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
Join Waterspirit’s facilitated conversation with Rachel Dawn Davis and Scott Carlin. Keyport and neighboring communities are rightfully concerned about the local cluster of cancer cases. Residents are processing a range of emotions. Click here for more details and to register.
Are you feeling the weight of today’s environmental challenges and conflicts in our world? You are not alone.
Young adults (ages 18–35) are invited to join Waterspirit and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace for a free virtual retreat: Healing with Earth: Climate Change, Conflict, and Mental Health.
This is a faith-filled space to acknowledge climate anxiety, grief, or uncertainty about the future. Together, we’ll find solidarity in community and discover how hope and action can grow from concern.
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED***
Alternatively if August 20th presents extreme weather warranting us to cancel, we will gather instead on August 27th.
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 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 Sundays from 9/27-11/29 from 7:00-9:00 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.
Our Waterspirit community will meet to discuss Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees by Beth Norcross & Leah Rampy.
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
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 Sundays from 9/27-11/29 from 7:00-9:00 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.
This Season of Creation retreat will explore our relationship with water through creative writing, ritual, and deep reflection. We will also explore what threatens water while recommitting ourselves to water-protecting actions in our local communities.
Hosted by Waterspirit’s Executive Director, Blair Nelsen.
Join Waterspirit on Tuesday, September 22 as we welcome autumn. Intentionally connecting with the cycles of nature is an eco-spiritual practice that helps us regulate our inner lives and strengthen our connection with the planet. Friends of all ages will gather for this meaningful event celebrated with poetry, movement, contemplation, and music. This long-standing, signature program is inclusive of all faith traditions, inviting attendees into deeper connection with the meaning of autumn.
Fall is the season for all senses. The feel of cooler temperatures after a long summer. The sight of forests filled with reds, oranges and browns. The sound of crunching leaves underfoot. The smell of cinnamon and apples. The taste of pumpkin spice in everything. Welcome Autumn! There are two ways to join the celebration: in-person at Waterspirit (4 E. River Rd., Rumson, NJ) or virtually on Waterspirit's YouTube Channel.
*Please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the food pantry. Thank you!
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
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.
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.
Now in its 19th year, City of Water Day — taking place this year on Saturday, July 25 — is a region-wide day organized by Waterfront Alliance and New York–New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP), to champion a climate-resilient New York and New Jersey harbor. Join Waterspirit, Save Coastal Wildlife and the Northern Monmouth Watershed Alliance as we celebrate and honor sacred water in Monmouth County!
Join Waterspirit’s facilitated conversation with Rachel Dawn Davis and Scott Carlin. Keyport and neighboring communities are rightfully concerned about the local cluster of cancer cases. Residents are processing a range of emotions. Click here for more details and to register.
The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA) is offering a two-day, two-hour training experience. Join us on Wed–Thu, July 22–23, 4–6pm ET, for a full Climate Café experience, facilitator training, materials for you to launch your own Climate Café, and support for new facilitators.
Use the code FIVEOFF to get $5 off when you register here:
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
The side event, organized by the Grassroots Subcommittee of the NGO Committee for Social Development and the NGO Mining Working Group, will focus on community-level water projects. It will bring the voices of people from the grassroots to the HLPF and show how local groups have been able to improve access to clean water, address water scarcity and/or access to sanitation and hygiene. Based on the results of a widely-circulated survey, this side event will show how grassroots initiatives across the five continents are contributing to the implementation of SDG 6 and the human right to water. Speakers will include people from the grassroots and grassroots videos showing selected WASH projects in Asia, Africa and South America. Waterspirit will be one of the highlighted organizations.
*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING.***
Stay tuned for a new date!
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 and our friends at NJ Sierra Club and NJ League of Conservation Voters for a training on how to educate your municipal leaders and pass a clean energy resolution at the local level. This training is designed to prepare you to speak on critical talking points and address what to expect when approaching municipal officials with a draft resolution.
Our sacred Ocean is under threat. As a result of warming ocean waters, we are witnessing intensifying hurricanes and storms that harm marine creatures and our beloved communities, especially our coastal neighbors. Deep sea mining companies are proposing new projects with unknown consequences on marine life and the surrounding communities. Earlier this month the Administration signed proclamations rolling back the remaining three national marine monuments in the Pacific - Papahānaumokuākea, the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument (American Samoa). We grieve these actions and call for a better path forward.
June is Ocean Month. Join us in listening to voices from communities affected by these threats and learn why a healthy ocean is vital to the well being of our planet. We will identify current threats to ocean life and discover why taking action matters.
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 is required.
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.)
Please register for Waterspirit’s Summer Solstice Celebration!
