Rewilding the Soul 2025: Finding Refuge in an Earth Based Lineage – A Monthly Online Series (with Council)

First gathering: March 20 for the Spring Equinox Celebration
Solstices and Equinoxes: 7:00-8:30 pm ET (see dates below)
Monthly Thursdays: 7:00-8:30 pm ET(see dates below)

Lama Willa Blythe Baker and Lama Liz Monson, in collaboration with the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, invite you to join us for our third year of Rewilding the Soul, an interactive series of gatherings in which we explore the deepest promise of our practice: to attend and transform our collective trauma around the climate emergency and to encounter the truth of non-separation.

Beginning with the Spring Equinox, we will gather online to reflect, meditate and engage in the practice of council. Emphasis will be on developing a deep practice of wakeful awareness, fostering intimacy with the natural world, and building compassionate community together – the ecosattva path alive to possibilities emerging from deep presence.

Please join us to:

• Gather online to reflect, meditate, grieve and celebrate
• Engage in council, a practice of deep listening and exploration
• Nurture and deepen human relationships in a circle of community and with the natural world

The deepest promise of practice is not to soothe anxiety, nor to help ourselves find calm in the eye of the storm. It is to attend and transform our collective trauma around the climate emergency 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 attunes us 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.

What to Expect
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, the second relational. Guided by our inner wisdom, we can 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.

Attendance of this online series is limited to 140 people, so we encourage you to register early.

Participation in this series includes

• Seasonal gatherings (2 hours) four times per year with the entire Rewilding Sangha on the spring and fall equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices. These gatherings will include teachings with Lama Willa and Lama Liz, collective ritual, song, dance and sharing. 
• Membership in a Home Council Circle (approximately 10 people) that meets once a month to deepen into emergent collective wisdom (see dates below; 1.5 hours on Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 pm ET). Monthly Home Council Circle begins with a pre-recorded 15 minute guided meditation practice offered by Lama Willa or Lama Liz, followed by Council Practice.
• Discounted Live Online Access to the annual Green Dharma Retreat (July 1-6). In person attendance is possible and encouraged (registration not included), but space is limited. 

HOME COUNCIL CIRCLES:
Full Series registrants will join a Home Council Circle so that you may connect, build relationships, and continue dialogue with a consistent group. Council is an intentional practice of listening and speaking from the heart that builds community and trust, and provides a context for collective wisdom to emerge.

Circles will be led by trained conveners and based on questions raised in the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, yet developed and emerging specifically for this series. Participants are encouraged to commit to regular attendance to receive the full benefits of council practice.

Full Date Schedule including equinox/solstice and council dates:

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

Suitable for all levels.

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