Slow Leaf Peeping is an 8-week course and cohort. Sessions will take place in person in Deering Oaks Park. Registration is required

This course asks, “How can we shift leaf peeping from a frenzied, scarcity-driven industry to being in an intentional relationship with the land we inhabit?”.

In this fully immersive experience, you’ll be able to slow down and connect with a single tree through the entire cycle of its leaves changing and falling. Throughout the course, you’ll also begin to change, expanding your awareness of the tremendous natural transformations that occur every single day, “peak” foliage, or not.

Each session is designed to deepen participants’ relationships with the tree they’ve chosen to observe. Using your tree as an anchor point for the passage of time, your practice will be bolstered by guided centerings and gentle movement, environmental education, hands-on mindfulness meditations, journaling, and community sharing circles.

Scholarship & Accessibility information can be found in the FAQs of the event page.

About your guide:

Davinica (she/her) is a certified Mindful Outdoor Guide from the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and a proud Mainer. She builds inclusive communities that honor our collective growth, healing, and sense of belonging through connection to each other and immersion in nature.

Through Kaneel she offers guided mindfulness practices in natural settings throughout the state of Maine. She encourages people to connect with the natural world in meaningful ways so they may become active stewards of our planet.