Ceremony
Group ceremonies provide a safe, intentional space to work with plant teachers with the support of advanced practitioners trained in traditional lineages and educated in contemporary trauma-informed therapeutic modalities. Our offerings are inspired by our personal experience of the transformation that is possible when we cultivate expanded states of consciousness in a crystalline group container.
Our mission is to support transformation in a way that honours our plant teachers, attunes to the needs of our time and place, and liberates us from inherited dogmas. Recognizing the diverse needs of a modern population, our rituals celebrate the universal wisdom of the heart. Centered in vows of compassion and self-care, initiatory encounters are woven into a matrix of somatic, arts-based and ecotherapeutic practices for integration. In the loving arms of community, we cultivate resilience, courage and clarity.
Our sanctuary is committed to decolonial, anti-racist, and queer solidarity. We warmly welcome non-binary and gender-expansive folks, and all people of Indigenous, BIPOC, and global ethnic backgrounds.
1:1 preparatory and integrative support provided.
The Location
Our sanctuary on Salt Spring Island faces the Salish Sea and is surrounded by a mature forest of cedars, maples, firs and hemlocks. A short walk down the enchanting creek trail leads to a beach that is home to herons, eagles and otters.
Increasing scientific evidence attests to the importance of set and setting, and our experience corroborates this. To sit with plant teachers in a place that is vibrant with the healing forces of nature is to align with ancestral wisdom, and discover possibilities for transformation that are harder to access in clinical environments.
We center our practice in gratitude to the spirits of this land.
A deep bow of respect and gratitude to the teachers who have shared their traditions with us and continue to guide us.