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, we have to join together with our communities in Love
And re-connect with the elements in Nature
To help restore balance both within ourselves
and in the ecologies around us.
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.
Nature's Elements
The elements flow around and within us, and their medicines are our gifts for healing, which we must pass on. We can study how breath, fire (energy), water, and Earth move through us and through ecosystems, and how to help restore balance.
We can discover that there is an order to the elements. Love and Breath are most primary, without which we cannot live for long. Then warmth, and water, and nourishment follow. These survival principles are also how we can approach the elements for healing.
Every element is an apprenticeship. Every element has its ways. Approach with respect. We are students.
1. Love
Love pervades all. To heal is to practice with Love, compassion and forgiveness in our hearts, as Love is our first gift.
Explore →2. Breath
Return to the body, feel the breath, lengthen the exhale, bring the nervous system into balance, and build a steady rhythm.
Explore →3. Fire
Practice keeping our fires small and in balance. In every cell burns a tiny furnace—our mitochondria. Work your body, build strength.
Explore →4. Water
What flows through water connects all life. We can become stewards of our waterways by connecting every day.
Explore →5. Earth
From sea and soil comes our nourishment. Study the plant families around us and connect with the ecologies we are part of.
Explore →