Tails are wagging around here with a clear-eye on our upcoming Winter Break, RoZie’s tiny tail moving like a mobile metronome around our iced up 19.67 acres. We follow our arable land’s lead, not sowing for a season’s cycle, allowing both it and us to recover. In the case of the land, storing organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. In the case of us, letting go of our focus on our Sevā— the work we do for others and the world — to renew our own Sādhanā — the work we do on our ourselves for ourselves. Sitting, walking, reading, writing, renewing and for a time, hitting the road.
That means there’s just a few more opportunities to visit The Higher Haven before the home fires are lit: our breezy, three-hour Signature Meditation + Mindfulness 101 class, a life-altering course in higher consciousness, Sunday, November 24th, our Monthly Spiritual Purification Ceremony the weekend of December 14th, and our evolved annual Aho Ho Ho Ho Down, a Silent Night and Advent Celebration the weekend of December 21st, inspired by the writings and Christianity of poet Reiner Maria Rilke, who wrote of looking within himself to find “room for a second huge and timeless life.” If a second huge and timeless life is on your wish list this Holiday season we hope to see you, and if not, when we resume in March of 2025. Toksha