Earth Sanctuary: A Nature Reserve, Meditation Parkland and Sculpture Garden

Join Dawn Dickson for an experiential workshop at Earth Sanctuary, a beautiful nature retreat center on south Whidbey Island. The focus of this daylong workshop will be learning how to use Wheel of Life for balance and healing. Skills learned can be used personally or applied to work with individuals or groups. Explore the wheel metaphorically and use guided imagery through shamanic journeywork to tap into resources from nature and the inner landscape. The cost of the retreat is $50. Please call Dawn Dickson for details, questions or to register (425-297-5521). There will be 7 continuing education credits available. Please visit http://www.dawndickson.net to learn more about Dawn.

Come Home Safe

Found in the Cottonwood Stone Circle.  We wish Scott all the best!

Please help!  The Tsa Tsa’s need to be touched up, air dried and taken down to the retreat house. Please join Celia who lives very near to Earth Sanctuary this Sunday, August 8, at 1:00 pm.  After this we have Juniper and possibly Cedar to cut up and get drying along with many more flowers to collect and dry.  But, right now Celia wants to get the Tsa Tsa’s finished up so she can clear the dining room table for the next project!   Last time was absolutely wonderful!  Thank you so much to all of you who helped.  

Please email Celia at celia@earthsanctuary.org if you can help and to get directions to her house.  Munchies will be provided.  

The building of the Earth Sanctuary Tibetan Buddhist stupa has begun. There is great merit in contributing to the creation of a stupa - please donate items to go inside the stupa.

Here is what we could use: popurri - homemade or commercial; little parasols - like the kind that come in fancy drinks (new only); Juniper;… Any kind of tea; real jewelry - Broken jewelry is fine - no costume jewelry or plastic or glass; Gold, Silver, Copper or Brass Money from different countries; Toy weapons; semi precious stones; cedar; camphor; balsam; garden tools - don’t have to be new; perfumes; postcards of Tibetan Buddhist deities and holy beings (extra deity pictures from empowerments would be great); Dried flowers; set of 7 offering cups.

Mail to Earth Sanctuary, 6144 Wahl Road, Freeland, WA 98249. or call 360-331-6667. Thank you!

Celia, Earth Sanctuary’s caretaker, needs help painting some Tsa Tsa’s that are going to go into the Earth Sanctuary stupa.  Refreshments will be served.

This will 1:00 to  3:00 pm on Sunday, July 18 at Celia’s house near Earth Sanctuary. Email Celia at celia@earthsanctuary.org if you can come and to get directions to her house.

There are enormous spiritual benefits to helping with a stupa.  Please come if you can!  Tsa Tsa’s are easy to paint – We have a lot of them and really need help.

The blessing ceremony for the Earth Sanctuary stupa got front page coverage in our local South Whidbey Record news paper. Thank you H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and all the lamas and monks who participated in the beautiful and inspiring ceremony, as well as all who helped in some way. We circumambulated the future stupa yesterday and it feels like the stupa is already there.

On Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 10:00 am, a blessing ceremony for a Tibetan Buddhist stupa to built at Earth Sanctuary (www.earthsanctuary.org) will be performed by His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, the Head Lama of Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism (www.sakya.org) in Seattle, WA.   H.H. J.D. Sakya will be assisted by H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya, H.E. Kathog Rigzin Chenpo Rinpoche, Tulku Yeshi, Khenpo Jampa, Venerable Lama Tashi, and Lama Migmar.

The Earth Sanctuary stupa will be located off Emil Road in the new Earth Sanctuary arboretum.  A stupa is a holy and sacred space that blesses the land and plants the seed for enlightenment.  The main purpose of building a stupa is to help create happiness and peace in the world. 

Chuck Pettis will be offering a one-day sacred space workshop at Earth Sanctuary on Saturday, July 17 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.  Learn about sacred spaces from around the world, how to dowse for ley lines and water lines, and meditate in blessed sacred spaces.  Details and registration info at www.earthsanctuary.org/SS.pdf

Earth Sanctuary Beaver Lodge

The beavers have been building up one of their lodges. This beaver lodge is located to the right of the Wetland Trail, about 100 yards past the Cottonwood Stone Circle.

a) 12 nesting boxes are being monitored. 5 are in use. 2 nesting boxes had Hooded Mergansers in them. 1 nesting box had a Wood Duck. 2 had eggs but no duck.

b) Ducklings on pond as of May 13:Hooded Merganser with 4 ducklings. Mallard with 5.  Hooded Merganser with 10 or 11. Mallard with 5.

c) Birds seen when visited for Whidbey Audubon Bird-a-thon on May 3: Dark-eyed Junco; American Robin; Great Blue Heron; Hooded Merganser; Green-winged Teal;  Yellow-Rump Warbler; Wood Duck; Tree Swallows; Mallard; Violet green Swallows; Osprey; Steller’s Jay; Song Sparrow.  Additional species seen or heard today: Common Yellowthroat; Wilson Warbler; Kingfisher; Ringed Necked Duck. Possibly heard a Virginia Rail.