Let’s gather for a spring afternoon of Rewilding our Hearts!
Please join me either in-person at the Charlottesville Waldorf School or live on Zoom! Both venues will offer an engaging afternoon with singing, movement, some readings from the book, an art exploration and time for conversation. Whichever event you choose, please register, for more details. I'd love to see you there! A few words about the structure of the book:
Rewilding the Human Heart
“Rewilding the Human Heart is a celebration of new ways to honor our earth-ancestors and deepen these primal relationships. As we dive into the cardinal elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether, as well as nature’s realms ~ Minerals, Plants, Animals, Humans and Unseen Beings ~ we also rekindle their wild and essential nature within our own being. In this way we become better relatives to our fellow earthlings.
Chapter by chapter we become immersed in the components of our luminous biosphere. We deepen our felt experience of the elements and invite the realms of nature into closer relationship. Because we are composed of these very elements and realms, we will discover how their qualities, moods, gifts and challenges exist within our luminous inner sphere. We will deepen into relationship with these earth-ancestors on many levels, within our body, heart, soul, mind, and spirit. Their wildness will rekindle our own wild and tender wisdom.
Each chapter incorporates an array of tools ~ technologies of relationship ~ that foster an embodied exploration. These “technologies” allow our awareness to sink down from the inquiring mind and settle more deeply into the regions of our sensitive heart, our eternal soul, and the soft animal of our body, thereby engaging the wholeness of being human. Over the millennia humans have learned tangible ways of fostering relationship with each other and the more-than-human world. Our lives were spent observing the myriad ways plants, insects, birds, and other animals communicate. The gifts of song, movement, breath and blessing are lessons humans have learned from our other-than-human kin. I call these ways of communicating technologies of relationship. We employ these technologies ~ these embodied languages ~ within our deepening kinship with nature.”
YOU ARE INVITED!
I’m thrilled to let you know that my new book
Rewilding the Human Heart ~ A Journey of Reunion
has just been published and is making its way into the world!
“In Rewilding the Human Heart ~ A Journey of Reunion, I invite you, the reader, to travel with me into a new and ancient relationship with the living Earth. This journey is a return to humanity’s ancient roots in Earth wisdom. We strip away the veneer of “nature appreciation” and celebrate a homecoming to our primal embodied symbiosis with Gaia. I guide fellow travelers not only through outer terrains, but also into interior landscapes of the soul. Along the byways of this spirited ramble the alchemical properties of the cardinal elements and the primordial realms of nature become readily accessible. Through ritual, story, science, breath and internal inquiry, this exploration is a journey of transformation. The emerald Earth is calling us to come to our senses, to rejoin the great conversation among all beings. Rewilding the Human Heart is a living map that returns us home to our fellow Earthlings.” I hope to see you there!
Save the Date!
Join me for a Rewilding Book Party
Live on Zoom
Sunday April 27th, 2:00-3:30
Or Join In-Person
Saturday May 10
At Charlottesville Waldorf School’s Beautiful Pavilion
2:00-3:30
Click here to register
We will send you the Details and Zoom link soon
Remember Mother’s Day and Graduation gifts will be needed soon, and I like to recommend Bookshop.org because they support small and local bookstores. You can find it on Amazon, too.
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SubStack, Rewilding the Human Heart https://sharifaoppenheimer.substack.com
