Reunion with Nature School

My name is Mark. Like many young people today, I became a computer nerd as a child, learning to dissociate into an imaginary world of glowing pixels. But I knew early on that I was not meant to be that way. And so I began to search. And through many years of searching and practicing, I've become a student of the healing arts.

To heal is to look at what's so close to us that we have been blind to it—the patterns and conditioning from adapting to traumatized people around us. To look at how we survived with grace and work towards a better balance. This means tuning into the places in us we learned to neglect and abuse, then rewiring ourselves with love, connection, healthy exercise, clean food, community service, and ecological connection.

For me, this journey meant learning to open my heart, clear my mind, and hold a balanced foundation. After years of trauma and holding it in, I'm learning to open my pelvis and back so I can breathe and move again.

We get sick because we grew in a culture that's sick. And to heal, we also need to work together in community. Healing is not optimization of individuals, but a fundamental change in our way of seeing the world— that all of life is Us, and therefore our work must serve the balance of life on Earth. We share in common the medicines of Nature, the elements that flow through all of us in measured harmony. We need to dissolve our ego to see clearly.