Featured Sites for January 2010
The Mindful Path Website of Cheryl Jones-Reardon, author of Mindful Exercise: A Bridge between Yoga and Exercise.
Hiking Around Philly Old high school friend, Sydney Goldstein, leads unique hikes in and around Philadelphia.
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Inner Alignment Ruth Toledo Altschuler's elegant work with interior alignment and flower essences.
San Francisco Downtown Hotels Welcome to your source for Downtown San Francisco hotels. We now offer over 25 hotels in the downtown San Francisco area.
Thoreau Farm Trust Help save the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts.
Journeys of the Spirit At Journeys of the Spirit® you will find a refreshing approach to spiritual retreats, journeys and vacations. Our intent is for your personal transformation along with the opportunity to experience powerful sacred sites and distinctive itineraries. Women's retreats too!
Vacation Travel Tips Firsthand travel tips and travel guides from all over the world.
Web-Beacon Family Directory A family friendly, spam free Internet directory, listing only safe and secure, quality sites. Articles, affiliates, blogs, deep links, and non-English sites accepted.
Camino Inca to Machu Picchu Camino-Inca.info is a noncommercial resource about the Camino Inca (Inca Trail), describing the three main treks (Classic, Sacred, and Salkantay) to Machu Picchu and providing detailed information, maps, photographs and the locations of various Incan ruins.
Creating Sanctuary: body - mind - Soul While Creating Sanctuary in our lives, we find the Sanctuary that already resides within us. Creating Sanctuary provides online Holistic education and support. I can help you Simplify your life and return to Sanctuary. Natural Living - Simple & Soulful
Barack Obama Official Website
Theo Ribeiro, Photographer Devoted to the art of photographing the unfathomable world around us. This young Brazilian understands light and how it dances on natural and human landscapes. His inspirations come from Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell. It shows. You can purchase Theo's work at Photo Shelter .
Patagonia Stay warm all year long with Patagonia jackets, pants and clothing.
Active New Zealand tours Small group, guided hiking, cycling, paddling and biking outdoor adventure travel vacations in New Zealand.
Active South America tours Outdoor adventure vacations in South America. Trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, hike in Torres Del Paine National Park in Patagonia, take an adventure tour in the Galapagos Islands and much more!
Pause for Purpose Lovely reminders of the need to slow down and enjoy life with awareness. Includes workshops, blog, photos.
Iris Essences Flower essences that keep you balanced with your
medical health. Iris
Essences offers you an extensive line of flower essences to keep you fit, healthy and balanced.
Love Cards The right card for the right person.
Taiga Works Taiga Works is an outdoor gear & sports clothing company producing leading edge outdoor gear including down jackets, fleece apparel, cycle wear, hats, tents, sleeping bags, backpacks and kayaks.
The Virtual Book Company Suppliers of the South West Coast Path Interactive DVD. Wonderful interactive DVDs of great walks in England, starting with one of the world's most spectacular coastal walks in the Cornwall region: the South West Coast Path.
Backpack45 Long distance backpacking. One of the best
English language sites on the Camino de Santiago. John Muir Trail and
PCT emphasized. Adventurous older women encouraged.
Great West Books Fine books about the West. Based in Lafayette, California.
DeVorss and Co. Quality books on spiritual and metaphysical subjects. Based in Camarillo, California.
Point Reyes National Seashore Association The education arm of this great national park north of San Francisco.
American Hiking Society All things hiking in the United States.
Ecopsychology Your gateway to ecopsychology on the web.
Castle Rock Institute The Castle Rock Institute is an off-campus wilderness center for the Humanities affiliated with Brevard College. With its base in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, theInstitute offers several college study programs combining interdisciplinary classwork, organized group wilderness activities, and attention to community living.
Seeking Center
Wonderful oil paintings of the natural world, along with the Healing Arts of Northern Arizona by Jim Thomas.
Bored Feet Press Great books about appreciating the outdoors.
Peacemaker Circle International
Zen Peacemaker Family
Stressless Country
Ideas, suggestions and tips on the three R's - reduce, recycle and reuse!
The Enlightened Traveller The Enlightened Traveller designs original self-guided walking tours and trekking holidays in Provence and Southern France.
The Big Stretch "First we take you walking in some of the most beautiful mountains on earth, and bed you down in the most engaging hotels. You fill your lungs with clear air, your body with good food, and your mind with fresh new ideas. Second, we give you intensive individual and group coaching that’s entirely focused on you and your future. You’ll have time, space and expert support to focus on what’s really important to you. One week later you'll have clarity, and a plan of creative but concrete actions to move you forward…right away."
