deepening into Nature - Spring 2024
with Ron Hays, Deb Scrivens & Mindy Springer
building our connections with Nature
sunDAY, April 7
webinar recording
More about this introductory Webinar
Our spring webinar explores nature’s awakening after its long winter dormancy. Just as in our Deepening into Nature class, we will be working today with three aspects of spring. They are the signs of spring, the sounds of spring, and the soil in spring.
The saying ‘Spring has Sprung’ is an apt description for this season. It’s life’s vitality blossoming forth. It’s everything, everywhere, all at once, budding, blooming, bursting into the exuberant emergence of life. It is the transformation of the gray days of winter into a thousand shades of green. It’s ten thousand hues of color in the beauty of blossoming flowers. It’s the multitudinous melodies of avian life declaring their return from faraway lands. It's sonorous amphibian croaks declaring they have left their mud homes of winter. It’s the gently warming womb of the soil enfolding the seeds of the coming year.
This webinar also introduces the three-week Presence Class, “Deepening into Nature” which runs April 18 - May 8.
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webinar Presenters
RON HAYS
Ron is an ordained Lorian priest with a lifelong interest in spiritual disciplines. Having spent years in a spiritual community founded by one of G.I. Gurdjieff’s students, he went on to learn shamanic practices with Michael Harner. He holds a degree in environmental science with a focus in riparian ecology. From early childhood his passion has been the outdoors – camping, hiking, and observing the world around him. He lives in Eagle Creek, Oregon sharing a beautiful land with his wife Christy.
deb Scrivens
Deb worked professionally as a naturalist and environmental educator for 45 years and trained as a spiritual counselor and healer since 1997. A graduate of Huxley College of Environmental Studies, her teachers and mentors include Tom Brown Jr., Jon Young, Sandra and Michael Harner and Sandy Ingerman. An avid outdoorswoman, gardener, and world traveler, she lives in Oregon on the Sandy River with her husband and two cats.
Mindy Springer
A practical adventurer, Mindy has followed her inclination towards beauty across the country and through her life. She resides in the home she and her husband built at the confluence of the Klickitat and Columbia Rivers with her two kids and two cats. A diverse career path has given her the opportunity to develop her skills as a facilitator, commune daily with nature and weave her spiritual practices throughout.