Our ROOT.ED NATURE Immersion Programs
Community CARE Event: Dia de los Muertos
Third Annual Dia de los Muertos Ancestral Remembering: A Cultural Exchange and Recovery event hosted by Root.ED Nature School and Friends!
We all come from different cultural and familial traditions of ancestral remembrance and celebration and whether you honor this time through Dia de los Muertos, Samhain, Halloween, All Saints, Diwali or another personal ritual or cultural practice - we invite you to co-create community ritual with us. We will be sharing community food, creating ancestor altars, and making offerings of music, flowers, poetry and story with special guests and friends along the way.
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ROOT.ED KIDS
Root.ED Nature School celebrates people's (especially children's) innate sense of wonder, vibrancy and beauty through play, exploration, and relationship-building so our children can say with confidence, “We are the ones who are from this place and who hold relationship to each other, the land, and the other beings here. We belong here. I belong among us. I am one of us” (Carter 2016), so they and we may thrive as members of our earth.
“The word rooted's own root is the Latin radix, the center from which all things germinate and arise. The radix is the radical- the intrinsic, organic, fervent heart of being and action. Rooted lives are radically intertwined with the vitality of the planet. In a time that evokes fear and paralysis, rooted ways of being-within-nature assure us that we are grounded in the natural world. Our bodies, our thoughts, our minds, our spirits are affected by the whole of the earthen community, and affect this whole in return. This is both a mystical sensibility and a scientific fact. It is an awareness that makes us tingle with its responsibility, its beauty, its poetry. It makes our lives our most foundational form of activism. It means everything we do matters, and matters wondrously.”
Excerpt from Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
