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Change The Way You See The Natural World
The iRewild Institute's publications enable you to actively lead future possibilities. They inspire you to fully experience the endless magnificence of nature and explain how to create change in order to elevate the human spirit and awaken an ecological consciousness within us all. Together we can profoundly transform the quality of the health, wellbeing, and lives for all inhabitants on Earth.
“A truly transformative read! The Sacred Canopy doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of nature; it makes you feel it. I especially loved the chapter on ‘Harmonizing with the Forest’s Heartbeat,’ I felt as if I was truly under a sacred canopy, finding refuge and strength.”
“Every page of this book is filled with a reverence for nature that I find deeply moving. I tried a few of the practices in my local park, and it felt like I was experiencing the world through new eyes. The wisdom here is timeless, yet so relevant for today’s world.”
The Sacred Canopy
Immersive Nature-Based Practices For Mind, Body, and Soul
195 experiences in 24 unique settings
Awaken the wild, unbroken spirit that once thrived within you. Feel your wild pulse come alive, as nature's gentle whispers coax the forgotten fire within your soul back to life.
A gateway to the timeless embrace of the Earth
Nature's embrace unveils a timeless wisdom, a sacred canopy that shelters, heals, and inspires us. Through 195 immersive experiences, this book awakens this profound relationship. It guides you on a journey that intertwines the beauty of the Earth with the depths of your soul.
Harmonize with the forest's heartbeat, bask in the fragrance of wildflowers, embrace the wisdom of animals, embody the tranquility of the ocean, and connect with the invisible soul of nature. Each setting provides a unique sanctuary for practices that nurture your mind, body, and spirit, while reverently healing the earth, weaving a tapestry of love that binds your soul to the soul of the world.
Immersing in nature means connecting to the very essence of your being. Backed by science, nature-based experiences are transformative, offering profound health and wellbeing benefits. This book serves as the threshold, urging you to open the door and invite nature's essence to permeate your existence. Nature is not just a place—it's the breath of your soul.
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The Power of Nature in Healthcare Leadership: How Immersive Nature-Focused Experiences Elevate Workplace Leadership Teams
Leadership in healthcare demands proficiency, visionary thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and the innovation required to navigate complex challenges. Yet, the relentless pace of modern healthcare often erodes these essential qualities, leaving leaders overwhelmed and stretched thin.
This article explores how immersive, nature-focused experiences restore balance, cultivate clarity, and inspire the emotional intelligence and creativity necessary for transformative leadership. Supported by scientific research, it highlights how nature enhances cognitive function, decision-making, and team cohesion. Leaders engaging in these practices gain mental clarity, innovative thinking, and stronger interpersonal connections, reconnecting with purpose and adaptability. These transformative qualities ripple outward, enabling healthcare providers to foster more unified teams, inspire compassionate collaboration, and ultimately elevate patient care outcomes with greater empathy, creativity, and vision.
Even the Caterpillar Sings
52 Nature-Based Practices
In the pages of Even the Caterpillar Sings, a tapestry of wisdom and wonder unfurls—a tapestry woven by the hands of Nature herself. This book extends an intimate invitation, encouraging you to embark on a year-long voyage into the heart of the natural world.
More than a book, this is a sanctuary—a sacred space where your heart and soul intertwine with the soul of Nature, touching the very essence of existence. Embrace this invitation and let the wisdom of the natural world infuse your being. Discover a profound way of relating to all life on this beautiful Earth—a relationship that resonates with the heartbeat of every living entity. Let your existence harmonize with the quiet song of the caterpillar and join the symphony of life in celebrating the extraordinary miracle of being.
Can you say Zizza-Zeez?
Join us on an adventure into the forest where you’ll discover the animals’ magical voices as they invite you to sing along. Can You Say Zizza-Zeez inspires children to listen deeply to nature. Deep listening ignites curiosity, and this curiosity is the threshold to new worlds, captivating discoveries, and an appreciation for our natural world.
“A fun and interactive book that will provide you and your child with lots of fun while exploring nature’s endless concert.”
Rewilding the Senses
Bringing the human soul back into conscious relationship with nature.
Each thing or being we meet in nature, everything that we observe, has its own hidden existence. If we have the skills to perceive it, we are swept into a dynamic relationship, an understanding, where the creation mysteries of our world unfold, and where we potentially transform. We create a bridge between our rational intellectual mind and our inner world, and to the soul of the world, reshaping all of life toward holistic wellbeing and the birth of an ecological consciousness as a more sustainable world emerges.
Humanity seeks the unseen sacred within everyday life. Rewilding the Senses seeks to help individuals in their development of an ecological consciousness by extending our understanding and capabilities of sensory experience and perception as faculties for restoring our connection with the more-than-human world. A comprehensive set of sensory and cognitive practices are suggested. This book aims to inspire people to get back to the great outdoors and explore these ideas in nature. If we can change the way we experience the world, it evolves our personal consciousness, and dissolves boundaries—we experience ourselves as less and less separate from the web of life—restoring well-being not only for ourselves, but also for our planet.
“Your ethos and whole understanding of nature and consciousness is outstanding”
Recovering the Wild Sacred
Large predatory animals are often vilified, demonized, and extirpated because historic and narrative fallacies integrate into societal and cultural memories. This happening can be seen as the evolution of an emergent process that takes place across generations. The archetypal and symbolic narrative of the historical extirpation of wolves in Yellowstone National Park is examined together with the 2,500-year-old myth of Gilgamesh, in which the protagonist undertakes a journey into the Cedar Forest to exterminate the creature, Humbaba. Through these two examples, using analysis and depth psychology—the study of the unconscious—Ms. Covi explores the consequences of unconscious archetypal energy, or universal patterns’ manifestation in the individual or society.
The Language of the Soul
The underlying unity that links us in the vastness of the cosmos often transcends empirical evidence. Because the direct understanding of the connection between our psyches and the natural world is elusive, this bond is frequently communicated through the language of the soul – symbolism.