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Our offerings focus on embodied eco-spirituality, end-of-life, and somatic well-being. Grounded in local W̱SÁNEĆ and Quw’utsun Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and principles of land stewardship, our experienced facilitators host regular weekly and monthly programs (online and in person), contributing to expanding intergenerational and cross-cultural communities of care.
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deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
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deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
Being Together
Being Together
deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
Being Together
Being Together
deepen our roots, open our hearts | an opportunity to be together in somatic and spiritual resonance…
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Honouring Indigenous women and girls everywhere 💖
#reddressday #indigenouswomxn #w̱sánećterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
Honouring Indigenous women and girls everywhere 💖
#reddressday #indigenouswomxn #w̱sánećterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
In collaboration with Mountain View Cemetery (Vancouver), we invite you to join us in exploring deeper aspects of our Living Well Dying Well Program - we hope you can join us!
Exploring conscious end-of-life, we will inquire into known and unknown after death care practices and ceremony. An invitation to deepen, strengthen and grow ourselves into wisdom cultivators and keepers by becoming participants in shapeshifting outdated practices of care in dying and death. Take a stroll in the cemetery, connect with others and begin or review current end-of-life plans.
EXPLORE, REFLECT, NOURISH, CONNECT
During this day of Inquiry & Reflection you will:
~ Begin or continue end-of-life plan
~ Explore possibilities for after-death care
~ Stroll in the cemetery/burial park
~ Discuss choices for body interment
~ Deepen participatory conversations
~ Enjoy a light snack and tea in early afternoon
VANCOUVER - Mountain View Cemetery - Celebration Hall Sunday April 30th | 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Address: 5455 Fraser Street Vancouver BC
To Register:
SLIDING SCALE: $35 - $75
TICKETS: https://LWDWMountainView.eventbrite.ca
If funds are a barrier - Scholarships available! To inquire, please email Penny & Renate in advance: info@centreforearthandspirit.ca
We gratefully meet on unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
#livingwelldyingwell #lifecyclecelebrant #endoflifecare #cemetery #mountainviewcemetery #earthandspiritvirtual
In collaboration with Mountain View Cemetery (Vancouver), we invite you to join us in exploring deeper aspects of our Living Well Dying Well Program - we hope you can join us!
Exploring conscious end-of-life, we will inquire into known and unknown after death care practices and ceremony. An invitation to deepen, strengthen and grow ourselves into wisdom cultivators and keepers by becoming participants in shapeshifting outdated practices of care in dying and death. Take a stroll in the cemetery, connect with others and begin or review current end-of-life plans.
EXPLORE, REFLECT, NOURISH, CONNECT
During this day of Inquiry & Reflection you will:
~ Begin or continue end-of-life plan
~ Explore possibilities for after-death care
~ Stroll in the cemetery/burial park
~ Discuss choices for body interment
~ Deepen participatory conversations
~ Enjoy a light snack and tea in early afternoon
VANCOUVER - Mountain View Cemetery - Celebration Hall Sunday April 30th | 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Address: 5455 Fraser Street Vancouver BC
To Register:
SLIDING SCALE: $35 - $75
TICKETS: https://LWDWMountainView.eventbrite.ca
If funds are a barrier - Scholarships available! To inquire, please email Penny & Renate in advance: info@centreforearthandspirit.ca
We gratefully meet on unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
#livingwelldyingwell #lifecyclecelebrant #endoflifecare #cemetery #mountainviewcemetery #earthandspiritvirtual
#ĆEṈ¸IȽĆ #garryoak #camasecosystem #spring2023 #earthandspiritvirtual
#ĆEṈ¸IȽĆ #garryoak #camasecosystem #spring2023 #earthandspiritvirtual
Thank you to everyone who contributed to making last Saturday`s ✨COMING TO OUR SENSES 2023✨ event a beautiful day of connecting to our sensing selves! It was an incredible afternoon of connection and learning through the Four Universal Healing Salves (Angeles Arrien), on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territories.
