CAMP KUNTALINI
Come to the forest and let yourself be slowly consumed by the moss! Wish upon a star! Tend to the fire! Get dirty!
Explore the healing of animism and the teachings of Kundalini Yoga in the woods of the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula during an astrologically potent time. We’ll get close to the earth: sleep in tents, bathe in the cold waters of Georgian Bay, eat from the land, cook over fires, silent walk with the trees, story-tell on 400 million year old rocks. We’ll get close to the cosmos: breathe into the subtle body, move the physical body, expand the auric body, chant under the starry sky, meditate. We’ll connect to these animal bodies: eat well and commune well.
This offering combines yogic philosophy, gestalt experiment, ecopsychology, animistic play, and creative recovery for an emergent experience not yet known. We make it together within boundary and framework.
“Animism is a way of living that considers that everything is alive and awake and speaking. That the world is a storied place. ”
Set in part of the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve on the 45th parallel - halfway between the North Pole and the Equator - it's a charged place to be as we mark Lion’s Gate in Lion’s Head on 8/8 in an 8 year. Inspired by the stars, all that we do will be centred around intuitive knowing, visioning, and deep listening. The gift of 888 is in it’s ability to make manifest.
Krista Schilter (she/her) - a Gestaltist, horticultural therapist, writer, and creator of GOLDEN CHAIN - will guide us through playful experiments to reconnect with our wild selves as an ecology - as beings that are identified through our relationship with other beings. We’ll use body-based practices from the Kundalini and Katonah yoga lineages, group process inspired by Gestalt psychotherapy, free writes and nature-based-connection to filter our insights through the natural world.
Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Yogi, and Multidisciplinary Artist Madelyne Beckles (she/her) will teach us and nourish us with food as subject rather than object. We’ll eat local foods lovingly made granola-chic over the fire or packed for picnic and hiking.
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3 nights camping at GC HQ
3 meals + snacks per day (dinner on arrival and brunch on departure)
Movement/Meditation/Nature-based programming throughout
Guided land-based teaching and hike with Anishinaabe naturalist and guide in nearby Cape Croker/Neyaashiinigmiing
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$700 CAD + HST
Payment options:Pay in full upon sign-up
$200 deposit and $250 payable by end of June, $250 payable by end of July
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GC HQ is located 3hrs NW of Toronto. Participants are reponsible for their own way, however a ride-share will be organized.
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Bring Your Own Tent (and gear)
This is a back-to-the-earth down-and-dirty camping weekend - you’ll have access to a nice outhouse and a privy in the woods
Bathing will happen in the waters of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron
Rain or shine
A packing list will be sent out to participants closer to our time together.
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Participants will be sleeping in tents outside - in the wild. Programming will happen in and around the forest, rocky shorelines, and uneven bluffs of the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula.
Ability to pitch a tent, hike, sleep with the sounds of our non-human kin highly recommended. Okaynes with dirty feet an asset. -
Deposits secure your spot and are non-refundable.
For cancellation requests submitted beyond 30 days of retreat date, 50% of total amount (less deposit) will be refunded. For cancellation requests within 30 days of the retreat no refunds and no exceptions will be made. -
By signing up you assume the risks associated with camping and hiking and group movement, of participating in CAMP KUNTALINI.
You have been warned that this recreational activity may cause physical harm and confirm that you do not have a condition - medical or physical - that could prevent you from, or be aggravated by, participating in this activity.
Fingers crossed we’re all happy, healthy, and safe to play.
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