Meditation for Earth is held every Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. ET.
In-person in the Sanctuary at the First Presbyterian Church of Rumson, 4 East River Rd. Rumson, NJ.
Join our virtual meditation on our YouTube channel HERE
Check out a little bit about why Waterspirit is co-sponsoring this effort and register below. You make a difference when you show up. Please consider joining these sessions to better understand how government works and how community may be built with a few concerned residents. Together, we can all be working together toward a common cause, like water protection, wherever we reside.
Unfortunately, we have cancelled this event. But Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga will return in April.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Daylight is lengthening, temperatures are warming, trees are blooming and we are celebrating. Join Waterspirit on March 20 as we celebrate the arrival of Spring with music, movement, poetry and contemplation. The Spring Equinox is a time to reflect on the freshness and excitement of the rebirth of nature. We look forward to the April showers which will water our gardens and bring forth new life.
Bring your family and friends to Waterspirit and join in the celebration. The program will be celebrated in person and livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Please join us at the Monmouth County Faith & Ecology Meetup. This is a quarterly interfaith gathering for people working on environmental issues in our county.
Let's meet each other and learn what we are working on in our faith communities! What issues are inspiring us? What challenges are we facing? How can we create a faith-fueled network of Earth care where we live?
Let's build solidarity and community resilience together at this gathering.
Join Waterspirit’s Earth Day Beach Cleanup on April 25 and help us protect the sacred waters. Click here to learn more and register.
We’re partnering with The BTS Center and The Many – a songwriting advocate for the Earth – to offer a yearlong cycle of music, liturgy, art, and scripture, and presence. Lament with Earth is a five-part series of interactive virtual events inviting you to pray and sing along.
Bring your emotions, in all their complexities and intricacies. Together, we’ll share the grief, and we’ll share the balm, too.
Learn more and register.
Please save the date for this young adult retreat on the mental health impacts of climate change, hosted by Waterspirit’s Executive Director. This retreat will take place in New Jersey. Please contact us for more information.
On May 18th, Waterspirit hosts its 2nd book club of 2026: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks (2025). One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild ducks and gathering their down. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge, forgiveness and how to make lasting change.
Books can be purchased through Waterspirit’s new book store!
“Deceptively simple, emotionally surprising, beautiful, and true.” - Melissa Harrison
“A love letter to the quiet and complex majesty of a little-known landscape and the women that tirelessly tend to it. It moved, humbled and educated me and made a place I have never set my eyes on suddenly vivid and close.” - Vanessa Kisuule
“The Place of Tides is terrific – so honest and strange. It’s somehow about eider ducks, middle age, one woman’s breathtaking skill and determination, the collapse of the natural order and everything in between. I think it’s Rebanks’s best book yet.” - Sam Knight
"The Place of Tides reminds readers that small acts of care for our environment can result in great things when done over time. Quietly enchanting, this book offers readers an oasis of calm in our turbulent world.”
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Please save the date for this young adult retreat on the mental health impacts of climate change, hosted by Waterspirit’s Executive Director. This retreat will take place in Washington state. Please contact us for more information.
We’re partnering with The BTS Center and The Many – a songwriting advocate for the Earth – to offer a yearlong cycle of music, liturgy, art, and scripture, and presence. Lament with Earth is a five-part series of interactive virtual events inviting you to pray and sing along.
Bring your emotions, in all their complexities and intricacies. Together, we’ll share the grief, and we’ll share the balm, too.
Learn more and register.
Please register for Waterspirit’s Summer Solstice Celebration!
We will welcome the summer with music, poetry, reflection, and family-friendly fun. Special guests will be announced as the solstice approaches. This in-person ceremony will also be live-streamed on Waterspirit’s YouTube channel. To register click the title or image above.
Waterspirit will be joining forces with our friends from Save Coastal Wildlife to protect our precious water by doing some beach clean-ups. Please join us. Together we can make a difference. Registration will be required. For now just save the date!
Please bring gloves. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Please wear boots or old shoes that can get muddy. We need lots of people to help remove lots of trash!
Park at Sandy Hook Parking Lot C. Note that the Google maps link will take you - incorrectly - to Parking Lot D. (That is the closest address we have.)
