Upcoming Events & Courses
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.
The Living Village
A two-day gathering for land-based living. Offered by Journey Land @The Living Centre
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.
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.
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 Online 7-Week Series
Reawaken the Original Flow of Being where movement becomes a living conversation with Nature
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.
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
