The Offering
Forest Medicine Circle provides an intentional space to sit with with plant teachers in a ceremonial context. Our sanctuary is committed to decolonial, anti-racist, and queer solidarity. We welcome non-binary and gender-expansive folks, and all people of Indigenous, BIPOC, and global ethnic backgrounds.
This is a path of awakening, in service to a vision of mutual flourishing. As we engage the healing intelligence within us and within nature, we naturally release inherited burdens and self-sabotaging patterns. As we rekindle our capacity for awe, wonder and forgiveness, we access revelatory states that ripple benefits into our families, communities, and world.
Our calling to share initiatory pathways arises from our experience of the power of plants to nourish souls, illuminate minds, open hearts, and inspire kinship. In a world being unraveled by divisive ideologies, these technologies of consciousness reconnect us with our bodies, communities, ecologies, and ancestries. This recovery of felt belonging in an animate world transforms the conditions that cause suffering, and returns us to the joy of creativity, communion, and collaboration with the sacred mystery.
1:1 preparatory and integrative support provided.
Contact us for an intake call if you are interested in joining our summer ceremony.
The Location
Our sanctuary on Salt Spring Island faces the Salish Sea and is surrounded by a mature forest of cedars, maples and hemlocks. A short walk down the enchanting creek trail leads to a beautiful beach that is home to herons and eagles and popular among migrating seabirds.
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 safe and vibrant with the healing forces of the sacred wild, as our ancestors did, is to discover possibilities for transformation that are far harder to access in clinical environments.
We center our practice in gratitude to the spirits of this land.
Guests are welcome to sleep in the yurt or camp in the forest.