Have you ever felt resentful about getting older? Growing up, we learn how everyone wants to be young and vibrant and there seems a lot of value in it. Old people are sent to old people’s homes and are often seen almost like a waste of society and getting old is less of an achievement …
Is the Wildmoon spiritual or does it follow any particular traditions?
German version of this article Many of the people who participate in the Wild Moon or similar programs are in one way or another searching for the meaning of their lives, their life’s purpose, or their place in life. They hope to find answers in nature that they have not found anywhere else. But is …
German version of this article “Why should I take part in a wilderness immersion experience like this? I don’t want to take a step backwards and live like cavemen!” These and similar questions and statements reach me again and again in various forms. It is the assumption that just because I guide such an experience …
Gleaming stars above, seemingly mirrored by the moonlight sparkling on the snow that absorbs all sound. Silence. Many of our relatives are sleeping, the leafy ones, some furry ones in their dens and burrows. A winter night, bright and dark at the same time.
There is this beautifully rich, and connected life we can live in our natural wilderness. It feels so much like home. Simultaneously the earth has been turning and another world has been created by us – our modern life with lights, concrete and noise. These two worlds seem utterly different and we have our ties to both of them. So how can we find balance and connection instead of separation?
Whenever I step out of the modern world and am only with the land and the people around me, my awareness and my mindset shift. In a way, the world I live in becomes smaller – the few people I am with, the food we eat, the water in the lake that nourishes us, the forest I walk in, my own thoughts and feelings.
