Earth Letter - September 2023
💥 Recent Ramblings in Nature…
Our Uluru Kata Tjuṯa Deep Listening to Nature meditation retreat in May was simple magnificent!
11 spirited guests met as strangers and left as lifetime friends.
Sharing food, fire, dance on the Land with our Anangu family was a joyful highlight.
💦 A small group enjoyed a half day of practicing the art of Deep Listening to Nature recently at the Fingal Headland.
Half-day Deep Listening to Nature mindful walks start at 9:30am and end at 12:30pm. We share a picnic lunch and create an Earth Altar as a group to finish the morning. These mini-retreats are deeply relaxing, inspiring and insightful for guests.
Upcoming Day & Overnight Retreats
DLTN Binna Burra Camp Out
12 - 14 Oct
DLTN Currumbin Valley
Half-Day Guided Mindful Walk
29 Sept, 9:30am - 12:30pm
DLTN Fingal Heads
Half-Day Guided Mindful Walk
21 Oct, 9:30am - 12:30pm
DLTN Kingfisher Waterhole Tuntable Falls
Women’s Mini-Day Retreat
22 Oct, 8:30am - 4:30pm
DLTN Bunya Mountains Beauty
1 - 5 Dec
DLTN Red Centre Way Camp-Out Northern Territory (12 places)
2024 dates to be confirmed, 11 days & nights
DLTN Magical Places of South West England (6 places)
12-24 Jun, 2024
To book your place, for more information, or for a tailored DLTN guided walk/retreat, please contact Iris via iris@deeplisteningtonature.com
💥 Inspiration to Practice Deep Listening to Nature
This simple practice strengthens me at core level. I can interface with the challenges of modern life with a humble confidence in myself, because I have discovered my timeless Nature.
Deep Listening to Nature is a practice in letting go of the mind.
Deep Listening to Nature is a practice in releasing attachment to form.
Deep Listening to Nature is a practice which delivers me to fearlessness.
Deep Listening to Nature reduces the suffering in the world, both our own and the suffering of others.
When I practice listening deeply, without judgement, I see the true nature of Love between all of life. An awareness that is in truth every human’s birthright to embody.
This practice imbues confidence to meet the many endings in life with peace and calm and trust.
Listening deeply to Nature I hear how life arises and disappears until life arises again. All transforming and unfolding in perfect timing.
Listening deeply to Nature I hear wisdom whispering ‘there is nothing to win, nothing to gain, nothing to prove, nothing to defend.’ I become fearless and I offer this great gift of fearlessness to the world.
When I listen deeply to Nature, I am gifted the wisdom of complete trust in the continuous nature of change.
When I relax and trust change as a natural, normal part of life, I am in touch with a greater joy and my eyes feel wide open to just how miraculous life truly is!
Therefore Deep Listening to Nature is also a practice that inevitably helps to prepare for our own death. Our own passing from form into formlessness with joy and wonderment. Void of fear and doubt.
Deep Listening to Nature relaxes our mind and body and opens up our five senses. When we are relaxed and feel safe, love and happiness is naturally expressed and received freely.
Kingfisher Poem
You sat still and watched
You sat still and waited.
I couldn’t sit still.
I couldn’t wait.
I was impatient.
I desired to get a good shot of you and post you up on social media.
I even wanted you gone so I could get on with whatever distraction I was distracted with.
My ridiculousness stopped me in my tracks.
I want a Kingfisher to fly off?!
I settled myself down.
I began to listen.
It naturally felt you.
I naturally copied you.
I too became very still.
I watched. I listened.
I rested.
And finally I was healed.
💥 My Love for Nature
AT ONE WITH WATER
The Rainbow Serpent of the Caldera is a mystical feathered Carpet snake. She lays her precious eggs along the most easterly part of Australia that is a very sacred place. The first land and freshwater in Australia to feel the light of Sun at daybreak. A place of Law.
The 11 Tea Tree lakes which stretch from Cudgen to Lennox Heads, are the Feathered Serpent’s eggs. To swim in these waters is soft and gentle and healing.
I am humbled to know this particular sacred body of Water, one of the Tea Tree Lakes, since I was a little girl. I have returned to her over and over again and feel welcomed by her. Truly, welcomed.
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I want to share passionately with everyone how real and playful and exquisitely intimate the relationship between ourselves and Water can be. A conscious, interactive relationship. And like all relationships to grow and deepen, we must nurture them.
I know Water remembers our unique spirit, just as we remember Water.
And it’s a beautiful feeling.
Washes all fear away!
Thankyou Water
I Love you Water 💦
Gurumah Bugum Walu
💥 Helping Restore Nature…
I recently attended an excellent talk on Bushfire Recovery at the Koonyum Range in Wilson’s Creek run by Jagun Alliance who shared their knowledge and wisdom about the value of restoring the land with fire.
Jagun strives to increase public awareness and recognition of the importance of Aboriginal custodians and land managers to care for and manage Land and Sea Country.
We’re also passionate about supporting people who would like to go from being an ‘owner’ to ‘custodian’, of the land they live on.
Thanks for reading and for being a part DLTN.
Feel free to reply with any questions or insights.
~ Iris and the DLTN team