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Erotic ecology, a genre of deep ecology, encourages us to appreciate the sensual (not necessarily sexual) experience of the world around us, and how powerful it can be to exist as a body amongst, within, and composed of other bodies. To inhabit the world with this living, somatic lens–granting meaningful, sensual, conscious experience not just to ourselves, but to all the bodies around us–we come to understand the experience of existence as that of love. As erotic ecologist author Andreas Weber defines it, love is the desire to bring more aliveness to the beings around you; to help them feel more alive, to express themselves more fully. In so doing, we empower ourselves to feel more alive. This week, we’ll explore what makes us feel most radically alive, how we can experience intimate relationships with the more-than-human world, and how we can love and enliven the beings around us.

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