Nature Calling online course
Everyone knows something has gone wrong with the way we treat our natural world. Many realise that we need to get back in touch with nature in order to regain balance. People’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health is compromised when they are insulated away from nature and its challenges. Nature Calling comes as part of the answer to this dilemma. It has been specifically designed to help you to deepen your connection to nature and its transformative powers…
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- Welcome to the Nature Calling online course, composed especially to help you deepen your connection to nature and its transformative powers!
- This is a beginner level course that does not require prior knowledge or skills.
The course includes a combination of reading materials, with easy to follow Introductions written by Dr Geoffrey Berry, audio podcasts,and video explainers. - Listen and/or watch on any device, or download modules for later!
- Do the exercises as often and as much as you like. There is no limit to how many times you can explore your relationship with an animal totem or spiritual guide, just as there is no limit to how many times you can meditate in nature and achieve peace.Enjoy the course! It is designed to be enriching for you and to inspire deeper experiences of your one inner nature and of our beautiful earth. And please share your experiences with others. The earth needs as many of us as possible to get reconnected with it right now.
Online Course Topic 1: Deepening Your Connection to Nature
- Geoff takes students through a reflection on how we live our lives grounded in the myth of the city/capitalist worldview of consumption. A different way of living through connection and union with nature is introduced. This first topic is designed for those who have not seen Geoff’s ecomythic doco City Living, Nature Calling or experienced any of his Guided Meditations.
- INCLUDES:
- Topic Outline;
- Video Introduction to the way city living has modified our relationship to nature over the 10,000 years since the Agricultural Revolution;
- Guided Meditation to Deepen Your Connection to Nature;
- 3 brief Readings to help you orientate yourself around the ideas and exercises involved in Nature Calling courses.
Online Course Topic 2: Finding Evolutionary Initiation Within
- How do we return to our roots as beings inherently connected with nature? Geoff demonstrates the importance of rituals to revitalise our connection with the planet and the natural rhythms of creation.
- INCLUDES:
- Topic Outline;
- Introductory Video (10 minuutes) explaining how we can evolve our consciousness with ancient and modern practices of initiation;
- Readings to explain the kinds of processes involved in being initiated into a more evolved state of being;
- Exercise Video (5 minutes) showing a simple way of becoming more closely attuned to nature, which will become your ally as you initiate yourself into its healing and energising powers; and
- Guided Meditation Exercise (19 minutes) to support you on your own individual initiatory path.
Online Course Topic 3: Getting in Touch with Seasonal Cycles
- Geoff investigates how non-technology-driven cultures have flourished in union with nature. Rather than replacing technology with nature, students are asked to explore a middle ground, moving forward into an integral way of life.
- INCLUDES:
- Topic Outline, with an explanation of the way that seasonal cycles allow us to let old patterns go and let new life in;
- Two Readings, one to Introduce the Topic and another to explore the way that light cycles effect our mind and body and how we can harness these changes for good (this also introduces the two exercises in Exulting the Light);
- Video explainer (8 minutes) about the different types of seasonal cycles, including daily rites for the return of the sun and the relief of the night, as well as annual cycles;
- Guided Meditation (15 minutes) to help you delve into the way life cycles around its seasons, daily, monthly and yearly, including the way this relates to the elements of the earth and our bodies;
- Two more short videos of a few minutes each, to show some Exulting the Light exercises you can do to get more deeply in touch with the natural powers of the sun and the moon, our natural sources of light and most regular cycles in a time where the seasons they are a’changing!
Online Course Topic 4: Ecotherapy
- Practices focused on using nature as a form of therapy for healing and introspection are introduced in this module. The notion of biophilia – related to the love of nature – is explored as a basis for therapeutic and healing practice.
- INCLUDES:
- Topic Outline;
- Various Brief Readings to introduce the concepts and practices of Ecotherapy;
- Video Explainer (9 minutes), focussing on the connection between mind and body and how we can reconnect and improve our overall health, physically and mentally;
- Guided Meditation (16 minutes) to settle your mind and body into an ecotherapeutic kind of awareness;
- Brief Video (6 minutes) with some tips about walking on uneven surfaces, to break up the way our world has been flattened by modern society and get us back into the way our bodies love to move, the way we evolved to feel alive.
Left to itself, everything in nature seeks to grow and heal, including our bodies. Just as white blood cells will multiply and go to a wound, our mind is capable of releasing incredible healing powers when we align our lives with the empowering forces of life. These potentials arise in dreams, fantasies and other non-rational states of mind, revealing clues to the ways that we awaken from what sociologist Max Weber called ‘the iron the cage of reason’.
We know that the way we think is heavily influenced by the way we live. Desert people have a different mythology and way of life to forest dwellers. Comparatively, cities look like a cages from above; grids within which we can feel trapped. Modern movements such as ecopsychology and ecotherapy remind us of something we always knew when we evolved in close contact with the natural world, as over 90% of all humans that ever lived have done – that a healthy mind and a healthy environment go together and that what we do to one, we do to the other. Psychology is an attempt to ease the mind and soul of its conflicts, since many of us do not find conventional religious traditions deal adequately with the modern disease of disconnection and isolation. However, there are other precedents, practices found in traditions from all across the world.
Combining the best of eastern wisdom and western schools of psychology, philosophy and the arts, as well as from hunter/gatherer sources, Dr Geoffrey Berry offers a unique medicine for the ailments of modern society. His writing, film work and guided meditations can place you in direct communication with the spirit of nature, empower you to break free of the limits of urbanised consciousness, and enable you to practice living in the unrepeatable moment. Geoff understands the way that civilization has caged our spirits and he also has a strong feel for the ways back out. He knows that we were born free and don’t have to live in chains of our own making.
Come along for the ride and learn to listen better to nature, right now. The Nature Calling course includes guides to evolutionary initiation, living in harmony with seasonal cycles and life’s ups and downs, the easiest way to do ecotherapy in everyday life and a guide to the history of civilization and the modern myth we need to break free from. And of course, it offers a way to live your own story, in touch with your own inner nature as well as with your environment.