The singing tree

The singing tree

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Hello you who is listening. My name is Bernd and I'm part of a Collaborative Economy group who is offering you this short audio journeys of Being land.

More and more people are reconnecting to land and ask themselves "Where do I end? And where do you begin?". Some people have found clear answers and embody them in their unique way. One of these ways you'll hear in the following. May you be inspired to find your own answers and live them.

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Good morning beautiful ones. This is Mohini. And I've just taken my dogs for a walk. The sun hasn't quite emerged above the horizon here in Findhorn village.

I love this time of the morning just before the world is properly awake. There's a strong-ish breeze from the west and I've come to perch myself amongst the gorse and the heather. It's not in flower right now, it's December the 18th, 2025.

I'm by a particular tree that I call the singing tree. This is where I used to bring my boys on walks when they were little. We get as far as this tree and it just starts spontaneously singing. And so when we go for walks we kinda pinpoint this as a geographical coordinate - the singing tree. It's a beautiful little mama pine. Some lovely branches to climb on and also to sing by. I think I'm going to sing right now, there might be a song later.

Being land, up here in Findhorn is incredibly encapsulating, captivating... this land is right by the sea. I'm on a peninsula of sand that juts into the north sea - the bay of Findhorn, the Moray Firth beyond and the north of Scotland beyond that.

It has an incredible shifting of sands as the wind, the water, the sun, the earth move and shift amongst the seasons. And as a result the people living here particularly when the Findhorn Foundation was in its heyday and drones of guests would arrive every Saturday to do various workshops, the experience week, the living in experience with Findhorn... to get there, take on what it was like to be part of an intentional community here. And I always had the sense, the kinesthetic sense that the dropping of baggage, metaphorical baggage when they did their workshops here was in part due to the land which has a very transformational quality to it.

Whatever you bring, whatever you're imagining, whatever you're dreaming into, whatever you wanna let go of - gets amplified here. There's several lay lines that cross under where the universal hall was built back in the 1970s. A very potent pentagon building.

And even just living here in the village as I do with my husband, with two boys and two dogs Saffron and Strudel this energy can be felt on a daily basis. It's not exclusive to being part of the Findhorn Ecovillage park as it's known now.

The big skies, the enormous amount of sky to land as I sit here and I'm engulfed by sky, arising with sunrise, cloud, mountains in the distance beyond the sea.

I glance along the sand dunes and I notice that in 3 different directions I don't see any form of civilization. Just in the west is the low line rooftops of Findhorn village.

I see a bunch of gorse that's already flowering. They say whenever there's gorse flowering - love is in the air.

Yeah. I reckon that's true. The essence of gorse is all about joy. So it brings me a great joy to be sitting here looking at the gorse, watching Strudel devour a stick, and my older dog sitting in her old age wisdom, just patiently waiting for me.

Greetings from the singing tree.