12/05/2025
The Sentient Land ~
Episode 4 of my podcast gathered around this phrase that came to my mind one day of creating.
The concept of listening to the land, creating with the land, responding to the land . . . this is a concept my teachers brought to me, and my readings as a young adult of 11 and 12 years old, brought to me.
Having experienced death of loved ones around the age of ten years old, and then having this incredible experience while in nature . . . as I walked in desert hills among sagebrush . . . and feeling that I was alone but then having this sensed and felt and heart experience of never being alone, of instead being deeply embedded in the hug of being a part of everything . . . of a wild and natural timelessness . . . having this experience of a deep and timeless and ancient knowing . . . I began to read of life and death and shamanism and animism in our small Kamloops Public Library.
As a young woman, I would then walk in the sage brush dotted hills, communing with nature, inspired by my readings, and exploring what it is to sense the land in this full bodied and embodied knowing of the soul of things.
When we do this, we embody the deep wealth of our true wild nature, The Wild Self that knows that soul imbues the physical with life force, vitality and a wild intelligence that is a sentient knowing.
In this Wild Self Knowing, the mid-aligned false constructs, and out dated neural networks, of disconnected societal ideas that cause suffering . . . these are exposed for what they are.
Such as “loneliness.”
In this Episode 04 of Lead with Heart & Horses, I invite you to consider the sentience of the land, and explore this re connection to nature, and how horses hold a space, like a portal, to the Nature Magic of the Land.
https://maia.love/maia-love-md-blog/lead-with-heart-amp-horses-the-sentient-land