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The World Peace Diet: Creating a Culture of Peace – Online

“The revolution that is demanded by our yearning for peace, freedom, and happiness must provide a new foundation for our culture, moving it away from its herding values of oppression and disconnectedness toward the post-herding values of respect, kindness, equality, sensitivity, and connectedness. Above all, this revolution must change our relationship to our meals—our most practiced rituals—and to our food, our most powerful inner and outer symbol.”~ Dr. Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet Do you feel called to help create a positive future for our children and the world? Are you concerned about our culture’s mistreatment of people, animals, and the Earth? Do you long to untangle and understand the hidden roots of the dilemmas we face as individuals and society? Do you aspire to develop skills to embody, share, and teach healthy and compassionate lifestyles that bring joy and purpose? Drawing on the wisdom in the World Peace Diet written by Dr. Will Tuttle, you will discover answers and effective responses to these questions. Shantree will share the tools and insights needed to understand veganism as a spiritual, cultural, physical and transformational path of awakening. A path that supports your health and the health of our planet. Learn … Read more

Spiritual Nutrition: The Path to Peace

Can the Ayurvedic Living Foods Lifestyle lift us from the prison of self-preoccupation and isolation, healing the mentality of domination, the rape of the feminine aspect and the practice of exclusivism? Can it support the growth of intuitive wisdom, cultivate compassion and be the seed for our spiritual ripening? The answer is YES! Find out how and why, as we speak to the deep spiritual hunger at the core of the nutritional dilemma and global crisis. Enlightening insights into the Food-Body-Mind-Emotion-Spirit-Nature connection offers a truly holistic platform for our exploration. Practicing the art of living cuisine becomes an opportunity for creative expression and a potent portal to the sacred. Reductionism & the Secret Shadow vs the Golden Rule Sattvic Diet, Spiritual Fasting & the Human Spirit The nutritional power of Relaxation, Awareness & Rhythm The Interconnected Web of Life Cultivating Felt Awareness Sacredness & the Feminine Principle The Intuitive Imperative Energetics, Evolution & Spiritual Anatomy “Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. The issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way … Read more

Nourishing Wisdom: A Conscious Evolutionary Diet

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed, can create a lifestyle that supports happiness, compassion, love and peace as the core values for a sustainable future. It is from this place that we begin our journey together. You will explore every way that food matters – from the reclaiming of personal vitality to supporting the life of our sweet Earth. Examine the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview they reflect and mandate. Eating As If the Earth Matters Ayurveda: The Dance of the Elements The Five Sources of Ultimate Vitality Our Culture’s Roots Bacteria Symbiosis: Balance Our Inner Terrain Veganism: the Plant-Powered Advantage Resilient Cuisine – For a Peaceful Mind & Heart Dispelling Myths that perpetuate dis-ease The Ability to Make Connections Reverence for All Life “We are what we eat, and what we eat affects our consciousness, our thoughts, our perceptions of the world, and ultimately our actions.”~Dr. Gabriel Cousens To Register Date: April 18 – 19, 2020 Time: 9am to 5pm. Cost: Early-bird $250 (two weeks before the workshop) Regular price $300 All lunches will be potluck style using as much as possible organic, local, wild, live-food plant-based ingredients. The centre … Read more

The Family/Community Herbalist: The Art of Medicine-Making

September 9 & 10, 2023 Discovery of the many facets of herbalism by focusing on the essential applications of using medicinal plants. We will learn from the plants that grow in our medicine wheel herb garden or the wildflower meadows and forest gardens. We will look at the healing plants from numerous angles, including botanical, therapeutic, energetic, historical and the sacred. Each day will include hands-on medicinal preparations such as salves, oils and extracts. We will also discuss medicinal plant cultivation: seed gathering, harvesting, drying, preserving and ethical gardening. Includes samples of extracts and medicines made in class. This training promises to be a unique and intimate herbal experience! Why buy herbal products when making your own is so simple and empowering? Some of the possible topics: Plant Identification Foraging, Harvesting, Preserving Herb Drying & Storage Oil Infusions & Salve Making Choosing your Menstruum: alcohol, vinegar, glycerin Dry & Fresh Plant Tinctures Fresh Juice Extracts Making Your Own Herbal Remedies The Art of Formulating Herbal Medicine Medicine-Making from the simple to the complex Herbal First-Aid Solutions Case Studies “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour … Read more

