Nature Evolutionaries

Join Syren Nagakyrie, founder of Disabled Hikers, in a discussion about their experience in navigating the natural world through the lens of disability. They have found both exclusion and comfort in outdoor spaces, noting that even though “the outdoors has been a place that I can retreat to,” there are many barriers for disabled folks in getting outside. Access issues, lack of reliable information...

Connecting to the seasons and natural rhythms of the earth offers us a path to spiritual wisdom and a sense of groundedness and peace. Remembering that we are created from the same elements as earth and stardust helps us connect to the Divine within and recognize our place in the boundless web of life. Embracing the energy of Springtime can be a catalyst for nurturing our own growth.  The spring e...

“Wild, uninhibited love is the single force powerful enough to send us head over heels, out of our minds and into our bodies; to bring us home to our senses. These enchantments ~ the same magic used by the flower who seduces a honey bee to carry pollen for his petalled love ~ hope to entice you to love the world in ways you have forgotten.”  — SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER Join us in discussion with renowne...

Are we stuck in an archaic view of an ecosystem that keeps people and Nature separate?  How do we foster ecosystem repair AND community healing?   This month’s featured webinar guest, Layel Camargo, has deeply explored these topics and will share their experience as a person dedicated to restoring our diverse relationship with Nature. Over the last few years, Layel has been involved in stewarding...

Join us for a discussion about cultivating resilience and liberation with Nina Simons, Bioneers’ Co-Founder and author of Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. Nina shares her personal learning and extensive experience with women’s leadership development and its importance in reconnecting and defending people, Nature, and the land, both practically and spiritually. From s...

Most humans alive today have been taught that we live on the Earth. This form of positionality relative to Mother Earth is a corruption of our actual relationship that has occluded our sense of interrelatedness, interconnectedness and interdependence within the web of life. The dominant and pervasive human consciousness operative is abnormal when a view of Earth, including her body and life forms,...

There is a strong relationship between the land and our interior landscapes. When we are connected to the land, we’re connected to ourselves, and one another. Hillary will share how art can be a bridge helping us to reconnect with land, ourselves, and our Ancestral lineages, ultimately helping to re-weave ourselves into the web of life. She will discuss her own creations which bring together mater...

Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota philosophy that roughly translates to "we are all related" or "all my relations." It recognizes one's relationship and responsibility to all living things and reminds us to always consider how our behaviors and actions impact the life around us.  Unsurprisingly, this philosophy is at odds with colonialism and the capitalist notions of "me&q...

A great episode with Chris Omni, eco-spiritualist, Black Women’s health researcher, writer, and filmmaker in celebration and exploration of Black Joy in Green Spaces.   Here is your invitation from Chris Greetings, Souls of Love and Light! You are warmly invited to join me, Chris Omni, as we hold space with and for one another and journey into a world of Black Joy in Green Spaces.  In this new wor...

We are happy to welcome Sharifa Oppenheimer, author of A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology ! She shares with us not only her poems and essays, but also the process of transformation she underwent as she wrote this new book of love for the wild and tender Earth.  She experienced an ever deepening understanding of Gaia and the countless beings, landforms, waters, and winds that co...

Krista Nelson is on a mission to share what she’s learned about the power of nature to acknowledge loss, soothe grief, quiet fear, and nurture the seed of peace, love, and optimism; a process of transformation and manifestation. Many people have lost innocence, relationships, jobs, titles, property, and in the COVID-19 pandemic, a lifestyle. As a collective, we’ve experienced loss due to climate c...

Following in the footsteps of Germany's Bard, Goethe, Maureen will share his 7 step method which is a protocol for studying natural phenomena. We will learn how to breathe into what Goethe referred to as the "Life-filled Giving”. This will be applied to the study of dynamic images of plants and the living principle of how a plant/living being manifests its unique Essence. This approach b...

Our relationship with plants dives deep into our psyche. Surely, it is coded in our ancestral DNA. Cultures throughout the world have always turned to plants to heal the mind and heart, both as medicinal herbs and energetically. Plants guide the individual, but also family and community, to work together towards the highest good in the future. Each one carries its signature healing message that is...

