Domei – Plant practices for deep nature connection

We are meant to be connected to our where, to the sensory experience of it. The simple beholding of place can slow your heart and steady your breath. It is quite the protective force.

A stillness that at one time would have been the most natural state of our collective being. It is in these encounters that wilderness brings us closer to places in ourselves that often go unvisited in modern life. This is what I am always seeking. This is what I am trying to help others find.

If at any point you are reading along and find yourself overtaken by an experience of expansiveness, interconnectedness, or deep stillness, then just stop reading and turn your attention directly to that experience. Relax into that experience. Give the experience permission to be the only thing there is. The words on the page aren’t going anywhere.

This, to me, is the essence of a spiritual practice—deep connection to one’s self and something outside of one’s self, and the specific methods that make this connection possible.