Photo by Ogion Fulford

Metta Earth Institute invites you to engage in cultivating creatively compassionate responses to the ecological challenges in bioregional communities and the global community. As the world grows increasingly complex, it is easy to lose touch with the simplicity of peace that lives in the heart. Metta Earth Institute is dedicated to developing pathways for reclaiming the connection to the joy of each present moment and enhancing the capacity for compassionate action. We offer you opportunities to nourish the deeper relationship to self, society and nature through contemplative and ecological practices.

We support living lightly and compassionately on the planet. Enlivening principles include:

~ interdependence and a cooperative work ethic

~ conservation efforts for the protection of wild lands
   and native species

~ innovations in human-scale farming and gardening

~ contemplative practices including mindfulness
   awareness, yoga and meditation

~ culturally enhancing arts and healing practices

~ permaculture design

~ appropriate technologies, renewable energy,
   and green building

This year provides a vital opportunity for the further embodiment of so many of the practices and principles we love and are excited to offer to you. After nearly two years of re-visioning, we have organized our programs into four core programs:

Metta Earth Yoga
yoga. meditation. contemplative practices

Metta Earth Wild Ways
wilderness awareness. conservation. restoration

Metta Earth Arts & Sanctuary
creativity. communication. soul & psyche

Metta Earth Community
community practices. ecological sustainability

By bringing these four paths together, under one organization, we collectively express our passionate voices of hope for the array of changes that are necessary in these most challenging, yet thrilling of times on the planet.

We hope you can join us in the coming year.

Gillian and Russell

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