EarthWays

Awakening to Wonder
2024-10-12 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Awakening to Wonder

We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us. -Rumi
Give yourself the gift of awakening to the wonder of the autumn landscape. Take a day to seek refuge and reflection in the beauty of the natural world. Turn your senses back to this world that has made you. With meditation, time walking the land, and story-sharing, this will be a day to slow down, pay attention and allow for an exploration of your essential relationship to the wild landscape.

October 12th, 9:00 am until 4:00 pm
Location: Sonoma County TBD
Guides: Roy Remer and Sessei Meg Levie (guest guide)
Fee: $125
$50 non-refundable deposit
(fixed/low-income fee available upon request)
(Limited to ten participants.)

For more information contact Roy@earthwaysllc.com

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Please read our policies and registration information. To register, complete this form and submit your deposit using the Agree and Pay Deposit button below. We have scholarships and payment plans available; please contact us to apply. Feel free to email with any questions you may have.

POLICIES & REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EarthWays (EW) fills our programs on a first-come first-served basis. Registration requires a deposit and holds your place in the program you have selected. For the benefit of all, EW screens participants to ensure compatibility with our programs that can sometimes be physically and psychologically challenging, especially the outdoor daylong and overnight programs. We require participants to be in good physical, mental and emotional health, appropriate to the particular program of enrollment. EW reserves the right to refuse enrollment based on our assessment of these and other criteria. If you are not accepted for enrollment, your deposit will be refunded in full.

Policies

Please take the time to carefully consider your decision to enroll in one of EW Programs; this decision represents a commitment to yourself and to us. Regarding our outdoor programs, we have found that it is common and even appropriate for fear and resistance to arise when you are preparing to step out of your ordinary life and go into nature alone: obstacles, (real or imagined, inner or outer), may present themselves to you and it may seem impossible or too frightening to proceed with the program. These obstacles and fears are an important part of your experience, and can serve to help you become clear about what your call to the wilderness means to you. Obstacles can pave the way for the insights and growth you will bring back to your daily life.

Deposits:

Each EW program requires a deposit. Refer to each program for deposit amount. Deposits are usually non-refundable, unless we cancel the program or you are not accepted into the program. However, we understand cancellations sometimes happen. Please speak with your guide (s) about your situation. Refunds are given under the discretion of each guiding team.
Acknowledged

Cancellation:

If we are able to fill your reserved space from the waitlist your enrollment fee minus the deposit will be refunded to you.
Acknowledged

Fees and Payments:

Please make the requested deposit for each program. Please pay via PayPal or check made out to EarthWays LLC, cc “Name of Program”. The final payment for your program is due prior to start date of the program, or you may bring a check payable to EarthWays LLC on the start date of the program.
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Wisdom of Our Ancestors
2024-09-28 09:00 - 17:00 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
Wisdom of Our Ancestors
September 28th, 2024
9am – 5pm
Sliding scale $80 – $120
Non-refundable deposit $50
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park
Guides Cynthia Eisho Morrow and O. Andrew Schreiber
Apprentice guide ~ Reet Rannik

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~ Unknown source
With Ancestor Appreciation Day now officially celebrated on September 27th, we offer this day on the land (one day later) to honor our ancestors and the wisdom we carry forth because of their trials, joys, and sacrifices. On this day, we might reflect upon ancestors in our direct family line, our ancient bloodlines, or our spiritual lineages. Whose shoulders do we stand upon? What are the burdens and what are the blessings that have been passed down into our own lives? What is ours to sacrifice, heal, or transform? What is ours to bring forth into our world as it is now? What will we pass on to the next?
With time together in circle and solo time spent on the land, we will invite each person to share stories—the gifts and the challenges—of our ancestral lineages and how these stories play out in our present-day lives. Together, we will begin with co-creating an ancestor altar, and we will finish our day with an ancestor feast.
Limited to 8 participants
Contact Info
For more information or to register, contact: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com
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Please read our policies and registration information. To register, complete this form and submit your deposit using the Agree and Pay Deposit button below. We have scholarships and payment plans available; please contact us to apply. Feel free to email with any questions you may have.

POLICIES & REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EarthWays (EW) fills our programs on a first-come first-served basis. Registration requires a deposit and holds your place in the program you have selected. For the benefit of all, EW screens participants to ensure compatibility with our programs that can sometimes be physically and psychologically challenging, especially the outdoor daylong and overnight programs. We require participants to be in good physical, mental and emotional health, appropriate to the particular program of enrollment. EW reserves the right to refuse enrollment based on our assessment of these and other criteria. If you are not accepted for enrollment, your deposit will be refunded in full.

Policies

Please take the time to carefully consider your decision to enroll in one of EW Programs; this decision represents a commitment to yourself and to us. Regarding our outdoor programs, we have found that it is common and even appropriate for fear and resistance to arise when you are preparing to step out of your ordinary life and go into nature alone: obstacles, (real or imagined, inner or outer), may present themselves to you and it may seem impossible or too frightening to proceed with the program. These obstacles and fears are an important part of your experience, and can serve to help you become clear about what your call to the wilderness means to you. Obstacles can pave the way for the insights and growth you will bring back to your daily life.

Deposits:

Each EW program requires a deposit. Refer to each program for deposit amount. Deposits are usually non-refundable, unless we cancel the program or you are not accepted into the program. However, we understand cancellations sometimes happen. Please speak with your guide (s) about your situation. Refunds are given under the discretion of each guiding team.
Acknowledged

Cancellation:

If we are able to fill your reserved space from the waitlist your enrollment fee minus the deposit will be refunded to you.
Acknowledged

Fees and Payments:

Please make the requested deposit for each program. Please pay via PayPal or check made out to EarthWays LLC, cc “Name of Program”. The final payment for your program is due prior to start date of the program, or you may bring a check payable to EarthWays LLC on the start date of the program.
Acknowledged

REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill out the registration form, agree to terms and submit your deposit. Once we receive your registration and deposit, we’ll contact you with all the information you’ll need to begin preparations for your EarthWays LLC program.

