Heart of Earth
Nature Practices to Cultivate a Peaceful Heart
with Shiila Safer & Marnie Dangerfield
with guidance from the book
Becoming Earth: Healing the Myth of Separation
by Shiila Safer
We invite you to take a quiet interlude in your busy day to be soothed by Nature’s flow.
How can we make a difference in today’s world?
A small number of people can turn the tide and make a difference. Are you one of those people? Can renewing our sacred relationship with the Earth tip the scales? We think so!
Shiila and Marnie invite you on a journey into the Heart of Earth. We are both creativity and nature coaches. We are passionate about re-establishing Earth connections in order to cultivate well-being for both you and the planet.
We offer guided meditation and mindfulness in Nature practices, drawing and journaling to spark your creativity and embody peaceful connection.
Throughout the series you will experience these practices during our virtual gatherings and we encourage you to carry them into your daily life, making them your own. Your time in Nature in between is an essential part of our Heart of Earth experience.
The live experience is recommended, and we will provide a recording as well. Personal shares will not be included in the recordings.
Come be a part of our circle in community to cultivate a peaceful heart!
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Shiila Safer
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Marnie Dangerfield
The well-being of the planet depends on the well-being of your own body and minds, just as the well-being of your mind and body depends on the well-being of the planet.
~ Thich Nhat Hahn
Cultivate Resiliency
Through
Re-establishing
Your Relationship
with
Nature and Earth
It’s time to fall in love with yourself, Earth and your life again. Being present in nature opens your heart. This is one path that is accessible to us all.
Each week we offer a nourishing container to hold deep discoveries as you re-establish your sense of belonging.
We invite you to deepen your relationship with your own ecology and discover sacred places that are available for you now, right where you are.
“What a combination - Shiila Safer and Marnie Dangerfield! You know their love of the Earth. You know their Intentional Creativity hearts. What you don’t know is how their collaboration gently and soulfully leads you into an exploration of your vital connection to the world you live in. You won’t want to miss it.”
~ Natalie Moyes
The Details to Make it Happen!
The Dates: Sundays, May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19
The Times: 1:30PM Pacific, 3:30PM Central, 4:30PM Eastern, plan on up to 90 minutes
The Location: Weekly Zoom Sanctuary
The Materials/ Supplies: Journal or paper, colored pens, pencils, crayons or paints, seeds to plant. You will receive more information about materials once you register.
Optional but recommended:
A copy of the book Becoming Earth: Healing the Myth of Separation by Shiila Safer
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Your Investment: $197
Here’s What You Will Receive with Your Registration:
Complimentary guided meditation with Shiila - link for you to keep
A sacred online container in community for 4 weeks held by Marnie and Shiila
Four 90-minute classes Sundays, May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19 at 1:30PM Pacific, 3:30PM Central, 4:30PM Eastern
A weekly practice to bring through and embody Earth wisdom in your own ecology
Metacognative Drawing practice to connect your mind and heart
Non-dominant journaling practice to link right and left brain and open to your intuition
Ways to reduce stress by regulating your nervous system
Nature Practices from the book Becoming Earth: Healing the Myth of Separation guided by the author, Shiila Safer
Feeling Called?
Imagine:
Receiving guidance through creative play
Relaxing into your grounded connection with Nature
Feeling held and nurtured by something bigger than yourself
Engaging in daily practices that both ground AND expand you
Exploring nature-based ways of working with tension and fear
Opening your senses more fully to experience the natural world
Feeling a renewed sense of belonging again
Let’s plant the
seeds of possibility!
As each of us embodies peace, we put peace out into the world through our thoughts and actions, and it really does make a difference!
Let’s remember that we, too, are creators.
Through the nourishment and self-care of spending quiet time in Nature, we will cultivate peaceful hearts and mindful attention with which we can receive our creative guidance and inspiration.
Together we will explore the Heart of Earth and open to receive her love and nourishment. Throughout our journey we will learn practices in reciprocity, where we feel in our bodies the joy of giving our love back to the Earth as well.
Time for nurturing and self care
In a loving community we will be witnessed and held during our journey together.
In these unsteady times these practices provide:
Grounding amidst the uncertainty
Time for nurturing and self-care
Connection with yourself, a caring circle of women and nature
Ways to stay present, embodied, awake and aware
Access to your creative expression and to what truly matters to you
Ways to co-create joy, hope, possibility and beauty
A sense of belonging, presence and peace
Every one of us matters and together we have the power to create the shift in the world that we are longing for!
What People Are Saying
"An hour of "me" time, scheduled, every week is exactly what I needed to boost my creativity, confidence and mood. Since Marnie started supporting me with her gentle and loving approach I have been reminded of my true inner strength. With her weekly support I find it easy to maintain a positive mindset where possibilities and "chance happenings" seem to be popping up all over the place! She grounds and settles my fears and has kept me on the track of love and light.”
