Ecosomatic Awareness is a movement-based sensorial, relational, and socially engaged art practice researched by Raffaele Rufo (PhD) during over twenty years of experience across Europe, Senegal and Australia. Ecosomatic Awareness facilitates personal transformation and ecosocial (re-)generation through listening with earth, seeding human-nature reciprocity and learning the art of commoning. Through with-nessing, interpenetration and attunement, these processes evolve in a more-than-human partnership across the vegetal, animal and mineral worlds.

Engaging the experience of the embodied self as connected and continuous with an embodied nature requires exploring and affirming the value of movement and sensoriality as key gateways into knowing and being. Through ecosomatic practice we come to realise our awareness as an embodied relational process embedded in the radically larger (and smaller) movements of the earth. This experience of reciprocity opens up a deeper and broader perceptual ground to engage the relation between body and earth as a source of inspiration, a mode of cultural resistance and a gentle act of repair of the connective tissues of life and matter in their many forms.