Earth Walking Meditation
First Friday of June, July, August, September 2027
Meet at the Old Guard Station, East Fork of Bull River, Cabinet Ranger District, Kootenai National Forest,
7 pm
Dana - Open Handed Giving
Walking with Mother Earth is a literal creative expression of our deepest relationship with self and our Earth Mother. Earth Walking meditation is an incredible embodied practice of learning, to purposefully and attentively move on Mother Earth.
As we learn to hone awareness and focus on each step taken, we begin aligning our mind, body, and spirit to more ancient Earth rhythms. We reanimate our interdependence. We become informed by Earth’s frequencies, awareness, and wisdom.
These personalized mindful meditation walks are being held in a sacred cedar grove that naturally invites us to be present with our experience. Walking through the Cedars we open ourselves to learning the wild wisdom and innate interbeing with Mother Earth. The art of slowing, feeling silence, listening to new voices, and earthing richly roots our consciousness, blossoming our hearts, and pollinating our mind.
re-wilding Playdate
Self-selected small group guided playdate
Group selects the date(s)
Meet where the mountains call
Meet as the sun crests the horizon
Dana - Open Handed Giving
Is there a feeling deep in the marrow of your bones, a pulse in the ecosystem of your gut, an unfamiliar voice calling, that you cannot ignore anymore. Is certainty unraveling like a frayed hem, comfort chafing like spandex in the heat, modern conveniences stifling. Something stirs that words, language fails to articulate. Screaming into the primordial void you hear the wild echo.
This playdate is an invitation to spacious unwinding. This playdate is intentionally not structured, it has no timeline or schedule. We are intentionally leaving our human-centric structures behind, stepping into the living breathing processes of the natural world. What is it like to step out of mind, step of structures, out of constraints, formulas, out of human centric identity… re-wilding.
Rewilding is surrendering to the guidance of landscape, forest, river, mountain, wolverine, raven, and pika. There are no assurances, no outcomes, no endpoints, or guarantees. Rather we embrace processes of decomposing, mulching, fermenting, masticating, rooting, myceliating, sporulating, pollinating, fruiting, shedding, moulting, fracturing, rupturing, eroding, migrating, and morphing.
Walking barefoot on Mother Earth, laying on 1.5 billion year rocks feeling her heartbeat, hearing the whispering wind in the aspen leaves, auspicing the flight of ravens, inhaling sun baked flowers, and drinking in the breathe of life. Rewilding…we open, bloom, blossom to remembering our entanglement and interdependent relationality. We reclaim our intuitive, primal, sensemaking and embodiment. We garden, aerate, fertilize our imagination and dreaming so we can walk on Mother Earth in right relationship. We ecosystem our interbeing, our identity is an ecosystem. We become empty vessels for which Earth wisdom can flow through.
If interbeing with Mother Earth speaks to your heart, reach across space time, message me for a playdate. The playdate will consist of a 4-6 hour hike with a wild landscape, some guided meditation, space time for self-reflection, gift sharing, and perhaps an Ayni Despacho Ceremony to practice reciprocity and right relationship.