Academy of Modern Nature

06/29/2024

Academy of Modern Nature is LOUD & PROUD!

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About Space:

Focused on immersive experiences, Space is offering sound therapy sessions, nature connection workshops, community events (live talks and music), and transformational coaching to support belonging and wellbeing.

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01/08/2024

Thanks for following my story this past week! Today is the last day to sign up for the free 1-hour coaching session, and 2-month Life coaching with nature program at a 20% discount.

I hope you check out the details below. For now, I’ll leave you with a fun story from my journey. I hope it inspires you to seek experiences that make you come alive!

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…the Fun Story

So about 3 years into my ‘going natural’ experiment (living without any mood-altering substances), I found myself feeling very lonely in Los Angeles. The ocean, while cold and dark, promised more belonging than any nightclub void. So I squeezed into a wetsuit, and started diving for an ocean conservation project. I met others who liked barnacles more than bars, exchanged salty jokes, and got underwater every week. It was a turning point. Literally.

One brisk January dive, I decided to practice my buoyancy skills. I floated just above a sandy seafloor encircled by bull kelp, criss-crossed my legs, and did some somersaults.

Then I felt a large presence. Watching me.

I stopped goofing around and spotted black, globed eyes peeking behind the kelp. I could sense that they belonged to a gentle giant. A sea lion just waiting for playtime. I resumed the somersaults, and in a split second, four sea lions slipped into the clearing, copying my flips and twists. My ear-to-ear grin kept breaking the seal on my mask, but I didn’t care. I moved freely, in sync with it all. My new friends showed me to a thick bed of seagrass that was bending horizontally in the strong surge. Its power felt scary. But those marine experts reminded me to move with the surge, as they flew effortlessly back and forth above the grass. Weightless and in total harmony with my ocean community, I closed my eyes and soaked up the power of the moment. A cold, dark void the ocean was not.

I revisit that moment often, especially when I feel exhausted from pushing against the surges of work and life. I close my eyes, recall every detail, and feel instantly reconnected. The world can be a beautiful place. It’s just waiting for playtime.

The principle I learned that day guides me back to the natural world for support and belonging even now, 18 years later. I hope it helps you as well.

Peace & love,
Kate

01/06/2024

🪨 A resting stone gathers moss—and belonging 🍄🌲🐦 🧘🏽‍♂️

Has a rock ever reminded you that life is worth living? I place these gems of deep time around my house to remind me that when I go out there, beyond the walls of modern life, onto the ancient seabeds of earth elements, life gives way to more life. Redwoods, pines, manzanitas, moss, fungi, and all the beings they support. Including us. Sharing moments within our nature community brings belonging. And belonging brings peace and purpose. Hard qualities to hold in a modern reality built on a myth of separation.

When I decided to go natural—without alcohol, caffeine, ni****ne, or other mood-altering substances—it wasn’t an easy path. None of the existing support options fit my experience. People gave me strict rules and warned that if I didn’t follow them, I would fail. It all felt so full of fear and shame. It didn’t reflect the expansive, light feeling I got when spending time in nature. It didn’t reflect the deep sense I had that trusting and loving myself was the only rule to follow.

Nature gently reminds me of who I am, that I belong, and that we each have intrinsic value just as we are. By mindfully studying nature’s principles, I learned ways to access this self-acceptance over and over until it followed me into the walls of modern life. It started to click—nature was all around me, from the food I eat to the dreams I have.

I am nature. We all are. We just don’t know how to recognize or relate to it anymore. This creates suffering.

The nature-based coaching program that I’m offering shares these life-affirming insights with methods that are tested by deep time and mounting research. If you know that aspects of your modern life aren’t supporting your wellbeing but that nature does, this may be the right program for you. You don’t need to go it alone for decades. You can start feeling better now. For free. Please take a look at my New Year’s offer, which runs through Jan 8.

Peace & love,
Kate

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01/05/2024

Have you ever considered a big, scary, unthinkable, bodacious change? This kind of realization comes to us when the pain of doing the same unhealthy thing outweighs the pain of doing something about it. For 21-years-ago me, going in circles in all areas of my life felt agonizing. I made unhealthy choices to feel better in the short term, but each choice led to more depression. I had to break the cycle. But how?

I went for a walk around Lake Merritt, and watched a blue heron hunting on the shore. She stood still on one leg, patiently waiting for a tasty morsel to swim by. The last time I experienced that kind of stillness, I was a young girl watching for tadpoles in a local creek. But since I was 11 years old, I hadn’t gone a day without a mood-altering substance in my body—either caffeine, alcohol, ni****ne, or other.

That’s when I knew what to do: it was time to experience life naturally again.

Who was I in that natural life? I was afraid to find out, and didn’t know where to start. You can probably guess that I found a way, and actually, the nature-based coaching program that I’m now offering to you is the result of that decades-long journey. I’ll tell you more about the adventure tomorrow, but for now I hope you consider these two ways that you can get support today, for whatever you’re looking to change. Big and bodacious or small and sensible.

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01/02/2024

Happy New Year, nature lover!

Twenty-one years ago I woke up trying to remember what I had done the day before. Nothing came to mind. Instead, I got a sinking feeling that I had:

1) said or done something I wish I hadn’t

2) been going in circles for years with…um, everything. Drinking, relationships, career, finances, life choices.

I just couldn’t do it anymore. The apartment walls seemed so dingy and lonely. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had fallen into the belly of a transformational cocoon. The only thing I could think to do at the time was go for a long walk around Lake Merritt. I knew that I’d get some guidance by clearing my mind under the sycamore trees and opening to insights from the lake’s egrets and sunlit ripples.

And that’s when I decided to make a big, scary, unthinkable, bodacious change.

I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow, but here’s a spoiler alert: I did accomplish my goal—eventually. But it took a lot of trial, error, time, and support.

If you’re looking for support through a change, here are 2 options you can check out now. Do one or both! The free session comes with a full wellbeing assessment and plan.

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A nature-based life coach gives you the essential tools and guidance you need to naturally reduce anxiety and live your life's purpose. We apply these benefits using science-based methods so you can quickly regain clarity and vitality in body, mind, and spirit.

12/31/2023

Calling all nature lovers!

With the New Year’s countdown on, you might enjoy this one last practice to nourish your creativity and resilience. I call it ‘Your Dream Partner’ because it stars your unique nature ally, using guided imagery. It’s like improvisation of the imagination, which is a fun way to welcome new and hidden ideas into your consciousness. Open up to the unexpected, and tap into your deeper wisdom where new stories and realities are born.

What’s waiting for you there? I’d love to hear about it after you give it a try.

Go to practice: https://modnat.org/magazine-read-nature-wellbeing/guided-nature-imagery-then-boogie

Happy New Year!

Open up to the unexpected, strengthen resiliency and creativity, and tap into your deeper wisdom where new stories and realities are born.

12/29/2023

If energy and matter regenerates infinitely, why am I so tired?

Trying to create energy out of nothing right now? If you’re feeling flattened or burnt out, that may be the case. It’s been a long year. That feeling of exhaustion comes from drawing energy from an empty well that isn’t being replenished. I feel it too. I’m about to do one of my favorite nature meditations that draws energy back into the self and I thought I’d share it with you, too!

So, consider yourself invited on a trip to the deepest of creative wells, one that you can enter through your active imagination. The 7 Stairs Guided Meditation fills up the energy reserves you need to create the goodness you seek in the world. I hope you find the experience healing, easy, and enjoyable.

Go to practice: https://modnat.org/magazine-read-nature-wellbeing/energy-regeneration-meditation

Consider yourself invited on a trip to the deepest of creative wells, one that you can enter through your active imagination.