The centre offers a space for contemplation, for collective practice and dreaming, for radical imagination, for re-storying relationships.Cultivating practices that nourish the soul, each other, and the Earth are our means to an embodied advocacy for sustained ecological health and social justice.
Purpose / उद्देश्य / ಉದ್ದೇಶ
Spiritual Ecology is a global and transdisciplinary movement that draws on universal spiritual principles and values – interbeing, reverence, guardianship, selfless service – guiding us in forming the foundations for what will come next in the story of human co-existence on Earth.Inspiring a practice of sacred activism, spiritual ecology helps us to respond to the complex challenges of our times with strengthening our inner capacities, offering us the grace to pause and stay with the troubles, noticing and creating resiliency in our relationships, and allowing an unusual connection to the powers of the unseen.
The centre for spiritual ecology (CSE) was first seeded in Bengaluru, India.CSE serves as a community of slow praxis, a sanctuary to attune with the more-than-human, and an invitation to resplendent possibilities of human evolutionary consciousness.We are here to listen first.
To the land, its people, our more-than-human kin, and then to co-create.
A journey that spawned in a generous home-library in the central part of the city in 2023, began as an attempt to listen together: to the land, to its kin, and to the lurking wisdoms and possibilities in a time of great breakdown and polycrisis. Over time, this portal-making space, hosted 10+ intimate gatherings that brought a blend of spiritual wisdoms and understanding systems transformations – we shared practices and stories of forest guardians, rivers, fisher communities, and local artists in how they are weaving new stories and challenging the dominant paradigm.As a practice of being in radical hospitality, the space also has been a corner for pilgrim-scholars, a refuge for weary activists, and a rest stop for anyone longing to remember their place in the web of life.
People
Abhayraj is a lawyer, educator....Ishan is an activist-ecolgist...Aditi is a designer, ....As individuals, we have been traveling within the myriad discourses of climate action, ecological education, sustainability advocacy, and movement building.We sense a growing fatigue, in that many of our responses, however well-intentioned, are skimming the surface of a deeper rupture. In India, where ecological breakdown unfolds alongside deepening inequality, religious polarisation, and political depravity, this rupture is not abstract. It is felt in drying rivers, fractured communities, displacement, technocratic overwhelm, and a growing numbness toward loss.We ask:What does a return to a spirituality offer?How does an attunement with our ecosystems resolve our fractures?Why commit to the deeper relational work when we need urgent responsivities?A host of such questions and inquiries bewitch us — not in a posture of needing to figure it all out, because we can't, but as a slow contemplative practice of staying with the troubles, being-with the compost heap of our times (Haraway).
Programs
In the fervour of deeper intimacy and with the spirit of the festive, we have hosted small to big gatherings – most with a handful of people arriving to share a 2hr conversation with us on a specific edge or dimension of spiritual ecology, and some like Samvritti (Mar '25) to celebrate the land, community and our shared gifts in a day-long immersion of talks, performances, rituals, and eating food and dancing together.
We invite you to join us in sensing possibilities for engaged spiritual ecology conversations in your spaces and communities, and to tend to the grief of these poignant times as well as revitalize us towards more embodied, sensitive imaginaries of transformations.
Contact Us
We are available on the following email as well as on our social media handles shared below.