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Welcome, I’m glad you’re here.

We are nature. Read that again, slowly, and let it sink in. WE ARE NATURE.

In truth, everything is nature. We are all stitched together from stardust and space. All of it— feather and fur, scale and skin, flower and branch, deep roots and towering trunks, glistening eyes and gossamer wings, stones and water and wind and flame, the snowflakes dancing in the winter storm and the sunbeams casting rainbows in the spring. All of this, and more — everything is nature.

This means that everything, everywhere, is connected. When we sit in stillness and silence, with peace in our minds and hearts, this truth starts to become clear. It is a memory held within every cell of our bodies, and within every cell of every other being on this planet.

Please know. I do not claim to be a teacher, a healer, a shaman or a medicine person. I am not here to heal you. I am not here to teach you how to serve tea. I am not the holder of any secret knowledge or ancient wisdom. What I do offer is a safe space away from the commotion of the loud and busy world to begin to curate your own deep connection to self and to nature. I will pour the water, but your own soul must guide you from there.

You must learn one thing. / The world was made to be free in. / Give up all the other / worlds / except the one to which you belong. / Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you / alive / is too small for you.
— Sweet Darkness. David Whyte, 1997

My Path

As David Whyte says in his poem Sweet Darkness, it can take those dark, confined moments of our lives when we are deeply and truly alone for us to learn that any part of the world that does not bring us alive is not meant for us.

From an early age I have known that the ‘one world to which I belong’ was alive. I spent time growing up in small communities in Northern Canada, where the people still live in active connection with the land. I learned to ask permission before picking wild berries, to honour cycles of birth, life, and death, and to be mindful of other beings (human and non-human) as I moved through the world. In my teenage years, much of that original tender connectedness to all things was pushed aside; it was not how my peers saw the world, and so to better fit in and feel accepted, I tamped it down, but it never really left.

Now, as an adult, I have returned home again to those original ways of knowing, the ones that are written in the veins of leaves, the tracks of moose, the way the sun reflects off the ocean, and the precise timing of when flowers open in spring. I do not call this a belief system; this is something I know. It expands both deeper and wider than simply believing something to be true, no matter how fervent the believer. “Not only does the self use the environment to find its fullest expression, but, at the same time, the environment leads the self toward that which needs to be known. The mystery... resides in this interchange...” (Tennes, 2007). To me, that ‘interchange,’ that constant, ever-flowing-exchange between our animal bodies and the more-than-human world is where magic happens.


We are The Wildhearted.

We sit in Silence, so we may listen with our whole being and respond from a bodily sense of knowing.

We serve Tea in Ceremony, as a Medicine of nature, of the earth, and of the heart.

We commune with the Mystery, discuss dreams, beat drums, speak with plants, and read signs in nature.

We hold sacred space for people to grow up and down and through, to break down and crack open, to heal, and to remember.

…so tell me, wild heart, who are you?…


 
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Magic doesn’t sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away: the ordinary, in all its plain and simple outrageousness, begins to shine — to become luminously, impossibly so. Every facet of the world is awake, and you within it.
— David Abram, Becoming Animal, 2010

About You

Are you are already on a path and doing the work? Maybe you’re looking to dive deeper or take the first steps into your soul’s expansion? Perhaps you want to learn more about how to listen to your body, connect with Nature, or are you searching for that missing ‘something’? I know from experience how difficult it can be to choose someone to step into this kind of work with, having signed up for such offerings myself (with varying degrees of success). To help alleviate some of that anxiety, I’ve tried to make the decision a little easier.

If any of these words hold energy, pull you in, spark an idea, are how you see yourself, or how you want to see yourself, then I think we’d be a great fit. Click the button below to book an intake call and dive in!

You are a seeker; of connection, of wisdom, of experiences, of that something-more that makes life that much sweeter and that much more worth living... or you want to be.

You are conscious and aware; of your body and its signals, of your environment and your place in it, of your human and your more-than-human communities…or you want to be.

You are intensely curious; about how things work, about how things are connected, about where we come from, why we are here, and how to heal, remember, and grow…or you want to be.

You are deeply connected; to nature, to self, to spirit and soul, to practices and rituals, to your place on this earth, and to your body, your heart, and your mind…or you want to be.

You are deliriously in love; with your one precious life, with your wildly beating heart, with your soul’s divine purpose, and with this exquisite planet and all her inhabitants…or you want to be.

*Ideally you are also currently engaged in other healing modalities, such a meditation, therapy, or even a consistent and meaningful yoga practice. Essentially, you are “doing the work” in some way in addition to this offering. If you’re uncertain what I mean, please reach out and we can discuss further.



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