Natasha Morisawa - Podcast Details

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Ponder While We Wander Ep 11: Grieving as a verbLocation: Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, CA, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Amber and Natasha explore the challenges and human connection to the universal experience of grief. They touch on the different types of grief, how we grieve, and why it is important to acknowledge it when it shows up. Our relationship with nature can provide ways of incorporating ritual and meaning-making into ways of holding and processing grief instead of disconnecting from it all together. Explore more about Ponder While We Wan...

2025-11-1649 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 10: A cup of coffee can heal meLocation: Captain Whidbey, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber travel to a magical place by ferry and, fueled by a couple cups of coffee, ponder the significance of coffee. They explore the ritual and magic of connecting over a warm beverage. Can a cup of coffee connect us to ourselves, loved ones, strangers, the whole world? Grab a beverage of your choice and join us. Explore more about Ponder While We Wander A so...

2025-11-0127 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 9: My Right Eye Keeps TwitchingLocation: Discovery Bay, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Come see how noticing our discomfort can invite us into deeper connection with nature as we ponder by the shore where birds, seals, and other than human nature join us. Explore more about Ponder While We Wander A soothing podcast for trying times. https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources Links: https://silvotherapy.co.uk...

2025-10-1526 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 8: Birds, birds everywhereLocation: Fort Flagler Historical State Park, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber visit a place where the ocean meets forest to tune into birds as a way of intentionally paying attention and deepening how we make meaning in our lives. Come listen to the topic and the birds! Explore more about Ponder While We Wander A soothing podcast for trying times. https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Ep...

2025-10-0231 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 7: Creativity is not a luxuryLocation: Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber amble along in the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island, Washington, USA and explore creativity as an important force for individuals and humanity as a whole. If you are looking for an invitation or support to sink into your creativity, you’ll definitely want to listen to this episode! Explore more about Ponder While We Wander A soothing podcast for trying times. ht...

2025-09-1637 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 6: It's not safe to restLocation: Penn Cove, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Rest is important, so why is it so hard? Amber and Natasha discuss some of the messages and individual and collective challenges to getting rest and give some examples of nature that invite us to take a deeper perspective to rest. Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources Links: https://allpoetry.com/poe...

2025-09-0128 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 5: We’ve got biophilia, and you might have it too!Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Location: Ft Townsend, Port Townsend, WA Come walk with us while we explore the “love of life” humans have with natural environments. Amber and Natasha share ways in which this enhances our lives and can be integrated into everyday living. We find some banana slugs, evidence of other animals around, and breathe in the forest air, and you’re invited to come along! Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ “They travel long dista...

2025-08-1537 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 4: Outside, how does that make you feel?Schmitz Preserve Park Seattle, WA- USA Is it time for a relationship check-in with nature? Have you thought about your relationship with the outside world lately? What happens when we shift from inside to outside? What if our connection with nature was more relational than transactional? We explore this and more as we walk a muddy trail in Seattle, WA- USA. Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources

2025-08-0130 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 3: Walking labyrinths together: a contemplative practice for uncertain timesDenny Park Seattle, WA- USA Join us for a discussion where we explore what labyrinths are, how you can walk them, and how walking them can be an important contemplative practice for our times. https://labyrinthlocator.org/labyrinth/denny-park/440/ Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources https://labyrinthlocator.org/ https://labyrinthsociety.org/ https://veriditas.org/ https://www.contemplativelife.org/practice/the-c...

2025-07-1535 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 2: Walking up a hill, is it better together?Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park We explore the topic of how we do hard things as we launch our discussion from an article of a study about social support and our perception of how steep a hill can be. There are also some surprise raccoons. Come explore if it matters who you’re standing next to or not when we do hard things! Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources https://pmc.nc...

2025-07-0126 min

Wellness and Wealth Stillness in Motion: How Labyrinths Help Us Come Home to OurselvesFeeling overwhelmed by the endless demands of entrepreneurship? Yearning for a practice that quiets your racing mind without requiring another thing on your to-do list? This episode introduces a centuries-old contemplative practice that's surprisingly perfect for modern businesswomen.I'm joined by Natasha Morisawa, a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in mindfulness approaches, trauma healing, and labyrinth facilitation. We dive into the fascinating world of labyrinth walking—not as some esoteric spiritual practice, but as a practical, accessible way to restore balance to an overwhelmed entrepreneurial mind.Natasha clarifies the crucial difference between mazes (de...

2025-06-3013 min

Ponder While We Wander Ep 1: Are we suffering from Zoochosis?Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park Jumping off of the work of Dr. Vaughan Wilkins and the field of applied Ecopsychology, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa explore the theme of Enculturated Zoochosis. Metaphors applicable to living in modernity and the challenges we may be having are discussed while observing some of the urban wildlife of Discovery Park in Seattle, WA. Could we be experiencing collective trauma? If so, what are the symptoms and what are the problems? And how might we begin to address these? Explore more about Ponder While We Wan...

2025-06-1526 min

Ponder While We Wander An Invitation to Ponder While We WanderWelcome to Ponder While We Wander, a container for invitations and inspiration for connection to ourselves, others, and nature. This video gives you an introduction to us, how we got here, some of our hopes, and an introduction to the podcast Ponder While We Wander. This is a project of love from two friends who happen to be therapists, and we’re looking forward to seeing where it goes. Thank you for listening, Natasha Morisawa and Amber Martin Find more information here: https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ ...

2025-06-0207 min

Off-Trail Learning Anna Smith and Mara Donahoe on Home & Hybrid EducationAnna Smith and Mara Donahoe are the co-founders (with Natasha Morisawa) of the National Association of Home & Hybrid Education (homeandhybrideducation.org), a new advocacy organization that hopes to bring together all members of the alternative education movement in the United States. We discuss why Home & Hybrid Education (HHE) was created, whether the U.S. needs another homeschool organization, how HHE differs from other large organizations (AERO, ASDE, HSLDA), and why public hybrid options deserve a seat at the table. I ask them what a massively successful HHE would look like in 10 years, why they’re interested in the thankless task of...

2021-10-2051 min