About Julia and Her Offerings

About this word, “Eairth”

“Is this a misspelling?”….I have felt for a long time that the word, “Earth” lacked inclusion of the sky or air element. Like a yin-yang symbol, both elements should be represented.

During my Awake in the Wild training with Mark Coleman, I learned about the geo-philosopher and cultural ecologist David Abram who in his book, Becoming Animal - An Earthly Cosmology, resolved this conundrum. He explained how in this sedimentary-like cosmology, there is the Earth layer and the Air layer; to better express this unification of these elements, he inserted the word air into the word Earth… becoming Eairth. What an elegant solution!


Click here to view an 18-min. perspective-shifting video of David eloquently stating his view of “The Animate World and Becoming Animal.”

Below, I share more about my Eairth offerings and my spiraling journey of education and experience that has brought me to this season in my life in Yoga, Awake in the Wild Nature-based Mindfulness, Meditation, Morning Altars, and Birding.

About Julia’s Training and Experience

Yoga Seated Twist in Nature

Mindful Movement

By slowing down their yoga practice, I invite my students to a more mindful practice. By increasing proprioceptive awareness (knowing where one’s body is in space), I encourage a sustainable healthy range of motion for joints and ligaments as well as stimulating bone density and muscle tone. This awareness then paves the way to a deeper inner connection at the heart of yoga.

 I completed my 500 hour yoga teacher trainings (200 hr. and 300 hr.) with Scott Anderson, founder of Alignment Yoga. I’ve been teaching yoga since 2013, and have taught several 200-hr. RYT teacher-training programs as well as assisted Scott in his 500-hr RYT teacher-training program in Eugene, Oregon.

I have additional certifications from Dr. Loren Fishman, (Yoga for Osteoporosis) and Dr. Baxter Bell (Yoga for Healthy Aging) and another 200 hour yoga teacher training with Sarahjoy Marsh, founder of DAYA.

Let me know if you want to be notified when I offer one of my series on topics like Yoga for Healthy Bones, Healthy Aging, Healthy Backs, or Hypermobility.

Tree Meditation

Mindful Meanderings

I am a certified “Awake in the Wild Teacher” by
Mark Coleman. These nature-based mindfulness meditation practices help us attune our senses to the simple delights and serenity of the natural world using various sensory awareness practices and guided mindfulness-based meditations. These will support a more direct connection with wonder, awe, and gratitude.

I offer monthly half-day AITW retreats called, “Mindful Meanderings” at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum March through October and other locations as opportunities arise.

Check the schedule for upcoming events. Occasionally, I can be found leading the Daily Nature Meditations via Zoom on the Awake in the Wild website.

Morning Altars book

Eairth Art

I am a graduate of Day Schildkret’s year-long “Morning Altars” teacher training where we explored the nexus between nature, art, and ritual. In addition to creating my own Morning Altars, which I call Eairth Offerings, I am available to teach workshops on the steps to create such offerings.

Please check out my Gallery for a sampling of my art or visit my store for luminous glass prints, calendars, and other gifts in the making.

Check Day’s animated short about the essence of making Earth Art

Inner Nature

Meditation

I am a lover and student of nature, both inner and outer, and so meditation is at the heart of all my work. I discovered deep reservoirs in meditation during high school and began a daily lifelong meditation practice in 1977 inspired by my teacher, Prem Rawat, and later received further meditation instruction with master teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

Mark Coleman introduced me to the idea of using nature as a support for meditation. These Awake in the Wild practices helped me experience that we ARE nature; we are an expression of nature… a part of the moving landscape.

All Things Bird

Listening and watching birds is a primary way I connect with the rhythms of Nature; it brings me into the present moment and fills me with deep joy, awe, and gratitude, and of course concern for their future well-being.

In 2006 I became more curious about the birds in my backyard and found a class series on the relationship between birds and plants led by naturalist, Dave Bontrager. Dave would become my primary birding teacher; he taught a life-changing series on how to identify birds by their vocalizations which is how I identify most birds now. I took numerous series workshops with him, and went on to participate in a number of citizen science projects.

Thanks to Dave, I now co-lead monthly bird walks with another fellow student of Dave’s, and lead Area 14 in Lane County’s nation-wide Audubon Winter Bird Count. Up until COVID, I taught a 4-week series on identifying birds by sound for Mt. Pisgah Arboretum in the early summer.

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