The Great Dance, a hunter’s story

Göran Gennvi — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:39:24 +0000

This film starts out with this quote:
“/XAÁ is the word for DANCE in the !Ko language of the Kalahari and also means to REVERE, or to show ONENESS.”It is so powerful, especially when you reconnect it to the idea that tracking is like dancing “because your body is happy”. Our ancestors knew how to be happy in their bodies by being in the moment and connected to themselves and their world. We can do the same.

“This is a film dedicated to the ancient !Xo San people, whose harmony with this vast Kalahari desert landscape inspired the movie. Use this to learn more about the !Xo San – the Kalahari Desert Bushmen – or to travel into their minds, hearts and landscapes through the unique images.”

John P Milton, founder of the Way of Nature

Göran Gennvi — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:20:03 +0000

John P Milton describes Sacred Passage, and its shorter program called NatureQuest, are a powerful Awareness Training and meditation retreat, combined with a guided, contemporary solo quest in the wild. This solo is inspired by the classical Native American Vision Quest, but is different from native vision quests in that it focuses on a powerful interfaith approach to enlightenment and and on deep communion with Inner and Outer Nature. Experiencing a Sacred Passage will have a deeply transforming and liberating effect on your life.

Chief Oren Lyons – George Arents Award Winner

Göran Gennvi — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:01:44 +0000

George Arents Award for Excellence in Social and Environmental Activism
Lyons, professor emeritus of American studies and SUNY distinguished service professor at the SUNY University at Buffalo, is the publisher of the national Native American publication Daybreak magazine and co-editor of “Exiled in the Land of the Free” (Clear Light Pub., 1998).

Lyons is the faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs of the Haudenosaunee, responsible for maintaining the customs and traditions of the people and representing their interests in the world community. He is also chairman of the board of Honoring Nations at Harvard University, and of Plantagon, which has received world recognition in greenhouse innovation.

Among Lyons’ many honors are the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, the National Audubon Award, the First Annual Earth Day International Award of the United Nations and the Elder and Wiser Award of the Rosa Parks Institute for Human Rights.

A star student-athlete in lacrosse while at SU, Lyons won the University’s Laurie Cox Award and the Orange Key Award in 1957, and received the SU Letterman of Distinction Award in 1989. He was inducted into the Syracuse University Sports Hall of Fame and the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Lyons is a founding member of the Onondaga Athletic Club and chairman of the Iroquois Nationals.

In addition to his bachelor’s degree in fine arts, SU presented Lyons with an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1993, during which time he also delivered the Syracuse University Commencement address. A campus residence hall, Lyons Hall, is named in his honor.

Michele Blackburn – Time for a Solotime in Nature

Göran Gennvi — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:59:28 +0000

Michele Blackburn talks about the importance of taking the time to commune with nature whether it’s for five minutes or for 44 days on a solo Sacred Passage.

Sacred Passage, and the shorter program called NatureQuest, are a powerful Awareness Training and meditation retreat, combined with a guided, contemporary solo quest in the wild. This solo is inspired by the classical Native American Vision Quest, but is different from native vision quests in that it focuses on a powerful interfaith approach to enlightenment and and on deep communion with Inner and Outer Nature. Experiencing a Sacred Passage will have a deeply transforming and liberating effect on your life.

Michele Blackburn- Before & After the Sacred Passage

Göran Gennvi — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:50:44 +0000

Elephants play music with cellist Jami Sieber

Göran Gennvi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:15:18 +0000

A moving account of world-renowned cellist, Jami Sieber, playing music with the Thai Elephant orchestra. The story of Living Yoga, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon. The second part of our documentary Yoga and the Tao of Giving: www.worldsoulmusic.com www.living-yoga.org

Natures Magic

Göran Gennvi — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:09:26 +0000

A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s greatest phenomenons; a murmuration of starlings. murmuration/merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n.

1. an act or instance of murmuring.

2. a flock of starlings.

“We are overwhelmed with the amazing response to our film ‘Murmuration’ that we created for the WWF short film competition, Life.Nature.You. Make The Connection”.

Gregg Braden – Institute of HeartMath

Göran Gennvi — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:48:25 +0000

For over 22 years, Gregg Braden has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. Combining his discoveries with the best science of today, his original research crosses the traditional boundaries of science, history, and religion offering fresh insights into ancient mysteries.

The Institute of HeartMath is an internationally recognized nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people reduce stress, self-regulate emotions and build energy and resilience for healthy, happy lives. Personal coherence, also known as psychophysiological coherence, refers to the synchronization of our physical, mental and emotional systems. It can be measured by our heart-rhythm patterns: The more balanced and smooth they are, the more in sync, or coherent, we are.

Louie Schwartzberg – Gratitude

Göran Gennvi — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:30:56 +0000

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director, and producer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.

This piece includes his short film on Gratitude and Happiness. Brother David Steindl’s spoken words, Gary Malkin’s musical compositions and Louie’s cinematography make this a stunningly beautiful piece, reminding us of the precious gift of life, and the beauty all around us.

As a visual artist, Louie has created some of the most iconic and memorable film moments of our time. He is an innovator in the world of time-lapse, nature, aerial and “slice-of-life” photography – the only cinematographer in the world who has literally been shooting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week continuously for more than 30 years.

Biomimicry – Ask Nature

Göran Gennvi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:19:03 +0000

Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world. Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “remove salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels. Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.

That’s the idea behind AskNature, the online inspiration source for the Biomimicry community. Think of it as your home habitat—whether you’re a biologist who wants to share what you know about an amazing organism, or a designer, architect, engineer, or chemist looking for planet-friendly solutions. AskNature is where biology and design cross-pollinate, so bio-inspired breakthroughs can be born.

Thanks to sponsors like Autodesk, AskNature is a free, open source project, built by the community and for the community. Our goal is to connect innovative minds with life’s best ideas, and in the process, inspire technologies that create conditions conducive to life. To accomplish this, we’re doing something that’s has never been done—organizing the world’s biological literature by function.

What you’ll see on the site today is a starter culture of ideas—biological blueprints and strategies, bio-inspired products and design sketches, and biomimics you can talk to and collaborate with. Over the next few months, this genetic pool of ideas will grow as we receive natural history information from our partner, Encyclopedia of Life. Our social web will also grow, beginning with tapping into thousands of solution seekers who are part of WiserEarth’s global network.

Luckily, we live on a wildly diverse planet surrounded by genius, and now there’s one site where you can celebrate, learn from, and even conserve that genius. So please, come meet your mentors, get involved, and be part of the design revolution inspired by nature.

Visit AskNature.org

Visit the Biomimicry Portal prototype – the Portal prototype was originally created in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Institute, and is a precursor to AskNature. It still contains some biomimicry information that is not yet available on AskNature.