Animistic Consciousness: Lived Relationship with Body + Earth

What if the world around you (and within you) is not just alive, but aware?

What if the wind could be listened to, the stones could be spoken with, and the trees were your elders?

What if your body was a fully intelligent landscape that could offer you immense amounts of wisdom?

You may know these truths on a mental level, and perhaps have even experienced glimpses of their truth inside your felt experience.

But how do you stay in relationship with the living earth? How do you cultivate that sense of communion?

In this one-hour class, we will explore the foundations of animistic consciousness. A way of seeing and relating that remembers the world as sentient, sacred, and intimately woven with our own being.

And not just seeing, but being in relationship with. All the time. Not just while you're out "in nature."

Animism is a way of being in relationship. Both with ourselves and with the Earth. One that reawakens our felt knowing that everything (plant, stone, water, body, season, place) is alive and responsive.

Together, we’ll explore:

🌿 What animism is (and what it’s not)
🌿 Why so many sensitive, intuitive people naturally lean toward animistic ways
🌿 How colonial and modern paradigms have disconnected us from our innate animistic nature
🌿 Simple, embodied practices to begin cultivating real relationship with the living world around you
🌿 How animistic consciousness is central to the path of healing, intuition, and personal medicine

This class is a doorway into the deeper terrain we explore in the Golden Stone Immersion, a 6-month journey into embodied earth wisdom, personal reclamation, and living in right relationship with yourself and the animate world.

Whether you’re just beginning to reawaken your connection to the Earth or you’ve long walked this path, this class will nourish your remembering and offer practical ways to deepen into sacred relationship with Life.

*Please come with something to practice connection with during out time together- whether a stone, a plant, or the land you are residing on.*

ABOUT AMY TEREPKA

Our facilitator, Amy Terepka, has been a bodyworker and energy healer for 15 years, and has held ceremony and taught plant spirit medicine, energetic techniques, and seasonal healing for the past 10 years.

"The work I do is based on a foundation of years of practice intuitively listening to messages from plants, the natural world, the body and energy field. Everything is made of energy, and therefore all healing must include working at the energetic level to be effective." - Amy

Amy Terepka, founder of Groundwater Healing, is a skilled and experienced bodyworker, energy healer, and plant medicine practitioner with over 15 years of experience in the healing arts. 

She has a deep understanding of the connection between the body, mind, and spirit, and has completed extensive training in Bodywork, Energy Medicine, Earth Medicine, and Plant Spirit Medicine. 

Amy is passionate about helping individuals reconnect with their bodies and the Earth, and offers a unique, holistic approach to healing, which includes an embodied approach to spiritual medicine. 

Her practice focuses on helping you heal disconnection in order to stand fully and proudly in your body with a sense of ease, peace, and empowerment. She believes healing comes from a deep knowing of the self, aligned with connection to the wider forces of Life. 

All of her offerings are designed with these principles in mind: that our bodies are wise and are always doing their best for us, the healing power of ritual, reverence and reciprocity for the Earth, animism and the sentience of plants, stones, and nature, that there is an allyship between mind, body, and spirit, and that mindfulness and intentional connection go a long way in healing.