{"id":556,"date":"2016-03-19T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=556"},"modified":"2024-08-13T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:40:30","slug":"earth-walks-to-chaco-canyon-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Earth Walks to Chaco Canyon May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earth Walks will journey to the amazing World Heritage Site of Chaco Canyon May 20-22, 2016. \u00a0Chaco was the ancient center of the Pueblo Anasazi world between 850 and 1250 A.D. \u00a0Today the massive buildings of the ancestral Pueblo peoples still testify to the organizational and engineering abilities not seen anywhere else in the American Southwest. This includes phenomenal archaeoastronmical buildings and natural sites aligned with solar and lunar cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Our Earth Walks experience is designed for a deeper contact with the canyon and the ancient ones whose voices still can be heard in the stones, wind, wide open skies and bright starry skies. \u00a0We will be led by a wonderful family from Tesuque Pueblo, who consider Chaco an important site of their ancestors. \u00a0It will be a homecoming to them, and perhaps to participants as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Power of Storytelling&#8221; is the focus of this journey. \u00a0Sharing stories brings back the oldest way of being connected and seeking coherence in a world that often seems to be falling apart. \u00a0As Michael Meade of the\u00a0<em>Mosaic Multicultural Foundation\u00a0<\/em>has said, &#8220;Genuine stories help us to restore ourselves and re-story the world around us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we walk the ancient sites with our Pueblo friends, experience silence alone among the vast open space of Chaco or gather around the fire at night we will share the stories that call to us from past and present that will help reweave the fabric of our individual and collective lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Join us!<\/strong> <\/em>\u00a0Space is limited to 12 participants so sign up soon by emailing Earth Walks for a registration form. \u00a0Cost is $210 which includes all meals, campsite fee and honorarium to Pueblo guides. \u00a0Transportation is by carpooling (minimal car entrance fee not included in cost.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Earth Walks will journey to the amazing World Heritage Site of Chaco Canyon May 20-22, 2016. \u00a0Chaco was the ancient center of the Pueblo Anasazi world between 850 and 1250 A.D. \u00a0Today the massive buildings of the ancestral Pueblo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/?p=556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthwalks-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthwalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}