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Ayya Santacitta
Santacitta Bhikkhuni hails from Austria and trained as a nun in England & Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. She is committed to our planet as a living being and resides at 'Aloka Earth Room', currently located in San Rafael, California. Santacitta Bhikkhuni stammt aus Österreich and begann ihre Nonnenausbildung 1993 in England & Asien, vor allem in der Traditionslinie von Ajahn Chah und hat auch Unterweisungen in der Shechen Traditionslinie des Tibetischen Buddhisms erhalten. Sie ist unserem Planeten als lebendes Wesen verpflichtet und lebt im 'Aloka Earth Room', derzeit in San Rafael, Kalifornien.
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2024-12-04
'I Don't Know' Is a Powerful Point of Departure
2025-01-08
A Launching Board for Growth
2026-04-29
A Way of Life That Is Onward-Leading
2024-05-15
Admiring the Earth, Feeling the Stretch and Being OK With That
2025-04-30
All of Us: Past, Present & Future
2023-07-19
Allow Your State of Wonder to Stay Open, Without Always Trapping It into Meaning
2023-11-29
Allowing Ourselves to be Surprised How We Can Show Up
2023-09-27
An Awesome Service We Can Render
2025-07-23
Ancient Evolutionary Structures Rumbling
2026-03-12
Ancient Technologies ~ Reconsidering Our Ways of Looking
2025-09-24
Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities
2024-08-07
As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love
2024-07-10
Attunement ~ Becoming Like an Antenna
2023-12-27
Baby Jesus in the Rubble or Our Collective Reluctance to Feel
2024-09-11
Beauty of Maturation ~ a Sensitizing to the Subtlety of That Truth
2023-07-12
Becoming Alive Again ~ Stepping out of the hamster wheel of repetition
2025-04-09
Challenging Habits of Modernity or a Different Kind of Generosity
2023-07-26
Choose Collective Healing Over Collective Self-Destruction
2025-10-29
Choosing to Listen to Aliveness
2024-03-13
Coming Down to Earth & Re-Membering
2025-03-27
Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself
2023-05-10
Connecting with Our Human and More-Than-Human Ancestors
2024-06-12
Connecting With Your Calling ~ How the Biosphere Wants to Heal Itself Through Y…
2023-04-26
Consciously Turning Towards the Evolutionary Challenge
2023-08-02
Cultivate Sense-fulness rather than Meaning-fulness
2023-05-03
Cute & Pathetic ~ Homo Sapiens in Transition
2026-04-01
Developing the Five Indriya or Spiritual Faculties
2023-01-23
Dharma the Supreme Medicine
2023-11-08
Dispelling Hyper-individualism ~ Decenter Yourself!
2026-05-13
Distortions of Perception I ~ Not As Advanced As We Once Thought We Were
2026-06-03
Distortions of Perception II ~ Breaking the Shackles of a Dying Paradigm
2026-06-10
Distortions of Perception III ~ Islands of Coherence in a Sea of Chaos
2026-06-24
Distortions of Perception IV ~ Not an External Object to be Discovered
2026-07-01
Distortions of Perception V ~ Insight Loosens the Grip of Fear
2026-07-08
Distortions of Perception VI ~ Vulnerability Understood Is Totally Necessary fo…
2026-07-15
Distortions of Perception VII ~ Naming Not Blaming
2026-07-22
Distortions of Perception VIII ~ Commitment Being Born of Practice
2025-03-05
Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being
2023-04-30
Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene
2023-10-25
Emergence ~ Are We Going to Go with It?
2024-07-24
Emergence Happens as We Enter Sensorial Presence
2024-03-20
Engaging with a Plant Ally & Exploring a Question from Within the Web of Life
2024-01-31
Expansion of Consciousness or A Path into Healing & Wholeness
2024-06-05
Fake It Until You Make It ~ Being the Change We Want to See
2025-10-01
Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It
2023-06-21
Gathering Our Re-Sources
2025-09-17
Giving In Rather Than Giving Up
2024-11-27
Giving Thanks to Our Elder the Earth
2023-08-17
Global Witnessing: Take in the Planet's Feedback ~ It's a Practice for Our Times
2025-11-12
Going Beyond What We Know in Service of What We Love
2025-05-28
Help Nature to Do Its Thing!
2023-11-01
Honoring Our Ancestors & Being of Service
2024-04-10
How to Ground Ourselves in Crisis?
2025-01-15
How to Meet These Times?
