Workshops & Special Events

Private single or group sessions offered, both on and offsite.

Facility booking opportunities available.

Contact us for more information or to book!

Upcoming Workshops/Special Events

Mindfulness-Based Nature Connection: A Four- Week Nature Meditation Course

Mindful in Nature as a Doorway to Connection

Course Overview:

Join us for this course that explores accessible and powerful meditation practices in the beauty of nature. Each week we will guide participants in various nature meditations that allow people to refine their meditation practice, deepen their awareness of the natural world, and open up to qualities of delight, insight, and awe. We will also give short talks on various mindfulness in nature themes as well as offer times for discussion and inquiry.

You will learn to cultivate many beautiful nature practices including foundational techniques like breathing with nature, arriving practice, mindfulness of body outdoors, and listening meditation. You will also learn sensory awareness meditations and how to practice meditation as a meandering practice with various points of focus such as orientating toward curiosity, love, or open awareness. You will explore heart-based meditations like gratitude practice, loving and being loved meditation, and there will be wisdom meditations on the elements, interconnection, knowing and being known meditation, and a host of other accessible and powerful contemplative practices.

Learning Objectives:

- Cultivate a natural mindful presence outdoors

- Study a variety of nature meditation practices that can be practiced anywhere - Access expansive qualities of joy, awe, and wonder

- Develop intimacy with the natural world

- Join a rich learning community of like-minded meditators Deepen your meditative journey!

10 participants max

Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm

September 19th to October 10th

Investment: $150+GST (partial scholarships may be available, please connect with us to inquire)

Meet Your Guide:

I am Amarin Dawn, Mother, Grandmother, Lover, tree hugger, animal activist, and a mentor for Inter-Being.

I am deeply grateful for a rich and busy life. I value my Days spent Inspiring nature connection through an environmental not-for-profit ‘Experience Journeys’ dreamed into being with my life partner. I relish my plant based cheffing at ‘The Heart’, a vegan cafe founded with my eldest daughter. And, most importantly, I love hugging trees with my Grandson.

I am sometimes fearful, furious and heartbroken for our planet. I am grateful for the contemplative nature connection practices that invite me back to remembering I am love and in this, intricately woven into this web of life.

I savour laying in mossy beds. I cry when the Red Wing blackbirds arrive in the Spring. I am most at home in my tent in forests and mountain meadows. Trees are my therapists. Birdsong my favourite genre.

I am Fiercely in love with this planet and all life it supports.

My aspiration is that my actions inspire others to care for this planet, so deeply in need of our compassionate attention.

-There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again- Rumi

Amarin’s Awake in the Wild (Mindfulness in Nature) facilitator training is complemented by her certification as a Mindfulness Teacher with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Association of Forest and Nature Therapy Guide, Outdoor medic, Apprentice guide with the Interpretive Guides of Canada, Outdoor Council of Canada Field leader, 25 years as a yoga teacher/studio owner and a lifetime of living within the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Amarin lives, works and plays along the headwaters of the Elbow river in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, traditional lands of the Iyarhe Nakoda , Tsuu T’ina , and the rich and diverse more than human inhabitants.

Autumn Equinox Asana, Nidra and Cello

with Jasmine Burton & Patty Sage

Your evening will start with a gentle asana practice, followed by nestling into a yoga nidra practice.

Drop inward with the deep, grounding sounds of Patty Sage's energy and live cello performance.

Bring comfortable clothes, an eye pillow, regular pillow, journal and extra layers. Other props provided in the space.

Sunday, September 22nd 5-7pm

$40+GST

Crystal Journey Concert

with David Hickey

We are so excited to be hosting a Sonic Sound Concert at Yoga Spirit!

What You Can Expect From Crystal Journey:

David's set up includes 6 Quartz Crystal Bowls, 8-10 Paiste Planet Gongs, 2 Santoors & Harmonica. Occasionally David Uses His Vocals To Create Harmonized Chants.

Nothing is amplified, pre-recorded or rehearsed. Each set and performance is sonically pure, unique and completely improvised.

Visit www.crystaljourney.ca for more info about the music.

Bring A Yoga Mat Or Blanket

Tuesday, September 24th 7-9pm

$40+GST

Charity Food Bank Class by Donation - Gentle Yoga & Nidra Meditation

with Yulia Willick

Join Yulia for a deeply restorative afternoon to relax the body and reset the nervous system. This event is suitable for everybody and no previous experience is required. We begin with a sequence of gentle Yoga poses to release tension from the body, while connecting with our breath and the present moment. Yulia will then guide participants into a healing Nidra Meditation (practiced while lying on the yoga mat). This meditation includes a full body relaxation, breath awareness and guided imagery.

Yulia is a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher and has been sharing her offerings for the last 15 years. Her main focus today is supporting her clients with One-on-One Hypnotherapy as well as Somatic Release. She currently offers her services in Cochrane as well as Invermere, BC. To find out more visit www.innerpeace-coaching.com

Please sign up for this event to save your spot and bring items that are suitable for the Food Bank. All donations will be shared between the Cochrane and Bragg Creek Food Bank.

Saturday, September 28th 2-4pm

Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Retreat

with Terri Salmond-Watson of Four Hands Serenity

What is Love Yourself, Heal Your Life?

Do you experience self sabotage? Negative thinking? Limited Beliefs that are holding you back in career, health, abundance, feeling joy?

The Heal Your Life teachings will benefit you by finding the limited beliefs in where and why all that lives in your mind/body, so you can create positive thoughts & affirmations to move forward to a wonderful, loving life.

This 2-Day Heal Your Life workshop truly did shift & change Terri's life for the best!

October 18-19th (Saturday & Sunday)

9:30am-5pm

Investment: $525+GST

Sound Baths with Colin Hillstrom

Leave the world behind and find your magic simply by releasing tension and stress as you immerse yourself into a high vibrational acoustic energy field.

Nidra & Sound Baths

Join us for a healing Yoga Nidra practice led by Maren Jaxen, while being serenaded by Colin and his magical sound bowls.

Mondays @7pm

$20+GST (Passes Accepted)

Sound Journeys

Just relax and surrender on your yoga mat so that your chakras, endocrine system, and brain can rebalance and realign to experience inner joy, peace, and boundless wellbeing.

$45+GST
*$25 Member Price

*Must have active unlimited monthly or annual pass

Spirit Sisters Circle with Kelly Day

Women have circled for centuries, gathering in sacred space, honoring the intuitive and nurturing aspects of the divine feminine. Over time, this magic has laid dormant or been suppressed by patriarchy and the fast-paced and often disconnected ways in which we live. As consciousness rises among us, we can feel this stir of the feminine and her call to be rediscovered. Sister circles are a powerful way to reclaim the divine feminine within us, within our communities, and beyond.

Each sister circle provides a nurturing and sacred space to hold and be held. A place to come as you are and be accepted with love. A place to quiet the mind, listen to intuitive messages, and step towards your highest truth. A place to nurture and grow your spiritual connection and a sisterhood like no other. A place to embrace the vulnerable aspects of ourselves and create a container where vulnerability is welcomed with open arms.

Join Kelly Day as she leads you through monthly sister circle gatherings. Each circle will have a unique theme to explore and will include meditation and mindfulness practices, thoughtful connection, sacred ritual and journaling. Please bring a journal and pen, yoga mat and any special items that can be added to the sacred altar.