Embodied Changemaking

Restoring Yin Leadership in Our Communities and Movements

Deborah Eden Tull led this EcoDharma Exploration on January 25, 2026. We welcome your support for this program. A recording is available below.

Our EcoDharma Explorations are co-created with Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as part of a new initiative, the EcoDharma & Transformational Culture Program. We at One Earth Sangha are honored and excited to collaborate with our partners on EcoDharma Explorations and beyond.

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. It requires not 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 Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen Buddhist teacher, author, animist, and spiritual activist. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been engaged in sustainable communities for 30 years. She teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more-than-human world. Her books include Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown, Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet, and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution. Eden also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy and conscious dance embodiment practice.

Eden’s teaching style is grounded in non-duality, mindful inquiry, somatic awareness, and an unwavering commitment to personal & collective awakening. She also leads embodied leadership & facilitation trainings based on deep listening and relational presence. She has been teaching dharma for over 20 years and has been immersed in meditation and earth stewardship since 1992.

Eden and her husband Mark lost their home in a dramatic series of events in Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024 and have been navigating their lives as climate refugees ever since.

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This Exploration is offered  through a collaboration with Braided Wisdom, Spirit Rock’s ecoDharma & Transformational Culture Program and One Earth Sangha. We’re honored and excited to work with these 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.

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One Earth Sangha, together with our partners at Braided Wisdom and Spirit Rock as well as our featured speakers offer these explorations on a donation basis, with no required registration fee. We invite you to participate in the tradition of offering dana, or generosity. Your support makes these gatherings possible, and any amount offered is greatly appreciated.

Another way to support us is to share what this exploration has meant to you in a way that we can use in our materials. We invite you to share a “testimonial” here! (select “EcoDharma Exploration Participant” from the dropdown menu.)

Recording

Additional Resources

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