Art Contemplative Land Art – The Spiralynth The Story of The Spiralynth October 2021 – on-going Media: Conkers, leaves, rake and movement. Location: Buckinghamshire, UK. In the paddock, beneath the giant outspread branches of the tree we’ve come to know lovingly, respectfully as ‘Big Momma’, I slowly gathered myself against the cold and wind. My intention, to complete the Sisyphean task of […] Trudi Simpson February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Holistic Wellbeing Spacebook: Introducing open awareness for adults and kids A few years ago, my wife and I had the idea to share publicly an approach that we had been experimenting with as part of the home/travel schooling that we were providing to our children. We called it “Spacebook” for which we put together a simple website. Until recently the initial website remained undeveloped, but […] Jevon Dangeli August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Project Elf-strength of the Earth: Developing an Earth connected facilitation process This project explores how we can create a deeper relationship with Earth in virtual spaces and whether this can improve wellbeing. Together with an immersive film director, Kelley Van Dilla and my eldest nephew, Caleb Roberts (13), we’re co-creating an Earth connected process that’s both grounded in my own research on Earth Connection and developed […] Tabitha Jayne July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art The Resurgence of the Spiritual in Art Recently a resurgence of the spiritual in art can be identified in the popular appeal of exhibitions such as Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim Museum (2019), Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings at the Serpentine Galleries (2019), and in the Tate’s acquisition of Ithell Colquhoun’s archive. Parallelly, neoteric creative trends seek to […] Lila Moore May 22, 2021June 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Art is our Daily Bread Art is our daily bread. In October, as lockdown is looming over the city of Ruvo di Puglia in the south of Italy, a planetary cluster of galleries has descended from cyberspace to its historic center. There, the scent of fresh bread from the local bakery leads us to discover an exhibition where art and […] Lila Moore October 27, 2020November 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Project Transforming land, transforming people I believe that engaging with the natural environment creates a desire to preserve it. This is at the root of the Transforming Land, Transforming People project. Embodied connection to the natural world reveals information that can be transformational. I am influenced by the work of the eco-feminist and activist Vandana Shiva, who also integrates a […] Paula Staunton September 14, 2020November 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Insight Personal stories Lockdown & the synchronous song of nature I would like to share a brief aspect of my experience and deepening connection with nature during the lockdown in London. I’ve always had a strong affinity with nature, which continues to increase. My Master’s dissertation with Alef Trust enabled me to explore the topic of “Nature as a Healer”, through a phenomenological study of […] Lucy Sam July 15, 2020June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Eco-Community Communicating with trees Trees first appeared on the Earth around 385 million years ago. The oldest known non-clonal tree, a Bristlecone Pine, has lived for more than 5,000 years, whilst the oldest clonal tree group in Utah, has an astonishing estimated age of 80,000 years. Trees have played a significant part in the development of human consciousness. They […] David Furlong June 25, 2020July 16, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Gaia, Psyche & Deep Ecology, by Andrew Fellows In this brilliant and perceptive interdisciplinary study, Andrew Fellows homes in on our spiritual crisis and environmental emergency, demonstrating the close connections between inner and outer and a critical correspondence between the dominance of the ego and our exploitation of nature. One of the first scholars to note this connection was Seyyed Hossein Nasr in […] David Lorimer June 4, 2020March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
