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The What, Why, Who and How of Being Earthbound
Why subscribe to Being Earthbound?
This is a newsletter, podcast and community of practice exploring inner work for outer change and the process of coming home to our nature as Nature.
The promise and premise of being Earthbound is a healthy whole-systems approach to living in the world as Nature. Isn’t it only natural and fitting then that we engage our whole system in this process of transformation?
Finding the balance between our inner and outer landscapes feels like the great work of our times as we search for coherence, peace, flow and meaning in a domination culture that's badly off-kilter.
What does a fully embodied, fully integrated sense of self and world offer us as we seek to regenerate, reconnect and reintegrate towards cultures of care and away from the story of separation that's wreaking such havoc?
These are explorations facilitating growth, connection and healing at the fertile edge between transpersonal psychology, embodied presence and holistic systems change.
Johanna is a nature connection facilitator and Realization Process teacher, Dan is a transpersonal psychology coach and breathwork instructor, and we are both trained and certified embodied meditation teachers and long-term permaculture practitioners.
We’re looking forward to getting to know you.
Dan and Johanna
ps. If you’re interested in why the name Earthbound felt right then please read this post.
Ways to engage with Being Earthbound
1. Free Substack Subscription
The vast majority of posts and podcasts we create will always be kept available for free to subscribers as we want this work to be shared widely and be easily accessible.
2. What’s Here Now? Club
If you are interested to dip your toes into some live embodied presence practice then we invite to to discover the transformative effect of What’s Here Now? practice. This is relational, vocalised, embodied meditation. A type of reimagined meditation for the world we live in. We meet once per month and you can find out all about it and sign up here. Just 5 euros/month.
You can also read a post about it here.
3. Interested to Dive Deeper Into Embodied Presence Practice In Community?
Join the Earthbound Practice Circle
Starts Friday 9th May 2025 @ 10am UK time and continues on the second Friday of every month.
Twice-monthly online gatherings to explore embodied presence in community.
Includes:
✔ Monthly Deep Dive Circle sessions
✔ Includes access to What’s Here Now? Club
✔ Growing guided practice audio library
✔ Recordings of all Friday Circle sessions
✔ 10% off 1-1 coaching
Just 15 euros per month or 12/month with an annual subscription.
4. Embodied Permaculture Course
A 9-week Transformational Immersion Into Embodied Presence For Changemakers
This course is for changemakers, permaculture practitioners, activists or anyone who intellectually know that they are embedded within nature’s web, but don’t yet have - and long for - a daily embodied, felt experience of being one with Life.
It's for people who know that the problems of the world cannot be solved with the same thinking they were created with, and want to learn to attune to emergent nature-aligned embodied wisdom.
And it's for people who feel like they need to drop down from their busy heads, back into their body and back into deeper relationship with themselves, with other people and with the rest of Life.
Welcome to the Embodied Permaculture Course, a transformational 9-week online self-study programme based on the success of the ground breaking 18-month Alef Trust funded Embodied Permaculture Research Project.
We’ve priced this course at £35 to keep it super affordable for all.
Find out more here:
5. One-to-One Coaching
And if you are looking for the support of working 1-1 with Dan, a transformational coach working at the intersection of embodiment, transpersonal psychology and Nature then please find out more here
Meet your Earthbound guides:
Dan McTiernan
Dan is a transformational whole-being coach working at the intersection of transpersonal psychology, embodiment and Nature. Combining deep ecology literacy, permaculture practice and training as a certified transpersonal coach, embodied meditation teacher and breathwork instructor, he offers a holistic framework to help clients reconnect with their vitality, true nature, and relationship with all of life.
He is the co-founder of Earthbound, a nature-based coaching organisation. He leads the Embodied Permaculture Project, an international research initiative exploring the connection between personal wellbeing and ecological change. Dan is also project lead on a farmer wellbeing programme called Calmer Farmer.
Johanna McTiernan
Johanna is a certified embodied meditation instructor, Realization Process™ teacher, nature connection facilitator and co-founder of Earthbound.
She is the co-faciliator on the Embodied Permaculture Project, where she integrates her experience in nature connection and wellbeing. Johanna is also a facilitator and storyteller on a farmer wellbeing programme called Calmer Farmer. Johanna also has a history of working in the regenerative food sector, as a founder member of an award-winning bakery at the forefront of the UK’s real bread revival in the early 2000s and has also worked on regenerative olive oil and almond farming projects in Spain.
What people are saying about working with Dan and Johanna
“I turned from being busy, irritable and feeling scattered, into a calm "just being", feeling grounded, feeling connected to others and my surroundings, in the now. From my head into my entire body. This helped me grow into a more whole being. I trust myself, Life and the ground and this trust makes that my life is much more mine now. I do my things wholeheartedly.”
- Barbara
“I’m really grateful for all you gave us…you have helped me see and feel things differently. I now have the tools to respond to all aspects of life - as nature needs me to. I have learned to step aside from my own needs for particular outcomes, and to align with the way things are in the present moment in whatever setting. I can respond with confidence to benefit natural systems most effectively, sometimes in ways I would never have expected! I see the benefits for nature through groups I am part of, organisations I volunteer with and in my own life through relationships and design work. I can allow nature to work through me.”
— Meg
“This has been life-changing for me. It has changed the way I wish to work and deepened in me a sense of feeling and connection and a more natural flow that goes beyond a thinking process. Dan and Johanna are incredible facilitators, holding space in a beautiful and unique way and I would highly recommend them.”
— Suzanne
“I am finding the Practices very powerful. I get real moments of awareness/insight realisation.... I guess I could summarise these as 'paradigm shifting'. It's funny, I always resisted 'embodied' courses in the past. Because I didn't understand - my own body, what somatic awareness meant, what on earth others were on about, when they talked about their body and what it was saying! I guess I was very shut off from my body, and it didn't help to be on a course with others who 'got it' and couldn't explain it well enough to me, in a way I understood. I think this plays to my way of 'knowing', of learning. I need teachers who explain things in a wise way. What I resist the most is when a teacher or guru gives us a riddle! One 'kind of' gets what they're saying, but not really, and whatever it was, just floats off. So I am doubly appreciative of how Dan and Johanna are teaching us. It is so easy to understand, to 'get', to absorb, to feel into. You both have created an amazing learning journey. The world so needs this. With huge thanks.”
— Wendy
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