BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY
Discover the transformative power of building a relationship with the land. In this course, you’ll choose a specific place in nature to visit regularly, cultivating a deep connection through meditation, presence, and mindfulness. Over time, this place becomes your teacher, offering lessons in stillness, resilience, and healing.
Together, we’ll explore practices to navigate obstacles like trauma, fear, procrastination, and anxiety while listening to what the land reveals about our capacity to grow and heal.
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In a time of ecological tumult, to be a useful resident on this earth is perhaps the best response.
Habituated to states of perpetual overwhelm, anxiety, numbness, fear, and isolation, we’ll calm our own nervous systems.
As we listen to life, the land around us, and our inner experiences, we’ll deepen our relationships towards people and the natural world.
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We will each find a specific place on the land - a place you’ll call your sit-spot. Over the course, you’ll use our group time to develop your practice, share stories, and fine-tune how you engage your sit-spot. When obstacles such as trauma, fear, and procrastination arise, you’ll learn to welcome them. Through your perseverance, patience, and with the group’s guidance you will learn to integrate and keep walking, only stronger.
In our group sessions and personal work in between, we will develop a relationship with place.
As we connect with the particular land where we live - its soil, its plants, its other-than-human residents, we will develop practices to calm our nervous system, interpret our discomfort, skillfully quiet mental chatter, and recognize death and sorrow as a call. In so doing, we will learn the relationships that hold us together.
How do we navigate the profound grief that comes with loving what cannot last? This course invites you to explore grief not as an affliction or something to overcome but as a skill—a way of loving deeply and fully, even when facing endings.
Grief teaches us maturity, guiding us to embrace the natural cycles of life. Through this lens, we’ll explore how to relate meaningfully to the land we inhabit, honoring its stories and changes as acts of love.
This online course will meet for 2.5 hours each week for 6 weeks with practices in between.
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Healing work in these times is the work of accountability of our own ancestors, the needs of Earth’s multi-species and ecologies, and making ourselves worthy ancestors for descendants who will inherit the crises of our times.
The inherited traumas and violence of history live in us. The world is crying for healing. As uncomfortable as it may feel, violence entangles both the victims and the violators, their families, their ancestors, and their descendants. Most of the time, justice as healing never happens. So, instead of thinking of ancestors as some generic pool to draw from, healing can begin as a relationship of accountability between you, the living, and your dead.
Where is there still something owed? By whom? To whom? In what ways are you different from those you come from?
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We will explore our living relationships with our ancestors and the lands upon which we reside. We will deepen this exploration with endeavors at home between meetings. We will learn skills for holding relationships with our ancestors and the lands where we live. We will come away with tools for metabolizing anxiety, depression, anger, and shame so we can be of use to the world and those around us.
In Yoruba culture, ancestors are known as alásekù, “those whose deeds remain.” Their actions ripple forward into our lives, just as our choices ripple into the future.
Through reflection, dialogue, and connection to the earth and soil—the very foundation of life—we will develop skills to confront the legacies of harm and cultivate accountability. This journey invites us to honor the past, transform its impact, and nurture a just and balanced future.
This online course will meet for 2.5 hours each week for 6 weeks with practices in between.
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The Yoruba proverb “Ikú t’oun pa ojúgbà eni, òwè l’oun pa fú’ni” translates to "Death who takes one’s friend is sending a message that it will come one day for me."
Each of us now lives our days facing drought, food scarcity, sea-level rise, regional wars and violence, and pyro-cumulous clouds making their own weather.
This work grows us up, makes us useful, and enables us to know where we stand when the world asks us to fall to our knees. This is not about mental health and coping—just barely getting by in times of oppression or emergency. Emergencies require action.
We will discover the uncountable ways we are entangled in relationships with much more than just humans. We will courageously learn how our skillful grieving will enable action, love, relationship, and repair.
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We will each find a specific place on the land - a place you’ll call your sit-spot. Over the course, you’ll use our group time to develop your practice, share stories, and fine-tune how you engage your sit-spot. When obstacles such as trauma, fear, and procrastination arise, you’ll learn to welcome them. Through your perseverance, patience, and with the group’s guidance you will learn to integrate and keep walking, only stronger.