Animate Earth Collective

01/10/2026

Want join us for a magical residential of Food as a Love Letter to the Land at the Magician's House in Devon next month?

Making the links between embodied practice, meditation, what we eat and how we prepare it - the ritual process around food - is a new investigation for us at Animate Earth. We are looking at not only how we listen to the land, how we interact with it through intuitive communication, ceremony and art, but now how we become more coherent with it through what we take into our bodies to sustain ourselves.

This is a timely look at how we each express our love of the land through food, through our bodies, as questions around food production and supply come increasingly into focus.

We look forward to seeing you (and the food will be excellent!)

Food as a Love Letter to the Land
Explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil
23 – 25 October
Canonteign Manor, Devon
https://animate-earth.org/food-as-a-love-letter-to-the-land/

01/10/2026

The principles behind food as meditation from Sarmado Sibley our upcoming facilitator on Food as a Love Letter to the Land residential in Devon. We will explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil and simple changes to how you approach food, cooking and eating habits to improve your wellbeing.

The principles behind food as meditation.Simple changes to how you...

29/09/2026

Listening to the Land hosts a programme strand within the Oxford Real Farming Conference each year and will be taking place on 7-8 January 2027.

What does it mean to have a reciprocal relationship with the land? This was a question that kept coming up in sessions at ORFC over the last few years. From panel discussions talking about traditional knowledge systems to farmers telling us about their relationship with ancient trees, we started to recognise a common thread that ran through many of our sessions. People who work with the land, and people who spend time with the land have a deep and often sacred relationship with it.

This year we’re honoured to be joined by Corrina Gould, tribal spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, who will be sharing her story from decades of on-the-ground rematriation and land return work, healing and transforming the legacies of colonisation in the San Francisco East Bay. We’ll hear from farmers across the UK on how they listen to the land while still making a living in sessions on farming in relationship with an animate world. We’ll also hold discussions on artificial intelligence vs embodied intelligence, and learn about the significance of stone circles for farming in a session on activating ancestral sites across the British Isles. Those who join us will have the chance to take part in an Interspecies Council, as well as workshops on singing the land alive and exploring our kinship with rivers and much more!

We’ll also be holding a Listening to the Land Ceremony followed by a magical Feast on the evening of Thursday 7th January, so keep an eye out for tickets to be released.

Oxford Real Farming Conference

27/09/2026

Food as a Love Letter to the Land
Explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil

23 – 25 October

https://animate-earth.org/food-as-a-love-letter-to-the-land/

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21/09/2026

We love sharing animist artwork from our Animate Earth community ❤️

Liz Lake is artist who uses printmaking, drawing and making to create inner maps of visceral and sensory landscapes. The work uses the imaginal realm to access unexpressed emotions and grief held within the body, using symbols and mark-making to make visible what is felt but not necessarily understood. Although the body is the starting point, the work goes onto explore the ancestral, the dark, the mud, the seasonal and the cyclical.

Liz’s practice is rooted in animism and explores how making and transforming materials and images can deepen relationships with the land you inhabit, whilst simultaneously communicate and correspond with our inner worlds.

She studies Fine Art at the RCA and is currently a lecturer across both FE and HE. She is a R&D artist with Dorset based arts organisation B-side for 2026/27.

Images from Night Flowers- a recent exhibition of 50 drawings and prints exhibited as part of B-side Festival 2026. The work was a symbolic exploration of what we store in our bodies, what we pass between generations, and different methods of transforming grief into growth. The pieces were housed in a small cottage next to Chesil Beach, the intimate setting reflecting the internal nature of the work.

Liz Lake b-side

16/09/2026

Explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil. Join us from 23 – 25 October for a residential retreat in Canonteign Manor, Devon with Sarmado Sibley, the first ever Michelin-trained chef to specialize in Holistic Nutrition, and Raw Food Coach & Chef, integrating Macrobiotics, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine into his plant-based solutions.