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EarthWays Reunion Potluck - Equinox Celebration - Book Release Party
2024-09-22 09:30 - 13:30 | Ragle Ranch Regional Park, Sebastopol, CA
EarthWays Reunion Potluck – Equinox Celebration – Book Release Party
September 22, 2024
Sunday, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, CA
Lion’s Grove Picnic Area
Come join us!!
To all of YOU who have ever participated in any EarthWays program, we invite you to be a part of our Fall Equinox Reunion.
One of us, Scott, has a new book coming out in early September: The Soul’s Red Thread: Memoirs of a Guide. This has inspired us to host a community picnic to celebrate the arrival of Scott’s new book. The gathering will include elements of a book release party — and more. We’ve just started to dream what this celebration will be. Please come and help us create something special.
Schedule
9:30 – Arrival
10:00 – Official welcome and then equinox ritual
10:30 – Presenting Scott’s new book
2025 EarthWays announcements
11:30 – Potluck
Lion’s Grove Picnic Area: This redwood grove is located 500 feet due north of the entrance kiosk. The area offers lots of shade and many picnic tables.
This is a giveaway to our community.
No need to RSVP and no cost, except for a parking fee to park in Ragle Ranch Park.
We will provide N/A beverages, cups, plates, cutlery, and several desserts.
Please bring your own chair and a potluck contribution.
For more information, contact: seberle@sbcglobal.net

Falling into Fall - Full with Wait List
2024-09-20 17:00 - 2024-09-21 17:00 | Wild Lands, Sonoma County, CA
An Overnight program on the Equinox – Full with Wait List
September 20-21, 2024
Friday 5:00 pm to Saturday 5:00 pm
Fee: $100 – $160
$50 non-refundable deposit
Wildlands in Sonoma or Marin Counties
Co-guides Scott Eberle & Katie “Tonks” Tonkovich
“May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
~ John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us
Come join us at the edge of the equinox for an overnight journey into the great wonders of the autumn season.
May this be a time to rest your body on Mother Earth, to hear prayers whispering in the wind, to witness the leaves letting go of their branches, drifting down to decay into nourishment for future trees.
We will meet at 5 pm on Friday to set up camp, share a meal, and then hold an intention council. Saturday morning, you’ll go out into the early morning light for a day walk on the land: an opportunity to wander among the surrender of leaves.
We will open and close with a storytelling council and, in between, you will be invited to go out alone on the land to wander among the surrender of leaves. What’s falling away in the autumn of your heart? What will the land mirror back? What stories will you have to tell when you return?

No one turned away for lack of funds
Limited to 10 participants

Contact Info
For more information, contact Scott at seberle@sbcglobal.net

This program is full with a wait list.

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EarthWays Men's Fast
2024-09-03 - 2024-09-13 | Inyo National Forest, CA
Showing Up for What Comes Next
September 3rd thru September 13th, 2024
Sliding Scale: $900 – $1,500
A non-refundable deposit of $300 is required by June 15th to hold your place.
Inyo Mountains
September 3rd and depart Friday, September 13th
Co-guides Roy Remer and O. Andrew Schreiber
Yet I turn, I turn, exulting somewhat, with my will intact to go wherever I need to go, and every stone on the road precious to me.
~Stanley Kunitz from The Layers
Life and the world we live in can often feel chaotic. And time can feel as though it is passing faster and faster. So much changes around us, maybe for better, maybe for worse. And our challenge is to move fully into whatever comes next. Each of us meets the challenges of life in our own way. Is your way still serving you?  Is it time to step back and clarify how you want to show up for what comes next.
The vision fast is a ceremony of intention, and growth. It is an act of generous spirit. In times of such rapid change, you are the only one who can bring what you have to offer. Do you know what you have to offer the world? A world in such dire need of attention and wisdom.  Is it time for you to declare what it is you can give back to your people for their wellbeing? If your answer is yes, join us for this experience.
Out in a wild landscape, you will be held and supported in a circle of men doing their work of looking inward with honesty and looking outward with curiosity for the wisdom the land mirrors. This will be eleven days to unplug and get real with who you are and who you are becoming. You will have space and time to drop into relationship with the land and your most authentic self. And of course, time to play, laugh, and cry. You will be supported to go where you need to go.
As your guides, O and Roy will set the container to hold your experience. We will establish a basecamp with a communal kitchen. In basecamp we will have a daily schedule of council time, meditation, individual hiking, and meals. You will be on your own schedule for the four nights of solo time.

Open to individuals who identify as male
Limited to 8 participants

Contact Info
For more information or to register, contact: Roy@earthwaysllc.com
Register and Submit Deposit
×Policy Acknowledgement, Registration, and Deposit

Please read our policies and registration information. To register, complete this form and submit your deposit using the Agree and Pay Deposit button below. We have scholarships and payment plans available; please contact us to apply. Feel free to email with any questions you may have.

POLICIES & REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EarthWays (EW) fills our programs on a first-come first-served basis. Registration requires a deposit and holds your place in the program you have selected. For the benefit of all, EW screens participants to ensure compatibility with our programs that can sometimes be physically and psychologically challenging, especially the outdoor daylong and overnight programs. We require participants to be in good physical, mental and emotional health, appropriate to the particular program of enrollment. EW reserves the right to refuse enrollment based on our assessment of these and other criteria. If you are not accepted for enrollment, your deposit will be refunded in full.

