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  • An epidemic looms, and an opportunity manifests…

    An epidemic looms, and an opportunity manifests…

    On the advice of Thay Phap Luu I was on the cusp of departure for Thailand to stay as a visiting monk at the Plum Village centre, when news of the spread of COVID-19 started to circulate. Needless to say they have closed the centre to overseas visitors. Almost the same week, I received news…

  • Meet our supporters: Skye Indira and Miraz Mandozay

    Meet our supporters:  Skye Indira and Miraz Mandozay

    Such a joy to welcome to our support team these two: deep ecologists, plant medicine practitioners and community builders both. below is an excerpt from their bio: “As lovers of nature and long-term dharma practitioners, we have been lit up by the movement of Deep Ecology / The Work That Reconnects. We currently facilitate retreats and study…

  • Meet our supporters: Nathan Sutter

    Meet our supporters: Nathan Sutter

    We are so happy to have the support and advice of Mindfulness and Yoga Teacher Nathan Sutter. Below is an excerpt from his bio: After previous years spent in community as an apprentice yoga teacher, and farm hand, monastic life came naturally to me and I found relief in this treasured time of training, study,…

  • Meet our founders: Bev Sibthorpe

    Meet our founders: Bev Sibthorpe

    We are so happy to welcome to our team Dr Bev Sibthorpe. Below is an extract from her bio. “I attribute my comfort in being ‘on the land’ to my early years living on a small dairy farm in New Zealand. I trained as a nurse in Auckland before going on to study anthropology and…

  • We are live…

    Greetings from Myanmar. We have reached an important milestone in our project, the launch of this website! I am so grateful to everyone who has shown their interest and support, to all my teachers, and to the great thinkers and practitioners who have provided the inspiration for this project, many of whose words appear in…

  • Meet our founders… Tenzin Alex

    As a teenager I had a brush with Zen philosophy through the poems of Basho, and a fascination with the work of Masanobu Fukuoka, but in many ways the forest was my first meditation teacher. At the time I was engaged in field work for my doctoral research into climate change impacts on biodiversity, but…

  • power of community summit

    This great summit just finished: https://ecovillage.org/event/power-of-community-summit/ I managed to catch a few talks, including Fritjof Capra, Christiana Figueras, and Joanna Macy, which were really good. Due to the timezone difference between here In New South Wales, Australia and Findhorne in Scotland, it was hard to see them all. So we bought the package. I’m looking…

  • the project begins…

    we are just getting started with our project, deciding on a name, getting a website up and running…