Rewilding” Date: Oct 23rd , 2025 at 7 pm – 8.30pm Central European Summer Time (CET) (6pm-7.30pm UK Time) Registration: To confirm your attendance and receive the Zoom link for the event, please click here and register via the Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Uhbp75hJQ3eurrcniW7hHA You will then receive the link to join. The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’ from IFEEA generative members Claire Loussouarn (UK) & Sebastian Bechinger (UK) who will share their urban based arts processes, research interests and writings in this session. Claire will share her practice of moving through the seasons over more than seven years on Hackney Marshes, a common land in East London. She will also discuss her book, How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body, which invites us, through movement, to inhabit the contradiction of being human—straddling nature and culture, not as separate realms, but in full interaction, ultimately embracing our feral in-between.Sebastian will share his interest in rethinking the relationship between organism and environment through an ecosomatic lens. Currently studying Gestalt Psychotherapy and grounded in a background in Body-Mind Centering®, he is exploring a shift from an organism-centred perspective to the organism/environment field. Drawing on Perls, Hefferline and Goodman’s vision from Gestalt Therapy (1951), Sebastian revisits their ideas as a way to connect Gestalt practice with contemporary ecosomatic thought.London-based Claire Loussouarn weaves together her expertise as a movement artist, teacher, insight herbalist, filmmaker, anthropologist and author to create work that dissolves the boundaries between human and the more-than-human world. She is the author of How to Be Feral: Movement Practices to Re-Wild Your Body, through which she guides others in rediscovering their innate connection to the natural world and their own embodied wisdom. Since 2018, Claire has been immersed in a profound artistic dialogue with Hackney Marshes, collaborating with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal to document her movement practice as it responds to the shifting seasons of this urban wilderness. https://claireloussouarn.com/ https://www.movingmeditation.co.uk/
Sebastian Bechinger is a London-based artist, dramaturg, and Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering®. His artistic research explores the intersections of embodiment, ecology, neuroaesthetics, and performance. In addition to Body-Mind Centering®, he has trained in the Six Viewpoints (Mary Overlie), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, and Chinese Martial Arts, and holds a BA (Hons) in Choreography with Community Practices from Dartington College of Arts. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Gestalt Psychotherapy, deepening his psychophysical fluency and psychologically informed facilitation practice. https://www.sebastianbechinger.com/
IFEEA Community – Practices in Conversation #3 ‘ancestral, de-colonial & fluid embodiments’ October 23rd 2025 at 7 pm – 8.30pm CET
This is the second community event co-hosted by IFEEA generative– and core– members to create a platform for sharing and conversing on eco-embodied practices – starting from what members do. Join us for an integrative journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity.
The event will offer three ‘Practices in Conversation’:
Rebecca Marta D’Andrea (IT), ‘Embodied Ancestry’ Sophie Spiral (DE), ‘unpacking de-colonial ecology’ Alina Ușurelu (ROU), ‘Porous Boundaries: A Collective Practice of Exchange Between Water Bodies.’
Rebecca Marta D’Andrea is a somatic based movement artist. Her research focuses on the potential of creativity to unravel multi-dimensional layers of our reality, fostering organic ways of entering in relationship with ourselves and the world. She finds the ongoing dialogue between perception and imagination a tool to rediscover the value of embodied knowledge and the awareness of belonging to a wider sense of Self. http://rebeccamartadandrea.wordpress.com
Sophie Spiral Schultze-Allen (they/them) is a dance researcher at the Free University Berlin writing a PhD on the role of dance & ecosomatics towards climate justice. In 2017, Sophie became a certified InterPlay leader and now facilitates monthly embodied dance workshops “Playful Regeneration” to deepen our connection with Earth and each other. www.sophiespiral.com
Alina Ușurelu is an interdisciplinary artist-curator and creator of transdisciplinary research processes, working across photography, videography, installation, performance, and somatic practices based in Bucharest. She uses images, bodies, and words to open doors to unseen worlds. The themes she addresses in her artistic proposals are related to sexuality and sexual identity, mental health, community development, and the kinship with the more-than-human world. www.alinausurelu.com
Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and will have time to ask questions and engage in the emerging conversation.
Registration: To confirm your attendance and receive the Zoom link for the event, please click here and register via the Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YJAZIvxOSNC_vVg3c6s0Jg
We look forward to your presence and participation in this community practice sharing event.
