🌞 You’re Invited: Spring Equinox Gathering : A Day of Renewal, Reflection & Connection

📅 Date: Saturday, March 21

🕗 Departure: Field trip leaves at 8:00 AM from the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center (60 min travel) Arrival back at audubon at 4pm.

📍 Location: Butcher Jones Recreation Site
3 E Butcher Jones Beach Rd, Fort McDowell, AZ 85264

Join AZ(LAND) for a land-based gathering at the Salt River honoring the Spring Equinox a seasonal moment of balance, renewal, and emergence and Altar Building.

This immersive experience invites participants to slow down, reconnect with the rhythms of the land, and reflect on the cycles of nature and life.

We will charter the group by bus to event location. Event is free to public.

🌿 About the Gathering

The day begins with a welcome circle and land acknowledgement, grounding participants in the place and honoring the Indigenous lands and waters that sustain the region. Together we will reflect on the Spring Equinox through Indigenous perspectives, exploring themes of renewal, balance, and seasonal change.

Participants will then learn about the meaning and purpose of altars across cultures, including the significance of different adornments such as flowers, natural elements, and symbolic offerings. Through a collaborative practice, we will collectively build a community altar using flowers and natural plants from the river landscape.

✨ Reflective Practices

Through guided conversation and reflective writing prompts centered on the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water, participants will explore:

• Personal cycles of growth and change

• Relationships with the natural world

• Inner landscapes of grounding, movement, transformation, and breath

Participants will have time for quiet reflection, journaling, and optional group sharing.

🍽 Lunch and snacks provided, Break by the River

🎶 Closing Sound Therapy & Grounding

The gathering concludes with a restorative sound therapy session led by Lanette, creating space for rest, integration, and gentle restoration before returning home.

🌱 Why Attend

This experience offers an opportunity to reconnect with community, the land, and the rhythms of the season through reflection, creativity, and ceremony.

No prior experience is required—just openness and curiosity.

What to Bring: Hat, blanket, yoga mat, sunscreen, refillable waterbottle

💬 Registration

Space is limited.

👉 RSVP Here:

Transportation will depart from the Audubon Center at 8:00 AM. Arrive at 7:30 for registration and to grab snacks.

We hope you will join us in honoring the arrival of spring.

In gratitude,
AZ(LAND)
Environmental & Climate Justice Education
www.azlnd.org