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The Eye of an Animal💛💛💛 💛When was the

The Eye of an Animal💛💛💛

💛When was the last time you looked into the eye of a non-human being?

💛It can be profound - whether a dog, cat, chicken, or polar bear.

💛As our bodies release oxitocin, our hearts feel a deep sense of care and connection.

💛During a recent EcoWisdom Community Gathering, our sharing became focussed on our meaningful emotional relationships with pets and support animals.

💛As a form of nature-connection, these being help us to understand interconnection and our place within the natural world.

💛🐥💛Who’s company are you enjoying these days?

#emotionalsupportanimal
#accessiblenature
#accessiblecommunity
#naturetherapy
#natureguidetraining
#innerpeace
#natureconnection
#shinrinyokujoy
#foresttherapy
#selfcare
#disablityoutdoors
#inclusion
#accessibilityforall

Being on Retreat: A Reminder that we all Need Rest

Being on Retreat: A Reminder that we all Need Rest💙💙💙

💙What are you doing to build rest into your day, week, month, life?

Wishing you a moment of pause to support well-being💙🙏💙

#natureconnection
#forestbathingtherapy
#selfcare
#retreats
#shinrinyokujoy
#mindfulmoments
#mindfulmoment
#innerpeace
#wellbeing

💙❄️💙A Delicate Snowfall: Lessons from th

💙❄️💙A Delicate Snowfall: Lessons from the Natural World

❄️When you connect to your body, a gentle sense of gravity, and the moment, what does this image speak to you about?

❄️What are you in need of?

❄️How might you nurture yourself in response to this message?

💙🙏💙Sending a desire for you to find peace in your day and insight into your life.

#innerpeace
#shinrinyokujoy
#forestbathingtherapy
#mindfulmoments
#inclusivenatureplay
#accessiblenature

Good morning my little friends! This is pretty t

Good morning my little friends!

This is pretty typical. Once the cold weather arrives, the chickadees follow me through the forest.

The last one in this video wanted to stay a while for a little silent conversation.

Enjoy your day!

#forestbathing
#forestpreserve
#forestlife
#contemplative
#mindfulnatureconnection
#naturemindfulness
#birdsfeeding
#hellomorning

Accessible Nature Wellbeing Program Nov 13, 2022,

Accessible Nature Wellbeing Program Nov 13, 2022, 1-3 PT, 4-6 ET

Come and enjoy one another’s company as we relax and have fun with nature-connection online.

We welcome people with disabilities/chronic illness or people with limitations associated with aging to participate for free.

Designed & led by a team of skilled facilitators who understand disability, accessibility and inclusion.

Organization partners: Individualized Funding Resource Centre, EcoWisdom Forest Preserve, and Technology for Living.

Funded by a TD Park People Grant.

Please register by emailing: ANWP@ecowisdom.ca

#tdparkpeoplegrant
#tdreadycommitment
@parkppl
#accessibleparks
#naturemindfulness
#shinrinyokujoy
#forestbathing
#accessiblegardening
#accessibleprogramming
#peersupport

Leaf Meditation: Exploring Texture, Pattern and Co

Leaf Meditation: Exploring Texture, Pattern and Colour to Find Our Way

With this image, I invite you to:
🍁connect to wherever your body is making contact
🍁notice your breath
🍁open your senses other than vision to explore a leaf
🍁gently open your eyes and gaze softly upon your leaf as if was the first time you’ve ever seen one
🍁be here, now, and appreciate the goodness you find

❤️🍁❤️May the roadmap of a single leaf bring you to a place of peace, comfort and hope

❤️Recently we gathered as the EcoWisdom Community of graduates and students. We spent time opening our senses, connecting to our bodies, and being in the present moment through nature-based mindfulness meditation. I am deeply grateful for all the vulnerable sharing that took place within our circle.❤️

#shinrinyokujoy
#forestbathing
#forestbathing🌲🌲🌲
#ecotherapy
#forestlife
#innerpeace
#mindfulness
#mindfulmoments
#fallcokours
#guidedmeditation

🍁Noticing & Absorbing Beauty🍁 💚This fall

🍁Noticing & Absorbing Beauty🍁

💚This fall has offered us an opportunity to connect to spectacular colour

💛Take a moment to breathe the mystery of this beauty into you body and soul (3 slow breaths)

🧡Allow this nurturing to shift how you meet the world in this moment & allow these effects to linger

❤️🙏❤️ the patterns and colour of leaves awaken in you a desire to be fully alive

💚💛🧡❤️

#fallcolours
#forestlife
#naturecontemplative #mindfulmoments
#practicingpresence
#shinrinyokujoy
#ecotherapy
#forestbathingtherapy
#spiritualdirectionandsoulcare

💙Pausing with gratitude at the end of a special

💙Pausing with gratitude at the end of a special day by the lake.

