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For the Love of Nature {Final Episode of 2023}

**This is the last podcast episode, social media post & newsletter of 2023 for The Mindful Minute. I’ll be taking a break over the winter months to listen and feel through what 2024 will ask of all of us as meditation practitioners. I’ll be back in early 2024, and I look forward to practicing with you again soon. 💛 

I have been teaching Monday Night Meditation for 8 years, and airing it on The Mindful Minute podcast for 7 years. It has been my greatest joy to share my own meditative journey and to witness yours as we have practiced together. 

My own practice has evolved profoundly in the 13 years I have been sitting on a meditation cushion. I began as a Tantric practitioner, settled into Mindfulness for years, and returned to Tantric traditions as my own awareness continues to awaken. For the last several years, I have been deeply devoted to exploring our connection to the natural world, as taught in Tantric traditions, as a connection to our deepest Selves. 

There is something that happens when we fully embrace our connections to the land that we live, walk, and breathe upon - it allows us to tap into our own inner indigeneity.
That rootedness that was here before all else. 

And, I feel called to further my exploration and deepen my teaching on nature-based meditation - as a response to climate crisis, eco-grief and eco-anxiety certainly. But even more so, as a response to the call to be more ourselves, to be more awake, engaged, and purposeful in how we live and move through the world today. 

Ancient wisdom traditions teach us that the body is a universe.

Carl Sagan once told us that we are “made of star-stuff”. 
 

A Beginner's Guide To Looking At The Universe - nytimes.com

Modern science proves that mindfully connecting to nature has a huge impact on our well-being - boosting immunity, reducing anxiety & enhancing creativity. Yet, weaving together our contemplative practices with the natural world offers us so much more than a quick health fix.

Nature-based meditation anchors us in a larger, more ancient story. It invites us to understand ourselves on a deeper level, and offers a tantalizing invitation into the spiritual side of a meditation practice. Nature serves as myth and mirror, storyteller and space holder.

 

Just The Meditation

Each week, only for newsletter subscribers {that's you!}, I will be sharing a guided meditation that you can access anytime you like.
Enjoy and keep practicing!

For the Love of Nature Meditation {13 minute meditation}

Nature-based meditation anchors us in a larger, more ancient story. It invites us to understand ourselves on a deeper level, and offers a tantalizing invitation into the spiritual side of a meditation practice. Nature serves as myth and mirror, storyteller and space holder.