OVERVIEW
There is truth in the falling rain, the moving river, the slope of a mountain, the dance of fire, the presence of the ground beneath our feet. It speaks and resonates to our soul and our bodies in chords that inform and intone our incarnational being. Affirming our choice to be here, informing our deepest inclination about what it is to be human, and participating as a natural being within a natural order. Anything that has ever happened in our human incarnation here on this planet it has unfolded on the land. The land is our incarnational partner providing us with the co-creative incarnational structure for everything to happen. It meets us, supports us, receives us, co-creates with us and incarnates for us again and again. It holds us in place in a living communicating and responding field and assists us in our ongoing evolutions. What does this mean in our everyday lives? How do we notice it? How do we play with it? What happens when we engage? And then what happens when we share our engagements with others who are doing the same in their own ways, their own interpretations? Join us in this space, guided and held, as we explore these questions and the delightful mysteries and resounding truths of what it is to be incarnated on this planet. A part and partner with Nature as our natural selves.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Land manifests Gaia’s radiance. It is the fields and mountains, forests and deserts, urbanscapes and arctic icefields. It is Gaia’s core light emanating through all life, including ours. Each of us has our own spot on our earth’s land. Land offers us the opportunity to deepen our sense of self and relationship to all life on earth. Land is the vitality of Gaia’s manifesting love.
Land is the theme for Deepening Into Nature’s first three-month session in 2025. We all live upon the land, whether in a remote house in a forest or in a fourth-floor apartment. The nature of the place may be different, but land carries values and deep understandings regardless of the surrounding area. It is why we chose land as our theme to begin our nature exploration this year.
We will explore the nature of our land by expanding our physical awareness of our land through sensory exercises and the practice of deepening our connection with nature at a place near our home. This year, we will place more emphasis on our subtle awareness of nature in the surrounding land. The class will feature new sections on the alliance with humans, the Sidhe, and nature. We will also journey more deeply into the subtle realms of the nature spirits, Devas, and subtle formative beings and forces that shape the manifestation of life.
““It's almost the only place that I found where I can talk about nature in these three dimensions. We can talk about the science. We can talk about the spiritual and we can also meditate and open ourselves up to the contemplative or observational. … And then, to top it off, the class is really a community, and I'm with classmates who are knowledgeable, kind, and tuned in, it's just the kind of group that you like to be a part of because everyone in the class brings in their particular perspectives and new insights that expand us all.” ~ SF