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Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature
240Overview
“Rewilding is a return to our essential nature. It is an attempt to reclaim something of what we were before we used words like ‘civilized’ to define ourselves.” Micah Mortali
In his long-awaited book Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energyyour undomesticated true selfand deepening your connection with the living earth.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban livesand our vital wildness has gone dormant. As a result, we’re more isolated, unhealthy, anxious, and depressed than ever, and our planet has suffered alongside us.
With Rewilding, Mortali invites us to shed the effects of over-civilization and explore an inner wisdom that is primal, ancient, and profound. Whether you live in the middle of a city or alongside the woods, the insights and practices on these pages will bring you home to your wild, wise, and alive self.
Highlights include:
* Practice-rich contentmindfulness exercises, guided meditations, yoga and pranayama, inward sensing, forest bathing, and much more
* The “life-force deficit”explore how our separation from nature affects us physiologically and spiritually
* Ancestral skillssuch as tracking, foraging, building fires, and finding shelter
* Develop a sense of calm, clarity, connection, and confidence in both your daily life and the great outdoors
* What you can learn from nature’s teacherslessons from mountains, rivers, trees, and our animal kin
* Rewild in the wildguidelines around safety, preparedness, appropriate gear, and packing lists
* A mindful rewilding flowput everything together in an immersive, step-by-step rewilding experience
* Awaken your authentic spiritual connection with the natural world as you come home to your true self
* Understand the relationship between our health and the health of our planetand how we can begin to heal both
Part celebration of the natural world, part spiritual memoir, and part how-to guide, Rewilding is a must-read for anyone who wants to embrace their wild nature and essential place in the living earth.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781683643258 |
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Publisher: | Sounds True, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 12/03/2019 |
Pages: | 240 |
Sales rank: | 411,720 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Stephen Cope ix
Introduction 1
1 Mindful Rewilding 7
Practice: Natural Mindfulness 27
2 Eyes of the Eagle: The Journey Inward Leads Us Outward 31
Practices: Centering 40
Nature Meditation 41
Witness in the Woods 43
Inner-Space and Outer-Space Meditation 50
BRFWA: Breathe, Relax, Feel, Watch, Allow 60
3 The Living Earth: Paths to Your Wildness 65
Practices: Interbeing 69
Reanimating 72
The Long Exhale 76
Giving Thanks 78
Noticing and Thanking 79
Guided Forest Bathing 93
4 Reclaiming Skills: Movement, Preparedness, Fire, and Shelter 103
Practices: Walking with Awareness 104
Meditation for Entering the Wild 118
Guided Smoke Meditation 121
Fire Meditation 128
Gratitude Meditation for Birthing Fire 134
5 Out of Exile: Skills for Coming Home to the Living Earth 143
Practice: Animal-Track Mandala Meditation 167
6 Putting It All Together: A Rewilding Flow 171
Practices: Guided Centering 181
Guided Breath 183
Gratitude 184
Warm-Up 1 Joint Rotations 186
Warm-Up 2 Mindful Push-Ups 189
Warm-Up 3 Sun Breaths 190
Fox Walk 195
Plant Connection 197
Engaging and Expanding the Senses 199
Observing the Earth 201
Acknowledgments 209
Notes 211
Resources 215
Bibliography 217
Index 221
About the Author 225