You do not need to be a member to attend and participate in Weekly Wanderings.
We welcome folks from any spiritual path who seek deeper connection with the earth.
Hearth Cville members share common aims and intentions, participate in monthly wisdom shares, assist with fire-building, and host special interest groups (dance, herbalism, book club, etc.). If that sounds good to you, reach out to become a member!
Co-founders
Karolyn Kinane
Karolyn lives at the intersection of contemplation and care, with particular interest in how practices of awareness and connection can enhance values-alignment, accountability, and transparency.
She earned her Ph.D. in English and had been a professor of medieval studies, a faculty developer, an administrator, a project and program manager, and a thought-leader of contemplation in higher ed. These days, most comfortable behind the scenes, she serves her communities in a variety of supporting roles.
Co-founder of Hearth Cville, a place-based community for spirituality in nature, Karolyn’s personal practices include journaling, music-making, dialogue, dancing, and hatha yoga as well as ritual and journeying within the living tradition of indigenous Irish paganism.
Anthony DeMauro
Anthony is a person who has been nurtured and shaped by loved ones in his life who embody qualities of care, wisdom, and spirituality. Anthony has done his best to adopt many of their ways of being while also discovering his own unique gifts and voice. His journey eventually led him into the contemplative education space, where he aims to help people connect more deeply with themselves and the world around them. Reflecting on his own development, Anthony recognizes the power of relationships, community, and culture in shaping how people relate to and move through the world, and he is interested in working with others to create new communities and cultures that support the flourishing of humans and the more-than-human world.
Anthony currently directs a contemplative leadership program, Dalai Lama Fellows, that helps changemakers around the world integrate personal and collective healing. He has also contributed to and been influenced by the work of Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE), a mindfulness- and compassion-based program to support K-12 educators, and Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), which offers retreat programs for teenagers. Anthony’s professional work draws from his personal practices of meditation (primarily Kriya Yoga), time in nature, song, dance, dialogue, and the ongoing inspiration of the spiritual communities that hold him.
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