I’ve done month-long silent meditation retreats before, but never in the wilderness. Most years over the past 7 years of doing nature retreats, we’ve spent a full month with the gear up, but I’ve been in and out, coordinating logistics and getting supplies for groups. This year (after our 5-day retreat), it’s just me and […]
There’s a little-known but very important secret about healing: when we commit to a healing or spiritual journey, we come into alignment with the entire universe. This may sound romantic or dramatic, I know, but it can be described quite logically. Biological sciences have long acknowledged that the evolution of an organism occurs for […]
It’s wonderful that compassion has become a popular topic today. However, it’s a concept that can be easily misunderstood. All too often, compassion today is usually equated with what we do, as in “doing the right thing,” or with who we are, as in “being a good or virtuous person.” It often becomes a moral […]
In 2023, Nature’s Heart became part of Eugene Insight Meditation Community, 501c3. As a combined organization, we hosted 50 Sunday evening sessions, offered meditations in the park and at hikes at Mt Pisgah, conducted two self-compassion retreats at Mandala Sanctuary, and two wilderness retreats. In collaboration with Rachelle Cornelius of Creative Spirit Collaborative, we hosted […]
Simply by virtue of our birth in this human body, each of us retains an inalienable belonging to Life. Without lifting a finger, saying a word, or even “being good,” we are entitled to a home in the ancient ancestry of the Earth. Woven from the earth, air, fire, and water around us, we are […]
The body of the Earth is trillions upon trillions of times larger than our body. It’s also been here millions of times longer than our body has. The Earth literally constructed our bodies from her body, just like our mothers did. It must have also tuned our nervous systems not dissimilar to how our mothers […]
