Touching the Earth Begins Thursday!

Hello Beautiful Ones. I'm so looking forward to this coming Thursday night. The timing of Spring and Earth Day celebration is perfect for introducing the Three Earth Touchings in the Plum Village/Thich Nhat Hanh tradition, a deeply restorative and grounding practice. It's based on the Lotus Sutra with its components of compassion and loving-kindness. In Touching the Earth, Thich Nhat Hanh writes, "When we touch the Earth, we take refuge in it. We receive its solid and inclusive energy. The Earth embraces us and helps transform our ignorance, suffering, and despair."

I connect deeply with the Earth Touchings as the practice so closely aligns with my Choctaw/Cherokee tradition of honoring ourselves, our ancestors and the earth that holds us. Drum and song will be incorporated from the Western Native American tradition of earth honoring. Each week we'll be working with one of the three Touching the Earth practices, sitting with it, walking with it and adapting it for a good and lasting fit. Join Lake Tahoe Mindfulness Community in honoring ourselves, our loved ones and our spiritual and blood ancestors. The nights promise to be transforming. Any questions or to RSVP, please contact me. Until then....

Inner Constellation Blessing: Sweet Mystery
Sweet Earth, she holds: rain puddles, flower seeds,
past forms of my ancestors.
I bow in reverence,
taking in her comfort.