Embodied Changemaking

Restoring Yin Leadership in Our Communities and Movements

Deborah Eden Tull this EcoDharma Exploration on January 25, 2026. A recording will be available soon.

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 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.

Support this Offering

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

Poem: Remember by Joy Harjo

Here are ways to deepen practice with me:

  • The Heart Of Listening: On Behalf Of Our Collective – 6 month training and mentorship with Eden; June – November 2026; learn more and apply here. Application deadline February 15th.
  • If you wish to join the Fierce Compassion Sangha, you can do so here. We meet every Tuesday online at 9 am – 10 am PT for a weekly meditation, Remembering the Already Awakened State. OR you can sign up for one Tuesday session to practice with us; sign up here.
  • I offer a full range of retreats, workshops, and trainings, and my website and newsletter are the best places to stay updated. Here is a flyer of upcoming retreats and offerings.
  • Visit my website for 2026 offerings.
  • Personal Mentorship – For those who feel called to practice with me one-on-one in a more concentrated way, I offer Spiritual Mentorship. This is an opportunity to meet with me on a monthly basis, over a period of time for 50-minute sessions, over phone/Zoom. Contact me to schedule.
  • REVOLUTIONARY DHARMA: CONVERSATIONS FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES – This is a bi-monthly podcast, and year-long community exploration, co-hosted with Lama Willa. Register here.

Books:

Donations in Our Time of Need:

  • For those of you who wish to view a 10 minute video about our Hurricane Helene experience, you can do so here. Mark and I are in a major recovery/life transition process and if it would bring you joy to offer support you are welcome to. Our GoFundMe to help us rebuild in the aftermath of the hurricane is still open. If you feel called, you can donate here.
  • Mindful Living Revolution is the nonprofit I founded to support this work. If you are in a position to make a financial contribution to Mindful Living Revolution to help us grow this movement of relational mindfulness and deep listening, and offer scholarships, you can do so at this link. Our organization has been recognized as exempt from federal income tax under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is eligible to receive tax deductible contributions.

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