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Body as Sacred Land: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers, Part 3
May 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm PDT
Event Overview
Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers
with Erin Geesaman Rabke & Leilani Wong Navar
Join us for 1, 2, or all 3 workshops!
In these deeply challenging times of such peril and pain, of both uncertainty and wild possibility, with displays of human care and beauty-making everywhere still…
We are dedicated to paying attention, to keeping our hearts open, to showing up in contemplation and action, all while appreciating the miracle of being alive.
In our personal lives and in our work with our beloved communities, we are sustained by turning toward beauty, by letting our grief and our pain for the world be felt and then guide us, and by attending to the inner landscapes of our own body-minds as a microcosm of the great earth.
May 18, 10am-12:30pm PT: Body as Sacred Land
On Sunday, May 18, we’ll dive into Body as Sacred Land. We’ll deepen our connection with our physical bodies as the sacred landscape where it all happens, while growing our capacity to be grounded, spacious, and connected with our hearts, our strength, and our vitality, especially during challenging times.
We aim to create a nourishing refuge of deep care, exquisite experiential support, and potent practices for like-hearted companions who care deeply about our world.
Optionally, you can also join us for the first 2 workshops of this 3-Sunday series:
May 4, 10am-12:30pm PT: Beauty as Ballast
On May 4, we’re taking Beauty as Ballast to resource ourselves as we harvest, in an embodied way, the abundant gifts in the wide, wild world and in our ordinary lives. We’ll practice intentionally becoming permeable to the beauty and the goodness present in our lives, so easy to miss when we are distracted and distressed. This is NOT gratitude instead of grief, but gratitude as grief’s potent twin that offers us necessary ballast to meet the times as our most well-resourced selves. We’ll savor beauty as sustenance.
May 11, 10am-12:30pm PT: Grief as Guide
On Sunday, May 11, we’ll take Grief as Guide and together, we’ll feel the intelligence inherent in our sorrow for the world and invite our heartbreak to guide us toward both greater belonging and our unique contributions to collective healing. As Francis Weller writes, “When our sorrows are witnessed and held within a community of compassion, grief can surprisingly turn to joy, to a love emboldened for all that surrounds us.” Let us welcome our grief to embolden our love.
We offer special thanks to the wonderful Kathleen Dean Moore, whose exquisite book of essays titled Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers both inspired our weary Earth-loving hearts and gave us the name for this offering. We highly recommend reading it!
You are warmly invited to join us for 1, 2, or all 3 Sunday workshops.
Easy like Sunday morning style, we’ll gather from 10am-12:30pm PT.
Tuition is $60 each or $150 for all 3.
We’ll meet on Zoom and recordings will be provided so you’re welcome to join us even if you cannot attend live.
We’d love to have your company.
Learn more and register for 1, 2, or all 3 workshops here: https://embodimentmatters.com/take-heart-3-sundays-of-encouragement-for-weary-earth-lovers/