Today, as the final installment in our Edges series, I am joined by writer, poet, memoirist, teacher, yogi, activist, and mother - Nadia Colburn.

We talk of generative, supportive action and of course we explore mindful writing practices to support ourselves in times of change. Grab your journal and join us!

Today, I am talking with artist, edge-walker, and dear friend Perri Lynch Howard about her experiences in a variety of ecotonal landscapes.

In this episode, Perri shares three of her unique, ecotonal field recordings with us as a way to explore the edges both within and without.

At the end, there is a guided meditation experience of the Vashon Island soundscape as an opportunity for you to explore your own relationship with edges.

Last week, we began a new meditation series devoted to exploring the edges - both in the natural world as well as our internal landscape - and today’s interview and meditation practice do exactly that.

In today’s episode, Marisela and I talk about the edges and the intersections of contemplative practices, community care and social justice.

At the end, Marisela guides a beautiful meditation inviting us to explore and soften around our internal edges.

Ecotones do not simply represent a boundary or an edge; the concept of an ecotone assumes the existence of active interaction between two or more ecosystems with properties that do not exist in either of the adjacent ecosystems.

Edges, ecotones and third spaces are places of life, energy & growth; they are places of speciation - of creation and evolution.

Today's episode is a replay of a fan-favorite episode, The Stagnation Layer part 3, from September 2022

Today, 45 years after its launch and 14.6 billion miles from Earth, Voyager 1 and 2 have now spent 10 years in interstellar space. Interestingly, Voyager 1 went through the Stagnation Layer, and Voyager 2 did not.

Yet, 10 years later, these two spacecraft are in the same place, both doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing, and both wildly, improbably successful.

Today's episode is a replay of a fan-favorite episode, The Stagnation Layer part 1, from September 2022

When we stagnate we likely feel an increased pressure to DO something, to figure it out, or to move. And, all our creative mojo feels like it is draining away.

We find ourselves both anxious to move and possibly frozen in place.

I encourage you to look for what I call ‘Threads of Truth’.

Join me for today’s episode of Our Mindful Nature as we unravel the Threads of Truth and share in a 20-minute guided meditation practice.

Today's episode is a replay of a fan-favorite episode, The Stagnation Layer part 1, from September 2022

Have you ever felt you were stuck in a cosmic purgatory? Are you in one right now?

Sometimes I think this feels like a dark void, like you are stuck in a doorway and can’t step through, or perhaps like a dense fog that you are lost inside.

Lucky for us, the universe itself is providing the answer for what we do in stagnation, if we only remember to listen.

This meditation is an experience of mapping the cosmos of the body alongside 3 sonifications from NASA’s Chandra Xray Observatory - Perseus Black Hole, Milky Way Galactic Center, and Chandra Deep Field South. You will also hear a thread of ocean waves throughout to keep us grounded and centered, even as we journey through the cosmos.