Earth, Nature & Ecology

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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 […]

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

With Day Schildkret

March 5 - 7, 2027

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 step into what comes next. This immersive weekend retreat […]

Awakening Spring Within: Somatic Herbalism, Plant Spirit Meditation, and Nature Connection

With Marysia Miernowska

March 19 - 21, 2027

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. – Thich Nhat Hanh Join herbalist, medicine woman, and plant spirit teacher Marysia Miernowska […]

Rewilding Consciousness: Embodied Wisdom and the Ecology of Awakening

With Chandra Easton and Tenzin Seldon

April 12 - 16, 2027

We live in an age of extraordinary access to information, and many of us are hungry for a deeper way back into our bodies and the felt experience of being alive. In this five-day workshop, you will explore what it means to move toward a more embodied, regenerative relationship with the world, one step, one […]

Earth-Body: Backpacking Journey & Esalen Retreat

With Noël Vietor and Ariel Johnson

April 30 - May 2, 2027

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 […]