Wilderness Within offers sessions, practices and retreats to deepen our inner resourcing, remembering our selves as nature, and inspiring planet friendly living.
Alaya supports us in recovering our deep resolve and fierce devotion in choosing loving care, cooperation and consideration in all the ways we move in life.
This is my Commitment
Guiding you in discovering a lifestyle of self care and planet care through cultivating nourishing practice and ways of conscious consumption (food, sense impression, consciousness) that are life giving.
Remembering, re-sensitizing and re-connecting to our deep body-felt sense of wisdom from within, through ethical teachings on interbeing, mindfulness, inquiry, and body-based practices.
Exploring how to become naturalized to place by cultivating a growing relationship with the animate world we live in; discovering our belonging to this earth, as we are nature.
Finding home and reciprocity with the element that sustain our life in this body.
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Isolation to Connection
Choosing to love deeply and opening to the rawness of this human journey.
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Distraction to Presence
Consciously deepening our awareness of WHAT and HOW we choose
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Separation to Cooperation
Celebrating diversity and creating the bridges that bring us together.
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Denial to Informed Choice
Choosing kindness and consideration, knowing my choices impact others.
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Repression to Vulnerability
Creating a safe space to explore uncomfortable feeling and beliefs that limit our wellbeing and expression in the world.
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Chaos to Cosmos
Choosing LIFE, knowing that all will pass away and how to accept this truth and live a life of compassion and creativity. Accepting challenges as grand teachers on our journey to wholeness.
Upcoming Events
Why Retreat? Retreat is a vital act of kindness to ourselves, in that it gives us time and space to feel and deeply inquire into, how we are being or not being with this one precious life. Time to grow our capacity to stay close to our hearts, grow deeper into our awareness and serve life from a solid foundation of knowing one’s self. Retreat supports our capacity to stay curious and grow trust in receiving support from a community that is willing to be vulnerable together and grow compassionately in this awkward dance of becoming adult human beings.
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“Wake and watch the universe shrug itself into wakefulness, as night surrenders slowly to day and shadow relinquishes itself to light. I watch this display and realize that the moon lives in the lining of my skin, the sun rises with my consciousness, and the earth thrums in the bottoms of my feet. Everywhere I go, I take that sense of wonder and mystery with me.”
— Wagamese, Richard. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
