MEDITATIONS

Oikos (Greek) – habitat, environment, home.   We don’t often consider how intertwined we are with nature because we have grown up to believe that we are separate from it....

Participant Observation as a Way of Life.   For our March Meditation month I want to highlight an anthropological tool that is used in the field when learning about other...

I have always love the image and symbolism of the swan. A swan embodies grace, elegance and dignity. I equally love the term, swanning around, even though it has negative...

A practical and pagan way to begin a new year and a new you.   Radical regeneration requires rewriting ones story. Most of our stories that we live by and...

Rituals are the key to creating a good life and a buffer for when times are not so good. We call them rituals because this word invokes a sense of...

“We may have left the natural world but the natural world has not left us.” - Michael McCarthy, Environmental Journalist   We may be living with smartphones, artificial intelligence and...

The word “sympoiesis” derives from the ancient Greek sún (“with, together”) and poíēsis (“creation, production”), meaning “becoming-with.” And so, we live, create and become who we are together with everything...

“To decompose is to become different. It’s a process that mirrors our emotional worlds. We recycle old versions of ourselves, integrating new experiences and then using those memories to transform...

“Sometimes in the darkness you can see more clearly.” - Robert McFarlane   I recently read a book by Robert McFarlane called Underland, about the rich and varied life underground....

Slow down, rest, and allow the natural, necessary process of quiescence - quietness, stillness, inactivity and dormancy. Winter is our time to yield into quiescence, it is an essential process...

Yutori is a Japanese noun for a sense of wellbeing that arises by living with spaciousness. I discovered this in the podcast: On Being with Naomi Shihab Nye.   Spaciousness...

For me, autumn is all about gathering resources and micro-dosing wellbeing rituals throughout the day in preparation for winter.   Gathering the resources we need is a great act of...