We will welcome the summer with music, poetry, reflection, and family-friendly fun. Special guest Sam Tunkel will join us; Sam is a prolific singer-songwriter based in Central New Jersey. Angel Tener will lead through a short sequence of relaxing and gentle yoga stretches. This in-person ceremony will also be live-streamed on Waterspirit’s YouTube channel. To register click the title or image above.
Waterspirit actively promotes education and outreach efforts about renewable energy that uses far less water than extractive, emitting, deadly fossil fuel. As such we are interested in learning and keeping our community members informed as the tides shift and policies change.
Join us as we dive in together on Global Wind Day for an engaging educational webinar that breaks down where offshore wind stands in New Jersey today, what’s next, and why it matters for our economy, environment, and affordable energy future. REGISTER HERE
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. This will be a warm evening; please bring a small towel to keep you and your mat dry!
Waterspirit’s Walk for Water will take place on Saturday June 13, 2026 from 9am - 11am.
Globally, the average distance a person has to travel to get potable water is 3.5 miles. Join us as we walk up to 3.5 miles to raise awareness about the importance of access to the sacred, life-giving element of water.
We will walk starting a 9am at Hartshorne Park's Battery Loop (near 1402 Portland Rd. Highlands, NJ 07732). We will meet in the parking lot area with bagels and coffee and then walk 2 loops. Join Waterspirit for the full 3.5 miles (2 loops) walk or come join for as long as you can! Each loop should take about 45 minutes.
Can't join Waterspirit on June 13? Sign up and walk on your own or create your own team of walkers and walk ANYWHERE and ANYTIME for water.
Set your goal, share your progress with your friends & family, and celebrate the spring by getting outside for a good cause! Your team of supporters can use your special link to donate as you walk. Don't forget to tag #WaterspiritWalkForWater when you share this event on social media!
All proceeds from the Walk for Water will benefit Waterspirit. Thank you for supporting our eco-spiritual programming and clean water advocacy by participating in this fundraiser.
Rain Date: June 14
Register here: Waterspirit's Walk for Water 2026
Email water@waterspirit.org with questions.
Climate change and other environmental issues, such as pollution and resource extraction, are among the many drivers of cross border and internal migration. Those same issues present serious hazards to people on the move, in other words, people in the process of migrating. Migrants then, when they reach a destination, frequently have no option but to settle in environmentally compromised locations that pose risks to their health and well-being. Once settled they find employment in jobs at risk of exposure to extreme temperatures, pesticides, and other hazards. Immigration is a critical issue at the present time but this aspect of it is not widely recognized. Please join us for this webinar that will draw attention to environmental conditions that are drivers of migration and the serious risks they present to migrants.
Please join us for Prayerful Reimagining, a celebration of World Ocean Day 2026. Through prayer, meditation, and reflection, we will remember our profound belonging to the living ocean and renew our sacred relationship with the waters that sustain all life.
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.
Are you feeling the weight of today’s environmental challenges? You are not alone.
Young adults are invited to participate in a free retreat day with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace that integrates faith, mental health, and environmental awareness.
Join the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and Waterspirit for a free retreat day designed especially for young adults. The day which will integrates faith, mental health, and environmental awareness includes Eucharistic Adoration (optional at 9 am), Mass, and lunch with the Sisters.
Is art a luxury in an era of polycrisis? If not, then what is the responsibility of the artist? The audience?
Join renowned artists Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (poet), Madeleine Jubilee Saito (cartoonist), and Aly Halpert (musician) for an evening of art, resistance, and courageous love.
Wednesday, May 20 | 7pm – 8:30pm ET | Online | $20.
Friends of Waterspirit can take $5 off when you register with the code 5OFF!
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.
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.”
Are you feeling the weight of today’s environmental challenges? You are not alone.
Young adults are invited to participate in a free retreat day with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace that integrates faith, mental health, and environmental awareness.
Join the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and Waterspirit for a free retreat day designed especially for young adults. The day which will integrates faith, mental health, and environmental awareness includes Eucharistic Adoration (optional at 9 am), Mass, and lunch with the Sisters.
Join Waterspirit’s online facilitated, small-group conversation and explore how we can all channel climate related emotions into a wide range of self-affirming actions. There are no wrong answers. This isn’t a forum for debate but instead a place to respectfully and compassionately listen to own another. Click above for more information and to register.
Join Waterspirit’s Earth Day Beach Cleanup on May 1 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.
Join Waterspirit’s Earth Day Beach Cleanup on April 25 and help us protect the sacred waters. Click here to learn more and register.
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 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 proud to co-sponsor this statewide organizing focused event filled with relevant and tangible trainings to learn more about professional organizing. Waterspirit’s volunteers have learned civics and community engagement from being a part of our campaigns over the years.
No matter how seasoned the activist or advocate, is always good to refine skills, learn new ones, and meet more advocacy focused people of all ages. Join us! Lunch is included and FREE but registration is required.
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. (Video will appear at 7 p.m.)
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.