During the course we will:

🫛practice meditative and embodied techniques for sensing the connection between body, land, and food

🫛cook and eat together as a conscious ritual

🫛learn ancestral methods of fermenting, soaking, and preparing foods to enhance bioavailability and nutritional value

🫛explore the body as a reflection of the landscape, including the elements and the microbiome

🫛cultivate appreciation and awareness while eating

🫛experience the nourishing power of community, presence, and shared attention

Sarmado has transformed his culinary career by merging high-end gastronomy with holistic wellness. As the Operating under the philosophy of ‘Food As Medicine,’ Sarmado addresses health issues through diet while acknowledging the value of both animal-based and plant-based ingredients.

Bookings via https://animate-earth.org/food-as-a-love-letter-to-the-land/

14/09/2026

Food as a Love Letter to the Land
Explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil

23 – 25 October

In this two day course, immersed in the practices of seasonal, sacred food preparation and the sanctity of community, mindful eating and the honouring of ingredients, Michelin trained chef and sanyassin of the Osho school, Sarmado Sibley will take us into common union with the life-force which flows between the land and the plate.

Combining embodiment practices for a deeper experiential connection to the earth, learning the stories, provenance and history of foods which determines their quality and vibration, preparing soul-nourishing plant-based meals and recognising the loving compassion which flows through traditional food systems, plus where to find them in the UK, we will drop into a daily practice which will change your relationship to food and the land.

https://animate-earth.org/food-as-a-love-letter-to-the-land/

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mindfuleating

14/09/2026

In an animate world, subtle energies and intelligence surround us, natural energy fields that affect the health and behaviour of soils, plants, animals, people, the water and the land itself. Working with these forces, flows and cycles of nature, using divining and dowsing, would have come more easily, perhaps, to our forebears, who were reliant on maintaining a balanced and harmonious relationship with the land for their survival, but they can be recovered.

This is a training for those who work with the land in any capacity, for those who would like to explore and begin to use the art, the science of working with the land in this subtle capacity. There is much evidence to show that working in this way, with the land, with crops, animals, water-courses, trees and the communities, human and otherwise that live upon it, leads to greater balance, harmony and productivity for all.

The objectives of our time together are to:

〰️understand subtle energy principles
〰️understand how to use intuition, kinesiology and simple telepathy to access 〰️information and guidance
〰️understand the power of connection with the intelligence of nature at work in your landscape
〰️participate with and co-creatively influence the fundamental processes of nature
〰️understand the power of intent and attitude in influencing the success of our relationships and our work with the land
〰️understand the impact of energy imbalances, and learn techniques to correct these and restore health

Bookins via https://animate-earth.org/subtle-energies-of-the-land/

11/09/2026

Firewalking for healing and renewal - How to work with the living spirit of fire 🔥

https://mailchi.mp/35b3f5e174b8/animate-earth-more-than-human-times-17997088

10/09/2026

Explore a more sacred relationship between self, sustenance, and soil and expand your understanding of food to include the quality of attention, presence, and connection that accompanies its preparation and sharing.

Over two immersive days, Michelin-trained chef and Osho sannyasin Sarmado Sibley will guide participants into a deeper relationship with the life-force that flows between soil, plant, cook, and community.

We will explore how seasonal ingredients, traditional methods of preparation, mindful eating, and communal ritual can restore a felt sense of belonging within the living web of earth, body, and spirit.

Through embodied practice, storytelling, food preparation, and shared meals, we will explore:

🫜seasonal and sacred approaches to cooking

🫜the provenance, history, and cultural life of ingredients

🫜plant-based meals designed to nourish both body and soul

🫜traditional food practices that support vitality and connection

🫜ways of sourcing food through more compassionate and regenerative systems in the UK

Rather than offering another dietary system, this course is an invitation to remember ourselves as participants in the living intelligence of the earth.

Food as a Love Letter to the Land
23 – 25 October
With Sarmado Sibley