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Elemental BeingE15 - Narelle Carter-Quinlan: Deep Listening, Songlines, and the Living Relationship Between Body and LandIn this episode, Robin welcomes Narelle Carter-Quinlan—photographer, somatic practitioner, anatomist, and Foundress of The Saltwater Songlines Project. Together, they explore the rich interplay between body and landscape, where the "tissues of the land" and "ecosystems of the body" meet in intimate reciprocity.
Narelle shares her journey of attuning to the sentience of place, weaving her expertise in anatomy, histology, somatic practice, and embodied ecology with her work as a Spiritual Transformation Facilitator. Their conversation touches on relational awareness, the embodiment of your Songline, and the fluid interplay between spirit and form.
Offering deep insights and practical invitations to attune to...2025-02-191h 04
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastHonour of the Wild: Seeing in the Unnerving StillnessYou can watch this Episode on Vimeo:
Part 1 - 20.13 - https://vimeo.com/910284028/
Part 2 - 33.33 - https://vimeo.com/910289722/
Raymond Besant is a wildlife cameraman and photographer from the Orkney Islands in Scotland. He regularly films as a long lens cameraman for both the BBC and National Geographic, in far reaching locations such Arctic Norway, Gabon, and the Tibetan Plateau. In this conversation, we spoke about his experiences out in the field with animals, and the quiet, still, sometimes ‘un-nerving’ quality of the landscape that opportunes the difference between simply ‘looking’ and truly ‘s...2024-02-0755 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastPortraying The Soul: An Interview with Photographer Carlos AlejandroEvery time I see a portrait made by my colleague Carlos Alejandro, I am humbled. The truth is, the breath is swept away from me. The very essence of the human being, whom Carlos has portrayed, is present. Carlos refers to this, as witnessing, as seeing someone's Story. As Carlos stands in himself, the one being photographed, experiences full space to be present with and completely inhabit themselves. You get the story; you see the Soul. This is Humanity. And it makes me weep.
In this conversation, Carlos and I also spoke about education; what happens when...2023-09-151h 05The Saltwater Songlines PodcastSlow Marrow: A Marinating Conversation with Sandrine Harris.I loved this slow marination of conversation with my colleague Sandrine Harris. Delicious as molasses. We wove our way through exploring Marrow as fundament and vitality, spoke of how the journey through trauma restoration and recovery takes time, and is a both a field of support and eventually an invitation to rediscovering pleasure and curiosity, playfulness, and the capacity to once again receive. We meandered through the ephemeral nature of making images in the ecosystems around us. And we remembered how all of these things, exist together in a space of deep integration.
You can watch our...2023-09-151h 02The Saltwater Songlines PodcastFlyways Film - Interview with Director Randall WoodYou can watch a Video of this conversation on Vimeo here.
An Australian Aboriginal legend tells of the moment birds arrived amongst us.The breaking of a rainbow scattered shards of colours. As these shards fell to earth, they became glowing jewel like birds.
The Film Flyways, follows critically endangered migratory shorebirds as they travel their ancient migration routes around the planet. Using nanotechnology and global tracking from the International Space Station, the project uncovered the paths of the world’s greatest, feathered endurance athletes and shone a light on the scientists and international lawyers who...2023-06-281h 01The Saltwater Songlines PodcastImmersedStephanie Gottlob is a somatic movement artist who spent over three years travelling in her Van, immersing in various Biomes of remote locations in North America, Canada, and most recently in the Marine Biomes of Mexico.
In this second recorded conversation, we speak more deeply about her experiences of scuba diving in the Yucatan, Mexico.
