Eco soma: "What is “eco soma”? I approach this phrase as a mash-up, an encounter zone all by itself: there is “ecosomatics,” a term somewhere between exclusion and inclusion, with undertones of neoliberal self-care, of White settler appropriation of Indigenous practices, a bit New Agey, a bit old ritual. And there is “eco soma:” a two step, a longer phrase, a stumble, the hesitation marks left in. The break holds hope and promise. I propose “eco soma” as a method for working with somatics in performance: both in the production and the reception of somatic-flavored work."

—Petra Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022), 1.