“Wild, uninhibited love is the single force powerful enough to send us head over heels, out of our minds and into our bodies; to bring us home to our senses. These enchantments ~ the same magic used by the flower who seduces a honey bee to carry pollen for his petalled love ~ hope to entice you to love the world in ways you have forgotten.”
— Sharifa Oppenheimer
If you, like us, loved your time with Sharifa, we encourage you to register for our upcoming course, Kinship with Nature starting this Tuesday, March 21st!
In this course each week you will take a deep dive into one of the Elements and the Realms of Nature. Through song, movement, story, breathwork, visualization, and deep internal inquiry, your innate connection to the natural world will flourish. You will also explore the interplay of these very same beings within your own inner sphere, within your heart, psyche, soul, and spirit. Classes will be recorded for your flexibility and convenience.
About the Webinar: Join us in discussion with renowned teacher and author, Sharifa Oppenheimer about the reflection of Sacred Earth and Sacred Self, mirroring our inner and outer worlds. We will explore this connection especially in deepening our kinship with Nature.
“Come close ~ lie down in the generous arms of the wild. She is exhilarating, nurturing, dangerous, essential. She is life. She is calling you:
Come to love. Come fall awake. Come hold all of my cascading beauty my aching fragility.”
-Sharifa Oppenheimer from a Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology
If it’s possible for you, please have paper and a pencil, crayons, or markers present during the webinar.
Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School and is the author of the best-selling book Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children and its companion workbook How To Create The Star of your Family Culture. She recently wrote With Stars in Their Eyes: Brain Science and Your Child’s Journey Toward the Self.
After writing extensively from her experience, wisdom, and love of young children, she has turned her hand toward writing about other aspects of profound connection. She has been a student of Sufism for many decades and has deep respect for other indigenous wisdom traditions which point humanity toward the sacred nature of the living earth. She offers Sacred Earth ~ Sacred Self gatherings that explore humanity’s biological and spiritual inter-being with our other-than-human relations. Her new book A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology (Red Elixir Press, April 2022) explores these themes through essays, poetry, and litany. The mother of three grown sons and grandmother to many grandchildren, she lives with her husband in an enchanted forest in Virginia.
