🪴 The Living Beings We Feed
Your guide to rooting deeper, growing truer, and blossoming wider in our PNW community.
Everything is alive, living, and has spirit. Our stones and phones, emotions and values, songs and stories—all living beings.
Alongside that, life is ceremony, whether we are aware of it or not. Our lives are interwoven connected rituals that we can either bring conscious, intentional prayer and practice to, or not.
And from these truths, comes empowerment and choice—agency to hold our realities and cultures as things we shape and cocreate.
What living spirits are you praying to? How are you feeding stress, anger, and fear?
These aren’t bad emotions. No emotions are. They are forms of intelligence.
But the question we are asking, is how are you metabolizing them? How are you being guided by them?
Again, this comes back to the continued practice of deepening in awareness and attunement to what we are feeding.
We’ve been sharing this a lot lately, and it feels like it is one of those things that needs to be reiterated and reinforced again and again. We need to realize the power we hold again and again in how we live our lives—how we embody the living ceremonies that our existences are, and recognize what living beings we “pray to” or “feed”, with or without our knowing and consciousness.
What feelings, what stories, what living entities are you feeding with your thoughts, actions, and prayers—aware of it or not?
It is so easy to give attention, energy, and “offerings” to the things that keep us in cycles of disassociation, addiction, and perfectionism. Or stuck in spirals of anxiety, regret, and hate. Or taken over by obsession, shame, or depression.
What could discernment look like when we engage with our emotions—these wise, guiding feelings coming from our bodies that are longing to tell us something?
This isn’t about avoidance, it’s about becoming more aware of what we unconsciously dwell on, ruminate about, and allow ourselves to become controlled by. Instead of feeding our individual and collective shadows, can we eat them?
Can we welcome them into their belonging, acknowledge their origins and what they’re telling us, and then consciously shift what we’re feeding towards something more aligned with our truths and dreams?
We could live our whole lives in our wounds, unawaringly feeding what is not serving us. Or maybe, just maybe, we could expand the circles of love and belonging we deem worthy and change what living beings and feelings we unconsciously feed.
Welcome to this edition of Seeding Community.
Showing Up For Community
Outgrow The System: A Film Screening, Panel & Community Action
The economy is failing people and the planet. What comes next?
On Friday, May 2nd, join Mount Baker Meaningful Movies, 350 Seattle, XR Seattle, Seattle DSA, and other local climate and social justice organizations for a powerful evening of film, local discussion, and action.
Outgrow the System explores how we can create an economy that works for people and the planet—not for corporate profits at the expense of communities and ecologies.
New ideas and grassroots movements are challenging old assumptions and already moving us toward a just, sustainable future. This film envisions a world where we participate in bold, transformative alternatives. Learn more and RSVP here.
Workshops, Retreats, & Rituals For Healing
Grieving Man: A 3-Day Spring Grief Retreat in Bellingham
Fellow brothers, fathers, sons, elders-in-training & the like, with our hearts open and tender, strong and resilient, on May 2nd-4th, we humbly and enthusiastically invite you into the birthing of a new and emergent gathering for men called Grieving Man.
Grieving Man is a friendship-led, land-based, relational and musical healing space. It is a ritual container that welcomes in the multi-faceted expressions of grief, joy, anger, desire, fear, longing (etc.) — emotions that are so often suppressed and stuck in our bodies — to be honored, expressed and, ultimately, transformed in the sacred witness of other men.
As beings socialized as men, most of us were taught at an early age not to show certain emotions. But the truth is, we do feel deeply. We are sensitive beings. We experience loss, love and sorrow. We feel our shames and fears. We are moved by beauty. We hold anger and rage that isn’t inherently destructive, but is a deep cry of the heart. Grieving Man is a space to dive deep into the waters of collective depth, attunement and belonging, together.
Within this container we will explore and expand the edges of what is possible for the transformation and healing of the masculine. We will work to cultivate a community of men that show up, support, and hold each other accountable as we continue to remember and become the men we are meant to be. Learn more and RSVP here.
Sing Your Story: Intergenerational Songwriting Experience for Brave Souls
You are a songwriter. Though you may not know it yet. Our everyday lives are so normal that we often overlook how exceptional we actually are.
