The Symbiosis Meditation

The Symbiosis Meditation was created by Phoebe Tickell in 2015 and further developed during her two years of teaching and working at Schumacher College in 2016-2018. The full meditation can be found in the video above.

For those who want to guide the meditation for themselves, here are instructions:

Instructions to The Symbiosis Meditation

1. Start by visualising all parts of your body that are made up of elements of solid material, or “Earth element” - bones, skin, teeth, hair, and the physical sensation of their weight. Then visual- ise all of the solidity and Earth element present in the world, and imagine the connections to you.

2. Move on to visualising water and all of the liquid elements in your body, and then again visualising the rivers, storms, waterfalls and oceans of the world outside.

3. Move on to visualising air and the breath, focusing on the air and oxygen bubbles inside the body and projecting out to the air and its sounds and sensations out in the world.

4. Move on to visualising the “fire element” of heat and energy which also guides listeners to imagine the mitochondria in the body that were once bacteria, but now live in our bodies.

5. Finish by imagining the chain of unbroken relationships and cooperation, embodied through the chain of heartbeats that have supported them to be alive at this time.