Events:

In a time of great ecological and cultural crises, in which we have forgotten our place within the more-than-human world, how can an embodied spiritual ecology lead us towards remembrance of our primordial bond with the Earth?

This July, join Sufi teacher, author, and Emergence Magazine founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for a conversation at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco exploring how we can engage with the Earth as an animate and alive being. Drawing on the reflections and practices within his new book, Remembering Earth, Emmanuel will speak about how remembrance, prayer, praise, and intimacy with the living world can guide us back to honoring the sacredness of creation, offering grounded ways we can move from ideas into a lived experience of radical belonging, from observer to participant in the sacred web of life.

In September 2026, as summer turns to autumn, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will hold a four-day retreat at the Whidbey Institute, located on Whidbey Island, off the coast of Washington, USA, hosted by Emergence Magazine. Drawing from the main themes in his forthcoming book Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), this retreat will offer a guided framework for awakening the memory of our sacred kinship with Earth, and turning towards an embodied spiritual ecology.

In deep spring 2026, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will hold a weekend workshop at CERES community environment park on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, where he will offer a framework for awakening the memory of our sacred kinship with the living world. Drawing from the main themes in his forthcoming book Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), this two-day event, hosted by Emergence Magazine, will feature talks, as well as instruction in a series of simple practices that engage the breath, heart, walking, listening and time, opening a space for participants to tend the threads of grief and love that connect us with the Earth.

In October 2026, in the depths of spring, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will hold a four-day retreat in the Otway’s ancient eucalypt bushland, Australia, hosted by Emergence Magazine. Drawing from the main themes in his forthcoming book Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), this retreat will offer a guided framework for awakening the memory of our sacred kinship with Earth, and turning towards an embodied spiritual ecology.

We live in a time when ecological and cultural crises are deepening and our primordial bond with the Earth is veiled. How can we begin to cultivate a love and reverence for the living world in both our inner and outer lives?

This October, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will give an evening lecture at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London on spiritual ecology as a foundation for a moral and ethical framework rooted in interconnectedness, kinship, reciprocity, compassion, and reverence. Drawing from his new book, Remembering Earth (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), Emmanuel will explore how this framework can begin to emerge through embodied practices of remembrance, praise, and intimacy with the living world.

In October 2026, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will hold a three-day seminar in London. The seminar will include talks, meditation, dreamwork, and discussion. If you are interested in attending, please inquire here.

On October 29, join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for an immersive evening in Geneva, Switzerland, exploring how practices in spiritual ecology can open us to be receptive to the more-than-human voices that have always been speaking to us.

Come early and gather with us at Promenade du Pin park around a site-specific sound installation by renowned musician Max Neuhaus that will invite you to attune your senses to the interplay of sounds unique to this place.

Emmanuel will then give a talk at the adjacent GamMAH cultural space, drawing from his new book Remembering Earth. He will speak about how listening with sustained attention is an act of devotion connecting the outer senses to the inner senses—called “the inner ear of the heart” in Sufism—that brings to life the values of kinship, reciprocity, interconnectedness, and reverence. The evening will include a guided practice led by Emmanuel, followed by an audience Q&A hosted by The Field founder Barbara Bulc.

In collaboration with The Field and Arta Sperto.

In November 2026, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will hold a four-day retreat at Monastery of Ségriès in Haute-Provence, France, hosted by Emergence Magazine. Drawing from the main themes in his forthcoming book Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology (Shambhala Publications, June 2026), this retreat will offer a guided framework for awakening the memory of our sacred kinship with Earth, and turning towards an embodied spiritual ecology.