Florence Dick (Songhees) — opened the afternoon with a welcome in the lək̓ʷəŋən language, sharing place-based stories about Songhees connections to these unceded waters and lands
Lael Whitehead — led us with her gift of vocalization and song, as we raised our voices to collectively sing in resonant rounds
Amalia Schelhorn — inspired us to access the gift of dance, finding our way into our bodies and shaking up held patterns
Paul Chiyokten Wagner (W̱SÁNEĆ) — shared from the heart about connection to place, offering the gifts of storytelling (Grandmother cedar) and song through Coast Salish flute
Medwyn McConachy — brought us into quiet, meditative resonance through the gift of silence, encouraging us to find connection to stillness
Iris Moore — delighted us with her own original song and had us singing in rounds, laughing and engaged with one another
Tom Kral (Nature`s Chef) — mesmerized us with his beautifully artistic food offerings! Providing us with a nourishing meal including wild crafted handmade culinary treats, such as cedar planked salmon, vegetarian cabbage rolls, handmade seedy crackers with cashew spread & dandelion pesto, nettle cupcakes with blackberry “icing” plus much more...
Thank you to EVERYONE — volunteers Dinah Johnstone (greenery & table-setting magic), Suzy Easton (kind & responsive set-up/clean-up), Toby Easton (sound-person extraordinaire + photographer/videographer), Stuart Sharpe (helping hand & managing door), Erich Kelch (introducing Florence & planning consultation); Board members Sandra Thomson, Jess Easton & Sylvia McMechan; Co-organizers Cadence McCann, Renate Ringer & Alice Meyers; fantastic designer Natasha Lee Beckow wonderful Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion staff — we appreciate you!
*MORE PHOTOS TO COME!*
#coming_to_our_senses #healing #lekwungenterritory #w̱sáneć #esquimaltgorgeparkpavilion #earthandspiritvirtual
Thank you to everyone who contributed to making last Saturday`s ✨COMING TO OUR SENSES 2023✨ event a beautiful day of connecting to our sensing selves! It was an incredible afternoon of connection and learning through the Four Universal Healing Salves (Angeles Arrien), on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territories.
Florence Dick (Songhees) — opened the afternoon with a welcome in the lək̓ʷəŋən language, sharing place-based stories about Songhees connections to these unceded waters and lands
Lael Whitehead — led us with her gift of vocalization and song, as we raised our voices to collectively sing in resonant rounds
Amalia Schelhorn — inspired us to access the gift of dance, finding our way into our bodies and shaking up held patterns
Paul Chiyokten Wagner (W̱SÁNEĆ) — shared from the heart about connection to place, offering the gifts of storytelling (Grandmother cedar) and song through Coast Salish flute
Medwyn McConachy — brought us into quiet, meditative resonance through the gift of silence, encouraging us to find connection to stillness
Iris Moore — delighted us with her own original song and had us singing in rounds, laughing and engaged with one another
Tom Kral (Nature`s Chef) — mesmerized us with his beautifully artistic food offerings! Providing us with a nourishing meal including wild crafted handmade culinary treats, such as cedar planked salmon, vegetarian cabbage rolls, handmade seedy crackers with cashew spread & dandelion pesto, nettle cupcakes with blackberry “icing” plus much more...
Thank you to EVERYONE — volunteers Dinah Johnstone (greenery & table-setting magic), Suzy Easton (kind & responsive set-up/clean-up), Toby Easton (sound-person extraordinaire + photographer/videographer), Stuart Sharpe (helping hand & managing door), Erich Kelch (introducing Florence & planning consultation); Board members Sandra Thomson, Jess Easton & Sylvia McMechan; Co-organizers Cadence McCann, Renate Ringer & Alice Meyers; fantastic designer Natasha Lee Beckow wonderful Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion staff — we appreciate you!
*MORE PHOTOS TO COME!*
#coming_to_our_senses #healing #lekwungenterritory #w̱sáneć #esquimaltgorgeparkpavilion #earthandspiritvirtual
We are eagerly preparing for ✨Coming to Our Senses 2023✨ today on Lekwungen territory at the Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion!
Thank you to all who registered - see you there from 2-6 pm!
#coming_to_our_senses #somaticexperiencing #lekwungenterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
We are eagerly preparing for ✨Coming to Our Senses 2023✨ today on Lekwungen territory at the Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion!
Thank you to all who registered - see you there from 2-6 pm!
#coming_to_our_senses #somaticexperiencing #lekwungenterritory #earthandspiritvirtual
A day of reflection on after-death care, a cemetery stroll, &
collaborating as wisdom keepers in living + dying!
In collaboration with Royal Oak Burial Park (Victoria) we invite you to join us in exploring deeper aspects of our Living Well Dying Well Program!
EXPLORE, REFLECT, NOURISH, CONNECT
An invitation to deepen, strengthen and grow ourselves into wisdom cultivators and keepers by becoming participants in shapeshifting outdated practices of care in dying and death. Take a stroll in the cemetery, connect with others and begin or review current end-of-life plans.
