All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix. Each season of the year brings its own teachings and gifts and by forging a partnership of mind, heart, spirit, and body, the seeker may receive those gifts and awaken to a spirit of place that is indigenous to the land and accessible to all. Arranged to follow the four seasons of the year, The Spirit of Place offers an annual cycle of ideas and ceremonies for integrating all aspects of awareness. Visualizations and prayers focus the mind; acknowledging totems and allies strengthens the will; meditations centers the spirit; and heightened intuition opens the heart to change and acceptance. The practices suggested here, brought into daily application, align the reader in a deeper relationship with life's sacred matrix of plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world. A resource guide, with its extensive descriptions of birds, stones, animals, herbs, and trees, offers unique and practical information and advice for strengthening alliances with nature's totems. Respectful of Native American ways, the author draws on those and other earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet truly authentic spiritual practice that relies on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life. -- Midwest Book Review Loren Cruden (1952–2022), midwife and herbal healer, lived on a mountain in Washington State in a house that she and her son built. Following spiritual studies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, her six years of work with Lewis Sawaquat, a Potawatomie pipe carrier, deepened her engagement with the spirituality that is native to the land. Respectful of the integrity of Native American ways, she drew carefully on those and other Earth-oriented traditions to create an eclectic yet authentic spiritual practice that relied on a direct experience of the interrelatedness of all life. She is the author of Love Is Green: An Herbal for Parents , The Living Earth Tarot Deck , Compass of the Heart , and Medicine Grove .