Policies

Please take the time to carefully consider your decision to enroll in one of EW Programs; this decision represents a commitment to yourself and to us. Regarding our outdoor programs, we have found that it is common and even appropriate for fear and resistance to arise when you are preparing to step out of your ordinary life and go into nature alone: obstacles, (real or imagined, inner or outer), may present themselves to you and it may seem impossible or too frightening to proceed with the program. These obstacles and fears are an important part of your experience, and can serve to help you become clear about what your call to the wilderness means to you. Obstacles can pave the way for the insights and growth you will bring back to your daily life.

Deposits:

Each EW program requires a deposit. Refer to each program for deposit amount. Deposits are usually non-refundable, unless we cancel the program or you are not accepted into the program. However, we understand cancellations sometimes happen. Please speak with your guide (s) about your situation. Refunds are given under the discretion of each guiding team.
Acknowledged

Cancellation:

If we are able to fill your reserved space from the waitlist your enrollment fee minus the deposit will be refunded to you.
Acknowledged

Fees and Payments:

Please make the requested deposit for each program. Please pay via PayPal or check made out to EarthWays LLC, cc “Name of Program”. The final payment for your program is due prior to start date of the program, or you may bring a check payable to EarthWays LLC on the start date of the program.
Acknowledged

REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill out the registration form, agree to terms and submit your deposit. Once we receive your registration and deposit, we’ll contact you with all the information you’ll need to begin preparations for your EarthWays LLC program.

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Council of All Beings~ for Women - Full With Waith List
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-11 | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
An Earth-Body Prayer
FULL WITH WAIT LIST
August 9-11, 2024
Sliding scale $350-500 (includes private land use fee & dinners)
Non-refundable deposit $150
3-day camping experience – Sonoma County Private Land
Guides ~ Cynthia Eisho Morrow and Devona Snook (Guest Guide)
Apprentice guides ~ Reet Rannik & Kiea Spake-Wright

Imagine what would it be like to dance together
In this land of water and knowledge…
To drink deep what is undrinkable.
-Joy Harjo
Within us, there is a deep knowing—that we belong to the great web of life. We belong to a world that we have co-created over an unthinkable amount of time. Intimately as our own bodies, we are stardust, rain cloud, mountain, war, earthquake, oppression, fire, flower, rain. We belong to the big body of our earth, and we belong to each other.
In this 3-day ceremonial journey, inspired by the Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy and John Seed, you will be invited to set aside your merely human identity for a time, to step inside the dream of tree, lizard, bird, grass. With time on the land, council, mask making, and authentic movement, we will express and witness messages received from other-than-human beings of this earth. How will these messages touch our deepest heart? How might they inform the movement of our own lives? How are they in collective service to our world?
On over 1600 acres of beautiful, private Sonoma County land, we will camp, dream, create, play, maybe cry, and certainly pray—together as women. Will you join us?

We define “women” inclusively, inviting all those who primarily identify as female or feminine.
Limited to 10 participants

Introducing our wonderful Guest Guide Devona Snook:
Devona is a licensed psychotherapist, bringing depth psychology and somatic approaches to her work. She is drawn to the process of uncovering the innate wisdom within us all that supports living an authentic life and meeting these challenging times. A student of nature-based healing for many years, she completed wilderness rites of passage training with the School of Lost Borders in 2007. She has studied authentic movement for many years, as a spiritual practice and form of active imagination that allows us to converse with psyche, including the landscapes we live in. Devona has been a lifelong dabbler in the creative arts, and these days finds joy in slow hand crafting and fiber arts.
Contact Info
For more information, contact: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

This program is full with a wait list.

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Reclaiming the Divine Masculine: A Program for Men in this Modern Age
2024-05-19 10:00 - 2024-05-26 12:00 | Henry Coe SP
For the longest time, patriarchal beliefs and proscribed gender roles have discouraged men from learning to listen deeply and gently reflect. In the last half of the century, we’ve seen a growing recognition of the importance for each person to make their own spiritual connection with the Divine – an energy that resides inside each of us and in the natural world. But even for those who aspire to cultivating a spiritual life, rarely is there time, space, and support for this kind of
deeper attunement.
Come join us for a week in the natural world as we explore the Four Directions of the Divine Masculine.
For more information or to enroll go to this School of Lost Borders webpage:

Reclaiming the Divine Masculine

Reclaiming Playful Wonderment
2024-05-18 09:00 - 16:00 | Wild Lands, Sonoma County, CA
A Daylong on the Land for Men
May 18th, 2024
9am – 4pm
Sliding scale $80-$120
$50 non-refundable deposit
North Bay Wild Lands
Co-guides Roy Remer and O. Andrew Schreiber
“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
~ Pablo Neruda
Was there a time in your life when you played wildly, unaware of time?
Do you recall the joy and wonder of discovering a secret place in nature?
A tree to climb, a path through the woods?
It can be difficult to remember such a time as our lives have become filled with the responsibilities of adulthood.
Summer is a time of youthful discovery, and amazement. This daylong program is designed to inspire men to reclaim and honor playful wonderment in their lives.
Join a circle of men, gathering to support themselves and each other. Walk the land with an intention to be guided by your childlike essence. Let yourself be witnessed in your story of reclaiming.
Our time together will include introductions, setting intentions, solo time walking, story sharing, inspiring poetry, and drumming.
Limited to 8 participants
We welcome anyone who identifies as male.
Contact Info
For more information or to register, contact: o.aschreiber@earthwaysllc.com
Register and Submit Deposit
×Policy Acknowledgement, Registration, and Deposit

Please read our policies and registration information. To register, complete this form and submit your deposit using the Agree and Pay Deposit button below. We have scholarships and payment plans available; please contact us to apply. Feel free to email with any questions you may have.

