Earth Day Eco-Wellness Extravaganza

Escape to the beautiful Patch of Heaven Sanctuary in the Redland Agricultural Area to Celebrate & Elevate & Activate how you start the steps to greater Ecowellness in your life. On Sunday, April 21st we are celebrating Earth Day’s 53rd Anniversary, our Mindful Pocket Park 1 year Anniversary and a NEW WAY OF WELLNESS that we specialize in here through our mindful nature education, reforestation and conservation across our 20 acres.

?Ecowellness is a brand new way to engage with the Earth:

" It encompasses a sense of appreciation, respect, and awe

of nature that can contribute to holistic wellness.”

(Journal of Humanistic Counseling)

The Research of 749 individuals from 19-84 years old discovered:

“Participants found that having a relationship with nature—whether through spending more time outdoors or being passionate about the environment—was linked with helping participants more effectively work through challenges, be more creative, and stay physically healthy.”

Spend the entire day with like-hearted Nature Lovers who are committed to take mindful personal steps that support BOTH Human Nature and Mother Nature, as we deepen our walk toward loving awareness for that vital relationship.

• 8am - Ecowellness Extravaganza Begins at Patch Back Porch @Patch Market with Food, Flowers & Fun Begins Guided Mindful Pocket Park Tours available on the hour
• 9am - Nature’s Alchemy Yoga at the Tree of Life
• 11am - Paint Rocks of Kindness for Kids (and adults too) at the Stable Front Porch
• 12pm - Nature Pill Podcast LIVE kick-off from the Patch Welcome Center (global broadcast)
• 1pm - Be The Butterfly Workshop for Pollinator Planting & Butterfly Rearing
• 2pm - BeeTime & Bee Walk to meet our 18 Hive Apiary & Honey Tasting
• 3pm - Sound Healing beneath the Tree of Life & Butterfly Release
• 4:30 - Closing Meditation at the Forest Joglo

We have two things to celebrate!

1st Reason to Celebrate: Earth Day itself was created 53 years ago in 1970 as the birth of the environmental awareness movement. Our mission to give refuge & sanctuary to trees, bees, butterflies, birds, bats, buildings of the historic kind and beings of the human kind celebrates the priceless value of all living beings.

2nd Reason to Celebrate: Our Mindful Pocket Park officially opened on Earth Day 2023! As the world’s first-of-its-kind five station sensory nature immersion experience, you’ll learn how to Pause and P.A.W.S. (Pay Attention With Your Senses).

Increase your environmental awareness now!

The entire Ecowellness EarthDay Extravaganza elevates your participation in caring for Mother Earth through mindful movement (yoga), meditation (silent & sound) and munching (healthy bites).

● Juices & Microgreens

● Healthy Lite Bite Munchies

● Patch Merchandise - Support Our Mission

Don’t just learn, DO SOMETHING!

Our Chief Experience Officer’s Grandma used to say: “Pray & Move Your Feet”, here’s how:

● Replace your green grass with pollinator plants (Our Butterfly Box)

● BeeTime will show you how to “BEE a Good Neighbor” (Our BeeKeeper)

● Consider Orchid Beauty in your Backyard for Peace & Calm (Our Garden Director)

Our Celebratory Extravaganza is a Fair of Ecowellness – It will include ways to fuel your body straight from the Earth through organic foods & juices, ways to “Trash Your Grass & Sprout Some Wings”, helping expand the Homegrown National Park movement by buying and planting a Patch of Pollinator Plants in your yard, move mindfully with our 1st-of-its-kind Butterfly Yoga called “Nature’s Alchemy”, connect with our Butterfly and BeeKeepers and their mission here at Patch, meet our brand new Sanctuary Garden Director selling exotic orchids & bromeliads, and meet our Chief Experience Officer unveiling our Mini Mindful Nature Summer Camp Series for kids.

We’ll also be launching our “Nature Pill Podcast” LIVE that day, right from Patch of Heaven, LIVESTREAMING out to the world, with some very special guests that are nature-committed leaders helping Patch grow toward our vision of doubling in size. Learn more about our vision to Build a New Forest and launch the Mindful Nature Institute.

Our mission as a non-profit that activates our mission by reconnecting Human Nature and Mother Nature, through mindfulness, for the benefit of both is to LEAD THE POSITIVE CLIMATE ACTION and RESILIENCE conversation with bold mental & physical wellbeing opportunities. When you come to “take the Nature Pill at Patch”, you will walk away with:

● Tools to be present in Nature in the moment

● Skills to enhance your Positive Climate Action

● A renewed sense of Calm & reduced experience of Anxiety

● HOPE that we still can take steps to actually make a difference

● All the yoga-mindful movement, forest meditation, rock of kindness painting, Sound Healing, LIVE podcast launch, Butterfly Release and access to the Mindful Pocket Park and VIP access to the historic Matheson House (rarely offered), as well as our entire 20 acre sanctuary.

● Fresh brewed Cacao Tea, straight from our forest

● Honey tasting from our Bee Apiary

● Fun options to experience (available for purchase):

○ Mr. Lou’’s Microgreens

○ Healthy Lite Bite munchies

○ Banana soft serve ice cream

○ Patch’s Pop-up Cafe for a sitdown experience

○ Patch’s Honey House Goodies

○ Butterfly Boxes - plants & chrysalis for your garden

○ Exotic curated orchids & bromeliads

● Your best friend and family

● Refillable water bottle

● Comfy clothes

● SPF & Bug Spray (if you wear it)

● Your favorite journal and pen

If you’ve ever wished you could spend more time connecting with nature-centric humans who love the Earth, enjoy pausing in Nature and seek a way to make a difference yourself, our place is where you should be on Sunday, April 21st for the Ecowellness Earth Day Event.

Host or Publisher Patch of Heaven Sanctuary