Our Wellness and Liberation helps people who care about animals deepen their wellness practices. It also guides those already deepening their wellness practices to care about animals:
People who care about animals may rescue, rehabilitate, advocate for, or shelter animals; they may protect urban, rural, or wild habitat, ecosystems, land, air, or water where animals reside. People have a variety of ways that they help nonhuman animals, and we encourage all who care about animals to join. We welcome everybody regardless of your dietary practices.
Wellness practices include religious, spiritual, or secular practices that cultivate spiritual, physical, emotional, psychological, social, or other types of health. This could include prayer, socializing, eating healthy, spending time outside, meditating, moving your body, or many other activities.
What we do: We come together as a community to deepen our self-understanding, develop our skills in being compassionate toward ourselves and others, and to cultivate our love for all living beings and all life.
Our religious/spiritual beliefs and practices: We are open to people of any or no religion, secular and spiritual people, atheists and unaffiliated people, and everybody else, too. Many of our activities include meditation, but we take a nonsectarian approach; we welcome people regardless of meditation experience.
As we cultivate compassion, love, patience, and equanimity within our community, we recognize that our unskillful behaviors (behaviors that cause harm to self or others) may unintentionally hurt fellow human animals, too. This may include people who are involved in industries that use animals, people we do outreach to, or fellow advocates. We strive to learn and grow from unskillful behaviors, and develop the best in each of us. We will cultivate understanding and change within our community. We stand in solidarity with movements for compassion for all humans, including people of different races, genders, dis/abilities, sexual orientations, and more.
To see events we are hosting, please go to the events page.
We have a Facebook group for OWL as well, where we list events and share with our community.
If you’d like to join our email list, email Unny and ask to be added.
About OWL’s Name
We chose the name Our Wellness and Liberation (OWL) for various reasons. Owls traditionally represent wisdom. Our acronym, OWL, represents the wisdom that we hope this group will help animal advocates cultivate and embody so we may live with more ease, purpose, and vitality. "Wellness" shows our desire to develop physical, spiritual, emotional, and social wellness within ourselves and our community. "Liberation" represents the freedom and wellbeing we seek for all human and nonhuman animals. "Our" emphasizes our desire to undertake this journey as a community, where we support each other along the way.