A Praise Dance for This Embodiment

About the Book

More poetry by Chris Hoffman Son of the Earth Prepare yourself for a soul journey into Nature’s heart and your own, from a masterful contemporary poet. – Francesca Ciancimino Howell, PhD, Food, Festival and Religion On the Way I live in a demanding noisy world but suddenly found myself stopping and closing my eyes and going beyond the words to the truth that lies behind them. — John Brierley, Camino Guides: Practical and Mystical Manuals for the Modern-Day Pilgrim Realization Point A rich volume of poetry about life’s flourishing. — Roshi Joan Halifax I especially enjoy the tone of the poems, the union of Chris Hoffman’s voice with the details and individual lives of his surroundings. — Pattiann Rogers, multiprizewinning poet Cairns Every page of Cairns conveys the sacral, as revealed by the indwelling spirit of deserts, glacial fjords, kittiwakes, bald eagles, bears, and pine forests. — Reg Saner, poet and essayist, winner of the Colorado Book Award I take this book on the road with me, read the poems around sunrise and sunset, and feel both comforted and refreshed as I wander into wild places. — Stephen R. Jones, The Last Prairie and The Peterson Field Guide to the North American Prairie

About the Author

Chris Hoffman is an ecopsychologist, poet, and climate justice advocate with a background in organization development (applied group psychology) and counseling. Chris’s poetry has appeared in his four previous books: Cairns, Realization Point, On the Way, and Son of the Earth, and in national publications including Appalachia, The Christian Science Monitor, The Climbing Art, Sea Kayaker, Spiritus, Sufi Journal, and Chrysalis Reader, as well as in the anthologies The Soul Unearthed, EarthLight: Spiritual Wisdom for an Ecological Age, and So Many Voices. He enjoys performing his poetry both solo and in collaboration with musicians and dancers. Chris is also the author of The Hoop and the Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life (ecopsychology/spirituality), now in its twentieth-anniversary edition, revised and expanded. As an organization development consultant and licensed professional counselor, Chris has worked in a variety of clinical and organizational settings, including consulting with a Fortune 500 energy company (from union level to executive), counseling at mental health agencies, and teaching ecopsychology at Naropa University. He holds a BA from Yale University, a master’s degree from Northeastern University, and an MBA from University of Colorado. Now retired, Chris currently devotes most of his time to writing and to volunteer work for social justice and a livable climate. Chris is a longtime practitioner of Zen and T’ai Chi and has studied traditional psychospiritual healing methods and sacred dance. His wilderness experience includes backpacking, mountaineering, sea kayaking, and river running. He and his wife live in Boulder, Colorado. They have a son, daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter. Website: www.hoopandtree.org