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Alderroot Healing & Renewal
Now Booking: Eco-Spiritual Facilitation Training- Info Sessions August 27 & Sept 24
In this world we live in, chances are you feel constantly busy, exhausted, and overwhelmed.
To survive and be successful in this dominant culture, we have internalized moving at a fast pace and constantly doing more. And we're often taking care of others, and trying to take care of ourselves.
We feel like we have to do it all, and do it well.
But this pace and pressure leaves us feeling disconnected from ourselves, from our true interconnected natures and our sense of aliveness and purpose.
This disconnection shows up as anxiousness, exhaustion, burnout, loneliness, lack of direction, self-doubt, and not-enoughness--
We can feel like we're wilting.
But, beyond this dominant narrative another way of being is rising.
It's a way of being in which you belong to yourself, and to this living earth.
It's a way of being that offers Self trust and a sense of calm connection with earth-Life.
This way of being honors our sacred connections and offers us the invitation to more fully open our hearts to all that is both difficult and beautiful.
When we begin to move away from the patterns and pressures of dominant culture, we can more fully and mindfully root into Self energy and Earth connection.
As we do, we begin to feel more calm, confident, clear, curious, and
in-alignment. We find eco-spiritual practices that nourish us.
In this way of being, we live from a place of trust and creativity. We are more clear about our path, and we honor our unfolding process as well as our need for rest and renewal.
We begin to really know the magic of being supported in a web of meaningful relationships and sacred connection.
I'm Dr. Heather Burns. I guide busy change-makers, space-holders, and culture-shifters in moving toward belonging and trust.
When you learn to belong to yourself, you find alignment and purpose. When you know your sacred belonging in the earth community, you feel deeply supported and energized.
I believe that connecting to earth and spirit moves us toward wholeness and belonging. When we do this in community, we feel the power of renewal even more.
I understand how hard it is to be a busy and caring human in this time of climate crisis and crumbling social systems--especially if you are a change-maker, care-taker, or space-holder. I understand how hard it is to feel whole and happy within dominant systems that support profit, production, and urgency over our well-being.
I can help you move away from dominant patterns and narratives that leave you feeling burned-out, depleted, overwhelmed, unsure about your direction or purpose, and feeling alone in it all. I'll walk with you into a new way of being, full of possibilities rooted in connection, wholeness, and your inherent belonging.
I work with folks who want to deepen and expand their life-joy and sense of ease. They want to be grounded, wise, and confident contributors. They want their life and work to feel purposeful, aligned with their values and gifts. Does this sound like you?
We can move beyond the pressures and patterns of dominant culture. we can move beyond feeling burned-out, exhausted, anxious, lonely, or feeling like we're just going through the motions, missing out on the joy and energy of life because we're just too tired or overwhelmed.
I help people learn to root into the belonging of Self-energy and earth-wisdom to feel more grounded, calm, confident, aligned, and purposeful.
Not only do you need this, but the world needs this. As adrienne maree brown says, "what we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system."
Alders & Roots
The Red Alder is an abundant tree-friend in the Pacific Northwest. These trees are water loving and are often found on stream and river banks, growing in groups, most readily in poor and disturbed soils. They stabilize banks, provide shelter for fish, and are nitrogen fixers.
Alder root systems host nodules that are homes for bacterial communities. These bacteria convert airborne nitrogen to soil-based nutrients that nourish and heal the alders, the soil, and the surrounding plant life.
Pacific Northwest native people harvested alder wood for bowls and utensils, for smoking salmon, and made anti-inflammatory pain relief medicine from the bark. In Celtic tradition alders are a favorite tree of faeries. Alder groves are magical places to be nourished, to rest and to heal.
"The world is not a problem to be solved. It is a sacred being to which we belong."
Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee, Spiritual Ecology
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