Altars of Belonging:   

“Paying attention, kneeling in the grass, these are acts of reciprocity, and who knows but that Earth responds to this loving attention. Perhaps a tree whose bark is caressed by kind hands tingles with nourishing sap.”

~Geneen Marie Haugen, Spiritual Ecology 

“When the earth is sacred to us, our bodies can also be sacred to us.”  bell hooks, Touching the Earth 

These altars are offerings to feel with your senses, and ground in the present moment with reverence and curiosity about how our bodies are held by the living earth.   You might notice how texture, scent, color, or even sound create a vibrant contact point with earth elements and your own body presence. Words of poetry and wisdom are also here to help spark wonder and deepen a sense of belonging with both humans (present, ancestors, and descendants) and our more-than human kin.     

Brooke Kuhnhausen is a psychologist, with a love for creativity and meaning making and a cherisher of poetry, art, and music. She is enchanted by play and imagination as portals of transformation. She loves sharing how contemplative, and embodied  practices might root us more  deeply in resilience, interbeing, and aliveness in these potent and possible times.   

She is an advocate for climate justice and gender equity and has been part of a number of eco-feminist collaborations with visual artists, including writing for Deep Times Journal and the public talk Feeling in the Anthropocene. Brooke lives on Kalapuya land in Portland, OR near many dear living beings, including kindred friends, family, and collaborators, beloved waterways, wild roses, and rich loamy earth.