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Willing to Blossom: Life as Invitation

  • The Living Mantra 125 Catalpa Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95062 United States (map)

We exist in a vibrant, vital world; the earth herself, her plants, animals, minerals, waters, sunlight and blue sky, is in a constantly unfolding relationship. Though we live everyday amid this living beauty, we often forget how to be truly alive. Meditation teaches us how to do this, how to be a growing, changing, breathing, feeling being. By bringing us into relationship with the natural world inside--the body, mind, and emotions--and the natural world outside--the earth around us--meditation restores our connection with the endlessly deep wonder of the human journey.

Because this relationship is so vast, so ancient yet ever-renewing, we must meet it with fresh eyes and a curious heart. When we live in that curious heart, the wild beauty within and without begins to teach.

All are welcome to this guided meditation, talk, and dialogue. 

$20 welcomed donation. All invited, regardless of funds

Participants are also invited to bring offerings for a small ceremony: colorful fruits and flowers, incense, candles, bunches of fragrant herbs, healthy, delicious snacks and drinks, and photographs or objects representing important people or concerns in their lives.