Domei blends Gaelic “Domhain” (deep) and “Éist” (pay attention) to suggest profound, immersive engagement with our environment.
It embodies deep listening past the auditory, urging an embodied, empathetic reference to nature via all of our senses.
I exploit the phrase listening right here in its broadest interpretation; listening equates to feeling.
Collectively, Domhain and Éist create Domei.
On this context, Domei turns into an consideration follow that includes utilizing our total physique to “really feel into” the wildness round us.
In my work, I immerse myself within the plant kingdom and draw inspiration from what I uncover via this immersion.
It’s about tapping into the unstated language of nature. Nature as metaphor and extra.
This follow of Domei encourages us to step past our typical botanical understanding of vegetation, inviting us to have interaction with the plant kingdom with an open coronary heart and a eager sense of creativity and instinct.
It’s a name to expertise the world and to attune ourselves to the delicate emotions and shifts as we reply to the world and transfer via it.
We begin ‘listening to’ the pure knowledge indicators, the suggestions loop the environment is regularly giving us.
It’s a pure sensory map displaying us the precise path for our lives, all revealed via our inner steerage system referred to as the senses.
Domei isn’t just a follow however a means of being, a path to deeper understanding and concord with the plant kingdom and the remainder of the non-human world.
I educate Domei practices inside my Travels With Crops neighborhood. It’s a relaxed, quiet place outdoors the noise of social media.
I reopen the doorways in Spring 2025.
