The Spirit of Place: A Workbook for Sacred Alignment
Each season of the year brings its own teachings and gifts and by forging a partnership of mind, heart, spirit, and body, the seeker may receive those gifts and awaken to a spirit of place that is indigenous to the land and accessible to all. Arranged to follow the four seasons of the year, The Spirit of Place offers an annual cycle of ideas and ceremonies for integrating all aspects of awareness. Visualizations and prayers focus the mind; acknowledging totems and allies strengthens the will; meditations centers the spirit; and heightened intuition opens the heart to change and acceptance. The practices suggested here, brought into daily application, align the reader in a deeper relationship with life's sacred matrix of plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world. A resource guide, with its extensive descriptions of birds, stones, animals, herbs, and trees, offers unique and practical information and advice for strengthening alliances with nature's totems. Respectful of Native American ways, the author draws on those and other earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet truly authentic spiritual practice that relies on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life.  --Midwest Book Review