Nature Mindfulness^TM

Through this course, you will learn the foundations of mindfulness and meditation and how to integrate them into your daily life.

You will learn to:

• Develop fresh perspectives that reveal new, constructive pathways of understanding and response
• Gain the tools you need to cultivate compassion for yourself and others
• Cultivate a mindfulness meditation practice to help navigate difficult situations, strong emotions, and overwhelm
• Bring greater clarity, authenticity, and deeper understanding to your relationships with Animals and humans

The content of this self-paced six-class course is recorded and online, so you can take more time or revisit sessions to process the material more fully. Classes build on prior material and practices and can be integrated as you progress. The pace is up to you.

Each class consists of recorded presentations, guided meditations, readings and resources that center on a particular theme or topic. There are also Questions for Reflection that provide an opportunity to engage more fully with the material  and, importantly, put this learning into practice. You are invited to connect with other learners in the Nature Mindfulness Group on the Kerulos Learning Institute (KLI) platform or on the Kerulos Constellation Facebook page where you can meet, discuss, and share. You may also schedule a private mentoring session with an instructor to discuss the material and practices in greater depth.

By transforming yourself, you transform the lives of Animals.

Class One: Mindfulness in a Changing World. We begin with reflections on the importance of mindfulness, and why grounding mindfulness and meditation in Nature is vital for a revolution in human consciousness to heal the planet.

Class Two: Animals and Mindfulness.  This class explores mindfulness and how it relates to our relationships with Animals and each other.

Class Three: Cultivating Patience. We discuss how a practice of patience provides you with a powerful way to deal with overwhelming stress, anger, resentment, and other destructive emotions.

Class Four: Becoming Whole. How do we reconcile the damaging ways our species lives with reuniting with Nature? By healing and annealing the pieces inside.

Class Five: Compassion and Forgiveness. We explore how committed practices of compassion and forgiveness, even in the face of atrocities, are steps toward ending the cycle of violence.

Class Six: Grounding Your Life in Mindfulness. This class brings together the learning from previous sessions and talks about you practically craft an everyday life based on the values and qualities which Animals embody such as equanimity, compassion, lovingkindness, and acceptance.