alchemy of prana

that's the purpose of the storm: to untether and reorient the pressure in the atmosphere.

Somewhere upward of 24,000 acres are burning in Colorado today, with thousands more just across the border in neighboring states. The Roaring Fork Watershed is currently at about 15–66% of normal, with most of the watershed in stage 4 (of 5) drought. Two days ago, the sky was so hazy with smoke that we could almost not see either of the two mountain escarpments that hold the north and south boundaries of this valley, each 10 miles away. This morning, a few raindrops have fall

There is a movement of emotion moving through me, a disorganized psycho-sensorial process that is having a conversation that I cannot ignore. Tears are close and frequent, and while there are moments where I remember the social awkwardness of being a highly sensitive human within a culture largely ambivalent and oppressing to deep feelings, there is a profundity to this experience.

Wilderness immersive experiences such as these have a way of re-foregrounding the body and embodiment. In so doing, the sensuality of existence is reawakened, and that expanded sense of awareness begins to innately include the more-than-humyn lifeworld all around. This blog explores the nuances of wilderness immersive experiences and draws an example from a recent teen quest hosted by Alchemy of Prana.

Reflections from Waking the Soul Fire, a week-long wilderness rite of passage quest which transpired in the high mountains of Coloradoo

Found poetry from the School of Lost Borders Ceremonial Immersion. Emergent themes from a week getting deep and wild in the mountains of southern colorado.

Ecotherapy is a burgeoning field of therapy which, as applied ecopsychology, offers a variety of techniques for bringing nature into the human-human dyad as a way of broadening the holding environment and situating our always-enmeshed, interconnected, and reciprocal relationship to/with/in the natural world (Delaney, 2021, p. 35). Pragmatically, nature is considered the third body, shifting therapy from a human-human dyad to a human-nature-human triad (Buzzell, 2009)...

Magnificent awe. That is what I see in the weather, feel in its changes, know deep in my embodiedness as I walk this fine earth and get to know myself through the interactive aliveness of existence.

There is a false dichotomy between nature and the human world, a persistent story for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years that asserts that we humans are somehow outside of, beyond, or greater than and different from the wilder-than-human world.

A blog exploring the ecopsychological concept of ecological identity. What are your earliest memories of feeling deep connection to/with/in the wild earth? What are your recent memories of this? Where do you wander back to in your psyche, dreaming of some vista or moment of deep meaning?

Time in a wilderness environment can often return us to our embodied way of being alive (Williams, 2019). The weather, the landscape, the wild ones, the way the water moves, all become aspects of aliveness which call to and echo outward the depth of our vibrant animal bodies and transpersonal potentials.

Maybe no one told you this lately, but we are all going to die. We will, each of us, breathe out a last breath, take a last step, see the sunrise for a last time, touch the cheek and hand of our most intimate, and depart this living world.

There is an art to how we listen to one another, to how we might open ourselves beyond interpretation and explanation and lean in to the lived experience of another. Really, this can be and has been referred to in many ways throughout human culture.

Like water in a parched desert, the animistic songs and silence seeped into the ancient and new soil of place and soul, while Raven...

I have been playing and writing music for over forty years. A while back, I recorded three albums. Currently, I have about fifty songs...

Encountering ecological amnesia is the focus of this blog, which explores the impacts of humans on the wild earth and who we can navigate it

Exploring how our human limitations can be a gift which brings us deeper into the experience of being alive.

a collection of recent poetry by tbird

Is fasting hard? This blog explores the interconnected questions about the difficulty of fasting and why one might choose to fast.

When we speak of making sacred, thresholds have a few distinct meanings.