08/08/2026
Gosh, it’s about time I made some posts about what the hell I’m going to get up to - and am getting up to when I’m not here.
Firstly this is me, just now, trying to make a selfie on a very blustery day in a caravan park in the north of Scotland - where each day seems to be a three season event.
Secondly I’m just coming to the end guiding the fourth cohort of my Murmurations - Six Month Earth Apprenticeship.
It’s a six month mentoring programme to gain experience, confidence, clarity and depth in working with traditional teachings and practices of wilderness rites of passage.
This programme has been the culmination of a decade of my apprenticing to Annie Bloom who was a lead guide in Animas Valley Institute for twenty odd years.
It’s also informed by my Buddhist practice of 26 years, my somatic practice of Gene Gendlin’s Focusing method and my training in something called generative trance with Stephen Gilligan.
For many years as a Buddhist, receiving guidance and feedback from more experienced meditators has been pivotal in keeping my practice alive, refined and diving for the depths.
The same holds true for the crafts outlined in my Programme Overview (see website) for which I received guidance - for the most part - from Annie.
When we practice alongside other and receive thoughtful feedback, it brings confidence, clarity and depth to our work.
Learning within community and this repetitious experiential approach are at the heart of Murmurations.
In the coming weeks I’ll be posting more about this programme, vision quests and my last Buddhist retreat at Rivendell!
As this is what’s coming up over the last months of summer bleeding into autumn.
My website - the art of rewilding dot com
Is looking fresh and clean but no less wordy 😉 plus I’ve been writing some articles that explore this work at depth. Take a peak.
warmly, Natasha also known by my Buddhist name Nagadipa