Our Waterspirit community will choose our August book in May, but we hope you save the date on your calendar today! More details to follow in late May.
We won’t know our November book title until the fall, but you can still mark your calendar! More details to follow in early September.
Please join us for this co-sponsored webinar on occasion of the seventieth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Women face disproportionate impacts from extractive industries that engage in an array of human rights abuses that can rise to the level of international crimes, including genocide and ecocide. Corporations, working alongside and on behalf of States, often operate with impunity, leaving individuals and communities without redress. Accessing justice requires creating and upholding systems that support the intertwined issues of peacebuilding and environmental protection while ensuring effective, adequate, and timely remedy for victims. In this virtual parallel event, speakers will highlight cases in the United States, Palestine, West Papua, and Myanmar, and actions taken towards justice and accountability.
Join your fellow water protectors at this community-building fundraiser. This special event will include delicious food, an exciting silent auction, and stunning ocean views. Joys of the Sea will feature remarks from the 2026 Suzanne Golas Spirit of Water Award winners: Dr. Patricia Shanley, Ridgeview Conservancy and Captain Robert Killian, NJ Clearwater and Aquarian Quest, Inc.
*Please note: ticket sales for this event ended on February 27. Please email us with any questions or concerns.
Save Coastal Wildlife and has been recruiting and training volunteers to monitor these seasonal populations. Our own Scott Carlin has been trained as a volunteer. He is inviting the public to join him at Sandy Hook to see the seals in person. We will watch the seals and record data to report. While we are there, we will discuss all of the wildlife around us. Click the title or photo above for additional details, including our registration link.
Organizations and leaders who are part of the New Jersey Green Amendment Coalition will be hosting a virtual press conference to share their messages on the continued importance of securing constitutional environmental rights for all New Jerseyans, particularly in an era of federal environmental rollbacks.
Waterspirit is -of course-one of them and we will be sharing our voiced support as well. Join us and share this media advisory with the press in your network!
Save Coastal Wildlife and has been recruiting and training volunteers to monitor these seasonal populations. Our own Scott Carlin has been trained as a volunteer. He is inviting the public to join him at Sandy Hook to see the seals in person. We will watch the seals and record data to report. While we are there, we will discuss all of the wildlife around us. Click the title or photo above for additional details, including our registration link.
Please join us at the Monmouth County Faith & Ecology Meetup. This is a quarterly interfaith gathering for people working on environmental issues in our county.
Let's meet each other and learn what we are working on in our faith communities! What issues are inspiring us? What challenges are we facing? How can we create a faith-fueled network of Earth care where we live?
Let's build solidarity and community resilience together at this gathering.
Please join Waterspirit’s Exploring Spirituality, Nature, and Action Book Club as we discuss Betsy Damon’s Water Talks. In Water Talks, Betsy Damon seeks to educate and empower communities to reclaim their waters. Part of the books power is that it roots the science of water as the center of all life. The focus here is on citizen science - empowering all of us to map and understand our own watersheds and to connect the varied ways that water is central to our social, economical and physical wellbeing. “For 35 years, Damon has committed herself as an artist, a community organizer, a designer and an educator of water in all its complexity. She has partnered with scientists, Indigenous leaders, government and corporate authorities, artists and citizens alike, weaving together the strengths of all into a powerful and collaborative force.”
Pick up your copy and start reading today! Zoom link will be emailed upon registration.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Due to the Feb 15-16 snowfall, today’s event is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause - but we want to be cautious for everyone’s safety. It is a wet, slippery snow this morning.
Save Coastal Wildlife and has been recruiting and training volunteers to monitor these seasonal populations. Our own Scott Carlin has been trained as a volunteer. Hugh Carola, Hackensack Riverkeeper, is also joining us. They are inviting the public to join them at Sandy Hook to see the seals in person. We will watch the seals and record data to report. While we are there, we will discuss all of the wildlife around us. Click the title or photo above for additional details, including our registration link.
Read our latest news post for updates. Your voice, your presence, and your informed participation in our civic procedures are more vital than ever. We invite you to join the next PVSC Board Meeting:
Date: Thursday February 12, 2026
Time: 12:00PM ET
Via Zoom: Register Here
The PVSC board meetings are a key forum where decisions are made and through which the community can directly communicate with the Commission. Join us and participate directly with PVSC, taking up the chance to understand the current status of these issues and make your presence felt. Even if you do not speak, your attendance continues to demonstrate NJ residents’ unwavering commitment and keen interest in oversight and accountability.
