A Meditation on Connecting Lands and Stories

Many modern Western cultures don't have a deep understanding of land as a source of collective identity, story, or purpose. There is a sense that, yes, land can be lovely—but it is mainly seen as a source of recreation or extraction, not necessarily as an integral part of what shapes us and future generations.

In this guided practice, Indigenous scholar and teacher Yuria Celidwen introduces a fresh way to consider our connection to the natural spaces around us. This is a practice that invites reverence, gratitude, and belonging, where our experience of the earth moves from being strictly transactional to being interconnected and relational.

This meditation is part of our Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement series, where we're sharing guided practices from the women featured in our 2025 special edition of Mindful magazine.

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Show Notes

Find more from Yuria Celidwen here.

You can learn more about Yuria's story and how her work is fostering an "ethics of belonging" on Mindful.org, where we interviewed her for our 2025 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement feature.

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