POLICIES & REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EarthWays (EW) fills our programs on a first-come first-served basis. Registration requires a deposit and holds your place in the program you have selected. For the benefit of all, EW screens participants to ensure compatibility with our programs that can sometimes be physically and psychologically challenging, especially the outdoor daylong and overnight programs. We require participants to be in good physical, mental and emotional health, appropriate to the particular program of enrollment. EW reserves the right to refuse enrollment based on our assessment of these and other criteria. If you are not accepted for enrollment, your deposit will be refunded in full.

Policies

Please take the time to carefully consider your decision to enroll in one of EW Programs; this decision represents a commitment to yourself and to us. Regarding our outdoor programs, we have found that it is common and even appropriate for fear and resistance to arise when you are preparing to step out of your ordinary life and go into nature alone: obstacles, (real or imagined, inner or outer), may present themselves to you and it may seem impossible or too frightening to proceed with the program. These obstacles and fears are an important part of your experience, and can serve to help you become clear about what your call to the wilderness means to you. Obstacles can pave the way for the insights and growth you will bring back to your daily life.

Deposits:

Each EW program requires a deposit. Refer to each program for deposit amount. Deposits are usually non-refundable, unless we cancel the program or you are not accepted into the program. However, we understand cancellations sometimes happen. Please speak with your guide (s) about your situation. Refunds are given under the discretion of each guiding team.
Acknowledged

Cancellation:

If we are able to fill your reserved space from the waitlist your enrollment fee minus the deposit will be refunded to you.
Acknowledged

Fees and Payments:

Please make the requested deposit for each program. Please pay via PayPal or check made out to EarthWays LLC, cc “Name of Program”. The final payment for your program is due prior to start date of the program, or you may bring a check payable to EarthWays LLC on the start date of the program.
Acknowledged

REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill out the registration form, agree to terms and submit your deposit. Once we receive your registration and deposit, we’ll contact you with all the information you’ll need to begin preparations for your EarthWays LLC program.

Name

Address

City

State

Zip

Phone (day)

Phone (evening)

Phone (cell)

Email

Program you are registering for:

Program dates:

How did you hear about EarthWays LLC?

Would you like to be on our email list?
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To secure your place in this EarthWays program, please submit the non-refundable deposit or the full payment

I have read, understood and agree to the deposit, cancellation and fee policies stated above.

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Wild and Awake
2024-05-03 - 2024-05-05 | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Wild Love: The Heart Responds
May 3-5, 2024
Sliding Scale: $350-500 (includes private land use fee & dinners)
Non-refundable deposit $150
Sonoma County location TBD
Co-guides Cynthia Eisho Morrow and Sara Harris
3-day camping experience
My work is loving the world.
~Mary Oliver
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. Surrounded by war, climate catastrophe, ecological destruction, a still-resolving pandemic, and widespread injustice, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find solace. Are we willing to “hear within us the sound of the earth crying”, to not turn away from what could break our heart open? By sharing and witnessing our pain for our world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we have been experientially exploring this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season has addressed a different theme, using meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual. This offering is focused on the heart, and will include a group fire ritual.
Rescheduled from 2023 because of weather, we are offering this final program of the series as an expanded 3-day camping experience. On beautiful, private Sonoma County land, we can deepen our exploration of awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
Limited to 10 participants
Contact Info
For more information or to register, contact cynthia@earthwaysllc.com
Register and Submit Deposit
×Policy Acknowledgement, Registration, and Deposit

Please read our policies and registration information. To register, complete this form and submit your deposit using the Agree and Pay Deposit button below. We have scholarships and payment plans available; please contact us to apply. Feel free to email with any questions you may have.

POLICIES & REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EarthWays (EW) fills our programs on a first-come first-served basis. Registration requires a deposit and holds your place in the program you have selected. For the benefit of all, EW screens participants to ensure compatibility with our programs that can sometimes be physically and psychologically challenging, especially the outdoor daylong and overnight programs. We require participants to be in good physical, mental and emotional health, appropriate to the particular program of enrollment. EW reserves the right to refuse enrollment based on our assessment of these and other criteria. If you are not accepted for enrollment, your deposit will be refunded in full.

Policies

Please take the time to carefully consider your decision to enroll in one of EW Programs; this decision represents a commitment to yourself and to us. Regarding our outdoor programs, we have found that it is common and even appropriate for fear and resistance to arise when you are preparing to step out of your ordinary life and go into nature alone: obstacles, (real or imagined, inner or outer), may present themselves to you and it may seem impossible or too frightening to proceed with the program. These obstacles and fears are an important part of your experience, and can serve to help you become clear about what your call to the wilderness means to you. Obstacles can pave the way for the insights and growth you will bring back to your daily life.

Deposits:

Each EW program requires a deposit. Refer to each program for deposit amount. Deposits are usually non-refundable, unless we cancel the program or you are not accepted into the program. However, we understand cancellations sometimes happen. Please speak with your guide (s) about your situation. Refunds are given under the discretion of each guiding team.
Acknowledged

Cancellation:

If we are able to fill your reserved space from the waitlist your enrollment fee minus the deposit will be refunded to you.
Acknowledged

Fees and Payments:

Please make the requested deposit for each program. Please pay via PayPal or check made out to EarthWays LLC, cc “Name of Program”. The final payment for your program is due prior to start date of the program, or you may bring a check payable to EarthWays LLC on the start date of the program.
Acknowledged

REGISTRATION FORM

Please fill out the registration form, agree to terms and submit your deposit. Once we receive your registration and deposit, we’ll contact you with all the information you’ll need to begin preparations for your EarthWays LLC program.

