Molten Earth

Molten Earth Molten Earth is a project exploring bodywork, wood-fired saunas and eco-somatic practices that connect us to the animate Earth.

Upcoming retreat at Origins Center!! 🔥
04/07/2024

Upcoming retreat at Origins Center!! 🔥

MiriMiri is the vibration of Hinemoana, the goddess of the ocean. 🌊 The sessions can feel very soft, gentle, nurturing a...
04/07/2024

MiriMiri is the vibration of Hinemoana, the goddess of the ocean. 🌊 The sessions can feel very soft, gentle, nurturing and loving.

RomiRomi is the vibration of Tangaroa, the God of the Sea 🌊 The sessions involve practitioners using more elbows, knees, forearms etc and can be very stimulating, deep and at times intense.

Both practices serve clients to reach a state of health and purified spirit, and are two central practices of Māori Healing.

A few shots from Ako Torowhānui: Māori Healing Training which I completed back in 2022.The training was deeply profound ...
04/07/2024

A few shots from Ako Torowhānui: Māori Healing Training which I completed back in 2022.

The training was deeply profound and transformative - so much so my being wasn’t ready to fully step in to the mahi. For 18 months the lessons learned have been marinating in my being; a gestation phase of sorts.

The seasons are changing to one in which I have a deeper level of grounding, maturity and neutrality. I’m in a space now where I’ve started sharing and giving sessions in MiriMiri + RomiRomi.

It feels so aligned to be back in this space.

To work with my hands is a deep calling in my life and Māori Healing is a practice I have the deepest respect for.

This practice feels like it will be lifelong journey. A journey beyond this life in fact; deeper in to tipuna/ancestry.

A big thanks to all the teachers and fellow students 🙏🏼

Noongar Country SW

Wednesday evening sauna + dinner has been very wholesome nights for the local community here in Balingup. The heat melts...
04/07/2024

Wednesday evening sauna + dinner has been very wholesome nights for the local community here in Balingup. The heat melts away tensions - and it’s a place for people from all walks of life to relax and find common ground.

Bathing houses throughout history have been important places of civic value. The fire + steam seems to have an innate capacity to bring together and unite. And that is why I love it.

Our very consciousness has been moulded around fire. A place to gather, share stories, myths and yarns.

Fire is the ultimate space holder.
It always has been.

Noongar Country SW 🔥

I’ve long been inspired by the intersection of Earth and Water.states of grounded flow.vibrations akin to the didgeridoo...
04/07/2024

I’ve long been inspired by the intersection of Earth and Water.
states of grounded flow.
vibrations akin to the didgeridoo
that which is tectonically powerful, yet simultaneously liquid.
What if I could melt tension in the palms of my hands?
what if a body could move like Molten Earth?

Such curiosities is why I hold deep admiration for the Polynesian peoples.
Their presence is one of immense power and strength
yet simultaneously,
gentleness and a jovial softness.

Maybe it’s the beauty of their land + oceans.
Volcanic eruptions and calm shores.
Wild oceans and tranquil bays.
What a beautiful landscape for embodying the Earth.
What an honour to practice bodywork from such a place.

Noongar Country SW 🌊

The animate Earth is my mentor and guide.I’m curious as to her mysterious ways,which refine my senses,softens my touch.I...
04/07/2024

The animate Earth is my mentor and guide.
I’m curious as to her mysterious ways,
which refine my senses,
softens my touch.

I seek to attune to the wider rhythms.
to flow along her cycles and currents.
to connect,
my hands and heart to the meridians of the Earth.
to feel her magnetic pulse
and to share bodywork
with reverence for the sacred.

Speak to any Scandinavian worth their salt in sauna culture and they will give some blunt truths….that an infrared sauna...
04/07/2024

Speak to any Scandinavian worth their salt in sauna culture and they will give some blunt truths….that an infrared sauna in the backyard of a biohacker isnt actually a sauna….but a glorified microwave!

Wood-fired saunas continue to be used in places of piercing cold because simply put - it is a more holistic experience.

The sourcing of wood, the act of chopping it through manual labour, the sound of sizzling steam and crackling fire….it all holds a ceremonial like gravitas; where one develops a deeper connection and appreciation to the elements of their sensuous surroundings.

Deep states of tranquility and relaxation occurs through an intimate exchange and offering to Mother Earth.

The mere flick of a button on an infrared, as if you were ordering a cheeseburger through a touch screen, severs our ancestral connection and experiential wisdom of fire and flame. It reductionistically strips the natural world from the somatic and embodied experience of relaxation.

The slow-food movement has been gaining lots of traction for good reason….it has shown light on the many hidden and dangerous costs that lurk behind “convenience” and “speed”.

In a similar fashion to the slow-food movement, Molten Earth intends to bring us back in to deep states of slow primordial relaxation; working alongside and honouring the natural world in all her eternal ways. To view relaxation not just an activity, but as an embodied web of relations with the animate world around us.

Noongar Country SW 🔥

An epic set up of the sauna on stream edge. Alternating between hot and cold has never been so easy👌🏼This setup was at a...
04/07/2024

An epic set up of the sauna on stream edge. Alternating between hot and cold has never been so easy👌🏼

This setup was at a men’s retreat at a beautiful location in the Perth hills…..all smiles from the lads!

The mobile wood-fired Morzh Sauna! This 8 person sauna was imported from the far reaches of Siberia; lands of harsh wint...
04/07/2024

The mobile wood-fired Morzh Sauna! This 8 person sauna was imported from the far reaches of Siberia; lands of harsh winters, long nights and deep reverence for fire.

Sharing stories, laughs and silence together in a sauna is always a wholesome experience. It brings community together in a profound and unique way; the steam dampens the ego, residual tensions melt away and the rigidity of modern life relaxes in to states of deep relaxation.

The beauty of this setup is that it can go absolutely anywhere 🤙🏻 We’ve fired it up at tranquil lakesides, edges of flowing rivers and friends backyards.

Inside is a traditional wood-fired stove where you will hear the crackle of burning wood and the hiss of steaming rocks. Untreated high benches made of pine, ladle and scoop, ambient lighting and a series of oils which open and expand the airways.

The Morzh will be going on many road trips in the near future - as we continue to explore the most picturesque and tranquil locations of the South West of Australia 🙏🏻

Molten Earth is a project that has emerged deep from the heart of Gaia; fusing my love of animism, somatics and bodywork...
04/07/2024

Molten Earth is a project that has emerged deep from the heart of Gaia; fusing my love of animism, somatics and bodywork.

It is an evolutionary offshoot of Natural Perspectives. Natural Perspectives is about hiking adventures in to the wild (more Yang). Whilst Molten Earth is about relaxation and coming in to our inner nature through hypnotic warmth (more Yin).

It is a descent in to the womb of Gaia and the core of the Earth. The place where magma oozes and flows with a fiery heat. A place of heavy grounded flow, where fire mixes with the immense power of granite, boulder and stone. That is the inspiration; to embody a flow of tectonic like liquidity. To move in harmony with the warm inner Earth. To work with the clays, muds and embers of this planet to create inner warmth.

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