What can we (as in you and I) do about climate change and our rapidly shifting landscapes?   The water cycle of our planet is being severely disturbed, from the tops of our watersheds to the river mouths feeding the oceans.  This is leading to increased drought, desertification, flooding, water scarcity, collapse of ecosystem function, disease, crop loss, etc – which, when they occur, are called “...

In this episode Judith Poelarends shares about the healing qualities of the Alaskan wildflowers and what they have to share with us about living in challenging circumstances. The vibrational remedies made from these flowers help us on the emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Learn more about how they support us in finding balance, releasing what we no longer need, and enhancing our connection...

Join Maeve McBride, a climate justice organizer and writer, as she shares stories about her intertwined paths of seeking justice and finding spirit. Maeve will share poetry, song, and her lived experiences, weaving together vignettes from her past, transformative moments, and maybe even some nuts-and-bolts of organizing direct actions. She will draw from her work organizing a five-day climate walk...

How do you connect with Nature? Come hang out with the ONE Visioning Council as they share their favorite daily activities for connecting with Nature. You'll receive simple tips, insights, and inspiration from this group of fun and dedicated women~  Pam Montgomery, Jen Frey, Julie Caldwell, Sara Artemisia, Lillian Edwards, April Thanhauser, Laura Parisi, and Elyshia Holliday. In this special...

The medicinal blessings of the plant people begin with their more obvious physical gifts. When we are in need of those gifts, we are surely grateful to have access to them, whether comfrey is being applied as a poultice to help heal a sprained ankle, or someone is sipping a cup of rosemary tea to prevent or soothe a migraine headache. But plant medicine runs deeper than physical constituents; plan...

As a gardener, teacher, and mother, Erin O'Neill speaks of the seeds and how they are always waiting to be born and longing to grow. She invites us all to remember our common ancestry of planting, gathering, foraging, hunting, and knowing our food. Exploring these seeds of ancestral food memory helps us to reconnect and work with the forces and natural abundance at our fingertips and under ou...

The Five Elements are the soul of Eastern medicine and express the fundamental unfolding of everything in the universe. These old, primordial powers shape our body’s health and internal ecosystem, and act as a doorway through which we can come to remember that we are an embodiment of nature’s cycles. In celebration of being on the cusp of the Fall Equinox, we will rejoice in the Earth Element, whi...

For over forty years, David Dalton has been working with plant and gem essences to support the healing of himself, others, and the Earth.  Flower and gem essences offer a natural way to support our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.  As vibrational remedies, essences boost vitality and resiliency by introducing new “frequencies” into the human system.  Essences provide an opport...

Businesses - be they clothing stores, auto repair, consulting firms, or in Julie's case, an herbal apothecary - have a life force all their own. Join us as Julie explains how she's learned to consciously connect with the life force of her over 23-year-old business, Humboldt Herbals, and how that connection informs her work as a community herbalist. She'll discuss the role of plant m...

It is our relationship to food that keeps us connected and bound to the life force of the plant kingdom, where the 5 elements of earth, water, fire, air, and ether continually exchange energy, transmuting into each other to create atoms, molecules, minerals, foods, and other life forms. How do we feed ourselves and honor the relationship with Mother Earth and all her living beings?   We can behold...

Old-growth trees are such incredible teachers, healers, mentors, and friends. Witnessing and being in relationship with these amazing planetary elders, we can learn so much about how to be clear conduits both aligned with the Divine self and rooted into the Earth through this time of great transition on the planet.  Every old-growth tree has multidimensional healing and wisdom to share. During thi...

The rosary is one of the most readily identified symbols of Catholic faith yet hold this circle of beads from the loop with its cross dangling down and it reveals the first of its many secrets: The rosary forms a symbol for woman that is far older than Christianity. Bead practices are ubiquitous around the world and lead us back to the spiritual ways of our ancestral grandmothers, gathering nuts a...