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Deep Earth Dreaming Experiential Deep Ecology ~ Plant Spirit Medicine ~ Grief Work ~ Nature Connection Here is Skye’s personal blog. To the lyrebirds, mushrooms and passionflowers.

Skye was raised on (and by) a farm on the edge of a wildlife reserve in South Africa. Her early childhood was spent wandering barefoot and immersed in the imaginal worlds that emerged between her senses and the touch of lion’s roar, river song and rolling thunderstorms across the bushveld. Her teen years were spent hand-raising and rehabilitating wildlife and later, led her to qualify as a wildern

ess guide. She then went on to train in traditional Taoist healing practices for three years and qualified as a yoga instructor before travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to undergo an in-depth apprenticeship in Amazonian curanderismo (the regional word for shaman/plant spirit healer). Helm also grew up close to nature but attempted to ‘civilise’ himself through higher education and a few years as a corporate lawyer. Through the good fortune of an existential crisis, he wound up in the jungle, where he met Skye and remembered what it felt like to belong to the world. Along the way, he trained as a counsellor, psycho-therapeutic journey practitioner, breath worker and in bodywork. Together, in Peru, we underwent a full-time 5year apprenticeship with Shipibo curanderos from the Mahua-Lopez lineage- simultaneously facilitating healing and transformational retreats for hundreds of people from all over the world. In the years since then, we have studied the sickness of modern industrial growth culture, and to the deep ecological movement arising in response, including the work of John Seed and Joanna Macy (The Work that Reconnects). We see our path as one which traverses the jagged terrain of separation, towards a culture of ‘interbeing’. To this end, we now apprentice themselves to the wild multi-form sentience of the land. To the humans that remember what it is to belong. To the old growth.

RECLAIMING AND TRAINING IN ANIMIST PERCEPTIONAfter the biggest break since starting this work, I have scheduled the next...
26/01/2026

RECLAIMING AND TRAINING IN ANIMIST PERCEPTION

After the biggest break since starting this work, I have scheduled the next Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm Study Group. Stephen Harrod Buhner's approach to reclaiming living-earth perception and entering into direct connection with the other-than-humans has been so impactful for both myself and dozens of other folks who have been in these rich, depth filled containers of study and practice.

Its already half-full from my mailing list and historically has filled up within a week of release, so if you know this is for you, I wouldn't dawdle too long. Commitment to at least 6 of the 8 live calls is a requirement to join, although I will provide recordings of all the calls, live partipation is necessary for this container to work.

Payment plans are available on request.
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See event link with all relevant info in the comments below 👇

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I'm excited to share that the next round of The Mythic Body course by Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast has just been r...
25/07/2025

I'm excited to share that the next round of The Mythic Body course by Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast has just been released, with some key changes that will allow for more folks to join and to provide communal continuity beyond the initial year-long format that its had these last 4 years 💚

I've had the great joy and privilege of being a course assistant since its inception and a co-facilitator of the course material for the last two years alongside the amazing and .laece 🖤

This work has been so supportive to my own unfolding and has given me a framework, language and some very simple but potent practices to support the reclamation of animate ritual rhythms in my own life and within my larger community.

Josh shares generously, humbly and cares deeply for this work and its contribution to "a growing movement that seeks to reclaim connection to living land, to awe and wonder, and to the story of what it means to be a human being."

I feel a lot of love for this work and am honoured to be part of the team that is supporting it to move further out into the world 💚

The link to the course brochure is in the comments below 👇

Feel free to reach out with questions

11/07/2025

Another clip from my recent conversation with Nate Hagens of The Great Simplification podcast alongside John Seed 💚

10/07/2025

John Seed Deep Ecology and I recently had a conversation with Nate Hagens from The Great Simplification podcast... we talk a lot about The Work The Reconnects/Experiential Deep Ecology, the body of work that John and Joanna Macy co-created.

It feels especially timely as Joanna's passing approaches. I hope that our responses have done justice to her incredible legacy.

I'd love to ear thoughts from anyone who gives it a listen 🖤🖤https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/reality-roundtable-17

I am excited to share this long-awaited collaboration with two dear friends of mine, Claire Dunn Nature's Apprentice and...
12/06/2025

I am excited to share this long-awaited collaboration with two dear friends of mine, Claire Dunn Nature's Apprentice and Siobhán Delaney Kindred Womancraft 🖤🖤

We have been dreaming into weaving our respective threads together, and through this mutual longing, Hearth Fire 🔥 was born.

I would love for you to join us if you feel called. You can find more info via the ticket page in the comments below 👇

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X6 Consecutive Fridays
9:30 am–2:30 pm
17th October – 21st November 2025

Kalorama | Warrandyte | Wild Location
Limited to 15 participants
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Over six consecutive Fridays, we will gather to enter into a seasonal practice of deep listening and creative tending.