2025-08-06
I am the World & I Eat the World
2024-03-27
If I Say 'Yes' to What Is, I Can Drop Deeper
2025-04-16
Imagining Worlds Worth Working For
2024-05-01
Impermanence or Becoming the Medicine We are Looking For
2023-12-13
In a Sacred Shitstorm We Can Still Walk the Noble Eightfold Path
2023-10-18
Inner Activism & Response-Ability
2024-05-29
Inviting Archaic Memories of Confidence & Wellbeing to Emerge Organically
2025-05-14
Lean Into What Really Matters
2023-09-20
Letting Go & Letting Come ~ Working in Dialogue with the Living Planet
2023-08-30
Listen to More-Than-Human Authorities and Awaken to a Larger Context
2025-08-20
Listening to What We Belong to
2024-10-30
Mature Love or There In the Middleness
2024-10-09
Medicine for Overcoming Human Supremacy
2026-04-15
Moving at the Speed of Trust
2023-10-04
My Humanity Is Not in the Way ~ It's the Way!
2026-04-22
New Ways of Looking: Earth As Teacher
2024-07-17
Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle
2024-07-03
On the Threshold ~ The Sacred Is Not a Destination But an Approach!
2023-09-06
Open the Mind to Your Experience and the Path Appears!
2024-04-24
Opening to Darkness Is Bringing in the Light
2025-04-23
Opening to the Plain Potential of What Comes Next
2024-12-18
Our Belonging to this Planet
2024-11-20
Our Bodies are Our Connection to Life
2024-05-23
Our Bodies, the Elements & Integration of Deep Time
2024-06-19
Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution
2023-09-13
Overcoming Hyper-Individualism - Let the Discomfort Open You Up to the Flow
2024-04-03
Polishing the Gems We Already Have
2024-11-13
Power as Process ~ a Devotion to Openness
2023-07-05
Rapprochement ~ Reorienting Ourselves to Planet Earth
2023-12-20
Re-Rooting In the Web of Life Is the Way to Go
2024-07-31
Realignment ~ Let the Alchemy Take Place
2025-11-19
Reframing Ourselves ~ Reframing Our Lives
2025-12-03
Reframing Perception I
2025-12-10
Reframing Perception II and The Unforgotten Wisdom at the Core of the Psyche
2025-12-24
Reframing Perception III ~ Our Life Seen From Afar
2026-01-07
Reframing Perception IV ~ Linear & Cyclical Time
2026-01-15
Reframing Perception V ~ What Is Real?
2026-01-28
Reframing Perception VI ~ Refinement in the Service of Life
2023-08-23
Resonance ~ Engaging with Creativity Beyond the Intellect
2025-07-02
Restoring Ancestral Relationships
2024-05-08
Restoring Ourselves to Community With the More-Than-Human World
2024-10-16
Seamless ~ Earth 'Speaking' to Earth Directly
2024-05-22
Sense Yourself as a Fully Networked Organism!
2024-03-06
Separation is Getting More & More Difficult to Sustain as a Cultural Myth
2025-10-15
Shifting Our Sense of Being
2023-12-06
Stability & Spaciousness ~ Our 2 Supports in this Perfect Storm
2025-10-08
Standing Firm With Earth
2025-06-11
Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable
2024-01-10
Stay With the Intensity ~ Do the Connective Work!
2024-08-28
Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear
2025-10-22
Staying Engaged Takes Us Beyond Boundaries
2024-09-25
Steadiness ~ Walking the Question & Becoming the Answer
2025-01-01
Stepping Out of the Silo of Human Supremacy in 2025
2023-11-22
Taking Refuge In the Midst of It All ~ the Foundation of All Buddhist Practice
2025-05-07
Taking the Long Term View & Serving Life
2023-06-14
The Possibility of Serving as Part of the Planet's Immune System
2025-07-30
The Pressure Which Urges Us to Evolve
2026-05-27
The SOS (Sound of Silence) as a Doorway into the Web of Life
2024-01-17
The Subtle Joy which Accompanies that Intimacy
2025-03-19
The Way of Love Is Not a Subtle Argument
2024-09-18
The Wisdom of No Escape & Our Innermost Request
2024-06-26
There Is a Way to Mature Into ~ a Plug In Practice Ritual
2025-08-13
This Is a Journey of Discovery
2025-06-18
This Is Truly a Collective Practice
2023-11-15
Toss It All Back to Nature ~ It Knows What to Do
2024-04-17
Untangle the Tangle & Ask Earth How to Serve
2024-01-24
We All Need a Place to Land
2025-01-22
We Are Not Without Medicine!
2024-08-14
We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen
2025-01-29
We Belong to a Rich & Robust Lineage
2023-05-17
We Can Be a Vessel for that Emergence
2023-10-11
We Can Learn to Learn from What Is Happening in Our World
2023-08-09
We Have to Accelerate Our Own Transformation Now!
2026-03-26
What Most Needs to be Re-Membered in Service of Life?
2025-06-25
Widening the Arc of the Crash of Modernity
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