Posts by Andrea Palframan
CA Mirroring the Four Shields of Human Nature: The Art of Story Telling and Listening
The best stories are about human nature — that is, the human of us which is, after all, nature in her basic manifestations as physical, psychical…
Read MoreNM Fall Vision Fast (Full with waitlist)
In your bones you hear the singing of your sacred ancestors. You follow in their footsteps. You go alone, with an empty belly and a bare minimum of equipment, into the heart of the wilderness, for four days and nights.
Read MoreThe Elder’s Journey: Four Shields of Eldering for Women
“We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and scattered.” – Kahlil Gibran Throughout the ages, elder women have enjoyed sitting in circle to weave the rich tapestries of their stories, stories that continued to warm and…
Read MoreGrief, Loss, and Transformation
The land around us (and within us) teaches with each passing season, and with each flood, drought, fire and storm, that out of change, crisis and a dying to what was, there appears a new story of form and adaptation. And that how we respond and integrate change into the fabric of our ongoing story…
Read MoreFall 2019 – The Power of Seeds
The winds of climate change are blowing hard. Fires were burning out of control north, and south of our headquarters in the past two weeks. Many of our friends and some of our guides in threatened areas were evacuated, and our prayers have been with everyone, human and more than human, in the affected areas!…
Read MoreSummer 2019 – In Celebration of Summer
We are so grateful for a long good spring on the Eastern Side of the Sierra with some rains lingering into late May. Everything is a lot greener than usual and there is still snow in the mountains. It would be hard to believe that we are already at the peak of summer….. well, if…
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