Old-growth trees are such incredible teachers, healers, mentors, and friends. Witnessing and being in relationship with these amazing planetary elders, we can learn so much about how to be clear conduits both aligned with the Divine self and rooted into the Earth through this time of great transition on the planet. 

Every old-growth tree has multidimensional healing and wisdom to share. During this teleseminar, we will explore how when we tune into their essence with heart-centered practices, we can connect directly in Love and relationship with the trees and learn from their experience of Presence and wise ways of being.

About Sara
Sara Artemisia, MS, CMC (she/her) is a Plant Spirit and Flower Essence Practitioner, Multidimensional Abundance Coach, and Akashic Records Reader. She helps Wellness Professionals and Empaths clear their inner blocks and clarify their life purpose. Sara has been coaching individuals to move through obstacles for over twelve years and loves facilitating life-changing retreats in Mt Shasta. She shares this work with people on the journey of understanding how the conscious wisdom of Nature can help them fully embody their soul's purpose. 

To learn more about Sara and her work, please visit https://www.saraartemisia.com/ and on Instagram @akashic.plantspirit

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The rosary is one of the most readily identified symbols of Catholic faith yet hold this circle of beads from the loop with its cross dangling down and it reveals the first of its many secrets: The rosary forms a symbol for woman that is far older than Christianity.

Bead practices are ubiquitous around the world and lead us back to the spiritual ways of our ancestral grandmothers, gathering nuts and seeds to sustain their communities while murmuring protective prayers, spells, and mantras to guide those they love through life and death. Unlike meditation practices derived from hunting behaviors that privilege stillness and silence, the rosary is a story that invites us to tell our story, listen and bear witness to each other’s joys and sorrows, and reopen the channel of conversation with our plant and animal allies in the natural world.

Perdita and Clark will explore the pagan roots of the traditional rosary and its origins in the rose garlands once offered to the Great Mother. We’ll discover how powerful worry beads can be, and have been for tens of thousands of years, and how having something, and someone, to hold on to can infuse our lives with rest and renewal, courage and compassion.

In almost every one of Her modern apparitions, the Lady has invited everyone, regardless of religious background or belief, to pray the rosary with Her. Together, holding on to each other and to Her, we will find our way back to the garden of the earth.

About Clark and Perdita

Clark Strand and Perdita Finn are co-founders of The Way of the Rose, an inclusive fellowship of rosary friends dedicated to the Earth and to the Lady “by any name we wish to call Her.” Strand is the author of numerous books and articles on spiritual practices, including Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey and Waking Up to the Dark: Ancient Wisdom for a Sleepless Age. Finn is the author of The Reluctant Psychic and the forthcoming Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead. They live with their family in the Catskill Mountains.  

To learn more about the work of Clark Strand and Perdita Finn visit www.wayoftherose.org.

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Join us in conversation with Nadine Canter Barnicle, a professor of the practice and community engagement specialist at Middlebury College in VT as we discuss deepening our relationship with nature by approaching sustainability from the roots through unlearning and re-learning. 

At Middlebury College students may choose a course of study that goes beyond the traditional academic. Through community-connected learning and a study of the dominant ontologies (the study of the nature of being) rooted in our 10,000+ year history of agriculture, students who take coursework as part of the “The New Perennials Project” find themselves exploring what it is to be perennial by re-considering the practices that created civilization and culture. Through a perennial focus on education and the ideas of learning and unlearning students put ideas into practice working with practitioners in the Champlain Valley of Vermont from the Creative Arts, Healing Arts, Education, Food/Ag Systems, and Sacred Practices spheres. Through their inter-being projects and classroom contemplative practices rooted in re-connection and embodiment, New Perennials students are called upon to develop deep and personal spiritual knowings with the natural world. Nadine is part of a 3-person team teaching and establishing the New Perennials Hub of the Champlain Valley. The New Perennials Project was founded by Bill Vitek and his colleagues at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, founded by Wes Jackson.

In her teleseminar, she’ll tell us about this initiative and unfold for us the story of her own journey as a sustainability practitioner.

