Animist Forest Circles in Rock Point | Winter

Sign-up required; class capacity & donations are filtered through eventbrite :)

So pleased you’re here. Come cultivate a practice of connecting with elements, non-human species, and the movement of life with the support of human community.

This offering will take place drop-in with sign-up available up to the night before, and you can participate sharing the intention of cultivating other ways of being, together. The more sessions you participate in, the fuller grasp & deeper practice you will receive of the arc of animist techniques presented in the class, but there is no requirement for how many you attend! Dip in and out as your schedule requires.

In this practice, the forest will be the container where we practice remembering who we are as earth-rooted spirit beings living in fleshy human suits.

Each week, in praise of presence, meditation, spirit, and interbeing connection, we will practice:

• walking & sitting meditation
• body presencing
• connecting, to human & nonhuman beings
• remembering
• gleaning wisdom from nature mystic authors
• journaling
• building human community
• singing

Values:

• reciprocity
• animism
• presence
• interdependence

In our modern culture, it is an act of resistance to work on re-forming the connections that were intentionally severed by dominant culture. Whether you are a descendent of those who were recently colonized, colonizers, or both, we all suffer spiritual homelessness from the intensive isolation modernity imposes.

Profound ways of knowing & being come from a source we’ve been taught to commodify & treat as inanimate and conscious-less. We return to this source - the earth - as a reciprocal relationship that teaches us how to flow with life, rather than resist it. To re-weave the fibers of interconnection once again, while offering praise, gratitude, and regeneration.

How do we do this?

There is only one way:

practice.

This series is sponsored by Rock Point Commons and is generously hosted in their beautiful chapel space for the indoor portions, and in their gorgeous woods / cliffs / lakes for the outdoor portions.

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