#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
welcome
welcome
7 Days of Rest, January 1–7, is a free, co-creative annual global event dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants. All are invited to participate in co-creating a global healing field and enjoy the rich array of offerings, including wisdom teachings, ceremonies, meditations, music, inspirations and more, that are generously offered by the global community.
the invitation
From January 1 - 7, all are invited to join in co-creating a global field of care , coherence and healing as we gentle ourselves into the loving embrace of Rest.
As we attune together to the frequency of Rest, we support a collective release of that which is not in service of Life. In re-turning to rest, we enable a profound re-calibration with nature's primordial rhythms and regenerative intelligence.
Slowing down, we nourish a deepening connection with ourselves, each other and all of Life, and seed the New Year with a profound gift of healing and regeneration.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
7 Days of Rest is about creating a field of rest, stillness and reflection. We cultivate this field as individuals
and as communities of all scales.
The “Rest” that is invited also includes a variety of activities that can be integrated into time at work, at school, or at home with family and friends. Our primary objective is to create a sacred collective space and time away from the busyness as usual for us to reflect together, as a species, how we can realign with our hearts, with each other, and with the intrinsic intelligence and order of nature.
Enjoying the Offerings
As a free and co-creative event, all participants are invited to join and/or share offerings. The offerings that are shared for 7 Days of Rest 2025 will be displayed in the Event Gallery on the Homepage from December 15th onward.
Over the last years, wisdom keepers, healers, creatives and community leaders from around the world have generously shared a rich array of offerings. These can be accessed through browsing the Offerings and Gateways from PREVIOUS YEARS.
Some online events will be recorded and uploaded onto the website to make the recordings available for you in your own time.
You are invited to create your own unique experience for the 7 Days, choosing that which feels most vitalizing and accurate for you.
If you would like to offer an event to the community, please do so through the button below.
We wish you a deeply nourishing and replenishing 7 Days of Rest!
GALLERY OF EVENT OFFERINGS ~ COMING SOON
Suggestions for Personal Practice
As we build together the field of personal and collective rest and healing, you may wish to consider incorporating some or all of these practices into your 7 Days of Rest:
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Creating silent time alone and together, reconnecting to the sounds of stillness that enable us to re-calibrate with the wisdom of our bodies and nature.
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Minimizing all work, consumerism, media and social media activity – (if possible, a full consumerism, television and social media fast). This ideally means connecting to the virtual world only for the purposes of joining focused global meditations or programs relating to human and planetary rest, healing and replenishment.
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Clearing the body from toxins, eating fresh and organic plant-based food as much as possible. Different dietary suggestions will be offered on the website for optimal detox and nourishment.
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Practicing breath, yoga, sound and movement practices that support the body’s rest, healing and replenishment.
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Meditation, prayer, intention setting, and practices that cultivate deep listening, present moment awareness, intuition and spontaneous visions.
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Practicing loving communication with yourself, with others and with your surrounding environment.
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Creating rituals dedicated to the healing, nurturing and replenishment of oneself, the planet and the entire Web of Life.
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Communing with and honoring Nature, animals, the plants and the elements.
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Journaling insights, dreams and intentions.
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Connecting consciously to the 7 Day global prayer and meditation field either online or offline.
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Envisioning a healed world.
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Offering gratitude for all that is healthy and nourishing in your own life and in the world.
amplifying the global field of intention
To enable more people to access the event offerings – and to amplify the field of sacred intention – all participants and co-creators are invited to share the invitation with your networks. You can share the poster (below) with the event description (below), in newsletters and on diverse social media platforms.
SUGGESTED DESCRIPTION TO SHARE WITH THE POSTER:
(and, of course, add whatever inspires you!)
7 Days of Rest, January 1–7, is an annual, open co-creative event dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants. All are invited to enjoy the rich array of offerings, including wisdom teachings, meditations, music, inspirations and more, that are generously offered by the global community.
Together we Honor, Celebrate and Cultivate Rest as an Essential Foundation
for the Healing and Thriving of Earth, Humanity and All of Life.
To learn more and join this FREE event, please visit: www.7days-of-rest.org
previous years
You are welcome to explore the diverse array of offerings and inspirations from all the previous years
The seventh 7 Days of Rest & Reweaving Wholeness was dedicated to exploring primordial portals of remembrance. Together we rewove our unique threads of light in integrity and harmony with the fabric of the living Universe.
The sixth 7 Days of Rest & Return to Essence was dedicated to attuning to the Nature of Essence and the Essence of Nature. As we follow the path of essence, we remember our original encoding and restore our experience of kinship and communion with all of Creation.
The fifth 7 Days of Rest & Sacred Renewal was dedicated to honoring this time as a sacred gateway for our individual and collective rebirth. With clear commitment to living the truth of who we are, we re-imagined how we can take up our individual and collective roles as loving stewards of Creation.
The third 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity was dedicated to exploring and remembering the essential nature of Life-enhancing diversity. Together we cultivated our capacity to engage with ourselves, each other, and the world around us with greater empathy and wisdom, and learned about the vitalizing nature of our similarities, differences, and complementarities.
The fourth 7 Days of Rest & Radical Healing was dedicated to restoring sacred relationship with Water as an essential foundation for personal, collective and planetary healing. The event introduced World Water Year 2021 as a global-to-local, citizen-led initiative for activating a worldwide whole-system healing process that will exponentially benefit all of Life.
During the second 7 Days of Rest & Reflection, we reconnected with the Foundations of Life – Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Climate, Biodiversity and the Web of Life – in new ways so that we could learn to honor and protect these foundations within us and beyond us as an essential part of our collective healing.
During the first 7 Days of Rest we co-created a field of re-calibrating with the essential vibration of Rest from which the old can be shed, disease can begin to heal, and new healthy Life and Consciousness can be birthed.