Living as Sacred is a path and journey that will guide you in reclaiming and expanding your sacred connection with all aspects of creation: with yourself, your relationships, with the human and more-than-human world, supporting you to remember how to live in reciprocity and harmony with life and questioning how to better serve our common home, the Earth. It is a journey of remembering, re-imagining and reclaiming in which we are all called to actively participate and contribute in recognition that we all behold wisdom that is needed in the world.
We assume the spiritual and physical responsibility for our common home, the Earth. We are committed to rekindle our connection to the natural world, calling back ways that infuse our lives with sacredness, creating rituals and new narratives that are rooted in reciprocity, wakefulness, co-liberation and loving kindness. We acknowledge that our world is undergoing a very profound transformation and that we are all being called to take our part in this change. As humans we are asked to also undergo a similar transmutation in our paradigms and how we relate to the earth and all beings. Through the journeys and programs we offer, we hope to support this inner shift and weave a container that can hold us as a community, and as individuals, as we re-imagine new ways of living, as we expand our perception and see the world with new eyes.
Living as Sacred was born out of the understanding that we are collectively at a turning point. Our programs are rooted in the understanding that ecology, spirituality and culture cannot be separated, that the human and more-than-human realms are deeply interwoven and interdependent. We work towards eradicating colonialism, human supremacy, separatism and oppression by offering new narratives that encourage belonging, intimacy, co-liberation, creativity and acknowledge the sacredness of all living beings. We are dedicated to offering education that bridges ancestral, earth-based ways of knowing with the demands of our modern world, finding ways in which we can weave together past and future. We are devoted to creating containers where everyone’s wisdom can arise from deep within, where we can re-enliven our own hearts to remember how to live in harmony on earth and contribute positively.
We envision a future that is built on interdependence: remembering we are all interrelated; reciprocity: which invites us to acknowledge the agency of all living beings; responsibility: questioning the stories we live by and becoming sovereign of our actions and our impact in the world; belonging: we are of the earth, she is our home and we are called to becoming more intimate with all of creation; beauty: to walk in beauty is to recognize the sacred and to be in harmonious relationship with all things, at every step we take; embodiment: we are connected to our senses, to our earth body, we are erotic beings and oracular vessels for creation to express itself through us, through our bodies we connect and we build intimate relationship.
— THICH NHAT HANH
Education
Reciprocity
Intimacy
Consciousness
Responsibility
Curiosity
Interdependency
Empathy
Learn a wide range of practical tools, immerse yourself in deep inquiry and expand your sensitivity to live a more regenerative and sustainable life in harmony with the Earth.
Immerse yourself back into the natural cycles of body & earth, rekindle kinship & intimacy with all things, re-imagine your relationship to the web of life.
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01st OCTOBER
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15th OCTOBER
LIVE ZOOM: 1st October (OPENING) + 15th October
Emilia & Maria
We open acknowledging the gift and miracle of life, remembering how to expand our hearts through gratitude and honoring the abundance of life and we contemporarily become real about the pain and suffering in the world. Grief and gratitude have always been eternal sisters, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. As we become aware of the sorrow we carry in our own bodies, as we become aware of the suffering of the earth and our ecosystems we are re-awakened to the preciousness of being alive. Without gratitude, grief would be an endless fall. Without grief, gratitude would be disconnected from the reality of our current world. We need both. We will open with both. Calling them in to infuse our whole journey.
Practices will include: opening ceremony, gratitude practices, honouring our pain ritual.
15th OCTOBER
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26th NOVEMBER
LIVE ZOOM: 26th November
Emilia
15th-29th OCT
Charlotte
29th-12th NOV
Maria
12th-26th NOV
We acknowledge that we live in a disembodied culture that encourages separation and alienation from our own embodied selves, pushing us to live, for the most part, in our heads. We often suffer from a profound sense of alienation and incapacity to genuinely connect. To return home in our bodies means to start to inhabit our own flesh, to enflesh ourselves, to dismantle old colonial beliefs that live deep in our own tissues, to nourish our hungry selves with true nourishment, to slow down, to rest and become porous enough to be able to listen to our needs and the needs of the earth. To embody our physical selves means to live in the present moment, to be able to create connection and relationship with the natural world, allowing it to shape our own sense of self and meaning.
