The RēMind, No. 012: Regenerating Our Inner Landscape
The RēMind, No. 012: Regenerating Our Inner Landscape
Updates from Rē / Divine Feminine Retreat / School of Lost Borders / Queer Nature / Ruth Sevigny's Regeneration Story
In this week’s newsletter, we explore inner regeneration: mind work, heart work, soul work, and how they connect to the world around us. We will explore two organizations that have inspired us to think more deeply about the way we interact with our environment from the inside out: the School of Lost Borders and Queer Nature.
Rē is hosting our own inner regeneration retreat on October 22-24th and we would love you to join us! Please read on to learn more about our ‘Falling into Balance’ divine feminine weekend.
Lastly, as this will be my final newsletter as editor of the RēMind, I feel inspired to share my story through the regenerative paradigm. I will take you through a short journey of what I have discovered and experienced so far through a regenerative lens of perceiving life and living into transformation.
-Ruth Sevigny, Editor
Updates from Rē: Tap into your divine feminine.
On October 22-24th, Rē is hosting ‘Falling Into Balance,’ a self-care retreat to rēconnect mind, body, and nature.
Join us at Rē’s home-base in Southern Tennessee and immerse yourself in the peaceful rhythms of the countryside. Programming includes guided meditations, yoga, Ayurveda lessons and practice, as well as a wonderful Ayurvedic menu!
Disconnect and escape from your everyday stresses and rēconnect to yourself! Your inner goddess takes time to rest, so ground and connect with the land and all her power during a healing weekend. Return home feeling refreshed and empowered, ready to take on the late fall and winter season.
Thana Nu of Nourish Me Wellness, Caitlin Smith of Within Wellness,
and Ashlei Laing of Rē : The Regenerative school will be facilitating the weekend, holding space, and guiding us into balance.
This incredible women’s retreat has been designed to nourish the divine feminine in each of us. Follow our link for more info, contacts and signups! Day passes offered!
School of Lost Borders
The School of Lost Borders offers initiatory, transformational experiences to those seeking growth, insight, and restoration. Their participants are of various ages, lifestyles, and cultures. Rē’s own visionaries and directors, Ashlei and Felix, joined the School of Lost Borders for a “vision fast” in August in California, returning home to Tennessee renewed and recentered.
In today’s world, we often lived more connected to screens than we do to the land on which we stand. Rites of passage ceremonies practiced for centuries by our ancestors have nearly been forgotten. The School of Lost Borders’ vision fast ceremony is a modern-day rite that helps “navigate the complexity of these times and mark, honor, and celebrate life transitions.”
[Our vision fasts] involve time out alone in nature, with minimal or no food, and leaving behind distractions and daily routines. When we take the time to honor life's changing seasons and thoughtfully respond to the question "Who am I?" and "What do I have to offer?" we step into our true nature and a sense of belonging amongst the land and our communities. The results can be profound. Meaning and purpose can return, and life can become richer, clearer, and more full.
Visit https://schooloflostborders.org to learn more about their programming.
Queer Nature
Queer Nature is “not trying to save the world.” They are a queer-run nature education and ancestral skills program serving the LGBTQ2+ community. They recognize that many marginalized folx have not had easy cultural access to outdoors pursuits.
Queer Nature teaches ecological literacy and wilderness self-reliance skills as vital and often overlooked parts of the healing and ‘wholing’ of populations who have been silenced, marginalized, and even represented as ‘unnatural.’
The curriculum at Queer Nature goes beyond recreation in nature, focusing on reconnecting with nature to build an enduring sense of belonging. Programming include traditional “survival” skills-building and naturalist knowledge, including bushcraft, tactical skills, and (ethical) hunting. Queer Nature balances these teachings with awareness of human impact and good land stewardship practices.
This hands-on type of relationship building both serves to promote environmental stewardship and also nourishes and resources the human souls who have been made to feel that they do not belong.
To learn more about Queer Nature please visit https://www.queernature.org and follow them on instagram.
Ruth Sevigny's Regeneration Story
Four years ago, I was on a six-month journey solo backpacking through Asia. I was consistently exploring novel experiences, lands, cultures, cuisine and conversations. New adventures brought my awareness to discussions about soul and spirituality - something that was not really a part of my world before. Half way through my journey, a beautiful friend asked me: What’s your soul purpose? Why are you here on Earth? —a question I had never really contemplated before. I responded with: I’m here to heal the Earth. The answer truly shocked me as I had never accessed this thought before and I hadn’t a clue as to how I was going to make this happen.
This moment was an exceptionally memorable one that I often refer back to as I continue to discover how exactly I will complete my big mission.
About a year later, while I was living in Australia, I found a piece to the puzzle. I came across the paradigm shift of moving beyond sustainability— the regenerative framework! And my heart burst with joy, passion and hope.
We cannot just sustain the world as it is. We are capable of fully regenerating and healing all aspects of the world to fully thrive.
I dove into regenerative agriculture, permaculture, native reforestation, beach clean ups and many other ways by which we can regenerate our beautiful Mother Earth. I was focused on healing and elevating the physical world around me. I was on track.
I began to understand that there is more than just outer work to be done in the outer world - healing our inner world is also of great importance.
We are of greater impact to healing the Earth when we are healing and regenerating into our highest potential self.
Our outer world is a reflection of our inner world. Our inner world is a reflection of our outer world. They are of the same. Regenerating our inner landscape can be complex when we acknowledge all multidimensional layers of our being: to transform our shadows into light; to evolve our consciousness, to strive to be a better human; to create a better world for those yet to come; to accept the wounds, trauma and distorted perceptions that we keep hidden inside of us that wish to be seen, heard, expressed, released and transformed. This is the inner work.
Our hearts and minds are capable of clear and strong guidance. We must listen to them both. We must detoxify our mind and body so that we may feel the radiant health, vitality and enhanced abilities available to us. We must remember that we are connected to all that is in existence in this Universe, this one song.
As we regenerate our inner landscape we begin to remember and better understand who and what we truly are.
As I continue to find the pieces of the complex, infinite and ever changing puzzle to healing, regenerating, elevating the frequency of the Earth and all her beings, the more hopeful, excited, confident and clear I am with how this is possible. This reality of a vibrant world already exists within each of us and we are here to bring it to life.
As I write my last edition of The RēMind, I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to connect with each of you through the Regenerative School. Rē is a key to healing the Earth. I’m looking forward to seeing how the School evolves!
With radiant and regenerative love,
Ruth xx