Nurture Your Connection with the Earth

What is the earth saying to us? How can we learn to listen deeply and respond with wisdom? How might we learn to live on earth from a place of deep reverence, connection, and reciprocity?

Join the author of Rewilding and Founding Director of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership, Micah Mortali, and friends for our second annual Rewilding Summit: a deep, multi-disciplinary dive into what it means to rewild our lives as modern people living in a changing world.

Our esteemed guest faculty includes: 

• Richard Louv, keynote and author of Last Child in the Woods and other foundational works that have profoundly shaped the nature connection and rewilding movement.
• Shawn Stevens, Mohican historian, musician, and artist, will return to help lead the summit alongside Micah, sharing his stories and music.
• Zelda Hotaling, spiritual intuitive, and Mohawk teacher and artist of the Mohawk Nation, will help open the event and lead a session on making offering pouches.

Master Classes:

• Rewilding the Human Animal with Daniel Vitalis: Reconnect with your place on Earth and your elemental nature in this immersive master class. First, we’ll locate ourselves in space and time with Orientation, then explore the fundamental needs of the human animal in Elementary School!
• Black Earth Mindfulness with Leah Penniman: We will immerse in ritual rewilding from a Black diasporic perspective. Participants will practice techniques to guide their interaction with Land in their daily lives, including: offerings to the spirits of the Land; using plants and water to spiritually cleanse; listening to the voice of the earth in deep stillness; practicing mindfulness through Haitian stone balancing; calling on our ancestors for support and guidance; connecting to the sacred Earth through storytelling and song; open to all, this workshop will be rich in ceremony and hands-on practice. Bring your questions about your relationship to land, water, and beyond human beings.
• Foraging Experience with Samuel Thayer: Foraging is not just for surviving emergencies; it’s a wholesome way to live all the time. In this class you will learn practical ways to incorporate wild foods into your daily life to improve nutrition and build a deeper connection to the land around you. We will discuss the role of fruits, nuts, roots, seeds, and greens in traditional diets. Participants will make some staple wild foods from scratch. We will discuss the ecological principles, philosophy, and practice of managing land with gratitude to enhance its wild food production.

Break-Out Sessions (half-days):

• The Transformational Process of Flint and Steel Fire Birthing with Tim Walsh
• Learning to Make Foraging Baskets with Katie Hagel
• Empowering Human Potential: Cold Water Immersion Workshop with Samuel Whiting
• Making Offering Pouches with Zelda Hotaling

Filter through the noise in the media, sit together in council with earth elders and leaders, and nurture your personal connection with the earth as you deepen your knowledge of:

• Nature and children
• Land stewardship and caretaking
• Cold water immersion
• Ancestral skills and Indigenous wisdom
• Foraging
• Fire-birthing
• Basketry
• Afro-indigenous listening skills
• The practice of council, music and so much more!

Gather with others who feel called to attune to the “more than human world" and return home a more mindful ambassador of the planet.

Learn more about the Rewilding Summit in this article from Micah.