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 ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Finding Healing and Guidance in Nature:
A Summer Solstice Celebration
June 25, 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Monkey Valley Retreat Centre has hosted vision fasts, medicine wheel teachings, teachings of ecopsychology practices, medicine walks, inquiry groups, and, of course, many gatherings of family and friends, too.
In the summer of 2008, the grandmothers and grandfathers of this land greeted a vision faster, perhaps for the first time in many ...
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