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The Sacred Garden

The Sacred Garden Newsletter is in service to helping you (and me) level up with way we want to interact with the world.  It is for people seeking to build sovereignty and intimacy with place through grounding stories, life ways for connecting to place, and building capacity through prompts and rootedness practices.  I’ll talk about Creating a Living Dream through life design; Spirit of Place; How my relationship with the natural world has saved me more than once; How I made friends with wildfire; and our current project that is nearest to my heart: Building a net-zero homestead from the ground up!  And because problems cannot be solved by the same thinking that created them, there will be series on seeing beyond the binary, All Things Third~. third things, third nature, third place, third landscapes, and triple spirals (triskeles)! So let’s turn your device into an online forest bath and practice seeing our own spaces as sacred and therefore the world.  THIS is the space where true earth care begins. I can be soft, so can you.

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Ordinary Magic

Mandi Vanora Learn More The Sacred Garden Deepening Connection to Time, Place, and Each Other Hello Reader, Ordinary Magic When you let go things open up. Easy to say, harder to do. A practical way that is highly potent for me to let go is getting out of the honeymoon phase of my perception. Break the spell. The spell that idealizes a person, place, or thing. The spell that everyone else has it more together or figured out than you. Dear friends, they just don’t. It's akin to imaging the...
5 months ago • 2 min read

Developing Spatial Awareness within the 4th dimension of Time

Mandi Vanora Learn More The Sacred Garden Deepening Connection to Time, Place, and Each Other Hello Reader, A glimpse into the meaning of Spirit of Place.... Hello old friends and new! I’m Mandi Vanora, a landscape architect, skier, writer, mom, and mystic. My family and I live in an incredibly beautiful place called Meadow’s Edge on the hillside in a tiny mountain town in the Oregon Cascades with our plants, animals, trees, sun, wind, and rain. I’ve wanted to write to you for a long time...
7 months ago • 4 min read

Changing Seasons

Mandi Vanora The Sacred Garden An Online Forest Bath We're Winter People We’re use to things not always going as planned. We’re adaptable. But adaptable to blue skies and sun year round that’s asking too much! 🤣 Californians may expect sunny. As an Oregonian this is not a thing. I dream and romanticize about overcast days of light drizzle, hygge and wool layers, books and hot tea, and yes winter sports in all their glory! Yet here we are. What happened to winter? For me the sun is good in...
8 months ago • 2 min read

The Sacred Garden Newsletter is in service to helping you (and me) level up with way we want to interact with the world.  It is for people seeking to build sovereignty and intimacy with place through grounding stories, life ways for connecting to place, and building capacity through prompts and rootedness practices.  I’ll talk about Creating a Living Dream through life design; Spirit of Place; How my relationship with the natural world has saved me more than once; How I made friends with wildfire; and our current project that is nearest to my heart: Building a net-zero homestead from the ground up!  And because problems cannot be solved by the same thinking that created them, there will be series on seeing beyond the binary, All Things Third~. third things, third nature, third place, third landscapes, and triple spirals (triskeles)! So let’s turn your device into an online forest bath and practice seeing our own spaces as sacred and therefore the world.  THIS is the space where true earth care begins. I can be soft, so can you.