VICTORIA - Royal Oak Burial Park - Chapel
Saturday March 25th | ll:30 am - 5:00 pm
Address: 4673 Falaise Drive, Victoria BC
To Register:
SLIDING SCALE: $35 - $75
TICKETS: https://LWDW_oneday.eventbrite.ca
We gratefully meet on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish First Peoples` territories
#livingwelldyingwell
#celebrant
#deathanddying #naturalburial #earthandspiritvirtual
A day of reflection on after-death care, a cemetery stroll, &
collaborating as wisdom keepers in living + dying!
In collaboration with Royal Oak Burial Park (Victoria) we invite you to join us in exploring deeper aspects of our Living Well Dying Well Program!
EXPLORE, REFLECT, NOURISH, CONNECT
An invitation to deepen, strengthen and grow ourselves into wisdom cultivators and keepers by becoming participants in shapeshifting outdated practices of care in dying and death. Take a stroll in the cemetery, connect with others and begin or review current end-of-life plans.
VICTORIA - Royal Oak Burial Park - Chapel
Saturday March 25th | ll:30 am - 5:00 pm
Address: 4673 Falaise Drive, Victoria BC
To Register:
SLIDING SCALE: $35 - $75
TICKETS: https://LWDW_oneday.eventbrite.ca
We gratefully meet on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish First Peoples` territories
#livingwelldyingwell
#celebrant
#deathanddying #naturalburial #earthandspiritvirtual
Checking out the new event centre on lək̓ʷəŋən territories - Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion - in preparation for our upcoming COMING TO OUR SENSES event next Saturday, March 18th!
We are grateful to meet on unceded lands, and beside unceded waters, of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. We respectfully acknowledge their long-standing ties to these places on the Gorge Waterway — their ancestral village sites, such as Xwsepsum — and place of connection with herring, a keystone species. Hay’sxw’qa si’em
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Honouring Elders & Seniors in our midst through four universal healing of modalities: singing, dancing, storytelling & silence!
Tickets - SOLD OUT for meal tickets - a few tickets left for event only (with light refreshments by Nature`s Chef!) $20-50 (donation)
Check it out: https://ctos2023.eventbrite.ca/
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#esquimaltgorgeparkpavilion #lekwungenterritory #coming_to_our_senses #healing #earthandspiritvirtual
Checking out the new event centre on lək̓ʷəŋən territories - Esquimalt Gorge Park Pavilion - in preparation for our upcoming COMING TO OUR SENSES event next Saturday, March 18th!
We are grateful to meet on unceded lands, and beside unceded waters, of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. We respectfully acknowledge their long-standing ties to these places on the Gorge Waterway — their ancestral village sites, such as Xwsepsum — and place of connection with herring, a keystone species. Hay’sxw’qa si’em
_____________________
Honouring Elders & Seniors in our midst through four universal healing of modalities: singing, dancing, storytelling & silence!
Tickets - SOLD OUT for meal tickets - a few tickets left for event only (with light refreshments by Nature`s Chef!) $20-50 (donation)
Check it out: https://ctos2023.eventbrite.ca/
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#esquimaltgorgeparkpavilion #lekwungenterritory #coming_to_our_senses #healing #earthandspiritvirtual
Honouring all womxn and female-identifying folks across this gentle planet we call Earth! 🌎💗🌸
#internationalwomensday #womxnsupportingwomxn #earthandspiritvirtual
Honouring all womxn and female-identifying folks across this gentle planet we call Earth! 🌎💗🌸
#internationalwomensday #womxnsupportingwomxn #earthandspiritvirtual
Acknowledgement
With Deep Respect, We Honour And Acknowledge That…
As board members of the Centre for Earth and Spirit, we live, learn and create together on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ, lək̓ʷəŋən (Esquimalt and Songhees Nations), Quw’utsun territories, and the Blackfoot Confederacy (Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta). Together, we recognize Canada’s dark history and the long shadow of colonialism that continues to impact the lives of Indigenous People every day. Through our personal work, offerings and collaborations we aspire to embody and act in ways that honour Indigenous peoples’ long-standing relationships with land, to be honest and willing to meet the presence of intergenerational trauma and impacts of colonialism in all people, and to humbly accept our responsibility as settlers in this process of relationship repair. With accountability and respect, we endeavour to walk with all of creation in meeting the sorrows and grief of the past here in the present, where our future lives.