Waking Nomad

Waking Nomad A nonprofit creating spaces where people can explore embodiment, consciousness, and human potential through direct experience. https://www.wakingnomad.org
(1)

Summer is for turning outward. It's the season when we are naturally drawn to let ourselves out into the world, for expr...
06/10/2026

Summer is for turning outward. It's the season when we are naturally drawn to let ourselves out into the world, for expressing the fullness of who we are.
There is no better time to make way for that expansion. To clear out any remaining dormancy and to feel whole, open and alive.

Our Solstice Sound Meditation is this Saturday! June 13, 5 - 7 PM. At the Historic Village Hall here in Marine on St. Croix.
Two hours to set down what you have been carrying and meet the season clearly.

A few spots left!

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/experience

You are standing at the kitchen counter waiting for the kettle to boil. Your eyes dash around. The kettle, the dishes in...
06/08/2026

You are standing at the kitchen counter waiting for the kettle to boil. Your eyes dash around. The kettle, the dishes in the sink, yesterday's mail on the counter. The kettle has yet to whistle.

In this moment, where is your attention?

For many of us it is somewhere else entirely. On what happened earlier. On what is coming next. On the conversation you wish had gone differently last week.

A new piece on the blog explores what attention actually is, what it is not, and why the distinction matters. The second in our ongoing series on the inner life.

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/blog

Summer Sound Meditation - Saturday June 13. The evening before solstice week begins.Two hours shaped around one practice...
06/05/2026

Summer Sound Meditation - Saturday June 13.
The evening before solstice week begins.

Two hours shaped around one practice: bringing your attention back, again and again, to what is actually here.

Not a performance. Not a treatment. Just your inner landscape, the room, and the company of others doing the same quiet work.

Historic Village Hall, Marine on St. Croix. 6–8 PM.

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/experience

The window for joining us on the Patagonia 2027 trip is closing. Space is filling in.If you have been quietly turning th...
06/03/2026

The window for joining us on the Patagonia 2027 trip is closing. Space is filling in.

If you have been quietly turning the possibility over in your mind, this is the week to give it a closer look. A small group. An unhurried pace. Territory that rewards slow attention. Late February into early March 2027.

The early-commit deadline is June 15. After that the trip cost increases.

Reach out if you would like to talk it through.

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/patagonia

Most of us, somewhere along the way, were given an enormous vocabulary for the world out there. The names of objects, th...
06/01/2026

Most of us, somewhere along the way, were given an enormous vocabulary for the world out there. The names of objects, the words for weather and machines and history. We were not, for the most part, given a vocabulary for what is happening "in here."

And without words for it, we cannot quite see it. Without seeing it, we mostly cannot work with it.

A new arc starts today on the blog. Over the coming weeks we will work through the foundational vocabulary of inner experience.

The first in the series is up now!

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/blog

Most of us spend most of our days with our attention glued to the thoughts in our head. A near-constant narration runnin...
05/25/2026

Most of us spend most of our days with our attention glued to the thoughts in our head. A near-constant narration running underneath everything.

The mind is a useful tool. It can also be an enormous attention hog. And the habit of perpetually watching the mind is, in a quiet way, robbing us of the life that is actually in front of us.

A new essay on the radio program we live inside, the sovereignty of our own attention, and the practice of placing awareness on what is actually here.

link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/blog

You come back from these trips a little different.Not in some dramatic transformed-by-the-experience way. Smaller than t...
05/24/2026

You come back from these trips a little different.

Not in some dramatic transformed-by-the-experience way. Smaller than that. The way you sit at your own kitchen table is slightly different. The way you breathe in a meeting. The way you respond to a familiar irritation.

10 days somewhere unfamiliar can recalibrate something that no amount of normal-life adjustment ever quite reaches.

Patagonia 2027.

Link in Bio or www.wakingnomad.org/patagonia

There is food that's cooked in the earth.A traditional Patagonian curanto: meat, fish, vegetables, layered with hot ston...
05/22/2026

There is food that's cooked in the earth.

A traditional Patagonian curanto: meat, fish, vegetables, layered with hot stones and buried beneath the ground for hours. You don't eat it so much as receive it. The meal carries the slowness it was made with.

A day in Bariloche. Late February 2027.

Link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/patagonia

Some practices travel with us.Mornings on these trips begin with something quiet. Breath. Stillness. Sometimes movement....
05/20/2026

Some practices travel with us.

Mornings on these trips begin with something quiet. Breath. Stillness. Sometimes movement. Not because the schedule requires it. Because the work travels with us when we leave the places we know.

A morning in front of a landscape you've never seen has its own quality of attention.

Patagonia 2027.

Link in Bio or www.wakingnomad.org/patagonia

* Photo from our last travel retreat in Peru captured by Winsome Photography

Address

121 Judd Street
Marine On Saint Croix, MN
55047

Telephone

+16515380003

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Waking Nomad posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Waking Nomad:

Shortcuts

Share