Modern life is filled with many kinds of pollution. From the audible and visual pollution of our cities to the garbage we let leak into our natural world, humans are separating themselves from nature at a faster rate than ever before in our history. The flora and fauna so graciously given by our earth mother have been all but forgotten in many human environments. Observing, reconnecting, listening to ecopsychology, and exposing ourselves to the natural world can increase our health and well-being.

To unearth essential information about how we join the human rewilding project and get back in tune with nature, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with the co-founder of the Sea Change Project, documentary filmmaker, and naturalist Craig Foster.

Craig shares his rewilding and tracking techniques that instinctively regulate our bodies’ natural rhythm and release health and well-being chemicals into our system. He also offers an Ecopsychology toolkit for being with nature from his newest project, the book Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World.

Craig Foster — Human Rewilding:

• Nature bathing is an effective way to balance the ego and regulate the body’s natural rhythm. {2:23}
• As humans, rewilding ourselves brings inherent comfort and changes the pathways in our psyche. {8:02}
• Small doses of nature can have bigger longer-lasting effects than major excursions into the wild. {16:30}
• An Ecopsychology toolkit for being with nature. {18:32}
• How Craig’s ocean exploration has increased his health, well-being, and connection to other humans. {24:56}

About Lisa’s guest:

Craig Foster is a documentary filmmaker, naturalist, and the originator of the Sea Change Project in South Africa. He is well known for his role in the documentary film, My Octopus Teacher (2020), for which he received an Academy Award nomination in 2021.

“For me being in nature is about seeing is about the reduction of the ego and that we see ourselves as part of something so vast and great and not as the center of the universe." - Lisa Cypers Kamen 

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