This is a ritual calling on all beings to join us to protect and nourish life on earth. After a brief explanation/invocation, participants will be invited to name the crises in their awareness, then join together in calling in the power of the universe (by every and all names) through words, music, and movement. Closing circle will include discussion of how to carry what we’ve created here into our lives.
Shodo Spring is an authorized teacher in the Soto Zen tradition, and a long-time practitioner of ceremony. Before entering Zen, she co-led women’s community rituals in the Twin Cities. Since then, she has joined indigenous-led ceremony and resistance at Unistoten Camp, the Tar Sands Healing Walk, the Treaty People Gathering, and Moccasins on the Ground. Her deepening relationship with ritual as creative resistance has included leading the 2013 Compassionate Earth Walk along the KXL route. She has just retired from professional psychotherapy practice to do full time spiritual activism through Mountains and Waters Alliance.
Shodo’s new book, Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings (SeaCrow 2025), is available at
the conference. Earlier work includes Take Up Your Life: Making Spirituality Work in the Real World (Tuttle 1996),
numerous published essays, and editing Shohaku Okumura’s The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner’s
Guide to Dogen’s “Sansuikyo” (Wisdom 2018).
www.MountainsAndWatersAlliance.org