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Resource Type: Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes

The Solo Mirror Walk – A Gratitude Practice to Awaken our Nature

Jolie Elan · Oct 5, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

Language: English

The Solo Mirror Walk – A Gratitude Practice to Awaken our Nature

by Jolie Elan

(Adapted from Mirror Walk by Werner Brandt)

The Mirror Walk awakens sensory awareness and a fresh sense of gratitude for life. Excellent training for the ecological self, it helps people experience the world as their larger body. Read more

Mirror Walk – Solo Practice

Jolie Elan · Jun 18, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

Language: English

The Mirror Walk awakens sensory awareness and a fresh sense of gratitude for life. Excellent training for the ecological self, it helps people experience the world as their larger body. Read more

Writing from Within the Web of Life

Jolie Elan · May 6, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

Language: English

Through deep observation of a beng in nature and journaling seeing our own issues with new eyes: both individual and collective challenges. Read more

Council of All Beings

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

This colorful, sometimes solemn, and often lusty communal ritual allows us to step aside from our human identity and speak on behalf of other life-forms.  It is excellent for growing the ecological self, for it brings a sense of our solidarity with all life, and fresh awareness of the damage wrought by one upstart species.… Read more

Bodhisattva Check-In

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

(or Accepting the Challenges and Gifts of This Lifetime) (Revised version by Molly Brown and Joanna Macy) (60 minutes) Using and growing our moral imagination, this process focuses on our own lives and helps us see how their basic features and conditions prepare us to take part in the healing of the world. Like climbing… Read more

Dance to Dismember the Ego

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

(60 minutes or more) This fanciful process derives from a Tibetan lama dance.  For three days every spring, the monks of Tashi Jong, a refugee community in northwest India, honor their ancient Buddhist tradition with majestic, masked rituals.  One of the high points for Joanna, a long-time friend of Tashi Jong, is the Dance to… Read more

Who Are You?

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

 (60 minutes) This process in pairs serves to move us beyond constricted notions of who we are and what can happen through us.  Of a metaphysical bent, it was originally inspired by followers of the Hindu sage Sri Ramana Maharshi.  In their “enlightenment intensives,” persistent inquiry helps participants to free themselves from socially constructed self-definitions… Read more

The Cradling

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

(20 to 60 minutes) A guided meditation on the body, the cradling practice serves many purposes.  It permits deep relaxation, all the more welcome after dealing straight on with fearsome issues.  It builds trust among participants, and a kind of respectful cherishing.  It widens our awareness of what is at stake in the global crisis;… Read more

Widening Circles

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

or Four Voices (About 60 minutes) Activists want to be able to express their views about an issue clearly, even passionately.  At the same time, for their own understanding and skillfulness, they want to see differing and opposing perspectives on this issue.  This favorite exercise of ours helps us do both.  And in the process… Read more

When I Made a Difference

Werner Brandt · Dec 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Resource Type: Practices (Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes)

(30 minutes) Recounting incidents from our own lives, we recognize our capacity to create positive change.  This is all the more valuable since we are not accustomed to sharing this kind of experience or understanding it as power. Method Think of a time in your life when something important and good happened because of what… Read more

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