Practices will include: radical embodiment practices, earth-body connection, deep nourishment, body as the landscape of transformation, body as compass.
26th NOVEMBER
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21st JANUARY
LIVE ZOOM: 21st january
Terra
26th NOV-10th DEC
Teresa
10th-24th DEC
Nat
24th DEC-7th JAN
Fernanda
7th-21st Jan
How can we disrupt our current perception of earth which sees her as a separate and inanimate, as dead and without agency? How can we begin to restore kinship with all beings, including the plant beings, the water beings, animal beings and so forth? In this module we will explore what it means to give back animacy to the world, what it means to learn and become humble students of the earth, to create relationship and build practices and rituals of re-connection. We will work with shifting and expanding our perception of the world around us, learning simple and practical ways to establish communication with the plants, with the mountains and all the nature spirits. We will guide you in remembering our interdependence with the earth, giving voice and full sovereignty to all “people” here on earth, acknowledging that as we connect with the sacredness of earth we return to living a more harmonious and magical life.
Practices will include: intuitive herbalism, indigenous ways of knowing, earth-based rituals and practices, wild foraging, becoming students of the green world.
21st JANUARY
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17th MARCH
LIVE ZOOM: 17th MARCH
Linda
21ST JAN-4th FEB
Jordan
4th-18TH FEB
Elizabeth
18th FEB-3RD MAR
Ana Tippi
3rd-17th MAR
As we stand at this great threshold as a humanity we are invited to reconsider our role and relationship with the world and earth. As we begin to reside more in our own bodies, healing old wounds and beliefs, as we invite the sacred back into all things, giving voice back to the earth, we start to acknowledge that, as humans, we have been handed down the precious gift of “singing back the earth to life” meaning to create beauty, to use our hands to evoke the magic of the earth, to become oracles of creation and give form to the formless and majesty of the natural world. As humans we have lost our capacity to praise the earth and we often create out of greed, manipulation and oppression. To create from earth and right relationship is to invite more awareness, slowness, patience and reverence in our lives; it teaches us to listen and get “out of the way”, becoming true vessels for creation, it invites us into taking deeper response-ability in how we mold and weave our reality and, lastly, it brings back joy, pleasure and playfulness in our own living.
Practices will include: opening our vessel through song, earth as oracle, ancestral crafts, basket weaving, natural dying, earth pigments and more.
17th MARCH
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14th APRIL
LIVE ZOOM: 14TH APRIL (CLOSING CEREMONY)
Ana Filipa
17th-31ST MAR
Iris
31ST MAR-7TH APR
Emilia & Maria
7th-14th APR
As we reappropriate ourselves of our creative and visionary qualities we are called to imagine new paths for ourselves and our communities. These call forth all our imagination and capacity to carve together a “new world” which does not mean rushing into any easy solution, nor birth these paths from the same paradigms our current world is emerging from. On the other hand, it calls forth our full participation and capacity to be challenged, to stay with the inquiry, to get our hands dirty and do the world that is needed to create a new vision for this earth and our lives. Only when we allow our minds to change can we become embodied, empathic, grounded and authentic agents of transformation, weaving together past and future, birthing a new vision for our world.
Practices will include: Ancestral skills, re-imagining civilization, ancient maps, the medicine wheel, leadership.
Learn about plants, different healing modalities, ancestral crafts and skills to open your capacity to see the world with new eyes and carve out a new future
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
Just like our tree relatives we are made up of water, fire, air and earth, our bodies contain the whole universe and we are part of a vast interdependent web of aliveness. The earth is our abundant mother and we have a duty to acknowledge her and all her children: the plants, rivers, mountains, trees and birds. In order to truly understand and embody this knowing we are called to break away from old life-denying paradigms, to invite awareness and reawaken our imagination in order to envision new pathways of being guided by our fierce love for the world.
Yawanawá Village in the Amazon Rainforest