In this unique creative songwriting workshop on Sunday, April 27th, you will blend your stories, experiences and memories into original songs using highly personal images and symbols. Participants will uncover the jewels hidden in plain sight from very specific moments of their lives. Learn more and register here.
Gathering to Embody What’s Possible
Being Dreamed by the Earth: Listening to Personal and Collective Dreams & Manifesting Change
What if the Earth is dreaming through us?
This course invites participants to explore waking dreams, sleeping dreams, and the unseen currents shaping our lives and communities. Through deep listening, ritual, and embodied practice, we engage with dreams as portals for transformation, weaving the personal and collective into a more meaningful, interconnected whole which can bring about transformative change so needed in our world today.
If you are feeling the call, the Women’s Dreaming Workshop is Jun. 11-15, 2025 and the Men’s Dreaming Workshop: Jun. 6th-10th, 2025. Learn more and register here.
Queer The Land Garden Volunteer Days
Join one of Queer The Land’s next Garden Volunteer Days! Come connect with the land and community this spring and summer. The next one is Saturday, April 26th from 11am - 2pm.
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just getting your hands in the soil for the first time, everyone is welcome! Together, we'll tend the garden, build skills, and celebrate our connection to nature. Register here.
Community Happenings
This Week
🌲 Tend & heal our land at Heron’s Nest’s volunteering day (Monday, 4/14)
💃 Dance through the Tiger’s Eye after some Yin Yoga (Tuesday, 4/15)
🎉 Get your festival, dance, & song on at Earthday Revival (Thursday, 4/17)
💃 Journey through time at this Om Ecstatic Dance (Thursday, 4/17)
💗 Snuggle up and connect at Happy Hunanimals (Friday, 4/18)
🎉 Let your forest fairy out at this month’s BloomDance (Saturday, 4/19)
🌲 Honor & celebrate Earth Day with Duwamish Alive (Saturday, 4/19)
🎨 Connect w/ local, native artists at a Spring Art Market (Saturday, 4/19)
🎶 Relax into bliss at this Sound Bath Sunday event (Sunday, 4/20)
Next Week
🌲 Tend & heal our land at Heron’s Nest’s volunteering day (Monday, 4/21)
💃 Dance your earth day celebrations at this ecstatic dance (Tuesday, 4/22)
💗 Love up on your body & others at Body Love Temple (Wednesday, 4/23)
🙌 Get acupuncture, yoga, & soundhealing at Sacred Dwelling (Thursday, 4/24)
💃 Flow into presence at this sound meditation & dance (Friday, 4/25)
🙌 Embrace the fire within at this Ecstatic Rage Ritual (Saturday, 4/26)
🌈 Volunteer at Queer The Land’s garden work day (Saturday, 4/26)
✊ Converse w/ Prentis Hemphill & Aaron Johnson (Saturday, 4/26)
💗 Practice giving & receiving w/ the Wheel of Consent (Sunday, 4/27)
🎶 Sing your story at this song writing practice space (Sunday, 4/27)
💃 Dance/Movement | 🎶 Music/Song | 🎤 Performance | 🎨 Arts/Crafts | 🙌 Spiritual/Healing | 💗 Sexuality/Sensuality | 🍄 Plants/Medicine | 🌲 Nature/Land | 💧 Grief Work | ✊ Social Justice/Community | 🎉 Celebration/Festival | 🌈 Queer/LBGTQIA | 🍲 Food | 😎 Other
Planning Your Seasons Ahead
📅 To keep you up to date on all the upcoming big gatherings, retreats, and festivals.
May 2 — Outgrow the System
May 2-4 — Grieving Man
May 23-25 — RECLAMATION: Wombyns Sacred Sexuality & Womb Healing Retreat
May 22-26 — Embodied Emotional Intelligence & Soulful Leadership
May 30-June 1 — Grieving With Mother Earth: A Grief Retreat to Honor and Deepen Connection with this Living World
June 6-8 — Feel the Earth Kissing Back: An Eco Erotic Retreat
June 12-15 — Healing Retreat: For Survivors of Child Sexual Trauma
July 10-13 — MANifest
July 18-20 — Rising Moon Festival
September 5-7 — Imagine Music and Arts Festival
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Seeding Community — Aloysious and Jordan