Earth, Nature & Ecology

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Being Whole: Ritual, Respect, and Regulation

With Tracee Stanley and Elena Brower

September 28 - October 2, 2026

You are invited into a practice of becoming whole through movement, stillness, and deep rest. Explore ritual, respect, and regulation as our equation for remembering and embodying wholeness within a supportive community. Each day, our sessions will blend movement, stillness, quietude, nature exploration, and time for silence and reflection. Guided meditations and yoga nidra will […]

Cancelled | Earth-Body: An Eco-Somatic Backpacking Journey & Retreat

With Noël Vietor and Ariel Johnson

October 16 - 18, 2026

The Earth holds us, breathes with us, moves through us.  Since time immemorial, human beings have lived in deep, reciprocal relationship with landscapes—our movements shaped by terrain, our nervous systems regulated by the rhythms of seasons and tides, our sense of self inseparable from the more-than-human world. Yet, in this modern, frenetic age, we are […]

While the Veil Is Thin: Autumn Ritual With Land, Ancestry, and Spirit

With Fletcher Tucker and Micha Merrick

October 26 - 30, 2026

For thousands of years, autumnal holidays such as Samhain, Hallowe’en, and Vetrnætr have served as ceremonial foundations — connecting pre-modern peoples to landscape, ancestors, and ritual time. Many cultures believe “the veil thins” during this time, letting enchantment flood back into our world. The time is rife with opportunities to renew sacred relationships with the […]

Thresholds and Altars: Nature-Based Rituals for Life’s Turning Points

With Day Schildkret

October 30 - November 1, 2026

Everything begins by leaving. — Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams Life invites us into change, but rarely teaches us how to move through it well. Whether it’s a relationship ending, a role dissolving, a chapter closing, or a calling emerging, you may find yourself standing at the edge of what was ... and unsure how to […]

The Plants Who Know Us: Traditions of Botanical Kinship

With Fletcher Tucker

November 16 - 20, 2026

For hundreds of thousands of years, plants have been humanity’s greatest allies, shaping culture in material and spiritual ways. Across the Northern Hemisphere, a shared cohort of plants has profoundly influenced human existence, providing sustenance, medicine, textiles, and more. Honored as wise relatives, they carry mythic and spiritual significance across diverse cultures, forming a thread […]

Sitting at the Feet of the Glacier: Land-Based Practices, Meditation, and Grief Work

With Ayana Young and Brontë Velez

December 7 - 11, 2026

In an economy predicated on capitalizing our attention, what if we apprenticed ourselves to ecological forces whose temporality refuses capture? How might sitting at the feet of a glacier, as our elder, liberate our presence? Enter this five-day apprenticeship with the glacier as a teacher, following the glacier’s quality of time as a grammar for […]

Tending Liminality: Consciousness, Body, and Earth

With Jeanine M. Canty and Jun Wang

January 11 - 15, 2027

The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature — Laozi (Lao Tzu), Tao Te Ching, verse 65 When we tend to and align with the cycles and seasons, we glimpse the divine. The period between the start of the […]