Spring has arrived; come listen with me!
“I walk my forest land listening for whispers of these other-than-human intelligences, calling a litany of their names as I pass ~ Jewel Weed, Fiddlehead Fern, Beechnut, Curly Dock ~ naming their blessings. They entice me back to my senses, which carry the collective earth-wisdom we have sadly lost. Step by step, they bring me back to the living breathing Earth, sensuously alive with our composite Interbeing. I invite you to walk with me through these animate worlds. We will re-member, gather back into ourselves the scattered members of our wild foliated, feathered, finned, and furred family.
We will step outside the door, listen, and as we speak “ruby-throated hummingbird” our shoulders muscles will recall the mystical lemniscate of her wings. We will recite “honeysuckle blossom” and a heady, intoxicating sweetness will rise up within us. Our ears will open to many wild languages calling to us come home. Our skin will shuck off the tough husk of exploitation and extraction, so our soft animal body can feel rain as grace, wind as god’s breath, the taste of honey as love itself.” From my book a Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology
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Now it is spring; mists of green and yellow wash through the forest umbrella, wild cherries, forsythia and redbuds bloom, while on the forest floor morel mushrooms push through leaf litter. Other new growth is sprouting, as well, and I am excited to share these opportunities with you.
Earth Responders: I will be joining other speakers and presenters in a new course beginning this week! This seven-week course is designed to provide insights, approaches, and tools for those who wish to bring deep presence to the global ecological crisis, this most immediate need of our time. Find more information and registration here. https://inayatiyya.org/event/earth-responders/
Kinship With Nature is a Family Affair : In July I will be offering a five week course in collaboration with LifeWays North America. This course brings together my two great loves: the guiding, healing, wise presence of the living earth will now more fully permeate my work with children, families and teachers! Research shows intimate connections with nature improve our mood, health and sense of purpose. Science affirms that the child’s love of nature and its many health benefits, depends upon the adult’s depth of connection with the natural world. “Pass the torch” of nature connection to the children in your care. Join this course and deepen your own inherent relationship with the Elements and Realms of Nature. I hope to see you there!
https://lifewaysnorthamerica.org/workshops_training/kinship-with-nature-is-a-family-affair
Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World: I have been invited to review Cynthia Jurs’ new book! It is an inspired treasure trove of earth-wisdom and an account of the earth-centered peoples who have gleaned this wisdom over millennia. It is also a book filled with the adventures both illuminating and terrifying that Cynthia faced as she set about fulfilling the ancient task she had been given. Click the link below and you can read the review. Read This Book! It is a “Do Not Miss” opportunity to broaden and deepen your horizons!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6396936325?book_show_action=false
More Ways to Connect: I’ve added a new page to the Wild Graces website! It is full of new resources, online courses I have offered, links to webinars I have given, possible topics for zoom parent evenings, and even an interview on the ten spiritual books that have shaped and guided my life. Enjoy browsing!
https://www.sharifaoppenheimer.org/more-ways-to-connect
Please forward this notice to friends whose hearts and minds are in service to the future: our children and our emerald earth!
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