Earth Sanctuary Video Blog

A Tour of the Wetland Trail in December 2009

In this video, I give a tour of the Wetland Trail, including the Tibet-Tech prayer wheel, the Cottonwood Stone Circle, the erratic boulder, a restoration area with 10 Native American medicine plants, and the Fen, a spring-fed peatland or bog. –Chuck Pettis, Earth Sanctuary Founder

A Tour of the Wetland Trail in December 2009

In this video, I give a tour of the Wetland Trail, including the Tibet-Tech prayer wheel, the Cottonwood Stone Circle, the erratic boulder, a restoration area with 10 Native American medicine plants, and the Fen, a spring-fed peatland or bog. –Chuck Pettis, Earth Sanctuary Founder

Walking the Middle Path Trail - Nov. 28, 2009

The leaves have fallen on the trails at Earth Sanctuary. This is a video of me walking the Middle Path trail from top to bottom. - Chuck Pettis

Meditation on Mallard with Ducklings

A mallard with her ducklings at Earth Sanctuary.

New Road and Arboretum

We have just completed a major clearing and road project a Earth Sanctuary. When the Earth Sanctuary property was purchased, one parcel had been hard logged and was covered with mainly unhealthy trees and Himalayan Blackberries. At the end of 2008, we are now planting over 1,000 new trees in groves to create an arboretum. Come and see the new "baby forest!"

Walking the Earth Sanctuary Cottonwood Stone Cir...

Walking the Earth Sanctuary Labyrinth - Fall 2007

Planting Trees at Earth Sanctuary - 2007

Heidi Oman tells of Earth Sanctuary's plans to plant another 300 trees in the Winter of 2007. All of this is part of Earth Sanctuary's 500-year plant to proactively create an old-growth forest.

Making Tsa Tsa's

Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism & Earth Sanctuary present two Tsa Tsa workshops:Saturday, September 22 andSaturday, October 20, 200710:00 am - 5:00 pmFREE, including lunchHeld at Tara Meditation Center Retreat House at Earth Sanctuary on Whidbey Island View the video to see how the Tsa Tsa’s were made at the first workshop. Please come to this Tsa Tsa workshop and help make the Tsa Tsa’s that will go into the Stupa that H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya is having built near the Tara Meditation Cen...

The Wetland Trail is Open - Aug. 8, 2007

During the early summer, we close off the Wetland Trail between the Cottonwood Stone Circle and the Fen lookout for the benefit of the nesting Ospreys. The fledging is out of the nest now and so the trail is open again. Here's a short charming video by Heidi that I took while she was clearing the trail.