Welcome to Series 2 of Vegetation: Meditation in Community. We are so glad you are here. We are beyond grateful for the love and support we have received from our digital village since our launch, and are so excited to share Episode 1 of our new series, Origin Stories. In this series we invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we named this sacred practice of Vegetation.
This week’s episode, Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, begins the series with an exploration into what it was like growing up in the US as first generation children of immigrants. We felt like we were consistently failing at cultivating a relationship with our ancestors, our parents’ homelands, and our cultural heritage, while also being submersed in discomfort about never fully fitting into the American life around us.
Join us as we reflect on some of our first attempts to create these connections, while recognizing–with love and empathy for our Past Selves–that these connections have been here all along.
RESOURCES and LINKS
Selena, Fotos y Recuerdos 
Arangetram
Vastu Shastra
Bagua map
Moon Chola
Creating altars and the importance of intention (in Spanish) 
Episode Music:

Fashion Chill Hip Hop, Ivymusic from Pixabay
Second Wind, madirfan from Pixabay
Together Forever,  from Pixabay
Summer Forest, NaturesEye from Pixabay
Jho Deep - Rain, Mepa ExyZ from Pixabay
Pause, madirfan from Pixabay

What’s next?
Over the next several weeks we will release new episodes from our series Origin Stories and share how we discovered our life’s passion of cultivating the next generation through the foundation of Vegetation.
In our next episode we continue our discussion about how we are connecting to our ancestors and some of the challenges we are encountering in our multicultural households while raising children and reconnecting with ourSelves.
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