Embodying food means bringing our presence, care and intelligence to the way we nourish ourselves. By practicing care across species and learning how to eat in a way that is aligned with the planet’s natural orientation towards abundance, fertility and regeneration, we can experience greater vitality and pleasure whilst having a positive impact on the planet’s ecology and our local economies. 

Embodied food holds food as medicine, kitchen as temple, eating as prayer, and deep pleasure as a mutualistic interspecies creation.

One delicious meal at a time, we can reorient and tune our bodies to pick up on the permanent broadcast of ecological and cosmic vital signals which themselves harmonize and guide us towards living in conscious participation and reciprocity with other lifeforms and intelligences. 

We inevitably have to dedicate some of our attention and energy to figuring out what, where and how to eat on a daily basis. There is no avoiding that. So why not make this mandatory and intrinsic field of the human experience one in which you can practice, embody, materialize and integrate your values? Why not make it a space for prayer and connection, sovereignty, wellbeing and an exciting sensual discovery of new species of pleasure. Your eating practice is an opportunity to enact your political, social and ecological wishes on a daily basis, with direct impact on your health and the wellbeing of your community. 

So how do you get there? By layering on some simple practices and habits to your daily choreographies of eating and by learning how to listen deeply and be guided by your body’s wisdom, following its lead. This is the premise: we begin orienting towards radically eating local, seasonal, artisanal, home cooked food, as often as is possible. Then you let your microbiome, the inner compass that guides you towards finding a balance in life, continue to do the rest of the work. When we commit to a few new habits with discipline, everything else begins to unfold on its own.

Cooking leads to cooking. Eating real nourishing food leads to eating more nourishing food. Our microbiome changes, we change, our habits change, and before we know it, we are part of a different story, a different source of information, one that is oriented towards thriving, not surviving. 

There are no diets, cures or foods that are good or bad for everyone. It all depends on your constitution, how your genetics respond to your environment and lifestyle, your life experience and emotional processing, the life cycle you’re in, the seasons, what your ancestors ate, and a plethora of other nuanced factors that are unique to each of us. The way to thrive on this beautiful planet is by shaking the dust off our antennae and tuning into the flavourful dance of regeneration, abundance and vitality. The world needs us alive and available.

Start from within.