NATURAL SOULFUL TRANSITIONS
Everything is in transition, always. And everything can both affect and be affected by the transition of everything else. That’s why changing your environment can spark and facilitate personal transitions. And personal transitions can change the world.
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A walk in the woods can be an especially powerful, beautiful transition path. Each step away from your current surroundings -- each step further into the forest -- brings you into a deeper connection with the earth and its wild inhabitants. Your changing perspectives and energies can bring greater awareness, new insights, Eureka moments, and the inner fire that you need to improve your life.
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Inner Landscapes offers day hikes and hiking retreats for “inner explorers,” focused on personal transitions and new beginnings. Discover the beautiful rainforest wilds of British Columbia as you explore the changing inner landscape of your own life.
Led by Adrian Juric, a certified psychology counselor, the programs typically include readings from selected poets and writers on the theme of inner transformation, including those of Rumi, David Whyte, Thomas Moore, Thomas Merton, Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, John Muir, H.D. Thoreau, among others. Hiking excursions offer time to connect and reflect. And there is time to write, to gather thoughts and create new ideas.
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Upcoming offerings include “Living Through Transition: The Metaphorical Guidance of the Natural World,” “Life Transition Through the Lens of Nature,' and “Life Transitions: Winter, Clarity, and Renewal.”
“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” - John Muir
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Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. They work in close partnership with the Transition Network, a UK based organization that supports the international Transition Movement as a whole.
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The Transition Movement is a vibrant, grassroots movement that supports and trains communities as they self-organize to transition away from fossil fuel dependence and reduce CO2 emissions.
The organizations run events, conferences, trainings, blogs, and webinars, as well as produce monthly newsletters, books, films, guides, and more, all to support people around the world who are trying to affect positive change.
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The Transition Initiative helps well over a thousand highly diverse communities around the world with projects addressing areas such as food, transportation, energy, education, housing, waste, and the arts as they relate to the global challenges of climate change, economic hardship and shrinking supplies of cheap energy.
The organization also offers a fascinating two-day workshop, “Inner Transition,” which explores the inner dimension of the shift to a sustainable future.
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Each phase of life has its beautiful possibilities as do the transitions between them. Natural Transitions is an organization that promotes education about conscious, holistic, and green approaches to end of life. They aim help people make greener, more sustainable choices for burial.
Photo: Courtesy of Afi Docs Film Festival. A Will for the Woods.
The organization recently held a film festival, which included a series of films and discussions all focused on aspects of death and dying in harmony with the natural world. One film highlight, the award-winning “A Will for the Woods,” directed by Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, and Brian Wilson, documents the journey of Clark Wang.
The terminally ill psychiatrist connects with timeless natural cycles as he finds a way to leave this world without without a physical trace. The film was named by TED as one of the nine documentaries to see this year.
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Other films included “This Dewdrop World,” a lyrical essay about the parallel transitions of human life and the planet, as well as the Colorado debut of Vultures of Tibet, a look at the commercialization of the sacred Tibetan sky burial tradition.
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Read more about Beautiful Transitions, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact in our posts throughout this week, including 10 New Books on Beauty in Transition, 10 Beautiful Winter Transitions, Gorgeous Winter Ice Creams, 10 Beautiful Transitions Songs, 10 Beautiful Places On Their Way, and Transitions Trump Resolutions.
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