I love mornings, and I'm an early bird I guess.
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So it's just me, the ocean, the rocks, the seagulls and all the other creatures.
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I've crafted a way to relate to more than human, to the more-than-human, in a way that it's non-verbal, and it involves my body, but also an embodiment. What are the commonalities that I have with other beings or with the rocks, with the algae, with the water, with the trees?
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When we are outside, we don't have control of things. Things just happen and we are part of that happening.​ So maybe that's the challenge of being able to surrender: to not know what's going to happen. Yet, to be willing to engage with that unknown.
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Mi nombre es Isidora. Yo nací en Chile crecí en España y ahora mismo vivo en Maine.​
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Para mí mi relación con la Tierra es algo que es muy conectado con el centro de mi persona, de mi gravedad.
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Mis metas son poder apoyar los sistemas alimentarios y apoyar también y dar voz y espacios a prácticas indígenas. Tambien parte de la solución acerca de como obtener soluciones para el cambio climático que sean sostenibles y resilientes.
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I arrived in 2018 to Bar Harbor, Maine, and I came here because I was coming to study at the College of Atlantic.​ Growing up, I never went camping or we were not really a super outdoorsy family.​ It was only when I came to college that I was more exposed in different ways to being outdoors.​ We were learning about the  history, and relating it to the ecology. And that, I think, made a very strong foundation for me, feeling, feeling grounded to be able to explore and learn more.​ Once I entered the outdoor world, I've always been around there and it's something that really makes my heart so filled with light and excitement and love.
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So right now I work as a nutrition educator, so I work with people and I help them have access to healthy foods that are good for them and they're accessible for them. And parallel to that, I also do climate justice education. 
 
My connection with food and growing food also came up later when I was volunteering in some organic farms. It's a very natural way to relate to the land, to prioritize food and food accessibility and food quality, but not only for me, also for all the organisms.
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The reason why I choose movement to explore my connection with the land, it's because I think embodying and embodiment is such a strong and powerful tool to be in relationship with others.
And it started as a result of my work on environmental politics.
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And in those spaces, I saw that there was a disconnection between the really hard work that needed to happen for policy to be made, and international agreements to be successful and the negotiators, the huge weight that people were carrying. I also experienced myself my body becoming very tired, and actually getting very sick with fever. And in that moment of being very sick, I had this question of: is this system that we are trying to use to solve our planetary crisis so broken down that it's also breaking me down? So I started thinking of other practices, a more holistic picture of finding agreements.
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Planetary crisis or climate crisis is also a crisis of care, and one of the problems that we face is that we've stopped caring for each other, but beyond that, we've stopped caring for life, which is the most basic thing. So how could a movement practice embody those things? Embody care, embody slowing down, embody action and innovation.
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I like to invite people to put themselves out there.​It might be like going for a walk; it might be listening to the sound of the water -  knowing the waterways. I think that's a very basic way, an essential way of creating that relationship, of encouraging a relationship. Where is your water coming from? How do you make sure your water is safe for you and for others? And how can you be a steward of the water and of the land?
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I think of it as like, what's my intentionality in the specific places, and how do I want to interact with what's around me? That idea of how to be aware of the things or yeah, things that are there before we arrive and the things that we left when we leave.
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I feel like a guest in this, in the land. And I feel very grateful for being welcomed here.