Sheep Tai Chi

Move slowly. Breathe deeply. Practice Tai Chi among sheep and flowers.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@MeatEaterTV There was a therapist who started telling her clients they didn’t need to see her anymore - all they needed was to interact with nature (not just hike thru) but to actively hunt, fish, gather, trap.
She lost a great deal of her income but cured tons more than conventional therapy

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@teachthemx3 Taught S&R to preschoolers and kindergarten students.

Tracking and trailing to find a “lost” child. The Waldorf doll had a cut on her leg. Students learned what medicinal plants grew nearby, built a stretcher (learned lashing, how to safely use saws), and learned basic 1st Aid

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@teachthemx3 Highly recommend

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@silvopasturist @NigelBest5 I wouldn’t last five minutes up there

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@silvopasturist @NigelBest5 Whoa!

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@silvopasturist @NigelBest5 At Teaching Drum in Wisconsin they’d sit naked in the marsh, meditating until they “broke through” and reached a mental state or level where mosquito bites no longer affected them.

Never worked for me but I know folks who swear by it.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@silvopasturist @NigelBest5 Many wilderness survival instructors swear by this method. Same principle as snake handlers getting small doses of venom or beekeepers developing sting tolerance.
Immerse yourself in mosquitoes.
Fight the urge to swat them and you’ll eventually break through the instinct / reflex

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@silvopasturist @ben_wnc I pitched a zero gravity chair and bow & arrow outside the chicken and quail coop

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@ThrivingTheFut 🥺

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

@flowidealism This is so true. Anthropologists have documented its absence in a variety of cultures.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

There’s levels to it.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

Ginseng Culture

[David Scott Harris @HVNYrefugee]

It's time to do this again:

One of these is Hubei Province, China, one is in North Carolina (two of the most ecologically similar places on earth, given their distance).

Guess which is which.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

“Attaining a personal state of unlimited freedom is the only way to political order and cosmic order.”

Cheng Xuanying

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[Appalachian Wood Homestead @AppWoodHome]

My daughter pulls up a chair to watch when it's rabbit processing time.

She knows our baby rabbits will grow up to become supper. She plays with them, feeds them treats, helps process them, and enjoys them at the table.

She's also seen us raise and process chickens, a goat, and sheep. If she can eat that goat (who was a real sweetheart), she's fine with eating animals.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

Bloomscrollin!

[Drake @silvopasturist]

The Disnification of children’s limbic system is threat to humanity.

When kid was 7, I culled her favorite ewe sheep. She cried & cried. Then she helped skin and eviscerate the ewe and said: I’m going to eat her heart all by myself. And did.

She still wears the hide as a cape.

[Sheep Tai Chi @SheepTaiChi]

We just spent the morning planting a tree, planting flowers and started seeds.

Then an hour later I found out it was #EarthDay. Had no idea.

“Every Day is Earth Day” might sound cliche but it’s a good rule to live by.

[9mmSMG @9mmsmg]

7 years ago, my grandmother had a Christmas dinner crash out. We were all sitting around the dinner table after dinner, picking at dessert, while we all looked at our phones. We were barely feigning conversation.

Out of nowhere, she slams her hand down and flips out. "You stupid machine people with your dumb machines. It's your whole life. You just sit on that machine all day" and then she walked out of the room.

At the time, it was hysterical because of how it was worded. Calling us machine people and our phones machines. It was the most nonsensical stereotypical senior rage. She aged into a world she didn't understand any longer. A world that didn't make sense. This woman still had corded home phones.

It took until now to realize how right she was.

[Thriving The Future @ThrivingTheFut]

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