Each week's gathering will be shaped by ritual, song, mythic story, seasonal (spring) herbal medicine making, and tending to the wild thread of soul. Together, we form a living map of reconnection, working with hands, voice, heart, and soul.

We will sit in circle, share potluck meals, connect to our spring herbal allies, journal under the open sky, gather by the fire, and marinate in the medicine of being together in this way.

This journey is not in any way a peak experience that fades quickly.
It is the slow, simple yet profound work of living with soul daily.

Each day, a prayer for the re-membering of our ancestral inheritance,

our wild knowing, and our place in the great weaving of life.
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DATES & THEMES

~WEEK 1 — EARTH | 17 October | Kalorama
Deer hide rattles & Seasonal tincture

~WEEK 2 — AIR | 24 October | Kalorama
Rattle finishing • Herbal salts & herbal vinegars

~WEEK 3 — WATER (BELTANE) | 31 October | Kalorama
Flower bath & Flower essence crafting

~WEEK 4 — ETHER | 7 November | Warrandyte
Basket weaving & Herbal Balm

~WEEK 5 — WILD | 14 November | Secret Wild Location
Sit spot • Nature journaling • Fire-making

~WEEK 6 — FIRE | 21 November | Warrandyte
Sweat lodge-style herbal steam, Decant Tincture & Closing circle

☆Sold-Out☆ Please follow the ticket link in the comments below to sign up to the waitlist and to be informed of any spot...
17/03/2025

☆Sold-Out☆

Please follow the ticket link in the comments below to sign up to the waitlist and to be informed of any spots that open up or to be the first invited to the following round starting in September 👉

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Join me for a deep dive into this profound body of work by renowned master herbalist, earth poet, bardic naturalist, deep ecologist and prolific award-winning author of 25 books, the late Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen was a radical systems thinker, polymath and synthesiser whose work continues to have a deep and lasting impact on Plant People and Deep Ecologists all over the world.

I have read Plant Intelligence dozens of times (as well as most of his other books) and consider Stephen to be one of my primary teachers on the topics of Plant Medicine, Animist Living Earth Perception, Gaian Systems and Earth Sentience, Deep Ecology, and Eco-Soul Poetics.

According to Stephen, 'Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm' offers a "sophisticated theoretical foundation for contemplative animism." It provides an accessible philosophical framework combined with simple yet profound exercises to help us open our perception towards a living, breathing and dreaming earth. This will be my 6th time guiding this 10-week dive into his work.

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"The world is alive, intelligent, aware, communicative, and filled with soul. We are not alone, we are part of something much larger than ourselves. We are companioned by millions upon millions of related life-forms; and the dead, mechanical world we have been taught about in school does not exist....
and never has."

~Stephen Harrod Buhner

I'm looking forward to participating in this webinar on Deep Ecology alongside John Seed Deep Ecology and Michelle Malon...
21/02/2025

I'm looking forward to participating in this webinar on Deep Ecology alongside John Seed Deep Ecology and Michelle Maloney from the Australian Earth Laws Alliance 💚
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Event description:

You're invited to join us for monthly webinars in our series “Kinship: exploring human-nature connections.” Guest speakers from around Australia and around the world, will share their insights into how they connect with and celebrate ‘nature’. Human beings are (of course) part of nature, but by reflecting on the cultural, bioregional, linguistic and practical ways that humans engage with, celebrate and care for ‘nature’, we can enrich our understanding of what it means to be part of the Earth community.

In March we are delighted to have John Seed and Skye Cielita Flor join us, to share insights into deep ecology, and how the many and varied practices that have emerged within deep ecology can help people understand and connect with the non-human living world.

You can register via the link in the comments below 👇

LIVING ONE 2025 ~ Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment Webinar Series with ~•~Series one: Attending to...
19/02/2025

LIVING ONE 2025 ~
Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment Webinar Series with

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Series one: Attending to the More-Than-Human World

This first series, Attending to the More-Than-Human World, explores the ethics of attention –why it matters when we unhook our minds and attention from human privilege and ground in the perspectives of Animals, Plants, Rivers, Seas, Forests. Six incisive thinkers discuss ways to pay deep and loving attention to Animals and Plants. Through various approaches – empathy, shared embodiment, animism and holism – they offer thoughtful and practical guidance on how the well-being and self-determination of our fellow earth-beings can be supported and revitalized.

Skye Cielita Flor will be joining us on March 14th to share on the topic of:

~•Reawakening Animate Relationship – Attention, Feeling and the Dreaming Mind•~

You can secure your spot via the link in the comments below 👇

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