Name

Address

City

State

Zip

Phone (day)

Phone (evening)

Phone (cell)

Email

Program you are registering for:

Program dates:

How did you hear about EarthWays LLC?

Would you like to be on our email list?
YesNo

To secure your place in this EarthWays program, please submit the non-refundable deposit or the full payment

I have read, understood and agree to the deposit, cancellation and fee policies stated above.

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I agree that my electronic signature has the same force and effect as signing this document manually.

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Walking Among Wildflowers. - FULL WITH WAIT LIST -
2024-04-27 09:00 - 17:30 | Wild Lands, Sonoma County, CA
Walking Among Wildflowers – FULL WITH WAIT LIST
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Time: 9 am to 5:30 pm
Fee: $80 – $120
$50 non-refundable deposit
Location: Wildlands in Sonoma or Marin Counties
Co-guides Vanessa Eyen & Scott Eberle
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Come join us for this daylong journey into the great wonders of springtime:
Luscious green meadows,
orange poppies, purple lupine, yellow buttercups,
oak trees with a full bounty of young leaves.
Behold the great miracle!
We will open and close with a storytelling council and, in between, you will be invited to go out alone on the land to go walking among the wildflowers. What’s bursting through your springtime heart? What will the land mirror back? What stories will you have to tell when you return?
Come walk with us!
No one turned away for lack of funds
Limited to 10 Participants
Contact Info
To register, contact Scott at seberle@sbcglobal.net

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Under the Grandmother Tree - Full With Wait List
2023-09-30 09:00 - 17:00 | HELEN PUTNAM REGIONAL PARK, 411 Chileno Valley Road, Petaluma, CA, 94952
The Second of Two Barebones Programs in This Time of Transition
We drift through this gray, increasing nowhere
Until we stand before a threshold we know
We have to cross to come alive once more.
May we have the courage to take the step
Into the unknown that beckons us;
Trust that a richer life awaits us there . . .
John O’Donohue
An Open Letter to our EarthWays community,
Our collective is entering a year of great transition. One of our founders, Sara Harris, recently stepped down from being an active guide, taking on instead the position of “Guide Emeritus.” Two of our longstanding guides, Cynthia Morrow and Sahara Chaldean, have stepped back, each taking a year sabbatical to honor the rhythms of their own lives. And finally – so sad to say – our beloved guide-compatriot, Deborah Greene-Jacobi, recently died.
So much change, so much loss!
And so, when dreaming into a 2023 schedule, I’ve been holding this central question:
With these big absences, how best to serve our community?
What I began to imagine was inviting people to join me under “The Grandmother Tree” at Putnam Park, where EarthWays has been holding its own council meetings for many years. Then I wondered: If I were to handle enrollment, might I be able to entice Sara, Cynthia, and Sahara to join me for one of these gatherings? Sara still loves doing the actual circle work—not so much the organizational part—so she offered a hearty “yes.” Cynthia decided to start her year sabbatical in the fall and agreed to join me in late September to mark the end of this year off. Sahara has wisely declined, staying true to 2023 being a fallow year: a time of stillness and quiet.
For this second of two Grandmother Tree offerings, please come and join Cynthia & me. (The first offering with Sara is in April.)
You bring your own life theme and food to break your fast, and join us for a barebones ceremony. We’ll have an intention council in the morning, send you out onto the land for several hours, come together to break the short fast, and then finish with a story council.
Yours in service,
Scott Eberle

Limited to 10 Participants
$50 non-refundable deposit

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For more info or to register, contact Scott at scott@earthwaysllc.com

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Quiet Forest, Quiet Mind
2023-09-14 16:00 - 2023-09-17 12:00 | Location TBD
Coming Home to True Nature
… I breathe my way into wholeness and healing.
Inhalation. Exhalation.
Each Breath a “yes,”
and a letting go, a journey, and a coming home.
Danna Faulds, Breath of Life
The forest is alive. It breathes. Its trees are aware. Its creatures are perfect in their simple steadfast presence. If you are quiet enough to listen, it will receive you and it will reveal its mysteries. The forest is an ideal place to rest the busy mind. It is a place where you can return to wholeness. It is a healing place.
We invite you to join us within the refuge of a quiet wooded setting. Over the course of 3 1/2 days together your guides will support you to reconnect with your wild true nature through guided meditations, council practice and time for walking the land.
We will gather at 4:00 pm on Thursday, September 14th when we will check in briefly and establish our camp. Following dinner, we will begin to settle into forest time with an evening meditation. Beginning on Friday morning we will ease into a spacious daily schedule. The focus of our time together will be self-care and rejuvenation, resting into each unfolding moment. We will close our time together no later than noon on Sunday, September 17th.

Limited to 10 Participants
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To register, contact Roy at roy@earthwaysllc.com
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Standing in the New Life - Men's Vision Fast
2023-05-30 - 2023-06-09 | Inyo National Forest, CA
I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing
happens! Nothing…Silence…Waves…
–Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
– Juan Ramon Jimenez
This modern adaptation of the ancient “vision quest” is a ceremony of intention and growth, marking the changes and challenges each of us go through in this life. We each meet such challenges in our own way, and through this we can experience a great initiation. The vision fast is an opportunity to step back and clarify how you want to show up for this change. It is a time to reconnect with nature and your purpose here on Earth.
Is it time to cross the threshold and find what gifts await? Gifts for you to bring back to your people for the benefit of all. If your answer is yes, please join us for this life changing experience.
Deep within the Inyo National Forest, you will be held in a supportive circle of men doing the work of looking inward with honesty, and looking outward with curiosity for the wisdom the land mirrors back. This will be eleven days to unplug and get real with who you are and who you are becoming. You will have space and time to drop into relationship with the land and your most authentic self. And of course, time to play, laugh, dream and cry. You will be supported to go where you need to go.
As your guides, O and Roy will set a safe and supportive container to hold your experience. We will establish a basecamp with a daily schedule of council time, preparation for your solo fast, meditation, and a communal kitchen. You will be on your own schedule for the four nights of your solo fast.
Where: Inyo National Forest
When: Meet up on Tuesday, May 30th and depart Friday, June 9th
Cost: $1,200 (Limited scholarships available)
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Reframing with Beginner's Mind
2023-05-27 09:00 - 16:30 | North Sonoma Mountain Park
Instead of changing something in your life, change it by seeing it anew.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the
conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
David Whyte

