Upcoming Events & Courses
Entering the Sweet Darkness: An Autumn Equinox Clarity Quest
Entering the Sweet Darkness is a weekend retreat created as a conscious threshold into the season ahead. It is a time to step out of the momentum of everyday life, listen more deeply, nourish the body and reconnect with the inner resources that will regenerate you through this next Earth cycle.
Autumn Equinox Celebration & International Peace & Ecstatic Dance with Darren Austin Hall
• Golden Abundance • Earth Blessings • Sacred Gathering
Come gather at the golden turning, when summer spills her treasures into the arms of autumn.
Your Tongue, Your Story: Discover What Your Tongue Reveals About Your Health - Free Webinar
The Body Speaks. The Tongue Reveals.
Each morning, your tongue offers a changing portrait of your inner world. Its colours, textures, coatings, cracks and markings carry clues about digestion, vitality, constitutional patterns and the subtle shifts taking place within you.
Herb Walk Experience
Where Wild Plants Become Teachers
Enter the language of leaves, roots and flowers. Discover a world that has been speaking all along.
Tree Medicine Journey: Breathe in Ancient Wisdom - Remember Your Belonging
Deep Listening • Sacred Kinship • Living Presence
There is a different kind of time beneath old trees. In our Heritage Forest, among trees that have been growing for 150 to 200 years, we enter their living world, slowing our pace, sharpening our senses and discovering what becomes possible when we truly listen.
Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis Course
One of Ayurveda's most Fascinating and Practical Diagnostic Arts
Discover the remarkable science of Tongue Diagnosis and Constitutional Medicine in this transformative course with Shantree, author of Ayurvedic Tongue Diagnosis and Your Tongue, Your Body. Blending ancient wisdom with more than five decades of clinical experience and research, he reveals how the tongue serves as a living map of the body's health.
Earth Prayer: Forest Dance
There is a place that remembers. It is called ‘Forest’.
All who feel called are welcome to step into this shared field of prayer, dance, and remembrance.
Spiritual Fasting Experience
The Return to Vitality
Step out of the ordinary and into a powerful reset. Fast. Cleanse. Move. Breathe. Enter the forest. Drink deeply of living nourishment. Release what has become heavy and make space for clarity, vitality and a renewed relationship with Life
Primordial Movement Online 7-Week Series
Reawaken the Original Flow of Being where movement becomes a living conversation with Nature
ORIGIN: Seed the Future - Free Event
“Origin marks a pivotal moment for humanity and is a celebration of our return to our role as a keystone species, restoring our relationship with the living Earth and becoming active participants in the regeneration of life.” ~ Dr. Zach Bush
Home Heart: Living the Wisdom of the Soul
The heart knows before the mind understands.
In these times of profound awakening and tumultuous change, we can come home to the heart, to the sacred space within where presence anchors us, reconnecting us to ourselves and the timeless wisdom that resides there.
You, Me & the Mystery:
• Embodied Love • Sacred Relationship • Relational Aliveness
A Couple’s Journey into Love, Intimacy & the Mystery of Relationship Workshop
A deeper understanding of yourself and the person you love. Greater capacity to listen and communicate when things become difficult. More freedom to be yourselves while remaining deeply connected. A renewed sense of tenderness, curiosity and possibility.
Primordial Movement: Waking the E'Sensuous, a Depth Immersion for Previous Students
A space to go inside, listen deeply and allow your movement flow to reconnect you with the gems of wisdom waiting to reveal
Permaculture Tours: Regeneration in Action
Explore permaculture as a living system where food, water, soil, plants and people work together. Walk through regenerative landscapes and discover what becomes possible when we have learned over our 45-years of designing with nature.
Wild Intelligence Webinar
The Living Earth Is Speaking. Are You Ready to Listen?
Join Shantree as you uncover the extraordinary intelligence woven throughout the living Earth. Expand your perception of nature's patterns and rhythms to deepen your understanding of life, wild foods, consciousness, and your profound belonging within the web of life.
Primordial Movement: Reawaken the Original Flow of Being
When we move as Life moves, something ancient awakens within us. We remember that we have never been separate from Nature. We are Nature, remembering itself.
The Art of Natural Building: Earthen Floor Workshop
Learn the timeless art of creating beautiful, durable earthen floors using natural clay, sand, and plant fibres. Experience each step of the process while discovering a healthy, sustainable flooring tradition that has served communities for generations.
