August Outdoor Gathering

August 24, 2025: Remembering We Are Nature continued…

✧ Featuring Heart Leader Kelly Noelle of The Living Resonance. Kelly works with sound and water to remind us that we are nature by awakening the waters within. When our inner waters are clear and flowing, we feel more balanced, connected, and at home in ourselves. She brings through the song of the whales, using a one-of-a-kind titanium gong, which shares the same molecular structure as water. This helps activate each person’s unique inner song and soothes the nervous system.

✧ Connect with Kelly on her website, on Facebook, and on Instagram.

AUGUST FEATURED MEDITATIONS:

✧ The Four Elements Meditation Practice (connecting the breath, body, and the spirit to earth) modified from the original by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, narrated by Jen Carew. Download the free guided meditation here.

✧ Connecting with Mother Earth: Grounding Guided Meditation at 432 Hz, written and narrated by Petra Zikmund. Access the free guided meditation on YouTube here.

OPENING CIRCLE | CONTEMPLATIVE NATURE EXPLORATION:

✧ We enjoyed our third gathering in nature this past weekend, coming together in Gibbs Lake Park. We began by intentionally offering gratitude to the earth and the land that sustains us, before setting out to immerse ourselves in nature.

✧ We reflected on our August theme, remembering we are nature. Our Nature Advisor, WI Master Naturalist Sarah Sicard, offered a personal story of her recent experience with the flooding in her North Milwaukee home. She shared the lessons she learned about nature and community, and she invited us to contemplate our role in caring for the earth.

✧ We explored the park together with our feeling body through the lens of the four elements, stopping along the way to share what we were noticing. We walked the trails together, and then returned to a clearing by the water, where we were met by our Heart Leader, Kelly, who invited us to awaken our inner waters and remember.

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE:

✧ AWAKENING OUR INNER WATERS with Kelly Noelle

Our bodies are mostly water. We come into this world through our birth mother’s water - water that comes from our collective mother, the earth.

Kelly shared a short version of her Oceanic Sound Experience with our community. This is how she describes the experience on her website:

✧ The Oceanic Sound Experience:

“Activates the memory of water within your cells

Conducts whale frequencies through a rare titanium gong, whose structure mirrors water itself

Supports the nervous system in releasing long-held tension, softening into ease and safety

includes a live transmission from Kaelira, guided by the whales, to awaken your unique inner song and harmonic resonance.

✧ How It Feels

Many describe the experience as deeply peaceful, soothing, and clarifying — even if they don’t fully understand why. That’s because these frequencies don’t require belief or effort. They bypass the mind and speak directly to the waters within you.

You may feel:

A quieting of the mind

A deep softening of the body

Emotional release or gentle tears

A sense of floating or timelessness

A return to a rhythm that’s always been yours

This is not performance.
It is remembrance through resonance.

The transmission comes through me, as gifted by the whales — to help you awaken:

Your song.
Your code.
Your resonance.

✧ You don’t need to understand.

You only need to receive.

This session isn’t about adding anything to you — it’s about gently uncovering what has always been there.

As the tones move through you,
your system begins to reorganize itself — quietly, naturally, in its own time.

This is the moment your waters remember.
Your cells align.
Your being begins to hum with the song you were born to carry.”

CLOSING CIRCLE:

We closed the gathering with our reflections and an invitation for all to share what resonated with them.

✧ We sang our community blessing with the leadership of our new musical director, Ashley Hirsh.

✧ We raised our voices to offer the chant “Na la e ra,” which means “to remember.”

✧ We stamped our ancient hearts on the canvas to preserve the memory of all who gathered with us on this day.

COMMUNITY BLESSING:

✧ The heart knows. We go into the heart to remember, we go together, and we belong.

SPIRITUAL INVITATION FOR AUGUST

✧ We remember that we are nature, and that we belong to the earth through direct experience -by engaging the heart and body in communion with nature.

✧ When we are in nature, we engage our feeling body, not just the mind - it gets us out of our head and into our body. The mind can pause, and we can experience our deeper connection to something greater, to our deepest self, and each other.

✧ This month, spend time in nature at least once a week and journal about what comes up for you using the prompts above. Practice the opening meditation if it resonates with you.

NEXT GATHERING

✧ Sunday, Sept. 7th, 10:00 - 11:45 am

• Centering Message: “The Call of the Heart”

• Location: Mocha Moment: 1121 Center Ave, Janesville, WI

• Featuring Heart Leader, Erin Gilbert.

  • Erin is the Owner of REiCOVERY Reiki & Spiritual Coaching in Madison. She is a HeartMath® Certified Mentor, Reiki Master Practitioner, and Reiki Master Teacher since 2000. Erin also holds over 10,000 hours of professional practice, a BS in Psychology & an AA in Human Development.