What is up for you that feels stuck or stagnant? Where are you being met with resistance? Maybe you don’t need to change anything, but instead look at it with a new lens, observe it from a new angle.
In our time together on the land, we invite you to release expectations and past experiences and walk with curiosity, wonder, and newness. Let the container of nature hold you as you look at major threads in your life. In here you may find not a solution, but a new way of relating with what you have been carrying. With new eyes and a Beginner’s Mind, you may return home to address those issues with a reinvigorated sense of ease and curiosity.

$50 non-refundable deposit
Limited to 10 Participants
No one turned away for lack of funds

To register, please fill out the form below or contact Logan Falley at logan@earthwaysllc.com

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Follow Your Bliss - Full With Wait List
2023-05-13 09:00 - 17:00 | Sonoma Coast Beach, Sonoma County, CA
Walking in nature in search of your heart’s deepest desire
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy—not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call ‘following your bliss.’
—Joseph Campbell
Come join us for this daylong journey into a world of wild beauty alongside the Pacific Ocean. In our supportive circle, we will invite you to seek out the inspiration and wisdom of nature, so that you might discover and begin to manifest your heart’s deepest desire.
We will open and close with a storytelling council and, in between, you will be invited to go out alone on the land. During this integration adventure of the soul, you can listen more deeply to your heart’s longing. What is that strongest desire in your heart? How might you feel if this desire were realized in the here and now? This journey in nature will help to heal your vulnerable and wounded parts, while also empowering and strengthening your truest nature.
What might it mean for you to follow your bliss?

Deposit $50
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Limited to 10 Participants
To register, contact Vanessa Eyen at vanessa@earthwaysllc.com

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Under the Grandmother Tree - Full with Wait List
2023-04-08 09:00 - 17:00 | HELEN PUTNAM REGIONAL PARK, 411 Chileno Valley Road, Petaluma, CA, 94952
The First of Two Barebones Programs in This Time of Transition
We drift through this gray, increasing nowhere
Until we stand before a threshold we know
We have to cross to come alive once more.
May we have the courage to take the step
Into the unknown that beckons us;
Trust that a richer life awaits us there . . .
John O’Donohue
An Open Letter to our EarthWays community,
Our collective is entering a year of great transition. One of our founders, Sara Harris, recently stepped down from being an active guide, taking on instead the position of “Guide Emeritus.” Two of our longstanding guides, Cynthia Morrow and Sahara Chaldean, have stepped back, each taking a year sabbatical to honor the rhythms of their own lives. And finally – so sad to say – our beloved guide-compatriot, Deborah Greene-Jacobi, recently died.
So much change, so much loss!
And so, when dreaming into a 2023 schedule, I’ve been holding this central question:
With these big absences, how best to serve our community?
What I began to imagine was inviting people to join me under “The Grandmother Tree” at Putnam Park, where EarthWays has been holding its own council meetings for many years. Then I wondered: If I were to handle enrollment, might I be able to entice Sara, Cynthia, and Sahara to join me for one of these gatherings? Sara still loves doing the actual circle work—not so much the organizational part—so she offered a hearty “yes.” Cynthia decided to start her year sabbatical in the fall and agreed to join me in late September to mark the end of this year off. Sahara has wisely declined, staying true to 2023 being a fallow year: a time of stillness and quiet.
And so, for this first of two Grandmother Tree offerings, please come and join Sara & me. (The second offering with Cynthia will come in September.)
You bring your own life theme and food to break your fast, and join us for a barebones ceremony. We’ll have an intention council in the morning, send you out onto the land for several hours, come together to break the short fast, and then finish with a story council.
Yours in service,
Scott Eberle

Limited to 10 Participants
$50 non-refundable deposit

No one turned away for lack of funds
For more info or to register, contact Scott at scott@earthwaysllc.com

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Creating and Aligning with Meaningful Work
2023-03-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Sonoma Coast Beach, Sonoma County, CA
A Spring Equinox invitation to consider your relationship with work.

Are you questioning your relationship with work?
What is my calling and how does it align with my work?
How do I give my gifts back to my community?

You wake up in the morning and something feels off, you don’t feel excited or curious about the work that made you set the alarm on your clock. You pursued a path for security or others expectations or to provide for others, and you have reached a point where this is no longer fulfilling. A voice inside is getting louder, the feelings are getting more intense and clearer. You need a change in your relationship to work, but you don’t know where to start and you feel alone in it. It’s overwhelming to think about how to start this process. We see you, and we are here to support a change in your relationship to work.
Come join us for a day on the wild and beautiful Sonoma Coast to explore your calling with a sense of wonder and curiosity. See what excites you and where your mind wonders as you simply walk in nature with an open heart of curiosity. Sit in community with others to set an intention, wander off alone on goat rock beach and the surrounding trails by the ocean and river for hours, come back with your story to share and be witnessed in community and receive our reflections to guide you to your new path of inspiring work.
Shed old narratives, abandon expectations as we make a space for you to explore your ideas with a beginner’s mind. Come with curiosity and wonder about what you want to give birth to or change in your relationship to work.
Career, work, livelihood, purpose, calling with a sense of wonder and curiosity. Shedding the narrative of survival, go out on the land with pure wonder/curiosity of what excites me/ what are my gifts, what is my calling, or simply walked with an open heart receiving. Shed the old narratives/stories so we can discover our truth/calling/gifts about how to give our gifts back to the community.

