This is episode 5 of our Origin Story 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 first connected with many of the themes that are still fundamental to our practice and our mission today.
In this conversation we spill the tea and share the origins of one of the biggest game changers we have discovered to help us live a more Self-loving and mindful life - the practice of Vegetation. We had always wanted to live that “meditative monk life,” and yet we kept feeling self-defeated when we “couldn’t do it right.” Vegetation has allowed us, grihastas (see link below), to explore mindfulness in a non-judgemental way where we center ourSelves, our needs, our pleasure, and our desires.
Vegetation has also become a safe space where we can begin to deprogram the capitalist and colonized messages we receive regarding scarcity, lack, and the endless need to be productive. Come, sit with us as we look to nature and ancestral practices to remind us of the abundance and love all around us, that is waiting for us to recognize and receive it. All we have to do is just be.
Stay in conversation
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RESOURCES and LINKS
You might be a grihasta if…
Fantastic Fungi: Movie and background information 
The Fundamentals of Teaching Artistry, Eric Booth
Episode Music from Pixabay:

Fashion Chill Hip Hop, Ivymusic
Second Wind, madirfan
Summer Forest, NaturesEye
Jho Deep - Rain, Mepa ExyZ
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