{"id":222,"date":"2023-05-29T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:57:12","slug":"practice-green-beads-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/29\/practice-green-beads-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice: Green Beads Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Bellefair&display=swap');<\/style>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Bellefair',serif; font-size:1.6em\"><em> Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.\n                                           &#8211; Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust \n\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Bellefair&display=swap');<\/style>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Bellefair',serif; font-size:1.6em\">I have my paths of walking (and cycling) &#8211; to library, and coffee shop, food stores and river curves. At some point I realised that I intuitively started shifting my paths to intersect more with \u2018green beads\u2019 of experiencing the natural world. This meant Stopping to lean against a huge Willow, sitting on a bench in a bit of park, pausing by a lovely \u2018butterfly\u2019garden, stopping by a line of trees where birds hung out, or to watch the tower where the red tailed hawk nested, or by that view of the river\u2019s wildness in the play of the rapids. Green wild natural glimpses, and soundings, smells, encouraging pausing, listening, breathing, dropping into the senses. Open to the spaces of nature, within the human constructed flows in our hyperkeystone natures has  led me to crafting this practice of \u2018green bead walking\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Bellefair&display=swap');<\/style>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Bellefair',serif; font-size:1.6em\"><strong> On your walks, familiar and new, consider intentionally looking for and then weaving in those small nature moments. Listen, or look, smell and perhaps even pause interrupting the typical flow to destination. Cultivate the pauses, maybe a sort of yin nature moment. Drop into your senses, creating a \u2018strand of green beads\u2019 walking.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world. &#8211; Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust I have my paths of walking (and cycling) &#8211; to library, and coffee shop, food stores and river<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/29\/practice-green-beads-walking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Practice: Green Beads Walking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragonflyvision.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}