Archive for January, 2011

A pesky, mad dash home

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The "something else" that awaited me was being chased by blood-thirsty mosquitoes all the way home! I followed the ravine between the giant old fir tree and the rock face, heading northwest towards Monkey Valley. Suddenly I heard an angry buzzing. It was amazingly loud. So loud it was terrifying. ...

Past Events at Monkey Valley

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Monkey Valley Retreat Centre has hosted vision fasts, medicine wheel teachings, teachings of ecopsychology practices, medicine walks, inquiry groups, a yoga and ChiRunning retreat, and, of course, many gatherings of family and friends, too. For a brief account of the amazingly awesome Chirunning and yoga retreat with Angela James (summer 2010), ...

ChiRunning and Yoga at BC Wilderness Visions

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

July 16-17, 2011 - CANCELLED $349 includes teaching fees and delicious organic vegetarian lunch, snacks, and tea Location: Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, North Vancouver 9:30 - 4:30, Saturday & Sunday Guides: Angela and Karen are teaming up for the second year in a row. For a glimpse into the awesome time had by all ...

Fear and longing in the forest

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

As I mentioned last time, the land felt very different once I crossed the Galena Creek logging road, headed east. It didn't feel friendly anymore. I kept hiking east, taking down more logging ribbon as I found it. Soon my pockets were full of plastic ribbon. I came to a ...

Guides

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Karen Rempel is the director of Monkey Valley Retreat Centre. She leads retreats at the centre, and also apprentices on vision fasts in Colorado and California. She teaches tools to help people find healing and guidance in nature, including the medicine walk, medicine wheel, four shields of (human) nature, other ...

Ecosabotage

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

I decided to follow after the bear, even though I knew it was unlikely I would catch up and see him again. He had headed south towards Missezula Lake, so I went that way, climbing up grassy knolls and over fallen logs. I found some white fungus on a dead ...