https://wangapeka.org/events/touching-the-earth-at-solstice/
“The most important thing for true societal change is that we have educational systems to help people ecologically awaken. When we have a large enough percentage everything will shift and we will start to embrace the world as all relatives.”
Bill Plotkin
Touching the Earth is a practice to awaken your deep ecological self. It is a creative approach to (re)-claim the birth rite of belonging to the living earth. This is not an intellectual study, these are powerful embodied practices and rituals inspired by Joanna Macy, Bill Plotkin, Tarchin Hearn and Jaimes work as wilderness rites of passage guide.
This 6 day retreat is a time for you to pause, breathe and listen deeply for the wisdom that lives in the depths of all being. The retreat brings together open floor movement inquiries and nature based meditations. There will be times that nourish the heart of community, such as singing, conscious dance, circle sharing, poetry and myth. There will also be invitations and support to be alone and intimate with it all.
After 25 years contemplating and studying human growth and unfolding, we believe there is a need for a sane and truly functioning Self that can thrive in all the worlds. We speak of these world in three ways;
A self that is mature enough to taste and navigate the upper worlds of wonder, spirit and non dual experience.
A self that flourishes in the middle world of complex and potentially loving human and more than human relating.
The self that is able for the conversation with the underworld of mystery, intuition what many teachers call Soul.
The retreat is offered and created to support humans on their path to discover (often through the wounding) their unique gift for the world. As Gerard Manley Hopkins poetically alludes, to be that for which you came.
…Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
Except from As Kingfishers Catch Fire
BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
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