Rewilding Vernal Equinox Celebration 2025 (Online)

7:00 – 9:00 pm ET

Hosted by Hildur Palsdottir and Karen Kharitonov

All are welcome to celebrate the Spring Equinox with us! If you are registered for the Rewilding the Soul series, you do not need to register separately for the Equinox and Solstice events.

Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with the ecodharma sangha of Natural Dharma Fellowship. On this day of balance, when light and dark stand as equals, we will gather to honor the unfolding of spring. Just as the Earth awakens, so too do our intentions for growth, renewal, and harmony with the natural world.

This online, community-led gathering — the launch of our Rewilding the Soul 2025 Monthly Series —  will include reflection and meditation with Lama Liz and Lama Willa, poetry, ritual and the deep sharing of Council practice to celebrate the rebirth and resilience that the season of spring embodies.

Rewilding the soul is inner work that attunes us to the wisdom and love that are always flowing around and through us, the non-conceptual voices of the natural world that seek to draw us home to our deepest being, our core of deep compassion, kindness, and availability to extend ourselves to each other and the wider world.

Please join us to:

• Welcome the gifts of the natural world at this moment of becoming
• Share in community to reflect, meditate, grieve and celebrate
• Engage in Council, a practice of deep listening and exploration

You are encouraged to come to this gathering ready to construct and share a “wild altar” as part of our online ritual practice. The wild altar might include plants, photos, stones, shells and other reminders of nature’s bounty. Also consider having a candle, fragrant plant (local to your area) and incense (or an essential oil with diffuser).

We will also offer a Seed Blessing to recognize the interconnectedness of all beings and the power held within seeds—tiny vessels of life and possibility.

(Feel free to also work with metaphorical altars and seeds, i.e., written or simply energetic intentions that you want to nurture and grow in your life and practice.)

Our evening will end with an invitation to all to engage in small group Council Practice, an intentional practice of listening and speaking from the heart that builds community and trust, and provides a context for collective wisdom to emerge. More details regarding preparation for Wild Altars, Seed Blessing, and Council Practice will be included in registration emails.

If you would like to contribute to our online community altar, please email your season inspired poetry and art work to Hildur at ecodharma@naturaldharma.org. (We will share as much as we can during the live session and share all to registrants as follow up.)

Suitable for all levels.

Zoom Link

The Zoom link will be sent several days before the retreat to all those registered by then. If you register after that date, you’ll receive the link with your confirmation email shortly after submitting your registration. If you don’t see an email from Natural Dharma Registrar or Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, it may have mistakenly gone to your spam folder or to Promotions or Updates in Gmail.

Important: Please put these this email address in your Contact or Safe-Send list to make sure you receive our emails:

• register@naturaldharma.org

Program Cost

Our program fees provide essential support to our non-profit operations and NDF’s mission to spread the Dharma in accessible, relevant, and creative ways. Our goal is that no one misses out on our events due to lack of funds. Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to offer tiered pricing and additional support to fit varied financial situations: 

• May All Beings Benefit! *– supporting access for all and general support for NDF operations
• A Middle Way – covering the base cost
• Held in Sangha Loving-kindness – offering ease when financial resources are limiting

If the lowest cost tier creates an obstacle to your attendance, please see our financial support options on the registration page. The process is simple and does not require extensive information. Financial aid is immediately approved using discount code options that allow you to contribute the most you are able while honoring your particular resources.

* The difference between the May All Beings Benefit! tier and the Middle Way tier will be considered a tax-deductible donation and will be acknowledged as such in writing. Contributing at this level helps us offer financial aid to other participants. Thank you!!

Access to Recordings

NDF offers unlimited access to recordings, which are accessed in your user dashboard (more information about user accounts provided in a pre-retreat letter). If you have a user account, please register with the same email you use to log into your dashboard. If not, an account will be created for you using your registration address.

Availability will vary depending on the type of event and the backlog for our precious resource volunteers. Thank you for your patience.

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