About Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer
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I am dedicated to reawakening and tending to the exiled parts of thriving human culture including creativity, playfulness, full feeling, the intelligent imagination and connection with the animate more than human world.
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My work encourages groups and individuals to deepen relationships with their wholeness, with wild nature, and with the wise mysterious. I invite people into relationship and reciprocity through land tending, basketry, bird language, animal tracking, fire making, hide tanning, ritual, dreamwork, deep imagination journeying, art, writing and music. My own artistic practice aims to point out the inherent aliveness and connection of people and nature.
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My training is in nature connection (Wisdom of the Earth), grief ritual work (with Rowena and Randy Jones, Josea Tamira Cossley, Laurence Cole), deep imagery journeying (Animas Valley Institute), cultural practices (Helper’s Mentoring Society) and Dream Tending (Stephen Aizenstat). I also have a MSc in Biology.
I am inspired by many including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martin Prechtel, IFS, Family Constellations, Malidoma Some, Joanna Macy, Francis Weller, Bill Plotkins, Tom Brown and Jon Young.
