Recognition
School of Mindfulness and Nonviolence
Recognition is a curriculum of mindfulness and nonviolence. We combine teachings from western and Indigenous sciences and contemplative traditions. We teach Nature Mindfulness which is grounded in Nature Consciousness, the recognition that Animals feel, think, and dream like we do. Nature Mindfulness translates this conceptual understanding into embodied practice by unhooking the mind from human-centered perceptions and thoughts.
This allows us to understand issues and advocacy through the eyes of the Animals themselves. Animals and Plants become thought leaders and agents for shaping not only their futures, but our own. In this way, we learn how to fit in Nature, not the other way around, and live according to the same ethics and principles which Earth beings have followed for millions of years.
Offerings
We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realize that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realize you are the Earth. You realize that your consciousness is the consciousness of the Earth.