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Nature Sacred · Since 1996

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Nature Sacred is made by the people who show up: community leaders, designers, funders, healthcare leaders, neighbors. There's more than one way in.

Women in colorful clothing seated on a wooden bench among tall grass

BLISS Meadows
Baltimore, MD

Ways in

Eight paths

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Updates, stories, and inspiration from inside the movement—direct to your inbox. Follow along on Instagram and LinkedIn, too.

Visit a Sacred Place

More than 140 places and growing. Find the one nearest you and plan your visit.

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Visit a Sacred Place

More than 140 places and growing. Find the one nearest you and plan your visit.

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Create a Sacred Place

Maybe you’re a nurse, a pastor, a community leader with a place and a vision. Tell us about it, and let’s begin a conversation about what it could become.

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Create a Sacred Place

Maybe you’re a nurse, a pastor, a community leader with a place and a vision. Tell us about it, and let’s begin a conversation about what it could become.

Share your idea →

Partner with us

Bring Nature Sacred’s model to your community, campus, hospital, or organization. Let’s talk about what’s possible.

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Partner with us

Bring Nature Sacred’s model to your community, campus, hospital, or organization. Let’s talk about what’s possible.

Start a conversation →

Design with us

Landscape architects and designers who want to shape spaces for healing — we’d love to know you.

Introduce yourself →

Design with us

Landscape architects and designers who want to shape spaces for healing — we’d love to know you.

Introduce yourself →

Bring your service to a Sacred Place

A yoga teacher, an artist, a musician, a healer. Sacred Places come alive through what happens in them.

Work with us →

Bring your service to a Sacred Place

A yoga teacher, an artist, a musician, a healer. Sacred Places come alive through what happens in them.

Work with us →

Volunteer

Find a Sacred Place near you, reach out to the Firesoul™ who tends it, and offer your hands where they’re needed.

Find a Sacred Place →

Volunteer

Find a Sacred Place near you, reach out to the Firesoul™ who tends it, and offer your hands where they’re needed.

Find a Sacred Place →

Invite us to speak

Bring Nature Sacred’s story to your event, class, or convening.

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Invite us to speak

Bring Nature Sacred’s story to your event, class, or convening.

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Also

Read and listen

BenchTalk: Wisdoms Inspired in Nature book with an embossed green cover

The book · 208 pages

Buy the book.

Hundreds of entries—drawings, prayers, plain sentences—gathered from the Little Yellow Journals, like the one below.

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The book · 208 pages

Buy the book.

Hundreds of entries—drawings, prayers, plain sentences—gathered from the Little Yellow Journals, like the one below.

Buy the book →

The book · 208 pages

Buy the book.

Hundreds of entries—drawings, prayers, plain sentences—gathered from the Little Yellow Journals, like the one below.

Buy the book →

Nature Sacred's BenchStories cover art with Salma Hasan Ali over handwritten journal pages

The podlet · 3 minutes

Listen to the podlet.

A few minutes of entries in the voices of the people who came to sit—the shortest way to hear what a bench holds.

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The podlet · 3 minutes

Listen to the podlet.

A few minutes of entries in the voices of the people who came to sit—the shortest way to hear what a bench holds.

Listen to the podlet →

The podlet · 3 minutes

Listen to the podlet.

A few minutes of entries in the voices of the people who came to sit—the shortest way to hear what a bench holds.

Listen to the podlet →

Hand-drawn figure carrying a flag reading "More parks, less cars"

Little Yellow Journal

Greenway Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, NY—published in BenchTalk.

Somebody made room, and someone sketched this in a Little Yellow Journal because of it. That is what all eight paths amount to—and it is how the next entry gets written.

Come as you are.

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