The Art of Intimacy, Desire & Growing Together

Relationships are among the most beautiful, challenging, and transformative experiences of our lives.

“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

When we give the body space to rest and renew, life begins to speak more clearly from within.

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.

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.

Where Wild Plants Become Teachers

Enter the language of leaves, roots and flowers. Discover a world that has been speaking all along.

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.

• Golden Abundance • Earth Blessings • Sacred Gathering
Come gather at the golden turning, when summer spills her treasures into the arms of autumn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

There is a place that remembers. It is called ‘Forest’.

This gathering is an invitation to enter that same remembrance within ourselves.

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.