About Nadine

During her decades working in the government and non-profit sectors while also teaching in higher ed, Nadine recognized: “we can’t correct climate change or our industrial agriculture practices, or the lifestyles we are beholden to and sick from if we continue to live a material existence that comes from being trapped in our heads.” As Yuval Harari states, ‘we have imagined our planet into its current form.’ By making the invisible visible, her work focuses on the hope that humans can learn from “our kin in the forests, in the estuary, and on the plains that if we stop, listen, and open our hearts we can re-imagine our way to a life of reciprocity and mutuality and all beings can flourish.”

Nadine has a 30-year career in strategic community engagement, journalism, advising, mentoring, facilitation, and teaching that began with a master's degree thesis focused on the collaborative community process to protect river segments under the Federal Wild and Scenic River Act. Much of Nadine's work focuses on strategic coalition-building in the areas of land use, transportation, air quality, conservation, and climate change. She is a student and teacher of contemplative practices including Tai Chi. Her roots are in New England including 23 years in Vermont, but she also calls the Pacific Northwest home.

She describes herself as a “pattern hunter” who has sometimes felt as if living “in the shadows of Sisyphus and Cassandra” (Greek heroes given impossible tasks and the gift of prophecy no one believes) while working within systems of government and non-profits.

She says these lines from Denise Levertov’s poem “Sojourns in the Parallel World” describe her life’s journey:

“A world parallel to our own though overlapping. We call it ‘Nature’; only reluctantly admitting to ourselves to be “Nature” too.”

To learn more about Nadine and her work please visit her website at http://www.wooddragonadvising.org/ or New Perennials at http://www.newperennials.org/

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To see images that correspond to this episode please see the complete video on our website at https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/teleseminars-1/2021/hummingbirds-with-rocio-alarcon

Hummingbirds have long captured the hearts and imaginations of people worldwide.  Many Indigenous communities have celebrated Hummingbirds as messengers and teachers, particularly helping us celebrate the joy of life.  Dr. Rocío Alarcón, an ethnobotanist with ancestral roots in the lineages of the curanderas of the Ecuadorian Andes, writes, “In my healing work with clients I have observed that the iridescent colors of the feathers of hummingbirds have the ability to change the brain’s electrical frequency and modify a person’s mental state. When sunlight touches their plumage, they send rays of light. When the rays touch the person, these iridescent special colors produce changes in his or her brain like a phenomenon of bioluminescent that generates changes in the emotional states of the person.”  

During this Teleseminar, Rocío will share with us the magic and healing power of Hummingbirds.  She will discuss their unique connection with Plants and how they can help uplift our everyday lives, bringing us into the present moment with happiness and joy, offering healing for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies, and ultimately, shifting our consciousness. 

About Rocío

Rocío Alarcón is a healer for our times.  She has worked tirelessly for decades to preserve indigenous cultures and land both in the Amazon and in the Andean community where she grew up, under the tutelage of master healers. She has lovingly brought many modern seekers, as well as skeptics, into the fold of the healing traditions of her ancestors, teaching especially about our relationship with the “divine forces” in the natural world. Rocío’s grandmothers held intimate connections with the forces of nature, particularly the plants and the hummingbirds, whom they could call upon for the healing of their communities.  Recently, Rocío has been bringing forth this particular ancestral heritage.  

Rocío brings to her inherited knowledge a scientific understanding of the co-evolution of plants and animals and ecosystems, as well as understandings of healing based on modern neuroscience.   She weaves this all together in her teachings on the healing power of the plants and the hummingbirds.  For those who may not be able to witness first hand the rich diversity of hummingbirds native to Ecuador, she has created an Oracle Deck of cards containing exquisite portraits of 37 species by artist Luisa Acosta, each with a description of its physical and spirit-healing qualities. The cards themselves are meant to be messengers of beauty, light, and healing.  She will gift us with a taste of this magic in this teleseminar. 

To learn more about Rocio’s work visit the Iamoe Center’s Facebook page.

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During this episode, Jen Frey shares her experiences of working co-creatively with Nature to create Heart Springs Sanctuary. Her stories include the occasional struggles as well as the joy of being guided by nature and learning to deeply listen.

In May 2017, Jen Frey moved to a place, which would become known as Heart Springs Sanctuary, with the intention of working with the Nature Spirits to co-create a Sanctuary. Shortly after moving there, Jen realized that she was in a form of “school” and had much to learn through her experiences with the Nature Spirits. For the last nearly four years, they have co-created a place where all Beings are welcome and honored. 