I’d read Stephanie’s write up and viewed her stunning images from her dives, and I wanted to open out several fields;
Time-Motion-Space as a single phenomenon whilst submerged;A sense of ‘requiem’ and ‘lament’ within the sea;...2023-04-2145 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastSea Grotto and Cathedral of LightI wanted a Cathedral of Light. And I wanted a Sea Grotto. I wanted people to walk into a vast galleried Space of towering Light, and I wanted them to be ensconced within a teal oceanic cave of endless shushing waves on rocks. I wanted both. Could I have both? On the same website? Apparently, I could. Enter Christina Paul. Listener to my depths, uplifter of all that I have walked. Her artistry in hearing and translating my vision into luminous pixels that my body felt real made me weep. A home, for my soul's work. Christina was once...2023-04-2157 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastBody-Land, Space and MudWelcome 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...2023-04-1358 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastOur Fluid Field; Embryology & Beyond. With Emily MorterRather than simply an esoteric, erudite field of the human being coming into its anatomical form, embryology underlies and supports everything that we will become, how we move, how we express ourselves, and how we regenerate. During this conversation with Melbourne Wholistic Osteopath and Doula, Emily Morter, we explore these areas along with their subsequent pathways of the birthing and post birthing journey. Emily Morter has been been providing sensitive, compassionate health care to her community for almost 20 years. She believes that you don't need fixing; your miraculous body can adapt and find healing with support, listening, attunement and...2022-12-1251 min
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastEco-Meditation: Sand and Connective TissueA journey into the echoes of sand (or soil) as earth's connective tissues; in relationship with our fascia.
More Eco-Meditations from The Saltwater Songlines Project can be found at www.saltwatersonglines.com2022-09-0929 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastA Seagrass Walk - Installation. With Rosie SherwoodMy tender connection to seagrass meadows is well known to those of you who follow and are familiar wth my work. I first encountered Rosie's work with seagrass on Instagram (where else). Being about seagrass and its relationship with Blue Carbon, I was entranced. And, I knew I needed to speak with her; the UK's first Blue Carbon Artist in Residence.
In Rosie's words, 'A new immersive installation at the National Marine Aquarium, The Seagrass Walk is a blue carbon-inspired exhibit that, informed by scientific research. The Seagrass Walk uses photography, video, light art, and sculpture to...2022-09-091h 15
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastEco-Meditation: Mangroves as Ancestors & your BonesI recorded this meditation for my community several months ago. Deep replenishment for you. Lay down your fluid form; and enjoy.
More Eco-Meditations can be found at www.saltwatersonglines.com2022-09-0924 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastOchre, Body and Place. With Freya Joy ParreI encountered Freya's glorious ochre paintings on Instagram. My heart blew open. I deeply wanted to speak with her, about her experiences of Place and of co-creating her paintings with the land.
In Freya's words, 'I was born on precious Menang Nyoongar Land in Western Australia; this is my home. Despite being Non-Indigenous and therefore lacking a direct ancestral connection to my home land I nevertheless experience a deep felt sense of belonging to place. My life is centred in exploring and celebrating the deep roots that connect us as humans to our mother, the land. It’s...2022-09-0953 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastA Saltwater Soul - Dr Easkey BrittonFrom Donegal, Ireland, Easkey is a surfer. She is a five time national champion surfer who has surfed waves globally, including very big waves; Easkey is the first Irish woman to be nominated for the Global WSL Big Wave Awards.
As a marine and social scientist, Easkey holds a Doctorate in Environment and Society.
Named an ‘Agent of Change’ by Surfer magazine in their special Ocean Edition, her work is deeply influenced by the ocean and the lessons learned pioneering women’s big-wave surfing in Ireland and the sport of surfing with women in Iran, which le...2022-09-0951 min
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastEco Meditation: your Embodied TerrainI made this Meditation as a free offering with a small group of my dear community. Walking gently through the ecosystems of the body, in quiet tenderness, nourishing you in replenishment and rest.
I experience the body as part of the living breathing One we call 'Earth'. She is, more accurately 'Sea' this being 2/3 of her body, like ours. Her tissues and our interior ecosystems are entwined; interdependent.
