Kelly Moody is a critical ethnobotanist, philosopher, teacher, writer, and podcast host. After growing up in rural southern Virginia on her grandmother’s tobacco farm, Kelly’s interest in plants and ecology never left her. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and then left Virginia to travel cross-country, studying herbal medicine, land tending, ecology and botany. In the summer of 2020, she hiked the Colorado Trail documenting plants on foot and made notes on wild food and medicine gardens found along the old Ute pathways. Kelly and I discuss what it means to approach fields like ethnobotany, archeology, and anthropology both holistically
Interesting conversation. Thanks for sharing. I resonate a lot with the sentiments you and her share, in my case more from the side of movement and physical education. Both of you mentioned movement a few times. I've been playing with the idea of restorative movement, as a way for bring it to balance. The deveIopmet of physical literacy to restore natural movement, and intuitive physical activity. At least that how I see it n my head. I theorize that the fitness and wellness industry have created a vision and a perception of movement that has taken us away from how we naturally move through, and in different situations. Both sedentarism and specialized movement method have made people to "forget" institute movement. I like to explore the 'in between' where generally most people don't look, where it is either all nothing. 🖖🏽
Interesting conversation. Thanks for sharing. I resonate a lot with the sentiments you and her share, in my case more from the side of movement and physical education. Both of you mentioned movement a few times. I've been playing with the idea of restorative movement, as a way for bring it to balance. The deveIopmet of physical literacy to restore natural movement, and intuitive physical activity. At least that how I see it n my head. I theorize that the fitness and wellness industry have created a vision and a perception of movement that has taken us away from how we naturally move through, and in different situations. Both sedentarism and specialized movement method have made people to "forget" institute movement. I like to explore the 'in between' where generally most people don't look, where it is either all nothing. 🖖🏽