Domei
When our senses turn away, the world fades into shadow
Domei blends Gaelic “Domhain” (deep) and “Éist” (listen) to signify profound, immersive engagement with our surroundings.
It embodies deep listening beyond the auditory, urging an embodied, empathetic connection with nature through all of our senses.
I use the word listening here in its broadest interpretation; listening equates to feeling.
Together, Domhain and Éist create Domei.
In this context, Domei becomes an attention practice that involves using our entire body to “feel into” the wildness around us.
In my work, I immerse myself in the plant kingdom and draw inspiration from what I discover through this immersion.
It’s about tapping into the unspoken language of nature. Nature as metaphor and more.
This practice of Domei encourages us to step beyond our conventional botanical understanding of plants, inviting us to engage with the plant kingdom with an open heart and a keen sense of creativity and intuition.
It’s a call to experience the world and to attune ourselves to the subtle feelings and shifts as we respond to the world and move through it.
We start ‘hearing’ the natural data signals, the feedback loop our environment is continually giving us.
It is a natural sensory map showing us the right direction for our lives, all revealed through our internal guidance system known as the senses.
Domei is not just a practice but a way of being, a path to deeper understanding and harmony with the plant kingdom and the rest of the non-human world.