What does it mean to be human in these times, when the sky, wind, air, rivers, oceans, soil, rains, trees, plants and animals seem to be asking us to remember? When our bodies are asking? If you have sensed this call, if your heart is troubled by the state of our planet, if you feel overwhelmed with a sense of urgency, if you are seeking a way for these times,  you are not alone.

Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson, in collaboration with the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, invite you to join us for Rewilding the Soul, an interactive series of monthly Sunday gatherings in which we explore the deepest promise of our practice. This promise is not to soothe anxiety, nor to help ourselves find calm in the eye of the storm. The deepest promise of our practice is to attend to and transform our collective trauma and to encounter the truth of non-separation— that we have never been separate from what we wish to protect, or from the ones who have failed to protect it.

Rewilding the soul is inner work that helps us attune to the wisdom and love that are always flowing around and through us, the non-conceptual voices of the natural world that seek to draw us home to our deepest being, our core of deep compassion, kindness, and availability to extend ourselves to each other and the wider world.

In this Resource
This series centers around two practices of non-dual awareness: the practice of meditation in wild spaces and the practice of council. The first is attentional and embodied, and the second is relational. Guided by our inner wisdom, we find our way into conversation with the natural world, our own non-conceptual field, and one another as we listen for signals as to what it means to grow into an awakened planet at this time.

Please view this video for a heartfelt, inspiring teaching by Lama Willa introducing this series.

Sessions were held during a monthly Dharma Sunday gathering and typically included:

• A brief ten-minute dharma talk,
• Forty minutes of open awareness meditation in or near a wild space (which can be as simple as a houseplant)

Note:  the  March 5th opening session provided orientation to a Council process held during the sessions. The video of this session is included.

The emphasis in this series is on developing a deep practice of wakeful awareness, fostering intimacy with the natural world, and building compassionate community together… an eco sattva path alive to possibilities emerging from deep presence.

With special thanks to the BESS Family Foundation for their support!