Throughout our life, whether through a spiritual experience, during a meditation retreat or medicine journey, or just through the natural unfolding of our daily lives, we have breakthroughs, insights, openings, healings, awakenings, and transformations. They suddenly, and sometimes dramatically, alter our sense of ourselves, our view of the world, the way our bodies feel, the beliefs we hold, and our understanding of deep existential questions. We often get the feeling that our lives will forever be different, we will never act the same as we did before, or have the same emotions or patterns. And sometimes, yes, we do change forever. But more often than not, we eventually fall back into familiar patterns and habits. The same old emotions and triggers reemerge and we seemingly forget all about our big insights and transformations. That is where the role of integration and practice comes into the picture…

In this moment of urgent need for ecological consciousness and repair, there is a newly emerging movement of Buddhism called Ecodharma, a movement that centers on awakening to our profound interdependence with nature through connecting deeply to the living world around us and seeing directly our deep belonging in the web of life…