Micah Mortali: Rewilding

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Micah Mortali is the director of the Kripalu School, a certified yoga teacher, and a longtime wilderness guide. With Sounds True, he has published Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Micah about humanity's growing disconnection from the earth and how "rewilding" can help slow that trend. They talk about rewilding both as individuals and as part of whole ecosystems. Micah also shares the story of an intense, revelatory trail encounter with a bear and comments on the "species loneliness" of urban environments. Mulling the sense of grief they have for humankind's effects on the environment, Tami and Micah consider how modern people can grapple with being in exile from the natural world. Finally, they discuss the barriers many have to reentering nature, as well as ways to initiate your own rewilding experience no matter where you are.(64 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	Today my guest is Micah Mortally.
1:13.4	Micah is the director of the Cripalu Schools, which includes the School of Yoga,
1:18.9	Irveda, Integrative Yoga Therapy, and the school of mindful outdoor leadership, which he founded in 2018.
1:28.0	With sounds true, Micah has written a new book called Rewilding meditations practices and skills for
1:37.2	awakening in nature. To be truthful this conversation dropped me into a place that I wasn't expecting, a place of deep grief
1:49.1	and longing about our disconnection as a human species from our very ground, the ground of the earth.
1:59.0	Micah mortality, I think, has some powerful suggestions for how we can come and face that grief and also engage in healing, actually at the deepest level. Here's my conversation with Micah mortality.
2:17.0	To begin with Micah, can you explain what you mean by this word, the title of your new book rewilding? Sure. Rewilding is a term
2:29.1	that generally has two meanings. One refers to the rewilding of ecosystems and one refers to the
2:38.2	rewilding of human life. So the rewilding of ecosystems, you know, could refer to, you know, reintroducing sort of megafauna or predators into an environment where they have not been for some time.
2:54.4	So that could be something like the introduction or the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone
2:59.2	National Park or there are folks in Europe who are talking about, you know, reintroducing wild elephants into
3:05.8	parts of the landscape where they haven't been since the last ice age.
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