Past Episodes
S2 E14: Wandering
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/27/26 Release date: 7/15/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Episode Description:Join Amber and Natasha as they wander through Wawona, California. As the snow is melting and river water is flowing they explore what it is to wander! They share definitions, poems, and…
S2 E13: Stargazing
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/1/26 Release date: 7/1/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Join Amber and Natasha in Wawona, CA under the stars, in this first ever episode recorded at night! Together they discuss our need for darkness and stargazing. They explore how stargazing can help…
S2 E12: Forest Bathing and other location based ecotherapies.
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 2/27/26 Release date: 6/15/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Episode Description: Join Natasha and Amber as they slip and slide down a slushy, snow path to a peaceful forest grove where they discuss Forest Bathing and a variety of nature based therapies! …
S2 E11: Ecotherapy: Finding your Nature prescription.
Location: Wawona, Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 2/24/26 Release date: 6/1/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Expanding on the themes of previous episodes of the benefits of having a deeper relationship with other-than-human nature, Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa share personal stories and different ways humans have found…
S2 E10: What Exactly is Ecopsychology?
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/23/26 Release date: 5/15/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha Morisawa and Amber Martin explore the evolving definition of Ecopsychology, some of the challenges in naming the field, and why they took so long to include this in the podcast series. They…
S2 E9 What is a contemplative practice and why might we want to have one?
Location: Wawona,Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/1/26 Release date: 5/1/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Episode Description: From a deck in Wawona, California, under the Winter night sky of the Yosemite National Forest,Natasha Morisawa and Amber Martin discuss secular contemplative practice, the benefits of such a practice,…
S2 E8: Decentering ourselves: What does it mean to take ourselves out of the center of our relationship with nature?
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/25/26 Release date: 4/15/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Natasha and Amber join you from the banks of a babbling spring in Yosemite National Park, to talk about De-centering ourselves in relationship to Nature. They explore what is required of us…
S2 E7: Let’s Take an Awe Walk
Location: Yosemite National Forest, California, USA Record date: 3/25/26 Release date: 4/1/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ THANK YOU TO PINE TREE MARKET: Ponder While We Wander is so grateful for our first community sponsorship! A big shout out to Pine Tree Market run by Michael and Katie Henderson,…
S2 E6: Let’s talk about Journaling With Nature.
Location: Chetzamoka Park, Port Townsend, Washington, USA Record date: 10/21/25 Release date: 3/15/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Join Natasha and Amber as they introduce Journaling with Nature as a way to deepen our relationship with other-than-human Nature. Through the process of journaling,the opportunities to re-connect and re-member arise. They…
S2 E5: We’ve got Biophobia and you might too!
Location: Carrie Blake Park, Sequim, Washington, USA Record date: 10/20/25 Release date: 3/1/26 Hosts: Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa Edited: https://www.studiosymbiotic.com/ Amber Martin and Natasha Morisawa describe, normalize, and discuss the phobias we may have as humans in regard to the natural world. The potential origins, consequences, and environmental impact of biophobias are…