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| "Speak to the Earth and it will teach you" The Earth’s echo lives in each one of us. Some of us are very attuned to recognizing it, and others hear it like a distant drummer, unclear of its source. We each innately know the elements, the cycles, the animal natures, and the plant characteristics, and somewhere in us, we feel how our bodies, emotions and spirits resonate with those echoes. There was a time when everything we knew came from observing the Earth and her beings: the way we discovered movement, expression, emotion, love and communication. All were once drawn from the fascination of the wild. That yearning lives in us still. It is in listening to, and becoming this echo, that we become more balanced, healthy, open, free, and naturally loving and joyful. We remember that all life is sacred. Spiritual Retreats & Wilderness JourneysIn spending quiet, reflective hours in the company of Nature, through these spiritual retreats and wilderness journeys; we learn to echo Earth, and a deep sense of harmony begins once again, to reverberate in our souls. In this day and age of crazy, stress-filled, fast paced lives, the sanctuary of wild places offers us an opportunity for a peace and sanity not easily found elsewhere. In the natural world things make sense. In the world of the city, we are challenged to know and understand and have compassion for ourselves, when the world around us is manmade, unknown, confusing and harsh. We need more opportunities to see our truest qualities...indeed our essence reflected in the world around us....the natural world offers that willingly, within spiritual retreats and wilderness journeys.
Jade's home is now located on Ekone Ranch in the Columbia River Basin of southern Washington. Here on 1300 magical acres of the Sacred Earth Land Trust bordering the Yakama Indian Reservation and BLM wildlands, wildness possibilities are opening up even further for Earth's Echo. Here I live on the land, totally off the grid, and in the community of the wild ones, 27 horses, 6 buffalo, dogs, gardens, chickens, pigeons and some wonderful, wise, open-hearted humans. Many new programs are being imaged and envisioned for the coming years. Additionally, Ekone offers a fabulous series of horse camps for kids, ages 8 - 18...teaching riding, care, and connection with their gentle and beautiful horses, living in reverence to the land and sustainable living techniques...both socially as well as with our beloved Mother Earth. Please be sure to click on the Ekone link to find out more! www.ekone.org "And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, and a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home." Wendell Berry, "The Unforeseen Wilderness"Browse through the pages of this website. Learn about our spiritual retreats, wilderness journeys and vision quests. Earth's Echo c/o Jade Sherer 509-773-4239
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