We’re partnering with The BTS Center and The Many – a songwriting advocate for the Earth – to offer a yearlong cycle of music, liturgy, art, and scripture, and presence. Lament with Earth is a five-part series of interactive virtual events inviting you to pray and sing along.
Bring your emotions, in all their complexities and intricacies. Together, we’ll share the grief, and we’ll share the balm, too.
Learn more and register.
Sorry, but this event is cancelled, due to Saturday’s weather forecast.
Save Coastal Wildlife and has been recruiting and training volunteers to monitor these seasonal populations. Our own Scott Carlin has been trained as a volunteer. Hugh Carola, Hackensack Riverkeeper, is also joining us. They are inviting the public to join them at Sandy Hook to see the seals in person. We will watch the seals and record data to report. While we are there, we will discuss all of the wildlife around us. Click the title or photo above for additional details, including our registration link.
Please save the date for this informational meeting that will outline what this 10-week support group entails, explain the course’s suggested donation, and answer any questions you might have prior to committing. The group will meet on Zoom from 2/5-4/9 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. ET. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER.
Climate change, super storms, rising sea levels, large-scale pollution—do these problems seem large, looming, intractable? If you’re feeling vulnerable, dis-empowered, or burnt-out, you’re not alone: eco-anxiety, climate grief, and other climate feelings are shared by many people who are paying attention to the climate crisis. Addressing these heavy feelings in community can be a way of generating the personal resilience needed to cope with an uncertain future.
Waterspirit hosts eco-anxiety peer support groups using the Good Grief Network’s “10 Steps to Personal Resilience and Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate” method. Please join us for this informational session that will introduce the group's methodology, giving you an opportunity to meet the facilitators and ask any questions prior to committing to the 10 weeks.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Waterspirit is excited to host another workshop at the Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education’s annual Winter Conference.
Join Waterspirit’s Program Manager Scott Carlin for a session titled “The Intimacy of Climate Science: Learning to Interbe” during the January 15th 9:45-11:00am workshop block. Learn more and register at: https://www.anjee.org .
Celebrate Winter Solstice with Waterspirit and friends as we commemorate the deeper meaning of the winter season with reflections, contemplation, music, and gentle movement. The winter solstice marks NJ’s shortest day and longest night of the year. Join us after the celebration for refreshments and fellowship. This event is also live-streamed to our YouTube channel.
The recent United Nations climate change conference in Brazil, COP30, was a beacon of hope and uncertainty. Global civil society showed up in force inside negotiating rooms, in interreligious dialogues, and during the new Global Ethical Stocktake, to demand real climate action and a revolution of consciousness. Join Waterspirit’s Blair Nelsen to get a glimpse into whether COP30 lived up to its promise, what frontline communities at COP30 were calling for, and next steps we can take for a livable, fossil free future.
Email us for the Zoom link.
New Jersey is vying for a constitutional Green Amendment - what would that really mean for our communities, our health, our watersheds?
Join us in Newark for an open town hall to learn more, get your questions answered, and discuss how a Green Amendment could strengthen environmental protections across NJ. This is your chance to be part of the conversation that could shape NJ’s environmental future. Please register beforehand: water@waterspirit.org
For several years, Waterspirit’s Public Policy & Justice Organizer has been active and leading committees focusing on all things water through the Jersey Water Works Collaborative. This year at the annual conference, she will be moderating 2 panels, one focused on water affordability and water quality. Partaking in cross-industry conversations leading up to the event, we are looking forward to how the discussion takes shape and action follows. Join us!
We’re partnering with The BTS Center and The Many – a songwriting advocate for the Earth – to offer a yearlong cycle of music, liturgy, art, and scripture, and presence. Lament with Earth is a five-part series of interactive virtual events inviting you to pray and sing along.
Bring your emotions, in all their complexities and intricacies. Together, we’ll share the grief, and we’ll share the balm, too.
Learn more and register.
