Upcoming Episodes
- Ep 9: My Right Eye Keeps Twitching
- October 15, 2025
- Ep 10: A cup of coffee can heal me
- November 1, 2025
Ep 8: Birds, birds everywhere
Location: Fort Flagler Historical State Park, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber visit a place where the ocean meets forest to tune into birds as a way of intentionally paying attention and deepening how we make meaning in our lives. Come listen to the topic and the…
Ep 7: Creativity is not a luxury
Location: Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber amble along in the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island, Washington, USA and explore creativity as an important force for individuals and humanity as a whole. If you are looking for an invitation or support…
Ep 6: It’s not safe to rest
Location: Penn Cove, Washington, USA Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Rest is important, so why is it so hard? Amber and Natasha discuss some of the messages and individual and collective challenges to getting rest and give some examples of nature that invite us to take a deeper perspective to rest.…
Ep 5: We’ve got biophilia, and you might have it too!
Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Location: Ft Townsend, Port Townsend, WA Come walk with us while we explore the “love of life” humans have with natural environments. Amber and Natasha share ways in which this enhances our lives and can be integrated into everyday living. We find some banana slugs, evidence of other…
Ep 4: Outside, how does that make you feel?
Schmitz Preserve Park Seattle, WA- USA Is it time for a relationship check-in with nature? Have you thought about your relationship with the outside world lately? What happens when we shift from inside to outside? What if our connection with nature was more relational than transactional? We explore this and more as we…
Ep 3: Walking labyrinths together: a contemplative practice for uncertain times
Denny Park Seattle, WA- USA Join us for a discussion where we explore what labyrinths are, how you can walk them, and how walking them can be an important contemplative practice for our times. https://labyrinthlocator.org/labyrinth/denny-park/440/ Explore more about Ponder While We Wander https://ponderwhilewewander.com/ https://ponderwhilewewander.substack.com/ Episode Resources https://labyrinthlocator.org/ https://labyrinthsociety.org/ https://veriditas.org/ https://www.contemplativelife.org/practice/the-center-for-contemplative-mind-in-society/all/teaching-learning https://www.contemplativelife.org/practice/labyrinth/all/body-movement
Ep 2: Walking up a hill, is it better together?
Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park We explore the topic of how we do hard things as we launch our discussion from an article of a study about social support and our perception of how steep a hill can be. There are also some surprise raccoons. Come explore if it matters who you’re standing next to…
Ep 1: Are we suffering from Zoochosis?
Seattle, Washington-USA Discovery Park Jumping off of the work of Dr. Vaughan Wilkins and the field of applied Ecopsychology, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa explore the theme of Enculturated Zoochosis. Metaphors applicable to living in modernity and the challenges we may be having are discussed while observing some of the urban wildlife of Discovery…
An Invitation to Ponder While We Wander
Welcome to Ponder While We Wander, a container for invitations and inspiration for connection to ourselves, others, and nature. This video gives you an introduction to us, how we got here, some of our hopes, and an introduction to the podcast Ponder While We Wander. This is a project of love from two friends…