March 12, 2022
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/12/2022
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Location
Sonoma Garden Park
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Equinox Celebration: Nature Wellness and Earth Altar Mandalas with Sonoma Ecology Center
Date: Saturday, March 12
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Sonoma Garden Park
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Let’s wander the woodland, bask in the garden and create a portal for life’s return of spring.
First, nature wellness guide Simone York will lead a forest therapy session, inviting us to observe, reflect and write from new perspectives by fully opening our senses and using intuitive living connections to the environment. Moving at the pace of nature, welcoming in the stillness, and embracing our inner beings to fully connect with the natural world.
Then, Libby Piazza and Julia Megna will share about how mandalas are a commonality in many cultures, and represent the wholeness of life. Creating an earth altar or nature mandala can connect you to your surroundings, the season and what you may be striving for. We will explore the art of foraging elements to create with, from plants to non-living things, and arrange them in the universal shape of the circle. Your earth altar can be a simple thing of beauty, a rhythmic pattern, or a portal through which you can transport into this next chapter of your year.
There is no charge for this outing, which is made possible by the voters of Sonoma County who fund the work of Ag + Open Space with a quarter-cent sales tax.
For more information, contact Tony Passantino at tony@sonomaecologycenter.org.