This body of work emerges from my thesis at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where I investigated sacred groves as sites of embodied ecological intelligence and proposed ritual as a generative design tool for conservation. Titled Sylvan Synesthesia, the thesis examines how Indigenous communities in India, particularly the Soliga of the Biligiri Rangaswamy Hills, engage in multispecies rituals that encode forest management practices into cultural performance. Drawing from ecosemiotics, postcolonial historiography, and design anthropology, the work critiques the colonial legacies of scientific forestry that rendered both land and bodies legible for extraction through mapping, classification, and racial pseudoscience. It traces how sacred groves, unlike state forests, operate as dynamic, non-dualistic systems, where ecological memory is enacted not through policy, but through ceremony, trance, song, seasonal restriction, and reciprocal obligation to the more-than-human. The accompanying design research, including Legible Landscapes, Legible Bodies, and Ecosemiotics and Ritual Reciprocity interrogate how design might move beyond technocratic rationalism to re-attune itself to cosmologies where forests are not managed but communed with. Rather than treat sacred groves as ethnobotanical relics, the thesis repositions ritual as an active, iterative practice of forest morpholog