Simone Kotva is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Gothenburg, working at the intersection of Christian Theology, Continental Philosophy, and ecological thought. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2020) and co- editor and co-translator of Félix Ravaisson, Fragments on Philosophy and Religion (Bloomsbury 2025). Her forthcoming monograph Ecologies of Ecstasy: Mysticism, Philosophy and Vegetal Life is under contract with Columbia University Press. In this episode we discuss spiritual exercises and ecological attention, exploring how contemplative practices shape energetic and more-than-human ways of living.