Revive your connection to nature
This Week On The Podcast
The Mindful Minute
Resilience & Reciprocity for the Earth
In this mindfulness series, we are exploring resilience & reciprocity as skills we build when we bring mindfulness to our relationships with the earth, with others, and with ourselves. In today’s class, we bring the lens of mindfulness to our fractured relationship with nature.
Diagnosis like plant blindness and nature deficit disorder, not to mention climate crisis, highlight how removed we are from nature. At the same time, there are writers, poets, artists, and scientists all screaming for us to go outside, to remember ourselves in nature. Yet, for the most part, we don’t.
We don’t go outside because we are busy, because we don’t know where to go, or because we don’t like being hot, or cold, or the bugs. We don’t go outside because our culture has taught us to value comfort over all else. We don’t go outside because we might be uncomfortable.
In the Apache language, the root of the word for land is the same root as the word for mind... an interesting parallel, isn’t it?
We don’t like to be uncomfortable - with our thoughts or with the weather.
However, what we see over and over again through lived experience is that discomfort allows us to tap into and appreciate joy so much more than staying sheltered, closed off, and “comfortable”.
Join me for today’s episode of The Mindful Minute as we revive our connection to nature through resilience and reciprocity.
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!
Resilience & Reciprocity for the Earth {15 minute guided meditation}
Explore reviving our connection to nature through resilience and reciprocity.
Join Me in August
I am delighted to offer the opening meditation for this year's Dirty South Yoga Fest!
On Saturday, August 26, I will be sharing a special class titled: Birdsong, Waterfalls & Star-Stuff: An Elemental Awakening with Nature-based Meditation
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