💙Sharing the peace with you.

#innerpeace
#forestbathing
#algonquinpark
#sunset

🌊Spending time with Water as the Sun Sets🌊

🌊Spending time with Water as the Sun Sets🌊

Water & Sky Invitation:

💜Open your heart to the sky above
💜Absorb the colours reflected upon the surface of the lake
💜Allow the imagined gentle soundscape of lapping waves soothe you
💜Know you are not alone

#shinrinyokujoy
#forestbathingtherapy
#mindfulness
#naturemindfulness
#forestlife
#simplicity
#contemplativepractice
#innerpeace

🍁Surrounded by Colour🍁 Taking a walk in the

🍁Surrounded by Colour🍁

Taking a walk in the rain allows me to appreciate the scent and colour that surrounds me.
💛🧡❤️💚

#forestbathing
#forestmindfulness
#forestlife
#mindfulmoments
#shinrinyokujoy
#fallcolours

Pause for a “Moment of Reflection” with me.

Pause for a “Moment of Reflection” with me.

Canadian Fall Colours Spent time today taking in

Canadian Fall Colours

Spent time today taking in light illuminating the bright colours of fall and absorbing the soft shadow atmosphere.

How do you honour the transition of seasons?

#canadianfall
#fallcolours
#natureconnection
#mindfulmoments
#forestbathing🌲🌲🌲
#shinrinyokujoy
#naturemindfulness

🍁Breathe and Absorb the Beauty! 🍁I wanted t

🍁Breathe and Absorb the Beauty!

🍁I wanted to share this absolute favourite spot with you!

💚Feel your feet planted in the earth or the subtle sense of gravity pulling you gently down towards the ground.

💛Take three long slow breaths or count to three.

🧡Receive the beauty into your heart.

❤️Know that you belong.

🍁May you experience this as a moment of peace in your day.

#shinrinyokujoy
#canadianfallcolours
#fallcolours
#ecotherapy
#innerpeace
#contemplation
#natureconnection
#forestbathing
#mindfulmoments
#algonquinpark
@fourcornersalgonquin
@haylakelodge

🍁A Period of Transition: Greens to Yellows and

🍁A Period of Transition: Greens to Yellows and Oranges to Reds

💚Colours
💛Clapping of leaves
🧡Cooler temperatures
❤️Crunching sounds underfoot

🍁Things change. What is shifting in your life?

#forestbathing
#forestinfall
#fallcolours
#forestlife
#forestcontemplative
#naturemindfulness
#healingforest
#livingoffgrid
#caringfortheearth
#shinrinyokujoy

🌳After living off grid in a forest for 2.5 year

🌳After living off grid in a forest for 2.5 years, I’ve come to recognize specific qualities of various tree species.
🌳Spending time with White Pine, gifts me with inspiration and insight.

💚What is she offering you?

🌳🙏🏽💚

Learn more about our EcoWisdom Community at link in bio.

💙🌊💙Mystical Waters: A Story The Water Kne

💙🌊💙Mystical Waters: A Story The Water Knew Before We Did

💙It was after we were submerged in these cool flowing waters that we came to understand that we belonged to this land.

💙Each step taken was guided through a relationship of reciprocal care with the land.

💙We knew we would make this our home and a place of service to others.

💙We didn’t know the route, only the direction and a deep heart-felt purpose.

💙The land offered its healing, inspiration and teachings on nurturing communities inclusive of people of all abilities, and plants/animals of all species.

💙Tomorrow we will be sharing our story, weaving in the voices of people who live with disability/chronic illness who will share their experiences within our inclusive programs.

💙We will also hear from researchers who studied the beneficial impacts of our ECOWISDOM Accessible Nature Wellbeing Programs.

💙It all starts and ends with the land and her inspired flowing waters.

💚💙💚Park People Conference
Thursday September 22, 2-3 ET (11-12 PT)

💚💙💚DM me for a bursary code to attend free if the registration fee presents a barrier.

💚💙💚We thank our funders: Healthy Communities Initiative Grant (Government of Canada) and TD Park People Grants.