Nature is able to guide us through this time of great change, if we are willing to listen. When we work with Nature through co-creative partnership, we can create a more beautiful world (or even backyard). It is time that we remember our rightful place as part of Nature.

Co-creative partnership is at the core of ONE’s work and offerings.  Some find this to be a vague process or are overwhelmed by the concept.  Though once you begin to engage in this, you discover that working with Nature requires much less energy than trying to control Nature and you are able to find solutions and create projects beyond your imagination.  Jen will give simple and concrete examples of how to engage in Co-creative partnership during this call and will expand further in a webinar on this topic “Deepening Your Relationship with Nature through Co-Creative Partnership”  for ONE Members and Affiliates on January 27th at 7:00 PM EDT.   To become a ONE Member or Affiliate click here.

About Jen

Jen Frey is a Healer, Mentor, Earth Advocate and Voice of the Plants. She is the Founder of Heart Springs Sanctuary, where she helps people deepen their connection with nature through plant communication. With over 20 years of experience with plant essences, energy work, and herbal practices her private consultations and plant based protocols are known for helping clients through emotional life transitions, physical health crises, and chronic conditions. Jen has dedicated her life to the spiritual path of plant work. Her apprenticeship certification programs, ceremonies, retreats and workshop offerings are designed for people wanting to open their hearts, fall in love with plants and deepen their relationship to the planet. Jen is a Visioning Council Member for the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries. 

Visit www.Brigidsway.com to learn more.

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In this episode, Zigola talks about how co-creative partnerships are the foundation in the community where she lives, Damanhur, and how co-creation with nature plays a role in her work as a singer, teacher, and practitioner. Damanhur is a federation of Communities in Northern Italy with a focus on living in harmony with all that lives. Ecology, art, spirituality, and co-creation with nature are key elements of the community. Situated in the Valley of Valchiusella, around 400 Damanhurians live there and participate locally in the projects. 

Other thousands of Damanhurian citizens live around the world collaborating and initiating projects related to teaching, community building, ecology, and the creation of sacred spaces in harmony with nature. In her work, she is confronted on a daily basis with how nature’s intelligence is reaching out to help humans evolve and to develop together towards a sustainable future. As a practitioner she uses her connection with nature to help people raise their frequency, to live a happy and healthy life, and to be in connection with nature.

About  Zigola

Zigola Pioppo works as a singer, teacher, and practitioner, all in the field of the union between nature and humans. She has a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Energy and Human-Technology Interaction and has worked as a consultant in this field for corporate businesses. After several years of focus on a scientific approach to a sustainable future, the focus of her work changed more to the spiritual connection with nature and the work as a practitioner for individuals. She combines her passion for music (she studied Jazz singing in different institutes amongst which the Conservatory of Amsterdam) and healing (she is a Prano therapist of the Spiritual Healing School of Damanhur) with her work and connection with nature and developed a healing method in which technology, voice, and plants come together. She currently teaches courses for the Damanhur University, such as “Communication with the Plant World” and teaches her own courses on using the voice as a channel with nature. As a practitioner she helps people with their health issues and with getting clarity on how to live their lives without obstructions, standing in their full potential. In her sessions she collaborates with the intelligence of the plant world, integrating the technology of the Music of the Plants in her work. As a singer, she performs concerts in nature, with the music of the plants and the use of her voice.  To learn more about Zigola’s work please visit her website at https://www.voiceandplantmusichealing.com/media

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This episode features Jen Costa, Herbalist, Critical Care RN, BS, EM-CST and creator of ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine. 

Our dialogue in this special teleseminar is  rooted in the ways that COVID has highlighted a need to develop our personal and collective connections for healing. We’re each faced with developing our ability to cooperate among ourselves and with Nature in order to meet our personal and community needs. Within this internal and external Quest, there’s this deep healing process we’re in with Nature that is demanding we be conscious, demanding we stay awake, and also demanding we choose to really see, feel, and act when called. The plants and trees, minerals and elements, the great Earth landscapes, and our hard-working Ancestors are here in support of this evolution which is truly driven by the unseen and ever-present microbial world.

