Wildcraft Forest School Weekend Training Events
A great chance for you to add to your deeper meaning and purpose during the autumn and winter months
At the Wildcraft Forest School we are offering a number of our certification programs within in-person weekend segments during the Autumn and Winter months including some our studio and lab programs
When autumn arrives in the forest a vertical presence links the sky with the roots of things. Leaves have succumbed to the elements of fate and all of the once dense center has vanished – we are presented with a universe less defined within a breeze. This condition exposes things that were once hidden from view – it is our chance to see the magic that lives - inside the magic.
There is a certain power that resides along the edges of each season. I am reminded of some words from Thich Nhat Hanh:
I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling.
The leaf told me, “No. During the whole spring and summer, I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don’t worry at all. As I leave this branch and float to the ground, I will wave to the tree and tell her, 'I will see you again very soon.'”
That day, there was a wind blowing and, after a while, I saw the leaf leave the branch and float down to the soil, dancing joyfully. It was so happy.
I bowed my head, knowing that I have a lot to learn from the leaf.
So please look and you will see that you have always been here. Let us look together and penetrate into the life of a leaf, so we may be one with the leaf. Let us penetrate and be one with everything, to realize our own nature and be free from fear. If we look very deeply, we will transcend birth and death.
Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.
Along these autumn edges where the colourful warm afternoons meet the crispness of the night, we love our Sacred Fires and the stories that are shared as the stars dance with the sparks from the fire.
A certain healing takes place. In fact sitting around a fire is a natural form of Red Light Therapy. We have all evolved with fire and it has come to reflect the human experience.
It is not a coincidence that sitting down next to a fire is extremely comfortable. Firelight is natural and helps to manage melatonin production as well as keeping our circadian rhythms under control.
Fire presents infrared light which doesn’t just transfer “heat” to your body — it turns the water in your cells into batteries. This is likely why ancient cultures recognize the importance of fire, sweat lodges, and saunas, especially in winter.
One study found red and infrared light therapy (RLT) cut osteoarthritis-related pain by more than 50%.
Another study of suggests RLT lessens inflammation and pain in people with Achilles tendinitis, wrinkles and other signs of skin aging and skin damage.
At the Wildcraft Forest School we are offering a number of our certification programs within weekend segments during the Autumn and Winter. Usually we go into hibernation come November when we become engaged entirely with our online programs, but this year we are remaining open for in-person training that includes some our studio and lab programs.
Please check out the following programs and dates, if you would like to learn more about the specific offering just click on the registration links.
Wildcraft Forest School Weekend Certification Programs
Fall 2024 / Winter 2025
The following certification programs are available through a series of weekend training sessions. Weekend programs do not include accommodation as the weather turns colder. Each weekend program below links back to the program registration page. Once you register we will contact you in order to share details and confirm your preferred weekend.
Shamanic Coaching
10am-4pm
September 28/29
October 12/13
October 19/20
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/7-BiofieldTherapyCertification.html
Shamanic Coaching
10am-4pm
October 26/27
November 2/3
November 9/10
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/7-BiofieldTherapyCertification.html
Yasei Head Massage
Saturday 11am – 4pm / Sunday 11am-3pm
October 12/13
October 26/27
November 30 / December 1
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/4-YaseiShinrinYokuPractitionersBodyworkandSpaTraining-YaseiHeadMassage.html
Yasei Head Massage - 2025
Saturday 11am – 4pm / Sunday 11am-3pm
March 22/23
April 5/6
April 19/20
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/4-YaseiShinrinYokuPractitionersBodyworkandSpaTraining-YaseiHeadMassage.html
Yasei Forest Therapy Practitioners Training - 2025
10am-4pm
April 12/13
April 26/27
May 3/4
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/4-YaseiShinrinYokuPractitionersTraining.html
Forest Biotics - 2025
10am-4pm
February 15/16
February 22/23
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/4-YaseiShinrinYokuPractitionersBodyworkandSpaTraining-ForestBiotics.html
Wild Alchemy - 2025
10am-4pm
February 15/16
February 22/23
March 1/2
March 8/9
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/6-WildcraftingFoodandMedicineCertification.html
Yasei Clinical Forest Therapy Comprehensive Program
Registration Intake Dates (Online portion of the program begins within 5 Days of each Intake Date):
October 1, 2024
January 15, 2025
February 1, 2025
March 1, 2025
Program Includes:
Online Training Component
Yasei Head Massage (3 weekends or 5-Day Camp)
Forest Biotics (2 weekends)
Yasei Forest Therapy Practitioners Training (3 weekends or 5-Day Camp)
Registration Page: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/School/Camps/4-YaseiShinrinYokuPractitionersBodyworkandSpaTraining-Comprehensive.html
Visit the weekend program page for any updates: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/ForestSchoolWeekendPrograms.html
We offer specials for each Full Moon cycle, check out what’s available: http://www.wildcraftforest.com/ForestSchoolSpecials.html
In closing I would like to share with you an experience I had awhile back. This photo is from when I went for a walk with friends from the Okanagan Indian Band the Syilx People. It was very good to re-connect. We walked through a forest where Cedar trees gave them bark for making traditional baskets, clothing and other life tools.
This has been a practice and a craft that goes back thousands of years
In today’s world, the use of traditional natural materials is it risk of being lost as ancestral memory erodes within the living. This is why we must do everything we can to tap into our ancestral past and to understand the wisdom that is present deep inside of ourselves.
Cedar bark is symbolic of all that protects us. It surrounds and protects a sacred tree yet this tree gives part of itself away so that we may become protected.
When we are truly connected to the forest and the land and the water, we will have the understanding as to how our sacred journey can be renewed.
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Sidebar: First Contact with Elementals
Dorothy Maclean (January 7, 1920 – March 12, 2020) was a Canadian writer and educator on spiritual subjects who along with Peter Caddy and Eileen Caddy founded what would become the Findhorn Foundation in northeast Scotland.
Maclean was known for her work with devas, said to be intelligences overseeing the natural world. Her book To Hear the Angels Sing gives an overview of this work and also provides autobiographical materials. A full-length biography, Memoirs of an Ordinary Mystic, was published in 2010.
Dorothy Maclean contributed a great deal to our modern understanding of nature being sentient.
She turned 92 years old during Findhorn Foundation's 50th anniversary celebration in 2012. She turned 100 in January 2020 and died shortly after on March 12, 2020, in Findhorn.
This short video excerpt has her telling of early experiences with the devas.
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