alchemy of prana

... the beauty and power of aligning aspects of our psyche to the four seasons of Earth, four times of day, and associated four directions, innately moves our psychology past duality constructs and into a relational and ongoing field of existence.

song from the heart: becausde

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?

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.

If I mention the word radical, what comes to mind? What do you see or feel?

To live in a way that is attuned with Earth is perhaps the guided-ally to our most sacred-belonging

The wilderness vision quest journey implies a metaphorical death, (severance), a liminal unknown that is pregnant with meaning...

By participating in an emergent, attuned liminal experience with the land, we evoke an intersubjective and permeable field of perception tha

A throbbing magnetism pulls me closer to the core, closer to Earth: I feel gravity keeping me; and, in synchrony, I sense my soul untethered

One thing we learned on the trail was that this is a very vulnerable time—a lot of exposure—

Marking a threshold is considered a sanction of vitality + imagination that can enrich the individual + collective body, psyche, spirit

The patterns tell the stories of the journeys of belonging