Healthy human relationships can be supported and deepened by profound communion with the natural world, our original Mother. In these explorations we will find joyous earth-exercises that encourage us to re-member what indigenous communities have not forgotten: we are kin to all beings. Current brain science affirms this relatedness. The minerals that flow through our bloodstream were forged in ancient stars. Our cycles of life ~ seeding, germination, growth, flowering, fruiting, returning to the soil ~ mirror the life of plants. Our relational brain is architected upon the blueprint of early mammalian cousins. Come into this exploration: when we know in our bones that we are born directly from the Earth, we will care for her and our children’s future with wisdom.
“When we become bees we will know Self as sunlight, flowers.
We will catch bio-oscillations ~ the perception of others ~
ruffling through our wings.
Benevolence between species, our ancient heritage,
will be a lived-understanding; a reality we practice body to body.
At last we will come home to the secret of love,
hidden in the plain sight of our own DNA.”
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Sacred Earth, Sacred Self Videos
#6 The Song of Water
Sound is a formative force: we are shaped by what we hear. Our ancient primate ancestors lived bathed in sounds, the language of a vibrant fecund new earth busy with love’s work of evolution. We first learned to speak by listening to the musical language that surrounded us, the living intelligence it conveyed.
We grew up in this river of language, and out of this our human speech arose to naturally imitate and reflect the life-force that sounded all about us. Our original languages were expressive of broad sense perception, wide expanses of movement, of nuanced felt-experiences in this sensuous earth; they were languages of verbs. Let’s walk outside, listen to water and sing again in verbs. Become awash in the healing forces of song and water.
In this short video you’ll see our cathedral in the woods, and hear the crickets singing. To hear crickets the way they hear themselves…as angels singing Gloria… click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OON57EcIbuo
#9 A Wild Cathedral Labyrinth. Jump over to Wild Graces Blog number 12 for the Wild Cathedrals poem. Enjoy!
Heart Breathing puts us in touch with the Heart of the Earth. Join me!
In these cold winter months, we fan the spark of our inner light and become warm beside the fire of the heart.