As we sense the felt and visceral relationship of bones and rocks, of sand and connective tissues, of our interior waterways, our right relationship with all sentience...2022-07-1533 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastWater, Migrations, Time & Space. With Dr Samantha ClarkDr Samantha Clark is a Writer and an Artist living in The Orkneys. I was first drawn to her mesmerising art work because of its luminous fluid field; interwoven undulating netscapes and endless circles painstakingly drawn over layered paintings that include silver and aluminium. The effect is hypnotic; a living surface of the Dreaming. And then I read her book, The Clearing, and was compelled by her streaming wonderings in quantum physics; time, space and memory. Thoughts and open ended and way-finding questions that echoed my own recent readings. In this conversation, we reflected on the way our species h...2022-07-1551 minThe Saltwater Songlines PodcastThe Fluid Body & Slow. With Peter Appel of Movingness®There is a Video of this Podcast if you prefer: https://vimeo.com/729040087
My beloved colleague and dear friend Peter Appel, founded a deep somatic work called Movingness®. Over long time walking in and listening to nature in his native Finland, Peter explored the true way his body wanted to move. I wanted to ask Peter to speak about s-l-o-w, and about slow's relationship with the brain; with the arc of human societal experiential development, and how slow effects the ways we experience our relationships with our body and one another. In this rich conversation we speak a...2022-07-121h 00The Saltwater Songlines PodcastWhat the One who is Ocean asks of Us. With Stephanie GottlobStephanie is a somatic movement artist who has spent the last three years travelling in her Van and immersing in various Biomes of remote locations in North America. In our conversation, we speak about her recent journeys to Marine Biomes in both the USA and Mexico. I asked her, from the presence of Ocean herself, several questions. Stephanie shares her experiences of the Marine as a place 'almost another planet itself' and its stripping away of our usual senses; how Ocean asks something of us before we can enter her, how we have indeed, been away so very, very...2022-07-061h 21
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastThe Ancient Mariner - Sea Turtle Care on the Sunshine Coast. With Leisa BaldwinFrom Leisa, ‘I’m full of curiosity about the world in which I live and am passionate about making change, however small, to help conserve the planet and all that live upon it. For decades now I have been volunteering for organisations that are working to protect the environment. Initially with Friends of Fogg Dam in the Northern Territory protecting a wetland and for the last 7 years I’ve been a turtle conservation volunteer with Turtle Care Sunshine Coast collecting research and actively protecting the endangered Loggerhead turtle.’
I learned so very much from speaking with Leisa; from pro...2022-07-0155 min
The Saltwater Songlines PodcastPaperscapes and Earth Maps - a Process of Presence. With Yasuna ImanSpeaking with and listening to earth; the slow practice of hands, heart and presence.
Yasuna Iman, is a multidisciplinary artist developing a visual abstract language on handmade paper and wood, using rust, maple, botanical pigments, and other raw materials sourced in the natural world. She creates sculptural paper wall pieces called Paperscapes from hand foraged maple fibers, as well as Earth maps, textured paintings whose stratified surfaces emulate the bird’s eye view of imaginary landscapes.
Born and raised in Paris, France, she graduated with a B.A in Art History and Archeology from la So...2022-06-3057 min
Yoga for ScoliosisThe Curving River of the Spine - Interview with Narelle Carter-Quinlan2022-05-2642 min
Back Chat with ChristineThe Curving River of the Spine - Interview with Narelle Carter-Quinlan2022-05-2642 min
The Embodiment Coaching PodcastWhat are you going to do with that? Place, Embodiment and the Saltwater Songlines Project - With Narelle Carter-QuinlanNarelle Carter-Quinlan joins Allison Lindsay to talk about the human embodied connection with the places we inhabit, embodied ecology, mapping our bodies to the lands that we inhabit, the Saltwater Songlines Project, using dance and movement to create relationships with the land, climate crisis and the role of the feminine consciousness in shifting our relationships to earth, and how to understand and honour the lands that we visit. http://www.embodiedterrain.com2021-06-1556 min