SOUL
“What do you love?
What are your gifts?
What is your most important problem you can use your gifts and talents to solve?
What does your land base need to survive?
Are you willing to do it? ”
ABOUT SOUL
Kaye’s work is about nature- our inner nature and the living Earth which is our home. This work is grounded in the spirituality of our everyday lives. The life we have today- messy, challenging, and perfectly imperfect. It is the rich compost that is made when we choose to turn towards and not away from reality. It is what becomes possible when and where we leave nothing out, as we learn to sit with and welcome our direct experience.
A favorite metaphor from nature is a thicket. A thicket is filled with life—rich with diversity— the soil is teeming with life, with fungi and micro-organisms…surrounded by dense underbrush…where decay is nurturing new life.
It may be disorderly to the human eye, yet in the thicket we can find perfection from the view of nature. Like the compost, it is full of the rich rot of participation, interconnection and transformation.
When we practice together, in close proximity, it’s like a thicket: we awaken and grow in relationship. Together, we cultivate, our ability to take the world as our field of practice—deepening pathways to find our spiritual journey and the divine, right here in our everyday life. Whatever the circumstances of our lives are, our life has come with an invitation to awaken. In this lifetime. In this body. On this precious earth. In this time.
““Kaye and I have journeyed together for the better part of twenty years. I’ve had the good fortune to know her as a student, a colleague, a collaborator, and a trusted friend.
Our work together has not only furnished Kaye with a firm foundation in the Work That Reconnects, but has also included deep explorations in two bodies of thought at the root of this work. These are, on the one hand, a systems view of life, which is embedded in the holistic science Kaye absorbed in her graduate studies at Schumacher College, and on the other, the Buddha Dharma, which, given her chosen path, brought our focus in these recent years to Tibetan practice.
The thing about Kaye which is rare, is how she immediately applies what she learns to the relationships and choices she faces in the context of her daily life. And that is the life of a householder, farmer, mother of three and partner to Adam, with her hands in the soil as well as the soul, and her eyes on the passage to a life-sustaining future.
If in this critical planet-time you find yourself walking with Kaye, with her fierce and open heart, her willingness to be with things as they are, she will enrich your life as she has mine.””
Womxn And DharMa
Womxn and Dharma is a series by Broadfork Farm graciously hosted by our friends at the Trout Lake Abbey. Join us for a day of buddhist practice in the company of other womxn. Come fill your cup-- experienced practitioner or new to dharma. ALL womxn welcome.
Turning inward, in meditation, we connect with the awakened state that is within each of us and all life. Then, in our circle, we develop our capacity to discern and share the truth of our own experience; deepening our trust in life. Along the way we gather teaching and practices from the buddhadharma to illuminate the path.
The Thicket
- A practice group in the Spirituality of Everyday Life -
These seasonal gatherings include meditation practice, dharma, work from the teachings and lineage of Joanna Macy, as well as the many other strands of wisdom within our circle. Here we have time for personal and group work that we often don't get to in the day-long workshop format. There is space to address questions, individual needs and tangents!
The Thicket is an outgrowth of our Women and Dharma and Work that Reconnects gatherings. Participation in a previous program with Kaye is suggested. The 2022 cycle will begin in fall and run in 4 seasonal gatherings (zoom or in person as possible), with monthly coaching in-between.
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