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Naturally inspiring seminars
Friday August 15 2008
KATE DAVIS, For The Banner
 
Issues regarding resource sustainability are hotly debated topics these days, with attention focussed on finding alternative methods to alleviate the burden of industry on the ecosystem.
True Source Seminars, a new business in Hockley Valley, provides wellness services to enhance awareness of how to be environmentally self-sufficient and aware, while providing the social framework to ensure overall appreciation of this bond with nature.
Russell Scott, former owner of the Ecology Retreat center in Hockley, decided to start this new business venture as his counselling services and seminars grew in demand.
Scott’s passion for his work was not happenstance, as he feels his own awakening to mental and spiritual clarity helped him relate to his field.
“I’ve researched many spiritual and psychological techniques,” he says. “I wanted to find out which techniques were the most effective, for myself and others.”
Through his independent research and training, as well as attending enlightenment retreats, Scott decided to share his learnings with others.
“We’ve become a work-and-do culture, and people are losing connection with the world and with themselves,” he says. “Many wonder what life is, what’s the purpose, what’s our purpose?” Scott’s seminars share his knowledge on “truly living” beyond misleading constructs of happiness and consumerism, and toward a more clear, naturalized perspective on life and the world.
More recently, Scott’s enthusiasm in sustainable living led him to begin educational workshops on building ecologically friendly home environments, from aesthetically pleasing planting systems to well nourished home gardens.
“What I want to do is to help people consciously live in harmony with their inner and outer natures; to use nature in the way it works, self sufficiently,” he says.
His workshops approach many aspects of natural living, from creating insulated structures with strawbales and stucco, to gardens that are aesthetically pleasing and functional.
“[Especially] with the high price of oil, food costs are going up, and there’s more concern on the kind of food we’re getting because of it,” Scott says. “The major concern of people that produce vegetables is on uniform size, will it ship well, what is the shelf life… nutrition is low on the list.”
In demonstrating how to create and manage a produce garden, Scott wants to encourage self-sufficient food production from one’s own home.
“You’re more in touch with the natural cycles we’re all involved in,” he says of the process.
In addition to his wellness and mental clarity functions, True Source hosts seminars based upon inner and outer harmony, including The Fundamentals of Permaculture.
Scott hopes his method of teaching on many levels of naturalism will encourage people to find their most innate persona and with that, happiness.
“When people live more in tune for what’s true to them, and what’s true in the world, then they might say that they’re more truly living,” Scott notes. “Life becomes a more deep, rewarding experience.”
For more information, visit www.truesourceseminars.com.