Wisdom of the Four Directions—July 16, 2011

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Finding Healing and Guidance in Nature July 16, 2011 - Vancouver “Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we’re supposed to be.” - Evelyn Eaton, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel This day-trip in the North Shore mountains, just 20 minutes from downtown ...

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 last summer's amazingly awesome Chirunning and yoga retreat, see here. In the summer ...

Medicine walk and 5th anniversary of BC Wilderness Visions

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

BC Wilderness Visions and the Monkey Valley Retreat Centre celebrates its 5th anniversary of nature programs this summer! The first program was a medicine wheel teaching in the summer of 2005, when 25 people came to Monkey Valley and created a beautiful medicine wheel. Teachers Joyce Lyke and Tracy Leach ...

Goodbye, wascally weasel

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

I had a productive 9 days at Monkey Valley, with the winter plumbing problems fixed at low cost, thanks to Kevin Thompson of Princeton, BC! Finishing work on the barn is well underway, too, thanks to Brent Ross and Tom. It is going to be bee-you-tiful, as my grandma used ...

Falling into the West

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Tomorrow is the first day of October. The fall equinox has passed. The wheel has definitely turned from summer to fall, from South to West. The four shields model of working with nature and psyche has much to teach us, and enticing doorways of exploration to offer through the West. To place ...