For Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color
**👇🏾sliding scale payment options👇🏾**
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, RAIN OR SHINE!
SPACE IS LIMITED. SLIDING SCALE AVAILABLE.
We have set a sliding scale so those who are able to pay more can help balance the lower end. The top price is listed above. See below for other payment options.
This hike is for those who self-identify as BIPOC.
“The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Join us on this fall Saturday for a journey into nature — a time to reconnect with both the natural world and ourselves. Throughout the hike, we’ll weave in various nature meditations, embracing silence as a key element for introspection and transformation. This is a chance to unwind and restore. It's also an opportunity to understand our relationship to nature in both its simplicity and complexity.
“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world." — Robin Wall Kimmerer
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As teachers, we always begin every session of practice (whether inside or outdoors) with three honorings: honoring native land, honoring practice lineages, & honoring personal ancestors.
But what does it mean to honor native land in a culture rampant with the destruction and desecration of nature? How do we heed the call of indigenous communities who insist that land acknowledgements are not enough? How do we forge a connection to the Earth that goes beyond ideas of ownership and extraction (even recreational extraction) to ones of reciprocity and stewardship? How do we cultivate a restoration of relationship to nature?
Rising 900 feet above seal level, Anthony’s Nose is just an hour from the city. There we can embark on a meditative hike through the beauty of the Hudson Valley while exploring practices and inquiries to investigate the above questions and more.
“Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” — Malcom X
This is an easy-intermediate hike of about 4 miles. We will walk at a slow to moderate pace and take breaks. However, some of the climbs are slightly steep and not appropriate for those who cannot handle upwards or downwards inclines.
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Who: Lin Wang Gordon and Sebene Selassie
When: 8:30am-5pm, Saturday, September 7, 2024
Where: Anthony’s Nose, Cortlandt, NY; trail begins in Bear Mountain State Park
Train Meeting Location and Time: Approximately 8:25am at the clock, Grand Central or 10am at the Manitou train station, Metro North, Hudson Line. We’ll be taking the 8:45am train up. Once we all meet up at the Manitou train station, we will walk to the trailhead (about 1.3 miles).
Please bring your lunch and plenty of water for the trail.
No prior meditation experience needed.
Your lunch
Ample snacks
At least three liters of water
A backpack or waistpack
Sitting props if needed (thermal rest z-seat pad, light yoga block, etc.)
Comfortable athletic clothing
Hiking boots
Hat
Jacket if needed
Sunscreen if needed
Sunglasses if needed
Rain-gear if forecasted
Lin has studied insight meditation (Vipassana) for over a decade and in recent years, she has studied from the Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions. In particular, she was moved by the power of nature meditation to connect with a deep sense of love, wonder, resilience, and belonging. She graduated from Mark Coleman’s Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Teacher Training and has learned to lead ecodharma retreats from David Loy and Johann Robbins. She is enrolled in the Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leaders Program (CDL7). She co-hosts the Sacred Earth Sangha of the New York Insight Meditation Center, and taught at various retreat centers.
Sebene Selassie
I am a writer, teacher and speaker who explores the paradoxes & possibilities of belonging through meditation, creativity and nature-based practices. I’ve studied meditation, spirituality, art, and the esoteric for over thirty years and am gifted at teaching profound truths using contemplative, creative & culturally relevant practices that are engaging and joyful. I am trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, an Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma (IFOT) practitioner, and am a NY State licensed hiking guide.
You can pay in full or with a two-month payment plan (with no extra cost). There are three sliding scale payment options. YOU WILL NEED TO USE THE LISTED COUPON CODES FOR THE SECOND TWO OPTIONS:
Pay-It-Forward Price: $120
This option is for those who easily meet their basic needs of food, housing, transport & leisure... and then some.
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Full Price: $80
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This option is for those who regularly meet their basic needs of food, housing, transport & leisure.
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Need-Based Price: $50
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This option is for those who mostly meet their basic needs of food, housing, transport & leisure.