Week 1 (3/8/26)
EcoSattva Training Week 1 (3/8/26) Home Practices + Group Guidelines and Structure
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Ecosattva Class Group Guidelines
- Speak from the heart. Don’t over intellectualize what’s being said.
- Listen without judgment or criticism
- Allow yourself to be authentic
- Confidentiality – Ok to talk about general content and what we’re learning but not attributing anything said to any one person.
- Stepping forward, stepping back.
- Avoid cross talk
- Ask permission for a question
Ecosattva Class Structure
- Short sit to settle in (5 min)
- Small Group Discussion of previous week’s practices (15 min)
- Guided Body Sit (20 min)
- Review of current week’s material with large group discussion (15 min)
- Small group discussion with theme/prompt (15 min)
- Formal and informal practices for upcoming week (10 min)
- Closing sit / Dedication (5 min)
Home Practices Between Week 1 and Week 2
Formal – Work with grounding and settling the body. Sitting & walking.
Informal – Go to the same place in nature, each day if you can.
Talk about resourcing in relation to this.
Walking softly on the earth. Connecting kindly with the earth as we walk.
Watch session 1 if you haven’t already. Pay attention to the resources that Kaira Jewel offers.
Watch session 2. I suggest taking notes as you go so you can refer to them during our group.
Week 2 (3/15/26)
EcoSattva Training Week 2 (3/15/26) Home Practices
Continue to visit your place. Start to be intentionally relational with any living beings in that place. Offer your presence.
Pay attention to any habitual ways you collapse around a sense of self. Notice how when this happens, your connection to the larger whole is disrupted.
For formal practice, continue to become intimate with the experience of body resting on the earth. Notice any sense of the body being separate from the earth starting to dissolve.
Either formally or informally, be mindful that you are walking on this earth. Be present for the somatic experience of it. You can also offer kindness to the earth through your feet.
Week 3 (3/22/26)
EcoSattva Training Week 3 (3/22/26) Home Practices
***Reminder: no class next Sunday, March 29
Continue to visit your place. Continue to be relational with living beings that inhabit that place. Notice how your body feels when you are there and when you intentionally come into relationship with the beings there.
Find a note that best describes your ecological distress. Use it whenever you are mindful of feeling this stress.
Notice and/or actively experiment with what helps to calm your ecological stress/nervous system. Make a list so you can refer to it when needed.
Continue with the body focused meditation so as to turn it into a resource for ecological stress. Without striving, actively use the felt sense of the small and big body to support a deepening calm. If you are noticing the body breathing, pay careful attention to not breathe any faster or deeper than is needed.
Week 4 (4/5/26)
EcoSattva Training Week 4 (4/5/26) Home Practices
Reflect, and perhaps write about how you understand what Dharma principles/teachings are being highlighted by the poly crisis.
Continue with Body based formal practice inclining toward Metta in an embodied way.
During the day, notice if your orientation is toward just yourself, or with something larger (ex. Decolonizing the mind).
Continue to visit your place. After a few minutes of being there, see if you can let go of a sense of you visiting this place, and simply be part of the place.
Week 5 (4/12/26)
EcoSattva Training Week 5 (4/12/26) Home Practices
Notice how we live with uncertainty. From not knowing if the next breath will arrive, to not knowing what one’s health will be tomorrow, to not knowing how one’s child’s life will unfold. We are constantly living in Bardo.
Practice staying. Staying with the eco anxiety. Using the felt sense of the body as a steadying force. Using whole body sitting and breathing to help stay in touch with the feeling without getting overwhelmed.
Find the place of refuge that is outside of the concept of time in the present moment. Tending to the gap between the end of the out breath and the beginning of the in breath can be helpful.
Come to terms with your own death. Reflect on the inevitability of your death. Do this as a way to support staying with the truth of the climate crisis.
Continue to visit your place. Notice and metta that is present for the beings in your place.
Here is the Link to the Open Door Meditation Community website. You will find the article (10 Percent Slower) under the Resources tab and then under Chas’ blog. The article is one of the older articles in the blog, so you’ll need to scroll down towards the beginning to find it.