The Ecology of Awakening

- re-membering and living our essential nature

For thousands of years, our ancestors lived wholly immersed in the wonder of a living universe, intuitively guided and held by their nature based village cultures. Now amidst the pressure and pace of the modern industrial agenda, we’ve lost contact with our instinctive knowing and deeper sense of belonging, alienated not only from the natural world but from our own deepest nature. However, people in all walks of life are waking to the fact that we are not simply skin encapsulated egos, separate from nature, but are beings in process, evolving in tandem with the rhythms and cycles of the rest of life.

The Ecology of Awakening is an invitation to re-member our natural inheritance as an intricate part of the larger unfolding web of life. The opportunity is to begin to shift our center of gravity: out of what is conditioned and separate into what is ever becoming and connected to all life. Through intimate and conscious encounters – with each other, our own inner impulses and with the larger earth community that awaits – we will learn to listen and respond to the way life continually evokes us forward. By re-remembering our place within the unfolding fabric, we support our ability to live in a more conscious and mutually enhancing way with all life.

Through the strong container of an intimate village, set within a variety of spectacular California ecosystems – including rolling coastal hills, rugged canyons, oak woodlands, redwood groves and desert landscapes – we will create a vibrant ecology that inspires and enhances both individual and group unfoldment. Weaving group process and deep nature immersion, each experience will inform and guide the next, supporting us in staying attuned to the unique movement that seeks to express through each of us.

We will come together seasonally beginning with two five day sessions in the spring and summer, a week long journey in the fall – that includes three days and nights of solo time in the vast and mysterious landscape of the Mojave desert – and a final five days in the winter. Between meetings, you will be invited to ground and deepen all that is unfolding by creating and working with core routines and practices, as well as through regular check-ins with a buddy and group mentoring calls. Individual mentoring is also available and encouraged.

Some of the elements we’ll explore together include:
Deep nature connection
Listening meditation
Bird Language
Sit spots
Council
Dream work
Ceremony
Solo time
…and more

The Ecology of Awakening is for you if you:

• Sense the possibility of a deeper freedom and long to re-member your place amidst the unfolding fabric of life

• Yearn to align with the cultural and planetary shift of these times and to live in a way that is life enhancing rather than life destroying

• Have awakened or are in the process of awakening to your inherent nature and are learning to live from this place in a more consistent and sustained way

• Wish to respond more fully to the way life constantly whispers to you

• Have completed a permaculture course and are ready to support and apply what you learned from a new perspective

• Are ready to shift from trying to move through the world to allowing the world to move through you

A few unique aspects to this program include:

• The intimacy of working within a small group of 15

• A three day solo immersion in the Joshua tree forests and mesa tops of the Mojave National Preserve to support you in discovering the doorway to your own becoming and to a more intimate engagement with all life

• Local, seasonal and organic meals as a way of exploring a more conscious relationship with food in connection to the larger earth community

• A co-creative village process informed by each participant, the group unfolding, and the land that holds and guides us

Dates and Locations:
October 6-10, 2012 (Occidental, CA)
January 23-27, 2013 (Occidental, CA)
April 21-28, 2013 (Mojave National Preserve, CA)
January 23-27, 2013 (Occidental, CA)

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