Cozy Within
A winter meditation series
to nourish your sacred earth connection
Live & virtual via Zoom
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm PST
Jan 21, Jan 28, Feb 4, Feb 11
Put on something comfortable, bring a cup of tea, light a candle, & get cozy.
All are welcome.
$99 for 4 sessions.
Sessions will be recorded and shared.
If you miss a session, no worries.
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.
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.
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 through meditation and visualization in each of the 4 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
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.
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.
- No experience necessary; just an open heart & willingness to connect.
- Sessions will be recorded and shared. If you miss a session, no worries.
Your Facilitators:
Dr. Heather Burns (she/her) has been a scholar and facilitator of eco-spiritual learning for 20+ years as a university professor and through her business, Alderroot Healing & Renewal. She holds space for transformative healing and wholeness rooted in relationships and interbeing. She has extensive experience teaching others how to design and facilitate eco-spiritual and sustainability learning, and she is an experienced designer and facilitator of participatory, experiential, contemplative, and transformative learning experiences. Over the years, she has deepened her intuitive facilitation skills through guiding retreats, forest therapy experiences, courses in spirituality and deep ecology, and personal mentorship.
Heather holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership in Sustainability, an MA in Women Studies and Adult Education, and BA in Psychology. She was the director of the Leadership for Sustainability Education graduate program for many years and has published numerous articles on transformative and eco-spiritual learning. She is the author of the book Transformative Sustainability Pedagogy: Designing and Facilitating Eco-Spiritual Learning. Heather is also a certified forest therapy guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, a Reiki master, and a certified permaculture designer.
Irene Elle Bailey (she/her) is honored to design and facilitate nature connection offerings to support the remembering that we are intimately and inseparably connected to all life. Over the past 20 years, Irene has worked with numerous environmental and sustainability education programs as an educator, leader, mentor, and wilderness guide. She holds a MS in Leadership for Sustainability Education from Portland State University and is a certified Forest Therapy Guide with The Association for Nature and Forest Therapy. Irene trained with the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain and has been exploring meditation and body based spiritual practices for nearly a decade. Her foundation for sharing her gifts with the world is rooted in gratitude, connection, joy, and compassion.
Irene’s life journey has led her to support humans to flourish and re-discover their interconnectedness, self-worth, and sense of belonging so they can show up for themselves, and in turn for all life. She believes wholeheartedly in the transformation and deep healing that is possible when we allow the more than human world to be a wise teacher and cultivate a felt sense of interbeing. Irene supports the creation of safer spaces in the natural world so that others can get the healing and nourishment they deserve to live well.
We believe in the need for restorative time (amidst the incomprehensible suffering of our world, racial injustice, climate crisis) to show up with strength and stability for individual and collective well being.
Sessions will be recorded and shared.
If you miss a session, no worries.