Climate Week NYC: Nature based meditation + walk in Prospect Park Woods

🌿 A Guided 2.5 hour immersive Nature-Based Experience in Prospect Park woods to bring more spaciousness, grouding, and connection with the natural world.

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Take a pause during Climate Week to slow down and reconnect with the living world here in NYC.

Many of us who care for the Earth know the urgency, the despair, and the exhaustion. Burnout isn’t just personal, it’s part of how dominant culture keeps us running. This gathering is an invitation to restore your energy and remember your deeper ground with the earth.

This isn’t about stepping away from the work- it’s about returning to its roots: relationship with Earth and love of nature.

Together we’ll practice simple ways of listening to the woods, centering meditation, a short solo wander, and time with one being that draws you, whether a tree, bird, or stone. These practices are ones you can return to anytime, as a resource.

By slowing down, we shift from constant output into reciprocity and learning to receive as well as give. We remember the Earth isn’t just something we work to save, but alive in conversation with us. This gathering is a chance to reconnect with your own personal relationship to nature—beyond headlines or campaigns—and to listen for guidance, connection, and renewal.

In Prospect Park’s Ravine Woods, the oldest woods in Brooklyn, we’ll practice reconnection.

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✨ What You’ll Experience

Ground & reconnectWe’ll begin with a guided meditation and grounding practice—shifting the channel from busyness into presence. Together, we’ll center body, mind, and heart—and open to listening not just within ourselves, but to the woods around us.

Practice listening to One BeingYou’ll then be invited on a short solo wander to spend time with one being that draws you—a tree, plant, rock, or bird. Through attention and curiosity, you’ll practice listening and entering into relationship.

Reflect TogetherWe’ll close in a small circle, sharing what we experienced and discovered—woven together through our individual wanderings and listening practices.

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📍 Details

• RSVP with a phone number so I can text our exact pin location meetup spot
• Please arrive on time (we’ll be on the move!)
• Bring water and something to sit on.
• No experience needed—just come as you are. 🌳

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Guided by Alex BalfourHi, I’m Alex—a Certified Eco-Spiritual Wild Guide, Life + Leadership coach, Improv-&-Clowning-loving Brit living 9 years in Manhattan, NY.

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All of my work, whether guiding nature gatherings, coaching leaders, or playing at the edge of laughter and vulnerability—is about rewilding. I guide people return to their essence, where embodied intuition, imagination, and aliveness flow freely, and into deeper relationship with ourselves and the living world around us.

Want to be regularly listening to nature? Connect about Root & Rewild 12 week journey in NYC, where you'll be guided weekly in your own neighborhoods and in community together.

🌐 alexbalfour.org📧 [email protected]: @alex.bal4_

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