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IFEEA Community – Practices in Conversation #1 : ‘Rewilding, Reconnecting & Internal Attention’ July 2, 2025 at 7 pm – 8.30pm CEST
This is the first of a series of community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing and conversing on eco-embodied practices – starting from what members do, and their different contexts and approaches. Join us for an integrative journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity. The event will offer three ‘Practices in Conversation’:
Signa Schiavo Campo (IT), ‘Prompts for Rewilding: Corporealities & Imagination’ Stefania Milazzo (IT), ‘Reconnect to Plants!’ Rituparna Das (IN), ‘Human Nature and the Five Elements: Exploration through Yogic Psychology.’
Signa Schiavo Campo is poet and performer with a background in Philosophy and Anthropology, she is the cofounder of Embodying Reconciliation, a Colombian NGO dedicated to arts for peacebuilding. Her research weaves together embodiment, ecosomatics, and eroticism, celebrating the interconnected web of life and the immanent spirituality of simply being alive.
Stefania Milazzo worked after her degree in Biology as a researcher in the CAM field in the UK & Germany. As a performer, photographer & videomaker she has participated in international festivals. She is the director of the Sicilian cultural association SICULARTE, and has led intercultural projects for children, teenagers & adults with disabilities & migration background. She currently teaches math and science at a school in Catania.
Dr. Rituparna Das holds a Ph.D. in English and a Diploma in Psychotherapy. As a published author (‘For A Little While…’) and workgroup associate at Harvard Divinity School, she weaves storytelling, soulwork, and healing into everything she creates. Her work explores where literature meets mysticism, and pain meets transformation.
Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and time to engage in the emerging conversation.
Registration: To confirm your attendance and receive the Zoom link for the event, please click here and register via the Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TJ8YONGNT-66aui8Lagy6w
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We look forward to your presence and participation in this first community practice sharing event.
Matter is Messy #1 I Embodied Ecologies Ausstellung/Exhibition 04.07.25 – 05.07.25, 14:00 – 18:00 Forum Stadtpark, Graz/Austria Kuratiert von /curated by : Minou Tsambika Polleros
Image: (c) Raoul Bartolome & Anna Kushnerova
Climate change is a deeply physical crisis—
a crisis of bodies and their relationships.
This exhibition explores a field still underrepresented in Austria: environmental performance practice and eco-somatics. It features works by international performance artists who have not previously exhibited in Graz. On display are photographs, audio works, films, texts, and object installations—embedded in an innovative exhibition format that not only invites observation but calls for participation. The bodies of the visitors become part of the space, part of the question: How can new forms of ecological perception be developed?
https://forumstadtpark.at/de/programm/matter-is-messy-1
Earth Matters: Ecosomatics in the Anthropocene with Jamie McHugh, MSMT
Conversations to inspire embodied action in the face of planetary dysregulation. Sponsored by The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) https://ismeta.org/ June 12: 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT/ 7pm CEST
To register click here
Guests: Thomas Kampe & Minou Tsambika Polleros of International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA), an emergent international forum for practitioners, educators and scholars in the growing field of eco-embodied arts https://ifeea.earth Format: 45 minutes of conversation followed by 30 minutes of audience dialogue
It goes without saying: Earth matters! Without a viable planet, there is no living soma. This fundamental truth in the face of Earth disruptions is the ground for our conversations.
These interactive roundtables are designed to connect the ISMETA community with artists, activists, scientists, agriculturalists, philosophers, and many others dedicated to the preservation of life on Earth.The underlying intention of the roundtable is to provide resource sharing, networking opportunities, and hopefully emergent cross-disciplinary collaborations. Instead of prescriptive action, we aim to inspire and stimulate each person’s creativity through personal example. Each one of us holds a piece of the puzzle and can contribute in our own unique way to this mycelial network.
Join us live online for these free community events – or watch previous episodes on YouTube. https://somaticexpression.com/ecosomatics.html
Genius Loci – International Symposium of Ecosomatic Arts Bodies, Places, Communities
Rome, Spazio Rossellini, 18-19 September 2025 In-person and online
https://www.raffaelerufo.com/ecosomatics/genius-loci-symposium-2025
Two days of in person and online presentations, conversations and sharing of practices, performances, lecture-performances and demonstrations to explore the roots, different approaches and possible applications of the ecosomatic arts and to reflect on their possible ecosocial impacts. The symposium is aimed at artists, scholars and pedagogues oriented to environment, community and practice in the fields of somatics, dance, choreography, performance, theater, music, visual, multidisciplinary and curatorial arts, ecology, education, anthropology, philosophy and other related human and natural sciences.
Event directed by Raffaele Rufo for ATCL / Spazio Rossellini In partnership with International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) Submit a proposal by 31 May 2025: https://forms.gle/sCymQkvPDsPwVAF88
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