🌀 Remember to Regulate

June – July Newsletter

A Soft Place to Land in a World That’s Spinning

Maybe what we need right now isn’t another update.
But a deeper exhale.
A slower question.
A felt sense of home — in our bodies, in each other, on this Earth.

What if we could co-regulate with the Earth?

💌 Dear Human,

If your nervous system has been buzzing, stretched, or strangely stirred —
you’re not broken, you’re tuning in.

There’s a low hum beneath the headlines.
A feeling that something old is cracking —
and something not-yet-born is whispering for space.

The world feels upside down:
🕊 Wars on screens and in skies.
📈 Prices rising like floodwaters.
🧠 Technology blooming faster than we can catch up.
🌪 And a kind of spiritual fatigue settling quietly into our bones.

Watch this film by Nate Hagens, which in our opinion, is one of the most important films on the internet. It might shed some light on what you are feeling and why.

Maybe that ache you feel isn’t fear.
Maybe it’s the soul’s compass realigning.
A root memory awakening —
calling you back to what matters
A deeper longing for something real.

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🌱 The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets

There’s a map older than any app.
It lives in your breath
In your fascia
In your blood
In your bones
In the space between heartbeat and soil.

It whispers; go back to your roots
start simple
And build slowly from there.

In the 1940s, Abraham Maslow mapped out a hierarchy of human needs — beginning with food, water, warmth, rest.
Then: safety, belonging, meaning, expression.

Today, many of us are reaching for purpose and peace —
while the very ground beneath us remains unsteady.
No wonder we feel scattered.

At Maslow, we are re-rooting.

Starting again — this time with soil underfoot and stars overhead.
Planting food forests.
Building homes that breathe.
Redirecting water.
And restoring dignity to the most basic human rights.

We’re not trying to escape the system.
We’re remembering how to outgrow it.

And it is not nostalgia,
It’s a regenerative remembering.

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🌾 Your Nervous System is a Forest

You are not a machine.
You are not meant to run on deadlines, data, and dopamine hits.

You are a living ecosystem.
A symphony of cells and sensations.
You are wired for rhythm — not speed.

Your nervous system is built for connection.
With other humans.
With trees.
With birdsong.
With rivers.

🌿 Studies show that even 20 minutes in nature can reduce cortisol, slow your heart rate, and shift your brain into a more regulated state.
Your vagus nerve — the great communicator between your gut, heart, and brain — is soothed by touch, song, water, and quiet.
You are literally designed to co-regulate with the Earth.

So when everything feels like too much — that’s not weakness.
That’s intelligence!
That’s the invitation to regulate.
To return.
To rejoin your Nervous System with Nature’s Systems

And you don’t need to control it.
You just need to listen.

Just as forests respond to fire with regeneration,
your system can learn to settle after stress —
not by forcing calm, but by offering safety.

Co-regulation is not just a therapy buzzword —
it’s how mycelium share nutrients.
How birds nest near each other.
How babies survive.
How we remember we’re not alone.

So instead of trying to “fix” your state,
what if you simply tended to it like you would tend a garden?

In this video Geoff Lawton visits Village Homes, in Davis, California. This is what we at Maslow talk about when we talk about what the future of living could be; what it could look and feel like. This is a fully realised food forest suburb. We are not dreaming of something hypothetical, we are dreaming of a physically real ecosystem where humans can thrive in their environment, and the environment can thrive with humans.

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🌬 Practice: Root Down Before Rising Up

(from the Maslow Pansophia Library)

Breathe Like a Tree

• Sit or stand somewhere quiet. Let your spine soften.

• Feel the ground — even if it’s concrete, the Earth is still underneath.

• Inhale slowly through the nose. Exhale gently through the mouth.

• Do it again. Let the breath widen. And Repeat

Now imagine yourself as a tree:
🪵 Roots growing down into deep time.
🌿 Crown opening to the sky.
🌬 Breathing not just for you — but with the world.

Pause. Slow down.

Then Ask:
— What is asking to be let go?
— What wants to be watered?
— What is alive in me right now?

You don’t need an answer.
Just leave a little more space for the question
Let it settle-in and return to it whenever you want.
Let is be a compass, a recalibration, and give it some time…

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🛠 What We’re Growing

📚 The Maslow Pansophia Library
A living body of knowledge and practices — for anyone remembering how to live in rhythm, a school for the soul and soil.
A library for the body and the land.

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🏡 The Genesis Home
A modular, minimalist, off-grid shelter — designed to meet human needs beautifully and simply.
Not just a structure, but a symbol:
That it is still possible to live well — without extracting life.

→ [More info coming soon]

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🌟 You’re Not Alone

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

We live in uncertain times.
But we are not without direction.

We have each other.
We have breath.
We have soil that still wants to grow food.
We have rivers that still want to flow clean.
We have dreams that still want to take root.

You don’t need to know the whole way forward.
You just need one breath-coherent step.
Taken in rhythm.
In care.
In companionship with life.

“In a time of collapse, those who plant trees are prophets.”
— Old proverb, or maybe a future memory

With mycelial connectivity and dirt under our nails,
The Maslow Team