Alderroot Healing & Renewal
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Cozy Within:
A winter meditation series for sacred earth connection
Let the grounding presence of the earth offer you calm and steadiness this winter season.
A 4 week series with Dr. Heather Burns and Irene Elle Bailey
Live & Virtual
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm (PST)
January 21, January 28, February 4, February 11
Bring a cup of tea, light a candle, and get cozy
Sessions will be recorded in case you need to miss
Open to all. $99 for the series.​​
4 cozy sessions of calm earth connection
This winter meditation series will nourish your sacred connection with the earth. During the winter season we are invited to soften, to listen, and lean into what our hearts know. This series offers a gentle container for reconnecting with the calm, steadiness, rest, and spaciousness that winter naturally carries.
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The earth shares her wisdom and support so generously, offering guidance, grounding, and a sense of belonging. Through simple earth-based visualizations, guided meditations, and moments of reflection, we’ll open to the ways the land holds us and to how we can receive and return these gifts. Together, we’ll explore our inherent relationship with the more-than-human world as a source of stability, wisdom, and inspiration.
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In this meditation series, you’ll be supported in cultivating a deeper felt sense of sacred earth connection, one that can hold you through the darker months and beyond. Whether you’re seeking renewal, steadiness, or a place to land amid life’s business and uncertainty, this series is designed to bring you back to yourself through the grounding presence of the earth and your own deeper knowing.
Here’s what we’ll explore in each of the 4 meditation sessions:
🌿Simple Micro-rituals for earth connection
🌿Earth anchors & allies for navigating uncertainty
🌿Embodied earth presence for cultivating trust
🌿 How to listen to earth’s wisdom
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Sessions will be recorded. If you can't make a session, no worries.
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Come as you are, grab a blanket, and get ready to relax in a favorite chair or cozy spot. We'll guide you in gentle meditative practices that will leave you calm and supported.
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At the end of each session, we will offer you one simple (optional) invitation for practice between sessions so that you can deepen into the experience of sacred earth connection on your own.
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Meet your Facilitators
Dr. Heather Burns
Heather (She/her) is an eco-spiritual teacher, facilitator, coach, writer, and forest therapy guide. She is professor emerita of Portland State University, where she taught and published on topics of eco-spiritual teaching and learning, sustainability education, spiritual leadership and contemplative practices. She designs and facilitates experiences of belonging and renewal that invite whole person learning and real connection with each other and the living earth. Heather is also a reiki master, a certified Forest Therapy Guide, and the creative director of Alderroot Healing and Renewal. You can read more about Heather here.
Irene Elle Bailey
Irene (she/her) is a designer and facilitator of nature connection and mindfulness offerings that support the remembering that we are intimately and inseparably connected to all life. As a creator of spaces for cultivating trust, courage, intuition, and wisdom, Irene has supported hundreds on their path to living a more connected, authentic, and joyful life. Irene holds an MS in Leadership for Sustainability Education, is a certified Forest Therapy Guide and has trained with the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain. She is the founder and director of Temenos Rising where she shares retreats, workshops, forest bathing walks, and mentorship, all held in deep relationship with the natural world.