Spiritual Chicks ?Kick-ass questions. Unexpected answers. A no holds-barred look at spirituality and everyday life.?
Steven's Portal A compendium of useful websites of higher consciousness.
Costa Rica Sea Turtles Helps the sea turtles of Parismina, Costa Rica.
Pharmaca An integrative, wholistic pharmacy.
Camping and Gear
Quality camping gear for that next great adventure,hundreds of tents,sleeping bags,inflateables,backpacks and first aid and kids stuff;great practical gifts or in case of an emergency,free newsletter.
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
Bay Area Hiker
Everything you need to know about hiking in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Adventures with Spirit of Nature Providing self help, individual, and group assistance in the form of experiences and tools to navigate and accelerate your personal and spiritual growth journey--including Earth Sky (sweat) Lodge, shamanic journeys in nature, hiking, southwest tours, a vast library of self help, motivational, and personal growth articles, and a free ezine newletter read worldwide.
9 Fires Global Peace Initiative with Raven Discover how you can experience peace within and help the world become a more peaceful place. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing peace to Planet Earth by teaching the 9 Qualities of Inner Peace and building Medicine Wheels of Peace around the globe.
CosmicLotus.org a Metaphysical & Holistic Healing Cyberministry.
Coastwalk Saving the California coast, one step at a time.
National Resources Defense Council One of the most effective environmental watchdogs. Their BioGems project is particularly important.
Frank & Anne's Canyon Country Hiking & Camping Hike on over to Frank and Anne's very informative site.
Spirit and Sky The Definitive Spiritual Directory. Almost 100,000 sites listed, including The Mindful Hiker, which Spirit and Sky chose as a Top Spiritual Site for 2005.
Common Ground Magazine An alternative monthly of cutting edge articles on culture, the arts, spirituality, health, green politics, sustainable practices, alternative energy, and more. Also display ads of Bay Area health practitioners, healing workshops, and art classes.
Binoculars and Spotting Scopes Good source of daylight and night vision optics to get a close up view of nature.
Nature's Way A lovely nature-oriented website from Philip Sutton Chard, a nature therapist, photographer, and backpacker, who is also trying to encourage poeple to slow down and smell the flowers.
Susan Hall This wonderful artist captures the spirit and beauty of the Point Reyes peninsula.
Local Hikes A listing of great hikes throughout the U.S. by volunteer hike reporters. Includes topo maps.
Walk California A community of several thousand people that enjoys getting together to take walks in and around their home areas, making it easy to find a walking or hiking partner anytime, anywhere.
Now Mindful Heart Intriguing and important thoughts on life, love, and Spiritual Anarchy.
The New American Dream The Center for a New American Dream helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice. Their motto: More fun, less stuff.
Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat Center Spiritual Retreat Center in Sedona, Arizona hosts spiritual and health conscious groups and individuals. 70-acre setting on Oak Creek with creekside guesthouses, cabins and luxury tipis. Our 1100 sq ft building for meeting space, yoga and workshops, our historic Light House for meditation and numerous healing modalities, a 7-circuit labyrinth, individualized vortex experiences and much more .
100 Friends Project Giving made simple. " I am Marc Gold and I started this small project 18 years ago, in 1989. The idea is very simple. Every year many people contribute to the project and I take the money to Third World Countries and look for the neediest people I can find. I then put the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive and practical manner possible. You put the donation into my hands and I put the funds directly into the hands of the needy individual or family, or a small trusted grassroots organization helping them."
Spawn USA All about spawning salmon and how you can get involved.
Earth Vision Spiritual Ecology: Exploring Nature and Soul
Love Electra A resource for T-shirts and gifts that provide messages of unity and love, as well as other positive values.
The Conservation System Alliance This site contains descriptions of all the Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System wildlands, with an opportunity for people who have adventured on these lands to post stories and photos. The site was developed by a consortium of non-profits who are dedicated to preserving and protecting these places that are more rugged and remote than most national parks.
Find Love and Light A collection of spiritually oriented websites around the globe.
CheapOair Airfare Deals Best cheap airfare deals to the top travel destinations on CheapOair. Whether flying for business or pleasure, save up to 65%!
The Mindful Hiker: On the Trail to Find the Path (DeVorss Publications, 2004). Available at booksellers and online.
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