earth is our mother
Bhakti (Sanskrit: भक्ति) refers to a profound sense of fondness, homage, love, and worship. It denotes the deep devotion and love that a devotee has for a divine being. We are revering our Mother Earth for the divine being that She is through art, song, and environmental gatherings.
Welcome to Earth Bhakti Where We Connect With Reverence to the Being of our Planet through Art and Sound.
Earth Bhakti is a Planetary Service Project by bhakta artist Anja in New Mexico, devoted to honoring and caring for our living planet. Rooted in Seva (selfless service), it weaves ceremony, art, song, and sound into acts of communion with nature. Through Ancestral, Sun, and Moon Circles, it nurtures community, honors ancient wisdom, and celebrates Earth’s cycles—a union of devotion, creativity, and ecological care.
About the Land Art
OPEN AIR, SUN-SWEPT EARTH ALTARS
In creating the Earth Bhakti land altars and shrines, the artist organically draws on animistic traditions, incorporating ceremonies, rituals, healing methods, and practices into the Western context while honoring their origins. Her practice draws from direct lineage transmissions, guidance from ancestral and spiritual mentors, dreams, transformative life events, and a profound connection with nature.
Land Altars are created out of natural local materials from the earth that returns to the earth. Clay, mud, straw, rock, water, wood, etc. Earth Bhakti acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands where we gather, showing respect to elders both past and present, as well as emerging leaders, across all the locations of our land art altar projects.
“All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilling. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.”
OFFERINGS
THE ARTIST
Telluric artist Anja Marais integrates visual art, Bhakti devotion, and metaphysical facilitation to create transformative land art installations that reconnect people with nature and ancestral wisdom.