Natural Communion Forest Guide Training Part 1

Near Frediericksburg, VA

Becoming a Guide to help people enter into a deeper connection with nature and themselves is a great thing to offer others and to do for yourself.  

If you are not familiar with this work, it is vast and there are many approaches, but the gist is that when we get really present in Nature, Nature gets really present back and all of a sudden we are in a conscious relationship with Nature in ways we have forgotten since childhood or even for lifetimes.  And there is more to it than that. This is truly the doorway into the multidimensional realms and world of more than human consciousness.  

But even the most basic beginning practice will help you and others you pass this on to.  It will ground you and help you balance in the coming changes.  It will open your heart and allow your multi-sensory awareness of the present moment open up and from there you will be able to follow intuition.  It will lower your blood pressure and heart rate and decrease your stress hormones and you will breath in all kinds of beneficial anti-viral, anti bacterial protectors.  

We have been uprooted from out natural foundations and now there is danger of rooting us into a tecnhological world of machines and AI instead of our own deep natural capacities and development.  This is the antidote to cell phones and other invasive technology in the long run.  This is part of our fight to Stay Human and connected to the life of our planet.  So you may only take this because you enjoy nature and have heard it is a healthy pastime, which it is... But is is sooo much more.  I hope you can try the experience and then deepen into a weekend training that will give you the ABC's to teach for yourself.  .  

This weekend long training will be a camp out immersion experience and I would like everyone to take a pre-requisite 3 hour workshop in the basic Natural Communion Experience.  They are scheduled once a month and so consider doing them all as this will allow you to enjoy the movement of new life as it bursts forth after winter.  Those dates are Sunday Feb 23, March 23, and a Special Easter Sunday Communion on April 20.  May 3 and 4 will be a weekend Sweat Lodge Ceremony and camp out.  This is part of Forest Bathing Part 2: Ceremony.  We will have experiential and teaching components as well.  

 I also will have a friend who does wonderful herbal concoctions who will offer workshops on wildcrafting these important plants to help us.  So stay tuned and please enroll in a 3 hour experience if you can and sign up for this weekend immersion.  We will need a minimum of 4 people so enroll early or let me know you are interested via email.  earthwalkways@gmail.com.

What does this class look like? 

We will begin with some basics and see where each student is in terms of the ability to stay present and offer excercises and practices to support this.  Nature is a great siren and calls us into connection through our senses so even if you live more in mental realms, plans and memories, this new domain of awareness will captivate and help you make a shift.  The longer we are immersed in nature the deeper we can connect and the more multidimensional and relational it all becomes.  This is something we long for.  We will spend time practicine and discussing our experience and find tuning the working with various approaches.  You will bring your lunch on Saturday and I will have a simple Dinner, and Brunch as well as snacks.  You should bring things that you might want for yourself or to share with others if you want.  

The first day may also include a walk down the creek so you will need to have moderate physical fitness and be comfortable walking without a trail.  It is about 1/2 mile to the Rapphannock River and a very beautiful meander path takes us there.  

On Sunday we will have a morning meditation, and a solo Communion experience coming back to share and have brunch.   We will have a final session to close in the afternoon.  

If you have any questions please get in touch with me via phone or email.  My main number is 540 752 5540 day or evenings or earthwalkways@gmail.com. 

Darlene Rollins discovered that she had been shown a form of Forest Bathing she called Natural Communion whlle doing her own work through her desire to reconnect with nature.  She was gifted a beautiful location that is perfect for this kind of experience and has developed her retreeat and programs now for 40 years. You are welcome to schedule an exploratory session or retreat consultation to learn more and get a feel for her work as it touches you.  I hope to see you here.    

Please contact me at 540 752 5540 or email me at earthwalkways@gmail.com.  You can see more pictures of the retreat at earthwalkways.com.