SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY BOOK CLUB
A monthly online reading club exploring ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Next Session:
Sunday 2nd August - Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta
(please note we’ve shifted the date one week later to account for a shorter month)
Location: Online via Zoom
Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm BST
Price: £8 per session
Each month we read a book announced in my monthly newsletter. On the final Sunday of the month, we gather online in a facilitated, intimate space to contemplate the stories, ideas and the wider work of spiritual ecology. I offer guided discussion prompts and other practices to support engaging and meaningful conversations.
Everyone is welcome to join. All levels of knowledge and experience are valued, and you don’t have to finish the book to come along to the discussion!
You can also follow The Mustard Seed on Instagram and Substack notes, where I share ongoing reflections throughout the month.
*contact me at amritakaur@bhohi.co.uk if price is a barrier
2026 Meeting Dates
2026 -27 Reading Schedule below
JULY BOOK OF THE MONTH
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By Tyson Yunkaporta
“We must move from despair to deep reflection”
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
The book club is inspired by the call that at this moment of profound planetary crisis, we must respond by going deeper. Taking the time to think and reflect consciously and in community on our relationship with the living world — outer physical as well as inner spiritual— is an important part of this work of regeneration.
This monthly space offers the opportunity to read (or listen), and be led by the stories and teachings of a diverse collection of indigenous and non-indigenous writers, thinkers and activists, both established and emerging, who are leading the way in the global movement of spiritual, ecological and cultural renewal.
Authors include ecologists, scientists, nature writers, storytellers, psychologists, climate activists and more. The books cover a range of themes from grief to the rights of rivers, decolonising storytelling, and gift economies — but all of them contain transformative power, taking us on journeys that provoke, inspire, educate, and ultimately move us to experience ourselves and the living world in new ways.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Whether you’ve finished reading the book or only partway through, you are welcome to join the discussion!
Sessions are informal, lightly facilitated, and designed to offer depth, contemplation and dialogue:
Reflections on the month’s text, its core themes, and the wider work of spiritual ecology
Space for discussion and contemplation with curated discussion prompts
An intimate and thoughtful group atmosphere
No academic expertise required
“Joining Amrita’s book club was the one of the highlights of 2025”
READING SCHEDULE 2026
Jan: How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World
by Rob Hopkins
Feb: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for Planetary Intelligence
by James Bridle
Mar-Apr
- Intermission -
May: Eyes of the Wild: Journeys of Transformation with the Animal Powers
by Eleanor O’Hanlon
Jun: Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Ground-Breaking Scientific Discoveries & Personal Encounters with Plants
by Monica Galgliano
Jul: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
by Tyson Yunkaporta
Aug: The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
by Martin Prechtel
Sep: World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal by Joanna Macy
Oct: The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry
Nov: Animate Earth: Science, Intuition, and Gaia by Stephan Harding
Dec: No Meeting
Past Reading List - 2025