Let stress drift on the breeze and your worries roll away with the waves, as we dive into an exploration of mindfulness in nature. In a NYMF workshop, you will be immersed in nature and cultivate a receptive, embodied quality of attention where deep connection and love are more accessible.

Tune into the earth's rhythms and vibrations and let the earth come through you.

Profound states of joy, peace and wonder may arise.

Rooted & Rising: Finding Balance in Times of Change

Friday, September 27th
Stolte Grove, Mill Valley
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM

In the wake of autumn's equinox, as nature demonstrates the wisdom of balance between light and shadow, we gather to explore our own capacity for equilibrium amid the world's uncertainties. This transformative nature-immersion workshop honors the seasonal teaching of finding our center, guiding participants through the delicate dance between rootedness and rising—between deep self-care and compassionate action in our interconnected world.

Like the trees that know when to release and when to hold, you'll discover how to metabolize the challenges of our times while cultivating the inner resources needed for sustained engagement with healing our world. Through profound connection with the natural world, the earth becomes our greatest teacher for integrating the full spectrum of our emotions—grief, rage, joy, and love—through reciprocal relationship that guides us toward grounded presence and authentic action.

What We'll Experience Together

Deep Forest Connection & Somatic Practices
Extended guided immersion in the forest's healing presence, using mindfulness and body-based practices to attune to your nervous system's natural rhythms and receive the earth's profound teachings.

Seasonal Wisdom & Finding Balance
Discover the dynamic equilibrium between feeling the world's pain and maintaining your capacity for joy, between self-care and service, between being rooted and rising into action.

Transforming Heartbreak into Clarity
Using Joanna Macy's powerful framework, we'll explore how difficult emotions become clarifying wisdom, and how our heartbreak for the world becomes the compass for our most authentic contributions.

Community & Reciprocal Healing
Experience how our personal healing unfolds through intimate relationship with both the natural world and each other, learning to receive nourishment while offering our care in sacred exchange.

You'll Leave With

• Embodied practices for nervous system regulation through deep nature connection

• Skills for emotional integration that honor both pain and joy, despair and hope

• A profound reciprocal relationship with the natural world as your primary source of healing

• Clarity about authentic action that emerges from nature-guided inner knowing

• Tools for sustainable engagement rooted in earth connection rather than overwhelm

• Community bonds forged through shared communion with the living world

Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Library:

Opening To Love

This week we explored how nature practice can open us up to the aspects of love taught by the Buddha: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

Opening Our Hearts with Nature

An exploration of nature as a gateway to gratitude, patience, appreciative joy, compassion, and interdependence.

Embracing Change & Finding Balance

Nature meditations to help us find balance while accepting change with an open heart. Each day is a different exploration of the changing seasons, our aging bodies, our minds & thoughts, feelings/emotions, and how we react to more global events such as climate change. 

Exploring the Elements as a Refuge

An exploration of the elements as a refuge during challenging times.

In Honor of Earth Day

 Nature Meditations exploring our relationship with the earth, interconnections, gratitude, interbeing, reciprocity, and right action. Meditations on the “Work that Reconnects” and sourcing ways to lean into love and compassion, as we move through both our inner and outer worlds.

Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Challenging Times

This week, we explore how to utilize nature-based practices to develop greater emotional awareness and resilience. We'll learn to attune to the wisdom of the natural world, using it as a mirror to understand our inner landscape better.

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, we can emerge from our fears and challenges with greater wisdom and strength. By learning to work skillfully with our emotions, we not only reduce our own suffering but also become better equipped to contribute positively to our world in crisis.