#inspiredbynature
#mystics
#ecologicaljustice
#disabilityjustice
#parkaccessibility
#greenspaceequity
#serviceandhospitality
#deepselfacceptance
#reciprocalcare
#shinrinyoku
#shinrinyoku🌱🌲🌳🍃🌿
#shinrinyokustudies
#forestbathing
#forestbathingresearch
#innerpeace
#generosityofnature
#ecotgerapy
#ecospirituality
#mindbodysoul
#communitybuilding
#disabilitylife
#forestlife
#livingoffgrid
#inclusion

🌿Park People Conference 🌿Presentation 🌿S

🌿Park People Conference
🌿Presentation
🌿September 22, 2022, 2pm Eastern Time
🌿EcoWisdom Forest Preserve

💚💚💚Using Nature Wellbeing Programs to Nurture Communities Inclusive of People with Disabilities

🌳Speakers:
Kari Krogh
Paul Gauthier
Mahnoor Khan
Kim Egger
Karen Van Biesen
Linda McGowan
Kirsten McEwan

🌳Come learn about our experience offering Accessible Nature Wellbeing Programs funded by a Canada Healthy Communities Grant and TD Park People Grants.

🌳Learn directly from people living with disability/ chronic illness as they describe their experience designing, co-facilitating, and participating in ECOWISDOM’S Accessible Nature Programs.

🌳You can also learn more about ECOWISDOM’S small accessible and inclusive nature and forest therapy guide training program.

🌳Finally, come hear what a team of forest medicine researchers discovered when they interviewed program participants!!

💚Please see link in bio to register for the conference.

💚DM me for a “free access” bursary code if registration fee is a barrier.

#forestbathing
#forestbathing🌲🌲🌲
#shinrinyoku
#shinrinyokujoy
#shinrinyokustudies
#mindfulnesspractice
#mindfulnessmeditation
#tdreadycommitment
#parkppl
#healthycommunities
@commfdnscanada
@surreycares
@parkppl

❤️🍄Exploring New Arrivals Upon the Forest F

❤️🍄Exploring New Arrivals Upon the Forest Floor🍄❤️

🍄During my strolls through the forest, I am noticing new mushroom arrivals - yellow, orange, red, brown, white and purple.

🍄Robin Wall Kimmerer teaches us the term “puhpowee” which means the force with which mushrooms emerge from the earth over night.

🍄By the way, this particular mushroom is pretty but poisonous.

❤️What is arriving quickly these days?

❤️Is there a pretty but poisonous element in your life, best admired from a distance?

❤️🙏🏽❤️May you find discernment, insight and contentment.

🌿❤️🌿The teachings of mushrooms is from Dr. Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.

#forestbathingtherapy
#shinrinyokujoy
#ecotherapy
#forestlife
#contemplativelife
#natureblessing
#myforestlife
#offgridliving
#innerreflection
#stillnessinnature
#innerstillness
#mindfulness

💚Reach to the Sky!💚 🌿What inspires you?

💚Reach to the Sky!💚

🌿What inspires you?

🌿When do you feel most awake & alive?

🌿Where in the natural world do you feel resourced and supported?

💚🙏🏽💚May you find what you need today.

#natureconnection
#mindfulmoments
#reflectivemoments
#innerpeace
#shinrinyokujoy
#forestbathing🌲🌲🌲
#forestlife
#livingoffgrid
#simpleliving

Sharing the Land with Ancestors & Friends💜💚💜

💜Sitting on the warm black stones with my toes in the cool flowing water, I offered a meditation, inspired by the spirit of the land.

💜It is with enormous gratitude that I honour the Indigenous ancestors of this land, specifically the Algonquin Anishinabek Peoples, whose presence I sense deeply.

💜And I am so grateful to each member of the EcoWisdom Community who share a reverence for the earth that sustains us.

💜It was my pleasure to lead a 45 minute River Meditation with one of our recent graduates during her recent 2-day stay.

💜With an open heart, I bow in gratitude.

The Algonquin First Nations are in negotiations with federal and provincial governments to settle their land claim involving 36,000 km2 of unceded traditional territory.

#naturemeditation
#spiritofearth
#earthmeditation
#rivermeditation
#mindfulnessmeditation
#mindfulmoments
#natureconnection
#innerpeace
#sharingpeace
#earthcare
#simpleliving
#offgridliving
#forestbathing
#shinrinyokujoy
#shinrinyoku
#forestpreserve
#algonquinterritory
#algonquin

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