Have a desire to connect with the natural world, to spend more time in and with the forest? What if building relationships with the trees and plants helped us to find our way in the chaotic world? 

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Many of us in this culture have lost the memory of being a part of nature. We tend to consider ourselves separate from the natural world. This false viewpoint has enabled us to destroy many earth resources, has caused extinction of many species of animals and birds and has caused tremendous climate change. I have often heard the question: “How can we help to heal the earth?” Or “How can we work together to help create more harmony on this planet?” The “together” could include people working alongside each other for a common purpose and it could also include how we could partner with nature, AS nature ourselves. In this knowing we have a more expansive understanding of what Life includes and that we are all equal, important and bring our unique and necessary gifts. We need the help of each other to bring these gifts into fruition. We need the plants and trees, as they also need us to fulfill some of their purposes. So, the invitation is for you to start with yourself and inquire; How could you create, develop and/or deepen in intimacy with the plants, trees, animals and elements? How could you build these reciprocating relationships?

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Of course, there are many ways, and it could be as simple as spending time in the local forest or park and sitting with a plant/tree, appreciating it, breathing with it. Oxygen out from the plant, we take in, carbon dioxide exhaled from us, the plant breaths in. The plants provide ALL of our oxygen. Literally, we could not live without them. In this way, we are already in relationship with the plants. Yet, making this relationship conscious changes everything and opens us to listen deeply to the plants for what they are asking of us and opens us to be able to receive their gifts.

For an in-depth dive into plant relationships, Wendy offers Plant Spirit Initiations. We work with 1 plant over 3 days in a retreat setting to deepen very quickly into relationship and open to receiving the medicine and gifts of that particular plant. These initiations can be truly life transforming!