If you would like to get added to the waitlist for this circle feel free to contact me.

We’re going to need each other now more than ever. And we’re going to need to remember our aliveness, and reach for the aliveness in the world, as a way to fortify and embolden ourselves. Let’s circle up and ground into practices together. 

When I wrote “how to be alive in a dying world” 5 years ago, I knew that ever-larger crises were unfolding but I didn’t know what forms they would take. The words came through one day when I was walking in the woods, and now I want to return to what was given, to try to build these words into practice. Will you join me?

The zine holds 11 seeds/prompts/commitments and each month I will mail you an herbal essence, writing prompts, and a somatic practice grounded in this idea, to help guide us from new moon to new moon. At the end of each moon cycle we’ll circle up virtually to share, explore and witness what has unfolded. My hope is that this can be a container that will hold us through the fear and the unknown, and to help us to get present, so that we might show up more fully in our embodied commitments to care and solidarity. 

This is an offering of spirit rather than capitalism so although I do need to cover the costs of materials and labor, the sliding scale will be wide ($25-$60 a month) in hopes that those who need the space will find it. If you are able to pay more in order to support my work in the world, your generosity is appreciated.

Our virtual gatherings will be monthly, 6-8pm PST on the Wednesday evening on or before the new moon (schedule below) so we can meet together and explore our experiences before we begin with a new seed/prompt/commitment. Please be able to commit to a whole year of practice together. 

December 21st- Gather up. Meet each other and share our collective intentions.

January 29th- Notice.“Notice your aliveness in breath, pulse, warmth. Sensation as here, as home.” Themes: Grounding into our bodies. Presence as power. Embodied pleasure as an anti-capitalist and an anti-facist move.

February 26th- Greet. “Greet the aliveness of rain, weed, fir, raven, rat. Hold their aliveness as stunning, instructive. Widen your gaze.” Themes: Connecting to the more than human realm. Honoring the adaptability of the creatures around us. 

March 26th- Give thanks. “Give thanks morning and night. Till this is the rhythm of your hours.” Themes: Gratitude as a practice rather than a bypass. Finding the sparks, even in pain and difficulty.  

April 23rd- Pray. “Pray into the unknown and the unfolding. There is so much you will never understand. Whisper, mumble, sing, into this complexity.” Themes: Being with mystery. Power and powerlessness. Moving with possibility. Spiritual practice as emergence. 

May 21st- Cry. “Cry as often as possible. Grieve the small betrayals. Grieve the large extinctions. Learn to wail.” Themes: Grief practices. Allowing ourselves to feel. What emerges from the alchemy of sorrow. 

June 25th- Nourish. “Nourish with foods, with words, with touch. Learn to receive. Remember that care is other than consumption.” Themes: Finding what sustains us. Receiving care.

July 23rd- Tend. “Tend to your life, your loves, your plants. Wash and water and cook and sweep and know that maintenance is a prayer for survival.” Themes: Rituals of tangible care. Offering material support.

August 20th- Shed. “Shed the shame that scores, that tracks, that defends. Shed the “good” and “bad” that inhibits presence. Be curious.” Themes: Opening ourselves to change. Moving outside of binaries. Compassion and commitment both.

September 17th- Listen. “Listen, pause, acknowledge, apologize. Do the mending that is asked for.” Themes: Finding a presence in receptivity. Practicing accountability.

October 15th- Respond. “Respond. Do the work of love. Be guided by mentors, by elders, by intuition that points a way. Choose grounded action over complicit comfort any day.” Themes: Finding ways into aligned action. Mapping our guides and networks.

November 19th- Reciprocate. “Reciprocate with your attention, your pleasure, your joy. Offer this: your awe at all the embers. Everywhere, life wanting to live.” Themes: Aliveness as an offering. Creativity and connection.

*The cost that you choose below will be the amount you’re charged monthly.