You are life living inside of life. This meditation will bring you into a state of being that enhances your perception of your embeddedness with all of nature, and the landscape you find yourself in. It is part of a toolkit that cultivates your ecological literacy. This is the ability to read and understand the ways that the living world expresses itself -- to understand the natural systems that make life on earth possible.  The practice is followed by a brief writing exercise, if you so...

I will share a practice to bring us into a greater remembering and  reconnection with our place amongst a teeming planet of life. I hope that you’ll accept and sink into this  meditation, taking a moment in your day to breathe, to release, to relax into the Earth’s body, to find Nature as a source of comfort and  inspiration, and to become aware of this special midsummer moment of our  lives. The meditation is followed by a creative writing prompt to ground and integrate the practice, all for...

This meditation is a form of prayer -- an ode, a poem, a song, to the element of water. Let its words flow over you. Invite in a sacred practice of recognition and gratitude anytime in your day when you come into the presence of water; during your morning shower, when you take a sip of tea, or contemplating clouds through the window. Reflect on the qualities and gifts it brings you. Write them down. Create your own way to remember your prayer. Leave it somewhere close where you'll see it...

This is a 25 minute Nature-inspired meditation, based on a personal practice of mine that always brings me into greater remembering and reconnection with my place on Earth. I’ve taken company with some of the oldest living beings on the Earth this week, the great old-growth redwoods in Humboldt County. I have stood stunned and silent as their colossal lives extend along fault lines and timelines I can barely comprehend – and yet – reveling in the knowing that their lives are inherently...