Bodyful Episode #12: Jill Dunkley on Being in Right Relationship with the World Inside & Outside
by Valerie Martin
I am not a naturally “calm” person, and it’s not often that I meet someone who instantly makes me feel calm in their presence. But when I met Jill Dunkley in 2019, that’s absolutely how I felt.
Jill is grounded, real, warm, kind, smart, and wise, and I’m grateful to call her a friend.
In this conversation, Jill and I explore:
what it means to be in right relationship both inside and outside ourselves
how trauma-informed practices and ecopsychology can support us in developing those capacities
the relationship between our individual healing and our commitments to the work of decolonizing
Learn more about Jill’s current and upcoming offerings on her website here.
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About Jill Dunkley (she/her)
Jill Dunkley lives on unceded Algonquin Land in rural Eastern Ontario with her husband, ecopsychologist, Andy Fisher. For most of her adult life she has explored the question “what does it mean to be in right relationship with the world inside of me and the world outside of me?” Now in late adulthood, she currently lives with that question at the intersection of trauma-aware mindfulness, yoga that adapts to the needs of the individual, and the earth. Jill is also a certified yoga therapist and mindfulness instructor and has found many great insights about her questions in the field of radical ecopsychology.
Links + Additional Resources:
Jill’s website (yoga therapy and trauma-based mindfulness)
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven (book and website)
Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss by Robin Wall-Kimmerer
The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
