Welcome to Back to the Roots
Discover Your True Nature, with Nature. As we begin talking to, not about, the natural world, we realize our forgotten fluency in the language of the Earth.
THIS IS A FREE GROUP CONTAINER.
Join a community of folks that are rewilding and reconnecting to land on which they live through relationships with plants, animals, and landscapes.
Develop elder-like relationships to our other-than-human kin. Together, we also explore creativity, ritual, animism, ancestors, and reindigenity. Each month we gather, virtually, and share what we've learned and weave the web of interconnectedness and wisdom.
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Which one are you?👇
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You've recently moved to a new place, maybe even a new bio-region, and you’re thinking, “Wow these plants are crazy!” Or, “Gosh that’s a huge mountain.” Maybe you’re thinking, “There’s no mountains here…just flatness and no variation.”
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You've lived in the same place for a long time but have recently had the realization that you can name more corporate logos than plants in that park across the street.
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You're kind of nomadic, in a lot of different places kind of frequently, and you want some grounding practice, some guardrails for exploring.
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You’ve lived in the same place your whole life and you know all of the plants and animals, but you’ve never considered the lives of the rock and mineral world…the large boulders by the river or the little pebbles that lead to your front door
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You've lived in the same place for a long time or small amount of time and are already intimate with the land and you just want to connect and share and learn more.
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Maybe you’re a little bit of all of the above, maybe you’re none of the above. No matter which statement resonates with you, it's important to know that you're not alone. We’re here to keep you company while you acquaint yourself with your locals.
Each month, you’ll choose three Beings to connect with and learn from—one from each category below. These are local beings that you will have the ability to spend time among.
Plants
Animals
Landscapes
You’re encouraged to spend time with them:
sit under the oak tree 🌳, swim in the river💧, make eye contact with the owl for as long as she will let you🦉, taste the mugwort🍃, see how the meadow changes colors at sunset🌅, count the spots on the ladybug🐞, sleep with a stone from the mountain under your pillow🪨.
Spending time will allow for the channel of communication to flow. What are their personalities? What makes a waterfall a waterfall? What is the wisdom—or warning— of the salamander? What patterns, traits, cycles, or wisdom does the cedar want to share with you? There’s no “right” answer we’re trying to discover. Any thought, idea, image, or dream that occurs to you as you spend time with these beings is worthy of your attention and care.
You’ll document your journey in a way that feels creatively fulfilling: journal 📝, watercolors🎨, on a blog ⌨️, photography📸, videography📹, voicenotes or podcast🎙, it can all be done on your phone📲, or as analogue as you desire🎞.
Back to the Roots Collective Includes:
📧 An email at the start of each month.
This will remind you it’s time to invite new Beings into your field. The email will include prompts: to foster your connection to listening with your subtle senses, develop a relationship with other-than-human kin, and creative encouragements for documenting your process.
💻 A monthly gathering on Zoom
Roundtable format where we share what we have learned, discuss emerging patterns, cycles, wisdom, and sense make what is asking to be explored further.
📲 Invitation to a private WhatsApp group
For ongoing dialogue and discussion with the community.
🗃Curated resources
for your process including websites, books, articles, podcasts, and teachers.
We let the other-than-human kin guide this practice completely. Together we co-create and weave together a practice that is inclusive, self-aware, Earth-honoring, and not yet another vehicle for cultural appropriation, fetishizing, or spiritual materialism.
Magic happens when you start to relate to our plant, animal, and land allies.
Through this practice, we begin to remove the need for the term “natural world”— as if it’s something set aside and separate from us. In truth, there is no nature that excludes us.
“We don’t shift destructive human arrogance toward the rest of life by thinking humans are worse than other beings, or a pox on the Earth. Species level low self-esteem is still centering. It’s the binary that’s insidious. There’s no nature that excludes us. All human culture, private thoughts, and social media, all the garbage and the beauty— it’s all nature or there’s no nature, either way, but no exceptions. Humans are one form in a large churning soup of people, most of whom aren’t human. It’s others in all directions, whether or not we care to face the implications of complete interdependence and participation in life.”
— Dr. Daniel Foor
This container offers you:
Community 👨👩👧👧
Support for dropping into the deeper knowing part of yourself 🫀
A space for having emotionally corrective experiences, a different kind of attachment, or secure bond that may not be possible with other living humans 🫂
An invitation to slow down 😮💨
The opportunity to notice the cycles, patterns and, synchronicities across bioregions and seasons ♻️
A place to deepen your practice of presence — what is happening right here, right now 🧘
Support for honing of subtle senses 🔮
An opportunity to deepen your intuition ✨
An exploration of the cycles of birth and death 💀
A different, healing relationship with time ⏳
A connection with ancestors of place 🏔
An outlet for creative cultivation 🎨
