Embodied Changemaking

Restoring Yin Leadership in Our Communities and Movements

Join Deborah Eden Tull, Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock, and One Earth Sangha for this EcoDharma Exploration on Sunday, January 25, at 10:30am PT/1:30pm EST to 12:30pm PT/3:30pm EST. All are welcome. Learn more about this upcoming gathering in the description below.

For the rest of 2025, our EcoDharma Explorations will be co-created by Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. Look for more programming from this collaboration over the next few months and years. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to work with our new partners.

Registration is now open.

Recognizing the overly yang tendencies of the dominant paradigm –marked by speed, bright lights, force, and depletion– this session offers an exploration of receptivity and relational presence as we navigate The Great Unravelling. Only when we recognize the innate balance/interplay of yin and yang in nature and consciousness can we cultivate movements that celebrate the living lineage of our planetary body. The times we face invite us to bow to the unknown, re-awaken to the power of receptivity, and inquire into embodied changemaking.

In this gathering, we will explore the Instrument of our Earth Body, through deep listening, within and out, from subtle body to multi-natural awareness. This listening is not just auditory but energetic, kinesthetic, and more. It includes the human and more-than-human realm, the visible and invisible. It is grounded in the qualities of humility, curiosity, rest, and non-extraction.

This age of wild uncertainty calls us to cultivate the leadership of emergence. This is not the leadership of “knowing” but what I refer to in Luminous Darkness as leading in the dark and being led by the dark. This is the paradigm not of power over but leading through shared power.

Please bring a sacred stone to this session and your curiosity, with mind and heart open to exploring together through stillness, movement/dance, and embodied relationality.

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of the nonprofit Mindful Living Revolution, is Zen Buddhist teacher, author, animist, and spiritual activist. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years. Eden’s teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, non-duality, mindful inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. Eden has been practicing meditation for the past 30 years and teaching for 25 years. Her books include Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown (Shambhala 2022), Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet (Wisdom 2018), and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Process Media 2011). Eden lost her home in Hurricane Helene and has been nomadic since. She offers retreats, workshops, leadership trainings, and consultations internationally.

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This Exploration is part of a short series in collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with our new partners.

 

This program is donation-based, with no required registration fee. We welcome your contributions to support this program and the work of Braided Wisdom and One Earth Sangha.

Registration for this exploration is open now.

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