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.

Michele Blackburn-Before & After the Sacred Passage

Göran Gennvi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:50:44 +0000

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 – Time for a Solotime in Nature

Göran Gennvi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 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.

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.

John P Milton, founder of the Way of Nature

Göran Gennvi — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 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.

John P Milton on Sustainable Leadership

Peter From — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:29:40 +0000

John P Milton @ Naturakademin gathering to dialogue about Sustainable Leadership, November 2010.

Sensing in Nature at Tällberg Forum (naturakademin.se)
GetWiLD 2011 – a powerful personal leadership and awareness training in nature (naturakademin.se)
World Nature Quest, May 21 -22, 2011 (naturakademin.se)

Bill Mason – Waterwalker

Göran Gennvi — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:55:20 +0000

This feature-length documentary follows naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river’s source. Along the way, Mason paints scenes that capture his attention and muses about his love of the canoe, his artwork and his own sense of the land. Mason also uses the film as a commentary on the link between God and nature and the vast array of beautiful canvases God created for him to paint. Features breathtaking visuals and exciting whitewater footage, with a musical score by Bruce Cockburn.