~ Nicole
“I experienced such a deep re-connection with my soul and nature energy working with Shiila. Her spirit is vibrant, and she has such a gentle way of guiding one through her session. I was tingley the entire experience. I was also inspired to create a new line of art from our session. Shiila and her work is such a blessing to everyone who says YES. ❤ “
~ Elora
Heart of Earth Series Overview:
We are creating a container and offering practices for you to re-establish your relationship to self, to Earth/Nature and to your creative power. We will hold a circle of support and accountability for the 4 weeks of our practice together.
Walk and explore with us along the garden path as you:
Ground - Sunday, May 29, 2022
Create presence and coherence in mind/body/spirit/field.
Draw the journey and the relationship of self and the natural world.
Connect with your intention(s) for this journey.
Inquire: What are your seeds of possibility?
Plant some seeds and watch them grow.
Know and understand that you matter, you belong and that your relationship to the Earth and your creative power matters.
Root - Sunday, June 5, 2022
Explore within using inquiry, movement, paper, pen and paints.
Inquire: What is in your soil that is growing YOU?
Bring curiosity to your self-care. What nourishes you?
Notice what you are currently rooted in.
Have fun experimenting this week practicing loving kindness, compassion and gratitude towards your plant and yourself.
Feel nourished and supported in our rooted circle
Open - Sunday, June 12, 2022
Open to what arises - notice what you notice.
Raise awareness about what may be shifting in you.
Connect to your unique self and wisdom and what you need to grow.
Practice breathing in a conscious way (from the Becoming Earth book).
Use your voice to explore sound, sing to plants, tone with trees and Earth (from the Becoming Earth book).
Feel the love connection flowing.
Walk - Sunday, June 19, 2022
Identify practices that you can use over again moving forward.
Draw your journey and relationship of self and the natural world.
Compare to class #1. Has anything changed, shifted?
Experience the natural world directly every day.
Practice mindful walking.
Leave with your healing insights and action steps.
What might happen if you allow this time to pause in a nurturing and caring space, to listen to your heart's voice? What might arise if you prioritize the time to reconnect to yourself and to the wisdom of the Earth?
Why these steps?
“In a time that evokes fear and paralysis, rooted ways of being within nature, assure us that we are grounded in the natural world. Our bodies, our thoughts, our minds, our spirits are affected by the whole of the earthen community and affect this whole in return. This is both a mystical sensibility and a scientific fact. It is an awareness that makes us tingle with its responsibility. Its beauty, its poetry, it makes our lives our most foundational form of activism. It means everything we do matters and matters wondrously.”
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
from the book Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit
Walk the Path of Transformation
Walk Awake
You and I are aspects of Earth, and as such we all work as a team together. The teacher is the forest or the creek in your local ecology. It’s your role to pause and open for that wisdom to come through.
We invite you to take this journey with us into the joy of Earth’s intimate secrets being revealed to and through you. Love is at the root of everything. Let’s fall in love again and feel ourselves as a sacred growing living expression of love and Earth wisdom.
Culture is feeding us with ‘not enough’ and the need for getting things and answers outside oneself. We choose a different way. We say, you are enough right now. You belong, right now. You have access, right now. You are supported right now!
This is about accessing what is available to you. You have Earth’s gifts all around you - Notice a tree, plant, sky, or some element that you can connect with, learn from and be nurtured by. What is available near you?
We offer simple practices to nurture your relationship with Earth, sharing something tangible that you can do, using what you have at your fingertips now.
What can happen when you pull away from the distraction and worry? And immerse yourself in a sanctuary of peace and community and possibility?
Feeling Called?
Meet Your Guide
I’m Shiila Safer, a tree lover and avid gardener. I am an author and a Creativity in Nature Coach. I assist with reducing anxiety and tension, and accessing your joy and creativity by re-aligning with the natural world. I am currently inspired by this inquiry, “How can we fall in love with Earth and Sky and live every day as if it is a love affair unfolding its mysteries?”
“Shiila is such a wealth of knowledge and creativity. I absolutely loved how she guided everyone into connecting with each individual plant spirit, and going inward to use our own intuition when creating our magical art.”
~ Sarah May
Meet Your Guide
I’m Marnie Dangerfield, a Wellness and Intentional Creativity ®Guide. I am passionate about healing relationships with self, the land and in reconnecting you to your inner wisdom and creative power in order to co-create beauty, joy, hope and well-being for you and the planet.
"Marnie is very intuitive and a great listener. I enjoyed Marnie’s non-judgemental and kind nature. She creates a safe and trusting environment."
~ Anya
“The main thing is that you are showing up, that you’re here, and that you’re finding more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that.”
~ Joanna Macy
Here’s What You Will Receive with Your Registration:
Complimentary guided meditation with Shiila - link for you to keep
A sacred online container in community for 4 weeks held by Marnie and Shiila
Four 90-minute classes Sundays, May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19 at 1:30PM Pacific, 3:30PM Central, 4:30PM Eastern
A weekly practice to bring through and embody Earth wisdom in your own ecology
Metacognative Drawing practice to connect your mind and heart
Non-dominant journaling practice to link right and left brain and open to your intuition
Ways to reduce stress by regulating your nervous system
Nature Practices from the book Becoming Earth: Healing the Myth of Separation guided by the author, Shiila Safer