Dear ,

Welcome to our first ever newsletter! It's Harriet here, the founder / person behind Kindred Soil, thank you so much for your support 😊🌿 In this newsletter you can find out about our current campaign of 'Sensory September', our upcoming events and offerings and some feedback from our recent EcoNidra project. 

Sensory September

This month at Kindred Soil is 'Sensory September', we as a community are allowing ourselves to bathe in our senses more than we usually would. Really enjoying them and soaking up the goodness! 

I've been asking our followers on Instagram to share some of their favourite ways to engage particular senses. So far we have explored touch and sound. Here are some of the wonderful examples that have been shared (you can see the rest in our saved 'highlights' on our instagram page.)

🍂 TOUCH - a perfectly smooth pebble, a cool pillow during the night, the warmth from a mug of tea, a soft throw to snuggle under on the sofa

🍂 SOUND - waves on the beach, a crackling fire, thunder, bird song, water dripping in caves, stepping on crunchy leaves

Re-reading these gives me such a sense of pleasure! Thank you so much to everyone who shared. Join us on instagram for the rest of our Sensory September!

Our next sense to explore will be smell. I wonder if there are any enjoyable smells that come to mind for you?

New Offerings! 
 

Nature-based Online Circle Space 
14th September, 6-7.30pm UK time

In our Nature-based Circle Space, we will co-create a supportive space for exploring our present experience and for tuning in to our inner-nature.

Quite overwhelmingly, this event has already sold out?! I keep the group sizes of our offerings small, if you were keen to join but didn't get a spot this time, we are hoping to run these circles regularly (possibly monthly depending on my capacity). We will keep you up to date and send out alerts for new events as they are released.

You can learn more about Circle space on our website, and read about our online nature-based spaces in the event info on Eventbrite here.

Autumn Equinox Online Event
23rd September, 6-7.30pm

Join us in taking time to reflect, harvest the good, letting go of the old, making space for compassion and care for ourselves

I am really excited about this event, I love marking the turn of seasons and accepting the invitations that these changes offer to us. In this event I'll be weaving different types of invitations to offer to you, including:

• Nature Connection,
• Somatic Self-care practices,
• Nature-based Meditations,
• Journalling
• Circle space sharing

There are four tickets remaining, available via Eventbrite. If you want to join but payment is a barrier please be in touch and I will sort a space for you. 

These sessions will be like a development of the Forest Bathing for Long Covid sessions, potentially a good taster for anyone interested in joining the next cohort. 

If you have any questions about these offerings please get in touch.

Feedback on the EcoNidra sessions
 

At the end of our project of 'Free EcoNidra for people with Long Covid and/or Chronic Illness', we asked for some feedback. I was so moved by the beautiful words shared!

Here's a recent example:

"Harriet creates and holds such a calm, soothing and accepting space. So helpful and invaluable especially with chronic illness; when it can be harder to cultivate that sense of calm and that crucial connection with nature when it’s not always accessible to us in the more usual/active ways 🌿"

You can find more of the feedback which I shared on Instagram. If you received the EcoNidra's and wanted to give feedback you can still access the form here 😊

For anyone who is interested in trying out EcoNidra and wasn't involved in the project (because they don't have a chronic illness for any other reason) I'm planning to record new sessions soon and these will be available to purchase - watch this space!

It means so much to me that so many of you are engaging with the different offerings and our campaign. I hope to connect with you soon!
 

🍄 Wishing you a very Sensory September! 🍂