Why Nature Connection?
For most of human history, we lived in intimate communion with wild animals, plants, elements, and cycles out of necessity for survival. We had to be keenly aware of our surroundings in order to have enough to eat and drink, to make medicines, to be sheltered, and to avoid being preyed upon. We moved our bodies regularly, relied on our senses, instincts, and communities, and followed the rhythms of the sun and the seasons. Only in recent history have we diverged dramatically from this way of living. This sudden radical shift is having grave impacts on our physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being as well as causing the extinction of countless other species and threatening the survival of all ecosystems on Earth.
While it would be impossible for us to go back to the "old" way of living, we must find a way to take the teachings that have been passed down from traditional cultures across the globe and the ancestral wisdom that is still alive in our bodies and minds, and apply them to our daily lives now. We must come back home to the Earth. The art of practicing nature connection enables us to do just that.
Practicing on a regular basis opens up potent neural pathways in our brains that enable us to experience life and ourselves in a new electrified way. Quite naturally our minds quiet down, our bodies open and relax, and our intuition and senses become heightened. The wildness, sensuality, wholeness, and creativity within us radiates. Gratitude, wonder, and care flow freely in our hearts and aliveness infuses our daily lives.
While it would be impossible for us to go back to the "old" way of living, we must find a way to take the teachings that have been passed down from traditional cultures across the globe and the ancestral wisdom that is still alive in our bodies and minds, and apply them to our daily lives now. We must come back home to the Earth. The art of practicing nature connection enables us to do just that.
Practicing on a regular basis opens up potent neural pathways in our brains that enable us to experience life and ourselves in a new electrified way. Quite naturally our minds quiet down, our bodies open and relax, and our intuition and senses become heightened. The wildness, sensuality, wholeness, and creativity within us radiates. Gratitude, wonder, and care flow freely in our hearts and aliveness infuses our daily lives.