We get asked a lot about results and we’ve always felt every experience has been worthy and life changing in some way, shape or form. We recently experienced something that continues to confirm this even more.
Shiwani first came when she was 13 years old from Merced on day trips with Sacred Rok, while in high school she joined the Merced Youth Council and continued to come on day trips and camping trips, she then went onto San Diego to college and would return to Sacred Rok during school breaks . She recently graduated college and returned to Yosemite with a group of her newfound college friends to join Sacred Rok on a weekend trip so they could have the experience, too.
This was a big honor for us to facilitate the ceremony of nature for these college graduates who are now in a diversified realm to contribute to society. In our days together we talked about the values of nature and the importance of continuing to have an open mind and create our own vision of how we would like to see the world - based on equality, respect and responsibility.
It’s a profound reality when they say the youth is our future.
We also held another day trip recently with our Sky Pilot Program which has been going on over the last three summers. Some of the participants have been involved with us since before the Sky Pilot Program, coming from the Big Pine middle school, with the majority of the youth in this group having attended at least 25 trips with Sacred Rok.
As the adults, we are having an incredible experience as we observe our youth - some who were at first mildly terrified to walk across a creek that was at most a foot deep to our recent trip to Tuolumne hiking up the front-side of Lembert Dome - their progress in very inspiring.
This proved once again that with adult supervision that provides care, patience and respect we can achieve something that didn’t seem possible.
As we’ve said before, us human beings are no different than nature - we need nurturing through water, sunlight, and rich soil to grow into a healthy contribution for the world.
Education Nature’s Way is absolutely one of the most important things for understanding what it means to be human in relationship to our mental, physical and spiritual health.
Sacred Rok, always respecting the intelligence of nature and understanding the need for balance.
-Ron Kauk
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves" - Chief Seattle
