Earth MANdala

An embodied exploration of ecological connection, devotion, and accountability for men.

Join us for an EcoSomatic inquiry and beauty-making ritual through which we can live into questions:

• What could place-based men’s culture look like here and now?
• How can ecological Grief and Praise inform the way we show up?
• What do we as men stand for in relationship with the earth?

There will be facilitated activities exploring these themes followed by an emergent ritual in which we can create an earth mandala accompanied by song, rhythm, and dance.

Elias Serras 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 been working with men and masculinity throughout the US since 2018. 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 www.EcoSomaBe.com

Nico Kladis is a threshold guide, facilitator and integral psychotherapist walking the edges of tension and synergy of grief and praise, the gift within the shadow. Immersed in culturally responsive change work, ritual and the healing arts, Nico supports others to transform their relationship to self, each other and the living breathing animate world of which we are a small part. He enjoys building soil, composing medicinal music and dancing. Nico lives on Coast Salish Lands in the Pacific Northwest.