The Living Village
A two-day gathering for land-based living. Offered by Journey Land @The Living Centre
Permaculture Tours - Regeneration in Action
A Guided Journey Through Food Forests, Natural Systems & Living Design
For 45 years, The Living Centre has been growing as a living classroom for permaculture, natural building, ecological learning, and land-based regeneration. This guided tour invites you to walk through one of the oldest food forests in Canada, explore living systems shaped by care and observation, and experience how permaculture becomes real when it is rooted in place.
Heart Home Sound Journey
Living Wisdom of the Soul
Join Darren Austin Hall and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera for a special New Moon in Leo offering with Wisdom, Sacred Sound, Heart Opening Cacao, Soul Music and Movement Medicine.
Herb Walk Experiences
Where Wild Plants Become Teachers
Step into the living mystery of the wild, where meadow, forest edge, hedgerow, and woodland path become places of wonder, discovery, and remembrance. These herb walks invite you into a deeper relationship with wild and native plants, not simply as things to gather, but as living teachers, allies, and companions.
Tree Medicine Journey
Breathe the Ancient Wisdom - Remember Your Belonging
Living Forests, Elemental Presence & the Call of Home, where stillness awakens wonder, connection deepens belonging, and the heart finds its way back to what is essential. o
Permaculture Tours: Regeneration in Practice
A Guided Journey Through Food Forests, Natural Systems & Living Design
For 45 years, The Living Centre has been growing as a living classroom for permaculture, natural buildings, ecological learning, and land-based regeneration. This guided tour invites you to walk through one of the oldest food forests in Canada.
Summer Solstice Celebration
Together, we gather to honour the fullness of life and this special time of year through a Radiant Heart Cacao Ceremony, Ecstatic Dance with the amazing Kudos Lokey DJ, sacred sound, and wild earth expression.
Rooted in Light Summer Clarity Quest
A guided solstice quest into presence, renewal, and inner clarity, where we root deeply into the earth and open fully to the light of the season.
Teachings of the Forest - Free Webinar
Rooted Like Trees. Resilient Like Nature. Alive Like Never Before.
Discover how the living intelligence of trees can teach us resilience, belonging, adaptability, and the art of living well in a rapidly changing world. Stand Among Elders, Remember Yourself.
Earth Prayer: Forest Dance
There is a place that remembers. It is called ‘Forest’.
This gathering is an invitation to enter that same remembrance within ourselves.
Goin' Wild for Wild Living Foods Webinar
Goin’ Wild for Wild Living Foods is an immersive one-hour webinar that invites you to rediscover the profound nourishment available through wild, living foods.
Gaian Sound Journey with Darren Austin Hall
A Ceremonial Journey of Sound, Soul & Remembrance
Spiritual Fasting Webinar
Drawing on more than five decades of personal practice, study, research, and guiding thousands of others through cleansing retreats and healing journeys, Shantree reveals fasting as far more than abstaining from food. It becomes a profound path of conscious cleansing, sacred nourishment, and spiritual awakening, one that restores harmony between body, mind, and spirit.
Living on Life-Force Series
8 Week Online Series
An Immersion into Elemental Living, Eco-Somatic Intelligence & Regenerative Vitality
Romanced by the Elements: A Conscious Couple's Retreat
Set within Costa Rica’s lush eco-village, this intimate couple’s retreat awakens sensual presence, trust, and joy through elemental rituals and sacred practices for love.
SoulQuest: A Shamanu Earth Wisdom Retreat
A seven-day ecosomatic retreat in Costa Rica inviting you to rediscover the living dialogue between body and Earth through movement, breath, and elemental ritual.
Tropical Sacred Plant Medicine Retreat
Guided by master herbalists, this five-day retreat opens the green world of Costa Rica’s forests as your classroom, where tropical plants become teachers of nourishment, balance, and renewal.
Rooted & Wild Retreat
A seven-day sacred immersion in Costa Rica that renews body, mind, and spirit through elemental rituals, eco-somatic practices, and soul-centered connection with the Earth.
The Five Elements of Love: How Nature Teaches Us To Relate
Online Workshop
A one-day journey exploring how the Five Elements reveal new pathways to love and connection.
Canadian Herb Conference
Neurodiverse Minds, Herbal Insights (Online Conference)
Botanical Pathways to Supporting Cognitive Diversity, Emotional Resilience, and Mental Clarity
Herbal Teacher: Shantree Kacera
