Welcome to Emergence Magazine Summer of Practice, a special series of guided audio practices.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this podcast, an executive editor of Emergence magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people in present-day Marin County.

This summer, we're sharing a series of audio practices, each inviting you into an experience

of Earth time.

It's a chance to reflect on how we conceptualize time, to free ourselves a little from the grip

the linear has on our everyday lives,

and explore how, through very simple practices,

we can begin to imagine and embody a different kind of time

and is a little more attuned to the pulse of the living world.

For me, one of the simplest practices we can do to shift our sense of time is through walking.

It's something that allows us to be both physical and deeply contemplative, bringing our inner and outer worlds together.

And so, today's invitation is called Walking Out of Time,

designed to align your bodily rhythms with those of the landscape around you.

Our bodies are finely tuned for walking and traveling at our most natural pace,

we can begin to form relationships with what surrounds us,

our bodies synchronizing with the living world.

No matter where we walk, a bustling street or a secluded woodland,

the steady rhythm of feet finding ground can open us to a simultaneous experience

of deep inwardness and profound outer attentiveness.

Receptive to the present moment, we can step into the expanse of the timeless.

The audio for this practice runs for about 15 minutes, including my guidance through each step,

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