Listening to the Land: A Path to Healing, Guidance, and Soul-Level Wholeness

May 13

Discover how deepening your relationship with nature can transform your life, heal ancestral patterns, and open pathways to profound spiritual connection.

My Journey to the Wild

I've been a nature lover since childhood—the kind who would run away from home just to be among the trees. As I traveled through different landscapes in my adult years, I began to notice something profound: each place held a different energy, almost a different karma to be lived depending on where I landed.

Some places became what I call "soul places"—locations where true, deep miracles and healing happened for me. The Oregon coast has been one such sanctuary. But it's the Rocky Mountains, especially in Colorado, that have been my most important spiritual teachers.

The relationship developed gradually. I visited in every season, spent countless hours alone in retreat, and over years and miles, I learned where certain plants grew and when, noticed shifts in ecosystems, observed mountain goats in their element. I studied these nature beings I encountered—learning about the land's history, the uses of plants for food and medicine, and the animals who made their homes there.

Eventually, this relationship transcended the personal. Walking through those mountains became like moving through a pharmacy or grocery store. New insights would appear precisely when I needed them most. Animal sightings delighted me constantly. And the insights came as a constant conversation with Spirit.

I walked those trails through heartbreak, confusion, and grief. I held ceremonies when I felt lost on my path. I celebrated in gratitude simply for being there. So much unfolded through this relationship with the land that by the time I left, the mountains had become my grandparents, the trees my siblings, and the flowers my kin.

Over that decade, I was taught a process that I can now lead others through to have this same kind of relationship—a process of rewilding the spirit.

The Gifts of Deep Earth Connection

Healing

Time and again, this deep relationship with Earth has been the source of tremendous healing in my life. The land takes what isn't mine to carry—my pain—and transmutes it. In return, it offers gifts, blessings, and energetic attunements to wellness and new opportunities.

Note: I know some well-known teachers say, "The Earth isn't a dumpster for all our junk"—suggesting we shouldn't be unconscious and expect Earth to heal us. But I prefer a different metaphor: that of mother and child.
Imagine having a teenager—they leave dishes out, pile up laundry, get into a fender bender creating huge bills, and their hormones are causing emotional chaos. It drives you crazy, but you love them. You know it's a phase; they're learning. And of course, you want to do what you can to keep them well.
If that teenager becomes more conscious—helping out, being kind, taking responsibility—you can do your job as a parent even better, and you genuinely feel gratitude. Earth is similar in her relationship with us.

Guidance

Through connecting with the land, we receive insights and wisdom from a much broader perspective. We come into partnership with something far larger than ourselves—the web of life itself.

Manifesting

The land not only helps us heal and offers guidance, but it also opens opportunities for creation. As we receive healing and offer healing in return, we attune to the land, deepen into reciprocity, and something magical happens.

The energetic imprints that cause stagnation and obstacles in our lives begin to clear, allowing energy to flow more freely. The spirits of the land and nature bring a bigger view and different kind of influence to our manifestation work.

I experienced this firsthand when tending my garden in Denver. The plants and soil taught me about patience, timing, and the subtle art of nurturing life—lessons that extended far beyond gardening into every creative project I undertook.

This manifesting partnership brings:

Protection
Synchronistic meetings
Gifts of food, medicine, and beauty
Guidance through insights and omens
Partnership in the changes we wish to see
Projects that flow more smoothly

Soul-Level Wholeness

The safer you feel on Earth, the more you feel you belong to the land, the more of your soul essence can come home to your body and this life. There's a direct correlation between our connection to place and our capacity to be fully present and alive.

Changing Your Karma

Think of karma as energy patterns—the divots and grooves you're born into through ancestry and past lives. These patterns create the easiest pathway for energy to move, but they can also keep us trapped in limiting cycles.

This can all be changed in partnership with the spirits of nature. They teach our light to interact with their light in new ways—this is true magic, quantum shifting. It's like digging a new channel for light and water to flow through, creating new grooves more powerfully with nature's remediation.

Trying to change thought patterns through willpower alone is hard. Even meditation can take a long time to shift deep patterns. But the masters who have been doing this work on this planet forever—stones, plants, elements—know how to facilitate transformation efficiently.

When we create right relationship with these beings, they teach us how to change our field of light—our karma and patterns—remarkably effectively.

Obstacles to Connection

This probably sounds wonderful—so what stops us from going deeper? There are several barriers to earth connection that many of us face:

1. Modern Lifestyles

We've become disconnected from reality. Our relationships with phones and AI take us further from nature. The pace of life feels unnatural, and many lack regular access to wild places.

That said, cities have spirits that can feel amazing too—there's important spiritual work being done in urban environments. The land beneath the concrete still speaks.

2. Lack of Ecoconsciousness

We've become obsessed with thought, symbols, and mind. We're enculturated to be individually focused rather than relationally conscious. We must work deliberately to connect our thoughts with something larger than ourselves.

The effects of this disconnection are clear: we become burdened by responsibilities and forget we're part of something bigger. We lose sight of co-creation and the two-way influence between ourselves and the natural world.

3. Missing Communication Skills

Many of us simply don't know how to work with the master healers and teachers that live in nature and spirit realms. We lack:

Communication skills and etiquette
Knowledge of how to build relationship and trust
Understanding of reciprocity

4. Isolation from Community

What we do as individuals matters, but our impact becomes exponential in community. Community keeps us going when we feel isolated or lose touch with our practices. New insights arise, and we receive confirmation and encouragement.

This community aspect is both ancestral—very few humans ever lived alone historically—and Aquarian, written into the cosmic blueprint of this time.

Rewilding the Spirit: The Journey Home

In my 12-week course, "Rewilding the Spirit," we practice a nourishing, resonant way of attuning to nature and finding solace amidst the challenges of modern life.

We'll rewild our minds and drop into deeper ecoconsciousness through:

Strengthening intuition
Learning earth healing skills
Practicing ancestral skills and embodiment
Developing a sense of belonging to the land through actual rewilding skills that build confidence
Getting to know the place where you are
Meeting and learning from the master healers and teachers of the natural world
Connecting with the spiritual beings of nature—fae, gnomes, elemental beings
Working with the elements—foundational to all shamanic and magical practices
Learning the language of nature

And all this happens in supportive community.

This is the most important practice and play there is. No amount of meditation, spiritual study, herbalism classes, reiki, or even shamanism will be as impactful as you want it to be unless you are grounded and in relationship with the wild world and your wild self.

The whole purpose of this work is soul-level healing. The entire course is designed to facilitate profound transformation through reconnection with the natural world.

Join the Journey

If you're ready to transform your relationship with the natural world and, in the process, with yourself, I invite you to join us. The course begins May 21, 2025.

Remember, the land is always speaking. The question is: are we listening?

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