Rewilding Nature Walks
WHAT IS REWILDING?
Indigenous-led, land-based education and healing
In the environmental science space rewilding is all about letting nature be spontaneous, dynamic, and unpredictable. Rather than trying to manage and control which plants, animals, and habitats thrive, it is about sitting back and letting nature decide. Rewilding aims to restore ecosystems (and their interlinked processes) by protecting core wilderness areas, ensuring connectivity between these areas, and safeguarding keystone species. This approach focuses on introducing (or reintroducing) predator or dominant herbivore species in order to restore ecosystem processes and functions to the state before humans heavily altered them. The concept of rewilding first originated in the late 1980s, proposed by Michael Soulé (a conservation biologist) and Dave Forman (a wilderness activist).
In the Integrated Medixine space the concept of rewilding takes a metaphorical form.
Our rewilding sessions will motivate you to connect or reconnect with your inner wild being. As a species many of us have become domesticated to the point we are less equipped than ever to survive without the support of modern comfort. Through past generations, we've lost rich fundamental knowledge to help us independently sustain ourselves. Many of us don't know how to live off the land anymore! On the positive side, although past complacency has stagnated our growth, I am seeing a movement of individuals reclaiming their connection to land. It's a beautiful thing to witness, but we still have a long way to go, which is why I hope that Rewilding Services can help grow and accelerate a movement that will help us and the earth get healthier and thrive.
What does a rewilding session look like?
No two sessions are alike, the only things that you can anticipate in advance is that I will be holding space for you. Here is what a session may look like:
Walks are usually slow
Earthing/Grounding (walking barefoot on natural surface) is highly encouraged
Talk Therapy
We may both hold silence
May include education on local flora and fauna
Spiritual connection to natural world exercise
Benefits ...
Deepened connection with members of our shared ecosystem
Seratonin boost
Strengthens sense of stewardship
Improved accountability to current and future generations
Opportunity to actively play a part in redefining the climate narrative
Strengthens your sense of belonging
Builds resilience
The Focus ...
At the top of our list the priority is to introduce or reintroduce you to an indigenous concept roughly known as "relationism".
Many of us are fragmented due to a myriad of reasons.
The Q’ero show us that ayni - living in reciprocity with kin found on this earth and the cosmos including the self - is directly proportional to individual health and health management.
Anthropologist Catherine Allen describes it beautifully: “At the most abstract level, ayni is the basic give-and-take that governs the universal circulation of vitality. It can be positive … or … negative …. This circulation … is driven by a system of continuous reciprocal interchanges, a kind of dialectical pumping mechanism. Every category of being, at every level, participates.”
-Patricia Soledad Llosa
What is the cost?
Walks are normally a 2-hour return trip and cost $120.
What is a mini retreat?
Mini retreats are a one day emmersive experience intended to provide respite and healing. $360 for 6 hours.
The United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (UNDRIP)
EDUCATION AND UNDRIP:
Article 11: 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature. (6)
Article 13: 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
Article 14: 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning. 2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination. 3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language.
To understand how ayni impacts our lives we must first take a closer look at animism.
Restoring biodiversity through reciprocity ayni
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