Connecting with One Another to Reconnect with Nature

People have always needed community, spirituality, and celebration. These needs increase in times of difficulty. Supportive conversations and ecospiritual practices help us respond to the vast challenges of environmental disruption and social injustice that threaten global and personal well-being today.

Participation

Novasutras gatherings help us to share information, support wellness practices, and cultivate beloved community.

Online Events ~ Leading Deep Change Learning Community ~ Uplifters ~ Local Chapters ~ Information Sharing: Newsletter – Blog – Twitter – Facebook – YouTube – Instagram

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Projects

Novasutras projects manifest compassion and care for all people and other beings on Earth.

The Child Hardship Fact Force ~ Climate Solutions ~ Earth’s Three Green Hearts: Equatorial Rainforests ~
Regenerative Land Reform

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Practices

Novasutras ecospiritual practices help us to be resilient and effective, even in the most difficult and turbulent times.

Octal Celebrations ~ Meditation ~ Focusing ~ Shinrin-Yoku/Forest Immersion ~ Work That Reconnects ~ Participatory Events

In Novasutras , we come together to nurture and uplift one another during these challenging times. We are cultivating a world that works for all people and all species of life on Earth. In our gatherings, spirituality and science are honored harmoniously to understand our existence, open our minds, expand our hearts, and guide us into action.  

There are many ways you can join Novasutras ecospiritual efforts as we develop an engaged worldwide community cultivating agaya and ubuntu.
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Events

New Moon Meditation — M Apr12th, 2:45pm

Leading Deep Change Learning Community — W Apr 14th 9:00am

Reconnection Rituals for managing Climate Grief and Ecoanxiety — W Apr 14th 3:00pm

Discussions in Difficult Times — Th Apr 15th 11:30am

All times listed are PDT. Click below for full event list, details, links and registration, videos of past events, and ideas for planning celebrations.

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Child Hardship Updates

Levels of child hardship – hunger and housing insecurity – associated with the Covid pandemic are being under-reported. Novasutras Uplifters in the Child Hardship Fact Force are assembling information to help organizations in the United States come together and prevent the impending tragedies of eviction, hunger and homelessness that threaten millions of children. Paul Schaafsma has investigated levels of child food and housing insecurity associated with (but not caused by) the pandemic, as revealed in the Census Bureau’s “Household Pulse Survey,” conducted at regular intervals since April of last year. Paul has also looked at the recent Covid Relief Bill, to realistically assess how much difference it will make for millions of children who are most in need. These updates will be discussed in the Child Hardship Fact Force meeting this Tuesday.

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What are agaya and ubuntu?

Agaya is a new term (the merger of agape – transcendent love – and Gaia – nature’s creative complexity), intended as an expression of the deep, sacred beauty of the universe.
Ubuntu is a term from southern Africa that represents connections and interdependence between all beings.
Agaya and ubuntu unite us with each other and the more-than-human world in reverence, joy, generosity, gratitude, and loving-kindness.

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