Saltwater Songlines Project
Eco-relationship with all Sentience
I grew up on Sydney's beaches, my Dad once a surf-lifesaver. Its sandstone-and-liquid landscape is etched in my tissues, a cellular memory in bone and body-fluid.
As we encounter that which surrounds us, allowing it to touch us, we discover its visceral, felt reflection within our own corporeal terrain; a continuum of the inner and outer geographies of the Body. A living, vibrant frequency.
An embodied ecology. Of river and delta and internal waterways. Of unfurling, reaching rainforest of lung; resonance of bone-rock and tracery of lichen-nerve. One. The body. As felt, known, poetic place. Through image and film making, through words written and vocal-earth sounds, through embodied movement practices.
Wild Yoga for Scoliosis
A Movement Monastery for All
Walking on Country. Listening, Dancing, Sounding.
Put your hand here, he says to me. My father.
The surf lifesaver; standing with me on a Coogee sandstone cliff.
What do you hear?
Where do you feel that - in your body?
Where does that move, as it travels through you?
And, most importantly;
what will you do with that!?
I am four, maybe five, years old.
Experience your embodied consciousness - through lucent image,
the deep ecology of your interior body
Your magnificence, held in spaciousness. A Benediction.
Please Note: this Embodied Terrain site will be retiring mid January 2025, after 11 years. And moving solely to:
The Saltwater Songlines
Saltwater Songlines, Eco-Relational consciousness with all Sentience
An immersive galleried somatic experience:
Images, Story, Eco-Meditations, Podcast
A Program, a Membership Area, A Photography Course
Wild Yoga for Scoliosis - a Movement Monastery for all Bodies
a Series of 8 embodied Practices in eco-somatics, breath and movement invitations.
a deep dive into your strong fluid spine.
For You
the saltwater songlines podcast
The Saltwater Songlines Podcast explores the felt relationships of humans, Ocean and the beings who live within. Speaking with those who care for Sea, make art with coasts, and who research and otherwise commune with the fluid realms of planet earth. Sometimes you’ll hear conversations with those whose immersion is with trees, rocks and other sentiences on earth. You'll also find eco-Meditations woven within, as separate Episodes.
You’ll find the Podcast available here
and, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Gratitude
‘I experienced an elder who gave me the space and deep listening needed to mirror and amplify the more-than-human impressions upon my consciousness. I feel the consistent spacious depth of listening was unavoidably therapeutic. The Saltwater Songlines Program is highly spiritual, and as such highly personal.
Narelle's capacity, based in deep listening and at times facilitative, arresting, prosaic, makes for both a seat in the comforts of the world-spirit and a foot on the edge of the transformative growing-challenge cliff of personal-mytho-social eco-centrism.
Your generosity of time and questioning during these 4 sessions, where I knew you would be listening - gave me the stronghold godspeed of just-in-time, perseverance and engagement with the material and my life, that I needed. The mentoring was an essential component for my engagement with the material and one of the things that sets this course apart from many others. Narelle's generous time offering of direct listening consciousness.
These sessions may be for you if, you are intrigued with the natural world, recognise the greater-than-human presence and seek to find your own threads to accessing it. If you are open-hearted enough to bring your own ecology of inter-embodied, ecosensory, ecospiritual experiences to her listening table, brave enough to gaze into a gravitational mirror wanting to pull out the vision of the world that lives inside of you, latent or active, that may otherwise struggle. Whether you are at home, basecamp or the summit in your journey. Expect only what you are capable of bringing and are willing to be transformed.’
-Chris, Gibraltar, Session Saltwater Songlines Mentoring Program.
About Narelle
Woman of the Sea
walker of Songlines
Narelle Carter-Quinlan is an Australian Photographer and Writer, a Dance Maker, Sounder, Transformer and a Yogi. Her Practice is one of mapping the Body-Land in sensation, through conscious movement, image making, and word.
Her unique body of work integrates movement and sound practices with the embodiment of your form in relationship to Place and ecosystem. Her somatic and photography Practices are grounded in experiencing the body as part of the living breathing land; the places where Country echoes and co-creates our own physicality. We are, after all, One.
Gratitude
I marvel at the transparent technology of trans-formation that Narelle spins out of presence in the moment, out of sound and movement, and of a deeply personal, yet transpersonal vision of ‘country’ that weaves earth and sea and sky and human into seamless yet perfectly differentiated visual and soundscapes that permeate layers of time, experience and memory with healing vibratory frequencies. Her presence in the virtual room, held by words and felt sense, contains within it the whole of all that she expresses in each medium she creates, or co-creates inside the currents of life. She is whole, and this vibrates fractalized codes of wholeness, radiant transmissions that carry a lifeline, a message of holos, like a message in a bottle floating through the seas, intact, seeded with a knowing that was never lost in truth. A message that resonated within and along the fractal threads of my own substance, and led me to know and to sense my own embodied wholeness, exploding in freedom, spaciousness, light and flow, liberating and uplifting long-imprisoned photons yearning to fly, to glide, to land – all at once.’
-Maria, United States, Transformation Client and Saltwater Songlines Mentoring Programs.