We look forward to hearing from our Executive Director, as she shares a recap from her time spent in Belém, Brazil for COP30.
If you would like to be included in this virtual update, please email Waterspirit’s team: water@waterspirit.org
The Waterspirit Team has a reverence for water. We make a commitment to preserve and protect this source and sustainer of life. On the day after Thanksgiving, rather than shopping, we go to a local park to reflect on the beauty of nature. Freneau Woods Park is comprised of dense woods, open fields with majestic trees, Lake Lefferts and freshwater ponds. This year’s walk includes a forest bath, lead by Jenna Reynolds, President of Save Coastal Wildlife. We will enjoy a water ceremony before hiking back to the parking area. The terrain is a mix of flat trails and rolling hills. Note that Freneau's trails are often muddy following wet weather. Dress for the weather. November can bring varied temperatures. While this is a free event, we suggest making a $20 donation to support Waterspirit's eco-spiritual programs and advocacy. This event is co-sponsored by Save Coastal Wildlife.
Please join Waterspirit’s Exploring Spirituality, Nature, and Action Book Club as we discuss Robert Macfarlane’s book, Is A River Alive? This book is a joyous exploration into an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. Powered by Macfarlane’s dazzling prose and lit throughout by other voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers—and always has.
Pick up your copy and start reading today! Zoom link will be emailed upon registration.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
Waterspirit has been educating communities about the prospective strength of enshrining the NJ State Constitution with the rights to clean air, pure water, a stable climate and healthy environment for current and future generations.
Since the State Assembly has yet to hold a hearing on the proposed New Jersey Green Amendment, we’re creating space for the voices that matter most…yours.
Join us for the People’s Hearing, a public forum where residents can share their stories, concerns, and hopes for a cleaner, healthier, and more just environment. REGISTER HERE
Whether you’ve felt the impacts of pollution, cherish a local park or waterway, or simply believe every New Jerseyan deserves the right to clean air and water, this is your chance to speak up and be heard.
Share your connection to the environment and why you support the Green Amendment.
Together, we can show that protecting our natural resources is not just policy, but a shared value. Hosted by the Pinelands Alliance and Green Amendments for the Generations, this event is designed for you to share your voice. After a short welcome from Maya van Rossum, the microphone is yours.
If you plan to share a comment, please email Stephen atstephen@pinelandsalliance.org so we can plan our time accordingly. Thank you!
Waterspirit’s Executive Director, Blair Nelsen, will be presenting at this symposium.
In Mojave poet Natalie Diaz’s words, “The Colorado River is the most endangered river in the United States—also, it is a part of my body. / I carry a river. It is who I am: ‘Aha Makav. This is not metaphor.” This symposium is provoked by Diaz’s poem, “The First Water is the Body,” and convenes scholars, activists, artists, and spiritual practitioners diversely committed to the vitality of water and waterspaces. Amidst water crisis, we seek to share cosmovisions, bodies of knowledge, modes of communication that emerge from deep attention to water. In our interlocking articulations of water cosmologies, water crisis, and water power, we aim to open new paths of insight and collaboration toward collective healing.
Free and open to the public.
This symposium is sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Sam King of the Journey of the Universe project will interview Blair Nelsen, the Executive Director of Waterspirit, on the next episode of the Mepkin Abbey Forum for Contemplative Ecology. Please join us on Zoom for this free event that explores nature-based contemplation, activism, and how we can be better caretakers of water in the places we call home. Email us to receive the Zoom link.
We know water is sacred; let’s treat the water we live near to a visit!
We’re partnering with The BTS Center and The Many – a songwriting advocate for the Earth – to offer a yearlong cycle of music, liturgy, art, and scripture, and presence. Lament with Earth is a five-part series of interactive virtual events inviting you to pray and sing along.
Bring your emotions, in all their complexities and intricacies. Together, we’ll share the grief, and we’ll share the balm, too.
Learn more and register.
Join Waterspirit and Yoga Instructor, Angel Tener, for Gentle New Moon Flow Yoga. Both beginner and experienced participants will enjoy this class as we develop energy and balance. Flow through poses to promote strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Connect with nature and with your inner self as Angel guides us through breathing and mindful movements.
Cost: $5 per participant.
The final session in this series will be held on November 18.