From  Jen

Plants Heal. I learned this in the gardens and forests in a family that knew it was all about the soil, about learning to listen, and about connecting to small local community farms and businesses. These times are familiar with this wave back to carrying forward what works as we birth something new.

Jen Costa is a critical care RN of 13 years working frontline these days in the OR and ICU, and an Herbalist, Nature Activist, and Environmental Biologist of 30 years teaching herbal healing skills, apothecary tending through growing and making your own medicine, along with consulting on integrating healing plants into our collective healthcare system. 

To learn more about Jen and her work, visit her website at www.eldermoonschool.net

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When the outer world feels uncertain, we are called inward to find deeper meaning, connection, and faith.   What is the role of prayer in crisis? Does it actually make a difference?

We will explore answers to some of the oldest questions of the spiritual path;  What is your relationship to the Divine?  What is prayer? What is it for?  How do you pray when you are not religious? When god is not a person?

Fearn will share her understanding and practice of prayer as a Druid.  We will discuss some forms prayer can take.  We will explore prayer as an offering, as a divine dialogue, as a force for healing, as courtship, devotion, faith, and love for the world.

This will be an engaging talk that will give you tools and inspiration to build a personal, authentic prayer practice.

Find your way, your words, your unique relationship with the Divine, and change the world.

About Fearn

Fearn Lickfield is a web weaver, faery seer, earth diviner, temple tender, and magical activist. She is the director and headteacher of The Green Mountain Druid School and Ecstatic Dance Vermont. She serves life as a flower essence practitioner, geomancer, dowser, dancer, community organizer, gardener, and medicine maker. She co-creates community celebrations in honor of the earth and waters, the seasons, and for rites of passage. Fearn is the steward of Dreamland, a sanctuary and mystery school in Worcester VT. 

To learn more about Fearn and her work visit www.greenmountaindruidorder.org  or email Fearn directly at [email protected].

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As the planet continues to rapidly urbanize there is a growing sense that a new model of cities is needed: one that overcomes the physical (and mental) disconnect between humans and nature. Timothy Beatley believes that contact with nature is not something optional but it is absolutely essential for leading a happy, healthy, and meaningful life. Beatley will review the many ways in which cities are already profoundly natureful and biodiverse and he will describe the emerging vision and practice of Biophilic Cities. He will discuss the newly formed global Biophilic Cities Network and will provide examples of innovative design and planning in cities in the Network. 

Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last thirty years. Beatley is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books, including Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Oceans and Cities (Island Press, 2014) and Blue Biophilic Cities: Nature and Resilience Along the Urban Coast (Palgrave, 2018).  Beatley directs the Biophilic Cities Project at UVA (http://biophiliccities.org/) and is also co-founder of UVA’s Center for Design and Health, within the School of Architecture.

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In this episode, Hilary Giovale, shares her experiences with ancestral apology, decolonization, and finding our indigenous heart-ways.

Apology is a catalyst for healing and forgiveness which helps to build our capacity for wholeness and restoration. When we ask for forgiveness, we engage in authentic relationship and open the possibility of healing for all peoples, the Earth, and all beings (seen and unseen). 

What does it mean to live as a settler on Indigenous lands? How can settlers honor our ancestors to rekindle memory of the rich, diverse, Earth-connected cultural lineages from which we are all descended? How can we build heart-centered relationships with Indigenous communities and Earth, to create pathways toward healing the harm inflicted by colonialism?

Hilary Giovale is a ninth-generation American settler of Scottish, Irish, and Scandinavian descent. She lives at the foot of a sacred mountain, a being of kinship, that stands within the traditional homelands of Diné, Hopi, Havasupai, Hualapai, Yavapai, and Paiute Peoples, as well as several Pueblos. Her relationships with this land and with Indigenous peoples inform her life as a mother, dancer, community organizer, writer, and philanthropist. In 2015, Hilary became aware of her ancestors’ longstanding presence as American settlers. Since then, she has been living a process of decolonization including ancestral repair, solidarity with Indigenous-led movements, reconnection with Earth, apology, forgiveness, and restoration. She is the author of a forthcoming book that shares about this healing process. To read more about her work, please visit www.goodrelative.com.

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