Category: Resource
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Deep Ecology Online Week 4: Seeing With New Eyes: Remembering Cosmogenesis
To prepare for Session 4 – Remembering: Cosmogenesis and Seeing With New Eyes please enjoy the 20 minute video presentation below. Please also take the time to explore the embodied practices in the form of recorded guided meditations, the home task, and additional resources. Video presentation Comic Walk Timeline: online version We will be exploring […]
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Deep Ecology Online Week 3: Honouring our Pain for the World
To prepare for Session 3 – Honouring Our Pain, please enjoy the 50min video, home tasks and guided meditations below. This video as been prepared by members of the DeepEcology.org.au facilitation team, Inna, Tenzin, and Eshana. Video Presentation Home Tasks: Guided Meditations: Please practice the following short guided meditations before the session (about 20 and […]
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Deep Ecology Online Week 2: Gratitude and Praise
“Praise beloveds, let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us” -Rilke To prepare for Session 2 – Gratitude and Praise, please enjoy the 35min video, home tasks and guided meditations below. Video Presentation This video presentation is brought to you by DeepEcology.org.au facilitation team members Skye Indira and Miraz. This week we are moving […]
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Deep Ecology Online Week 1: Introduction
Hello and welcome to the preparatory material for week one of our 6 week course: “Deep Ecology Online, practices for awakening and resilience in a changing world”. We are so glad you could join us, and look forward to exploring these important topics and more in the weeks to come. To prepare for our first […]
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Film: On The Brink
A tale of endangered species featuring David Attenborough, David Suzuki, David Bellamy, Jack Thompson, Olivia Newton John, Koala, Owl, Quoll & Glider. For the young at heart. This film was originally posted on the Rainforest Information Centre Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/rainforestinfo
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Meditation: Remembering Cosmogenesis, “Our Life as Gaia”
The recording below consists of a 45 minute guided meditation and visualisation exploring the story of cosmogenesis also known as “The Universe Story”, “The Great Story” and the “Epic of Evolution”. This version is a little more meditative than some versions, so it contain less in the way of specific dates for events and more […]
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Essay: The Ecological Self by John Seed
The Trumpeter ISSN: 0832-6193 Volume 22, Number 2 (2006) The Ecological Self John Seed In this article John explores some of the key issues in deep Ecology, his own experience as an activist and facilitator of the work. In the 1970s, when Jerry Brown was Governor of California, the eco-poet Gary Snyder was working in […]
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Embodied practice: Body Scan and Total Relaxation
The following recording consist of a guided body scan and total relaxation. This practice builds on the embodied awareness and breath meditations introduced in previous sessions, cultivating a sensitivity to subtler sensation in the whole body. These practices are beneficial as a way to increase embodied awareness, the capacity to maintain that awareness over a […]
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Embodied practice: Finding the Full Body Breath
From our birth until our last moment of life, the breath is with us, a rhythmic connection between the inner and outer. While there is a basic function of the breath to provide oxygen to our cells and carry away carbon dioxide, the importance of “respiration” for our health and vitality goes way beyond simply […]
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Embodied practice: Breathing Through
The recording below consists of an introduction to the practice of “Breathing Through”, a variation on the popular Buddhist practices of compassion meditation or “Tonglen” offered by Joanna Macy among the practices for “Honouring our Pain for the World”. This practice is a foundational practice in the Boddhisattva path, and a cornerstone of the Work […]