Create Your Own Future! A Permaculture Solution Weekend

Permaculture offers visionary and practical solutions for personal, environmental and social change. April 15 & 16 Are you seeking the tools and confidence to actually do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are completely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others. Permaculture integrates the best of ancient knowledge, sustainable technologies and disciplines to help us design ecologically sound, efficient and productive ways to live in our households, gardens, communities and businesses. Based on the principles of ecology and sustainability, this design system can be used to create landscapes that mimic nature’s patterns and yield an abundance of food, fibre and energy for all our needs. Permaculture can be used by anyone, anywhere. An invaluable tool for homeowners, farmers, urban and rural gardeners, educators, landscapers, foresters, neighbourhood organizers and anyone interested in sustainable living. Permaculture is creative, imaginative, productive and mostly – fun. We invite you to join a life-enhancing revolution and be part of building the … Read more

Wild Plant Permaculture & Rewilding Practicum (PDC)

Overview Objective & Process Schedule Registration Overview Rewilding Design System – Understanding the Language of Nature June 18 – November 15, 2020 16 Week Evening Series plus Two Weekends Learn to transform degraded woodlands and thickets into healthy, biodiverse, productive native plant habitats through hands-on, ecologically sound techniques. This part-time program is equally suited for the professional and the layperson, for landowners and land stewards, activists, naturalists, outdoor enthusiasts and native plant lovers. We begin with the permaculture foundations and then dive in deeper to understand how wild plants embody permaculture and cooperate to enhance the environment for the benefit of all. You will experience hands-on projects and expand your understanding of forest garden design through explorations of ecological practices. The wild wisdom of nature will be your inspiration while we re-design our own rhythmic patterns and participate more powerfully in a regenerative transformation of the world. What’s Rewilding? Rewilding is a process that nurtures resources, ecosystems, and communities back to health by reversing the devastating effects of industrial civilization. The modern person’s ability to intuit and discern the deep patterns and communications of the Earth have atrophied slowly over several thousand years of belief in human separation from and … Read more

Four-Season Permaculture: If You Can Dream It, You Can Create It

Overview Our Approach Course Options Why Permaculture Registration Details Testimonials Overview April 15 to October 22, 2023 Are you seeking the tools and confidence to do something about what’s happening in the world? If so, we are here to support you. Imagine a life where you are entirely lit up by your desire to be in service to creating a more beautiful world. You feel confident in how you will contribute and secure your skills and knowledge to create and share your dreams with others. Why We Do What We Do We believe that if everyone knew even a little about how Permaculture works, the degree of global change would be incredible. If you can’t already tell, we are passionate about Permaculture. Nature Works! and has proven that for millennia. Drawing on the principles of nature, Permaculture takes us through a step-by-step process to create the future Now! A 7-Month Dive Awaken your connection with the Earth and learn the practical skills required for humans to stay here on planet Earth. This is a 7-month dive into how to change your life and the world. All you need is guidance from those who have walked this path before. You … Read more

Nutritional Herbalism Mentorship: Traditional Foods & Wild Plant Cuisine

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Mentorship Pathway The Process The Experience Testimonials Registration Mentorship Pathway Traditional Foods & Wild Plant Cuisine June 17 – Nov 6, 2023 “Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.” ~Vandana Shiva Wild nutritional herbalism is the oldest form of healing on the planet. This medicine originates before the science of modern-day nutritional chemistry. This Mentorship will take you to understand plant science. Learn how to apply plants to create healthy culinary arts for yourself, your family, and your friends. Plant nutrition is also a science of bringing awareness to our actions: how and what we tend to our food, … Read more