Elemental Journeys

26/01/2025

What makes you feel grounded, settled, and held? 🌲🤗

For me, it’s often been in the embrace of a tree. Whether I’m feeling sad, confused, or just want to offer gratitude and take a rest, I can always count on the spirits of the forest to meet me exactly where I’m at.

Here pictured was a beautiful moment during our sit spot practice in the context of our Purpose & Play weekend. Perhaps a reminder - or an invitation - for you to renew your relationship with a cedar, fir, hemlock, pine, oak, maple, or whatever "being" calls out to you on your next wander.

For group custom adventures, or extra 1-on-1 support, book a nature connection session today! Follow for upcoming events and more 🦊

11/01/2025

Double the trouble 🎯 🏹

10/01/2025

Feral folx 🐺 🐻 🐰 spent the day with the soul fam processing some hides, inviting in spirits of the forest 💗

08/01/2025

Grateful to have participated in this program with Experience Howl in Alberta this past fall. What a gift to learn from indigenous leaders and elders! My favorite was learning how to process elk meat (smoke and dry) and learning how to bead. I look forward to more! Awooooo 🐺

04/01/2025

The future is now! Started 2025 with some quality solo time, nature connection, and adventure. Everything is so quiet in winter... I almost had this place all to myself! What a treat 🔥❄️🏕️

23/12/2024

Inside & Out ❄️🛖🔥 More Photos from Our Weekend Getaway "Purpose & Play" ☝️

It was deeply fulfilling to bring light, love, and joy to Piq Kilawna—a place sacred to the Sinixt—especially when considering its dark history of logging, mining, and resource extraction dating back to the late 1800s. Despite this, Piq Kilawna remains a place of profound significance, yet it still faces the threat of further development, with the proposed Zincton resort and the ongoing expansion of the Retallack Ski Lodge terrain. Boo👎 (why can't we just keep things simple with small off-grid cabins!?)

Throughout the weekend, we spoke about our responsibility and relationship to nature. How can we recreate consciously? How can we minimize our impact? How can we protect forests and heal the land? This, of course, led to deeper conversations around purpose and our role within the community.

Furthermore... Can play be purposeful? Can it stimulate our imagination and provide creative solutions to the toughest problems? Can we have fun and use humor as motivation to strive toward our goals? Something much needed in this era of climate change and rampant eco-anxiety.

And beyond that... How can we thrive as a group? How can we create a space where we can connect while still allowing time for self-care, silence, and reflection? How do we ensure everyone feels heard, while moving forward with focus and cohesion? It's a tough task as a leader to "hold things loosely" while "keeping it all together."

As always, it's a fun experiment to juggle my initial vision, intention, and schedule with what each participant brings— their hopes, dreams, and personality—along with what might arise in the moment as an opportunistic synchronicity.

I have nothing but gratitude and joy as I revisit the highlights of the weekend, including:

❤️Our non-verbal mornings and starting the day with Vipassana meditation
🧡Having everyone participate in a mega capture-the-flag snowball game... BUCKET LIST CHECK!
💛Feeding the woodstove and sweating in the sauna... it got toasty.
💚The highly (friendly) competitive game of salad bowl charades that ended in a tie (lol)
💙Sitting in silence with the old growth forest and connecting to its wisdom
💜Our authentic relating dyads and group shares around individual purpose/gifts
❤️Building a FORT! which later served as our bonfire celebration under the full moonlight
🧡The sun that peeked out on the last morning as a final hooray. I guess that's why they call it the Eastern Sun Sanctuary ;)
💛All the impromptu cuddle puddles, dance parties, deep conversations, and informal massage trades
💚The amazing food we shared—who knew oats could be enjoyable? Maybe it was all those extra toppings!
💙And many more memories...

Can't wait until next time!🦊

16/12/2024

Blissed out from our Purpose & Play weekend at the Eastern Sun Sanctuary with Elemental Journeys 💕 deep conversations, laughter, games, and beautiful people made this experience unforgettable (everyone here + Eli who was present but left early). More reflections and photos to come 🦊✌🏼

11/12/2024

That magical moment where a coal turns to flame ❤️🔥🏹 thanks Joelle Burnie for capturing this moment at our latest Neighbours United team building event! Bow drill fire holds so much wisdom in how to bring dreams/intention into reality. This was an exciting challenge where preparation meets opportunity... And where we were able to yield success even on a cold, wet, snowy day! ❄️

10/12/2024

And just like that... Purpose & Play - 2nd Annual Winter Getaway is SOLD OUT. Happy times ahead! Can't wait to get goofy and play in the snow with y'all

05/12/2024

2 spots left! Join us [ December 13-15th ] for a soothing weekend in the heart of Piq Kilawna at the Eastern Sun Sanctuary.

Looking forward to some forest bathing, nature therapy, games in the snow, as well as cozy times inside by the fire stretching, journaling, sharing food, laughing and dancing!☃️⛰️❄️

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29/11/2024

This makes my heart sing 💓 thanks for the testimony Tua. Always a pleasure to hear how people experience the workshops I offer to community... The occasion was especially ripe at the Kootenay Yoga Festival this year🤸🏼

The universe has wild and wonderful ways of bringing you exactly what you need, in the moments that you need it most.