We come to Pickathon for a day or a weekend and then we say that we go home. But, what if we are already home when we arrive? Our true collective home in nature and in the house that is our body. We will take time together to greet the land and relations that hold us during the festival. Sometimes called forest bathing, sometimes mindfulness, sometimes being in relation; we will participate in practices of gratefulness and generosity that invite us to be at ease our bodies, present in our lives, and connected to the earth.
Martin Lemke works at the intersection of ecology and psychology. He is informed by contemplative practice, earth based spirituality, and biological science deeply intertwined with our reality of a rapidly changing climate. He is currently studying to be a nature based clinical mental health counselor at Naropa University and is passionate about creating group experiences of transcendence within nature.

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