Apprenticing to the Seasons
Apprenticing to the Seasons
Finding Inspiration in the Way Nature Moves Gracefully Through Transition
The only constant in life is change.
Observing and reflecting on the unique aspects of each season, as well as on the cyclical nature of the natural world’s constant transformation, can offer insight into the inevitable seasons of our own lives.
Working metaphorically with the qualities and energies of the seasons is a way to acknowledge, honor, and gain insight into the challenges and wisdom of change within our own human experiences. It is a way to support mind, body, and soul transformation.
In this guide to apprenticing to the seasons, you’ll find:
Qualities, actions, and symbolic associations commonly attributed to each season.
Journal prompts to help you or your clients reflect on aspects of yourselves and changes in your lives.
Seeds to inspire your continued unfolding toward greater wholeness and health.
May you discover the wisdom that is already deep within you!
About Katie
With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.
She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing, and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at a graduate level.
Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches, and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.”