Location: Goat Rock, Jenner
$50 non-refundable deposit
No one turned away for lack of funds
Limited to 10 participants
To register, contact Logan Falley at logan@earthwaysllc.com

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Wild and Awake Series - Full With Wait List
2023-02-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Wild Love: The Heart Responds
Full With Wait List

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:00pm
Limited to 8

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

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Open Desert, Open Mind
2022-10-29 - 2022-11-06 | Death Valley, CA
https://schooloflostborders.org/programs_courses/open-desert-open-mind/
This desert wilderness program for contemplatives is offered by the School of Lost Borders. It combines the usual elements of a desert rite of passage ceremony with the practice of meditation. All welcome, regardless of meditation experience.
Co-guided by Scott Eberle (guide at both EarthWays and the School of Lost Borders)

Wild and Awake Series - Full with Wait List
2022-10-15 09:00 - 17:30 | Sonoma Coast Beach, Sonoma County, CA
Expanding Our Identity

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Wild and Awake Series - Full with Wait List
2022-08-27 09:00 - 17:30 | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Belonging: The Web of Life

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Cultivating Resilience - Full with Wait List
2022-08-13 09:00 - 17:00 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
A Day Walk for these Times of Uncertainty

Sliding scale: $80-$120
Non-refundable deposit: $50
9am – 5pm
Limited to 8 participants

If resilience can be seen as our capacity to adapt well in the face of adversity, how can we look to the natural world for guidance and support during these uncertain times? Uncertainty of climate, the pandemic, the social and political milieu all contribute to the concerns and difficulties we are facing these days. We offer you an opportunity to spend meaningful time in a wild landscape that has been burned again and again, yet is clearly regenerating. Together, we will sit upon the earth and share with one another of the challenges, fears, and uncertainties in our lives that can throw any of us off balance. You will then have a few hours to walk upon the earth to listen for the stories the land has to share about resilience. Finally, we will share our wisdom with one another, seeing what we can learn collectively about the courage and fortitude to return to life again and again.
For more information or to register, contact:
cynthia@earthwaysllc.com or sahara@earthwaysllc.com

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Sitting with the Four Great Elements: Water
2022-06-25 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
https://www.m-yoga.org/workshops–series.html
Our inherent connection to all things becomes clear when sitting quietly in meditation. In present moment awareness, the illusion of separateness falls away. We are reminded that we embody water, earth, fire and air. In this four-part meditation series, each season we will focus on one element and consider how it is held and expressed in the body and mind.

Barebones of the Ceremony - Full with Wait List
2022-06-23 18:00 - 2022-06-26 12:00 | Pomo Canyon, Near the Sonoma Coast, CA
The Practice of Council, Carrying an Intention into Nature, Stories & Mirroring
Full with Wait List

Sliding scale fee $300-$450 – plus $25 camping fee
Deposit: $150 – non-refundable unless the program is cancelled
Size of group: 8 participants
Gathering time: 6pm the first evening
Finishing time: mid-afternoon of the last day

For listening to the stories of others . . .
is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation.
If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
– Mark Nepo
We call together a circle of people looking to deepen their relationship to “the ceremony”: a practice drawn from the tradition of the School of Lost Borders that EarthWays offers to our North Bay community. Together we will explore the basic elements of this ceremony – its “bare bones” – with two intentions in mind. Over the three days, we will call in self-healing for each person, and we also will explore how each of us might bring these different practices back into our daily lives.
The Practice of Council: Our starting place will be a day of sitting in council. There together, we will learn how to listen more deeply to the stories of others and, in so doing, how to listen more deeply to our ourselves. The last circle of this day will be an intention council in preparation for the following day.
Carrying an Intention into Nature: On the second day, soon after sunrise, people will be sent out onto the land to continue this practice of deep listening. This time we will invite people to carry a question, an intention, or some kind of inquiry, all while deeply listening for the mirroring wisdom of nature.
Stories & Mirroring: During the second evening and the morning of the third day, we’ll return to our circle for a storytelling council, sharing with each other the wisdom that nature has helped to reveal. We will also take turns mirroring back what we’ve heard from each other’s stories. Once again, this practice of mirroring – like council and time alone in nature – begins with deep listening.
For as Mark Nepo says:
If we listen closely enough,
we are soothed into remembering our common name.
For more information or to register contact:
Sahara Chaldean: sahara@earthwaysllc.com

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Dancing With Uncertainty
2022-06-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
Learning to Navigate a Life-Altering Illness
A Day Walk in Nature

Sliding Scale: $80-$120
Deposit: $50 non-refundable. No one turned away for lack of funds
Limited to 8 participants

“When we are confronted with difficult times in our lives and feel as if things are breaking apart, we only produce more suffering when we attempt to put the pieces back together. Instead, when we bravely choose to rest in uncertainty and meet suffering without running away, awakening occurs”
Pema Chodron
When faced with a life-threatening illness our known way of being can be deeply challenged. Our mind, body, psyche and spirit are cracked open to uncertainty. How do we learn to live and dance with untold aspects of uncertainty while still choosing healing and life? How can we find anchors, resilience, strength, and courage- even joy?
Join us for a day on the land to explore your own Dance with Uncertainty. There will be time to share personal stories in council and then solo time in the wild landscape for reflection and healing. We will gather again in council to hear stories from the land and mirror the wisdom shared.

