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Greetings everyone.
I am thrilled to finally be able to meet James Baraz and attend this four session course, together with you all.
I am an MBSR instructor (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction) and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (MMTCP) with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. My beloved mentor through those years was Alexa Redner who kept telling us about HER teacher, James Baraz.

What else? I’m a Nature and Forest Therapy Guide (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy- ANFT.EARTH)
I also am a retired professor of education and a life long learner. A musician, a writer and a lover of all things NATURAL.

Where do I live? 20 miles from anything. In the Hickory Nut Gorge in Western North Carolina near Asheville, at Bat Cave. Perhaps you have heard of it lately? Yes, I’m still here, was not air lifted out, –one of the lucky ones on the mountain with a generator–and now with internet partially continue I am teaching my classes on Zoom and on land in nearby Fairview NC. I cannot nor will I try, to describe my experience except to say, I am more in love with Mother Earth than ever before. She has spoken! Gaia’s wisdom is profound and still the river sings–though now is the width of a football field which used to be the width of a two lane road. Access in and out is still not safe, though possible.

Gaia speaks to me in so many ways. On Monday, one week ago, for example, I felt completely washed through and through in such DEEP pervading PEACE. It did not leave on Tuesday and Wednesday, and is yet with me. In me, IS me. Yet my nervous system and my whole being is in fatigue.

I am recently back from 3 weeks in County Donegal in Ireland where I attended an Eco-spirituality retreat at Arts Friary and then spent 10 days in a cottage on the sea on Aran Mhor island. It prepared me well for what was to come here.

This course will begin here at 9:00 p.m. and I welcome these two hours together.
I am deeply grateful for this timely instruction.