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Letters to the Earth - Full with Wait List
2022-05-21 09:00 - 16:00 | West County, Sonoma County, CA
A Day Walk, including Contemplation, Prayer, Ceremony and Writing
Full with Wait List

Fee: $25
Deposit: $25
Size of Group: 8 max
Gathering Time: 9am
Finishing Time: 4pm

We need to find a way to express from our hearts while the Earth is in crisis. This program is inspired by “Letters to The Earth,” a campaign which invites people to write a letter to or from the Earth, future or past generations, those who hold positions of power and influence, or other species. https://www.letterstotheearth.com
This will be an opportunity to express our hopes, fears, regrets and most importantly our devotion for our relationship with the earth. At the end of the day, you will leave with a heart cracked open and love letter like no other. We will invite you to share your experience with finding your expression and there will be time to share our letters with each other out loud.
We may even create a collective performance of our letters, put to music, to share with the larger community.
Will you join us for this challenge?
From The Story of My Heart, Michael Pyle: “In order to set the world aright…we need all the math we can marshal for our case, which is the case of the earth and its living things, including ourselves. And we also need all the song, dance, poetry, and emotion we can muster…”

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Wild and Awake Series - May 7th - Full with Wait List
2022-05-07 09:00 - 17:30 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
Waking Up – Full with Wait List

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

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Veteran Rites: Rite of Return
2022-04-21 - 2022-05-02 | Central Washington, WA
https://www.veteranrites.org/projects
Women and Men Veterans, primarily of Iraq and Afghanistan, enact a true Rite of Return through Ceremony and Solo time on the land. This non-profit provides numerous other programs, councils, classes and a heartfelt, living community to vets.
Sara Harris, guest Elder Woman guide

Living Earth Book Club - A Year Long Program
2022-01-20 17:00 - 19:30 | Various Locations, Sonoma County, CA
Listening to the Land as We Read and Walk Together

Beginning January 20, 2022
In House Circle
Thursday, 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Every other month
Day Walk, 1x every other month
Fee: See description below

We will gather once every other month to discuss books by environmental writers we love who are deeply connected to the earth. These passionate writers, as well as time on the land, have a way of opening the edges of our aliveness. Then, in the months in between, we will meet for a day-long out on the land. In this way, we drink in inspiration from others, as well as take the time to listen to the land speak directly to us.
We want to support cultivating our courageous hearts on behalf of all life. In the process, we will have fun, be challenged, confused, disagree, feel everything, and take time to be quiet. Practices inspired by the book we have been reading will be encouraged.
How will these authors, in concert with voices of the earth, inspire us to live more passionately and authentically in service to life?
Here are the books. It doesn’t matter if you have read them, as they can be read again and again. We will suggest certain chapters to be read in case you do not have time to read the whole book in any given month. Only get Radical Joy for starters, as we will begin with that book.
Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Facilitators/Guides: Sara Harris and Sahara Chaldean
sara@earthwaysllc.com /sahara@earthwaysllc.com
January, March, May, July, September, November Book Gatherings to meet one Thursday a month from 5:00-7:30 PM in downtown Forestville at the home of Sara Harris. The 1st meeting will be January 20th.
The other dates will be: Mar.24, May 26, July 21, Sept. 22, and Nov.17.
Tea and a simple snack will be provided.
February, April, June, August, October, and December DayWalks will be at various Sonoma County outdoor locations one Friday each month from approx. 9-4.
Those dates will be: Feb. 25, April 22, June 17, Aug. 26, Oct. 21, and Dec. 16.
As we get into the year, there is a slight chance one or two dates may change, so a bit of flexibility will be necessary, but we will make every effort to keep to these dates. Any changes will be announced far in advance.
The fee will amount to $60 a month (land fees/parking fees not included). We ask that you commit to the entire year. This comes to $720 for the year. There will be no refunds for missed sessions.  A non-refundable deposit of $60 is required to hold a place for you until the first meeting, and will apply to the full amount. There are 3 payment options:
Pay in full in January: $660
Pay $330 in January and again in June
Pay $220 in January, May, and September
Email Sara at sara@earthwaysllc.com or Sahara at sahara@earthwaysllc.com to indicate your interest. We anticipate this group will fill quickly and we will begin a wait list if needed. A letter with more information will be sent upon registering.
Proof of vaccination is a prerequisite, since we will be meeting in a small space, and we ask that this either be included with your deposit payment, or sent as a scan to one of us.  At our first meeting we will discuss group guidelines about safety, i.e. discussing certain situations in which home antigen testing might be necessary before returning to the in-house meeting.

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Women's Vision Fast
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-20 | Death Valley, CA
Offered by School of Lost Borders… www.schooloflostborders.org
One of a woman’s greatest longings is to be seen and known in her most wild and authentic self – a self that is intimately intertwined with the creative forces and cycles of nature. Like the waxing and waning of the moon, the feminine is reflected by the continual movement of light into dark, and back into the light. Birth death-and rebirth. She knows this in her own body as she makes the descent and reemerges anew, each time sourcing from an ancient wellspring of wisdom, passed down by a lineage of women who have traveled this path before.
No matter the circumstances, the gains and the losses, the wellspring never dries up. Perhaps, it gets forgotten, or dismissed, but eventually, the waters call a woman back to its source through the age-old, nature-based practice of a rite of passage. She is called to go out alone, with an empty belly and bare essentials, into the spacious desert, for four days and four nights where she will find herself in perfect solitude. Here she can clear away the distractions of her busy life and tune her ears to the voices of wild nature around her and to her own inner nature; the truth of her being, a daughter of Earth.
This ceremony involves several days of preparation, 4 days and nights of fasting alone in a wilderness place, and a few days of incorporation.
