Regular Annual Membership Fee: $280.00
SPECIAL OFFER $220.00 until February 22, 2024
We will confirm your membership by phone or email and then you can provide us with the contact information for the additional party. This is a great nature-based gift for family and friends!
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Yasei Shinrin-Yoku
Guide Training
Yasei Shinrin-Yoku Guide and Practitioner Training provides participants with certification to perform our unique version of Forest Bathing, which combines the healing abilities presented by the natural world with spiritual and environmental stewardship, which encourages meaning and purpose within the context of agape relationships and the Wildcrafters Promise.
Wildcrafter in Residence Membership
Every year we make available a few residence memberships. Applicants submit proposals for 3-6 month experiential stays that allow them to become immersed in wildcrafting. Membership rates are negotiable but averages $800 per month over a 3-month (minimum) stay.
If getting your hands dirty is your passion
Your membership also gains you access into various ecological events where you can help us regenerate habitat. Learn how an ecosystem works and explore the living forest. Events that you can participate in include:
- Spring Trail and Backcountry Road Plant Restoration – We move wild plants from logging roads before the graders arrive and we transplant them into restoration areas.
- Mother Tree Expedition – We search out Mother Trees to collect cones for propagating seedlings.
- Creating Bird Habitat – We create songbird habitat and nesting areas.
- Wild Ginger Restoration – We transplant Wild Ginger in remote backcountry areas.
- Riparian Restoration – We seek to restore riparian areas by planting trees and seedings and transplanting the species that are natural to the ecosystem that supports these edge areas.
- Creating Bug and Snake Habitat – We create remote habitat that supports insects that in turn support snakes which are endangered red-listed species.
- Wild Pollinator Support – We plant natural plant species in remote areas that have been damaged in an effort to support wild pollinators and restore the natural ecosystem.
Because our work is constant, these various activities happen throughout the year and as a member you can participate at any time by simply calling in advance. While we carry out these efforts your will learn a great deal about wildcrafting and plant spirit medicine. You will also learn about ecosystems as we make observations of what we are seeing and experiencing in an effort to monitor climate change and biodiversity issues.
The Wildcraft Forest is home to the Sanctuary Forest Therapy Centre where twelve different kinds of forest therapy and wildcrafting practices are presented and taught through daily excursions, retreats, certification and immersion programs.
Four satellite Yasei Sanctuary Forests are also available, each representing different kinds of energies and environments for learning and practicing Yasei Shinrin Yoku and plant spirit medicine.
You can join us in the forest through challenges, passport memberships, personal coaching programs, destination retreats and immersion experiences. You can become a guide or practitioner; and if you’re starting out, you can drop-in or even participate in one of our online Yasei Shinrin Yoku challenges.
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Are you craving a more intentional relationship with nature?
Interested in tuning in to the way the natural world seeks to work with us?
Ready to create a relationship of reciprocity so that you’re giving back to the Earth? This seven session course connects participants with the wild forest atmosphere as they begin to create a real relationship with nature.
This program is part of our membership package.
Click on this video introduction.
Six Pillars of Wild Intention
Sanctuary Forest Membership
2024 - Event and Workshop Calendar
With a Sanctuary Forest Membership you can dwell in a forest that is specifically intended to help people and the beings that dwell within it. It allows you to help us financially as we regenerate habitat – you can even join us in our various work endeavours which then becomes a worthwhile adventure on many levels as we learn how an ecosystem works while we explore the remote living forest.
Your membership includes an open invitation to Sacred Fire Circles and other ceremonies and discussion events.
2024 - Event and Workshop Calendar
April 18 – Thursday - Firewood Work Party – Trail Clearing and Firewood Gathering.
April 27-28 – Wild Spring Breakout Weekend - Open Forest and Member Orientation
April 28 - Sunday - Creating a Wild Food Forest
May 16 – Thursday – Wild Remedies – Addressing Diabetes
May 18-20 – Sculpture Symposium Long Weekend - Trail of Song Sculpture Installations. Members can participate with the site preparations and installation for environmental sculpture.
June 1 – Saturday – Heartstone Series: Dreamlab Workshop
June 2 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: First Contact – An Introduction to Yasei Firebending
June 20 – Thursday - Working with Charcoal in Art and Living (Biochar)
June 22 – Saturday - Lost Series: Botany for Survival.
June 22 – Saturday - Foxfire Series: Cooking with an Open Fire
June 23- Sunday - Wild Remedies – Addressing the Immune System
July 18 – Thursday – Heartstone Series: The Wisdom of Mother Trees
July 27 – Saturday – Heartstone Series: Vision Quest – An Introduction to Yasei Airbending
July 28 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: The Cosmic Tree
July 27-28 Weekend – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Telluric Geobiology
August 10– Saturday – Heartstone Series: Ancestral Communication
August 11- Sunday – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Yasei Waterbending
August 15 – Thursday - Foxfire Series: Working with Primitive Clay
August – 24– Saturday - Creating a Wild Food Forest
August – 25- Sunday – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Yasei Earthbending
September 19 – Thursday - Wild Remedies – Addressing Depression and the Circadian Rhythm
September 21 – Saturday - Wild Remedies – Addressing Health Balance
September 22 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: Stone Circles
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Small Footprint Living•Community Action
Community Action2024 Workshops and Events Free to Members
April 18 – Thursday - Firewood Work Party – Trail Clearing and Firewood Gathering.
April 27-28 – Wild Spring Breakout Weekend - Open Forest and Member Orientation
April 28 - Sunday - Creating a Wild Food Forest
May 16 – Thursday – Wild Remedies – Addressing Diabetes
May 18-20 – Sculpture Symposium Long Weekend - Trail of Song Sculpture Installations. Members can participate with the site preparations and installation for environmental sculpture.
June 20 – Thursday - Working with Charcoal in Art and Living (Biochar)
June 22 – Saturday - Lost Series: Botany for Survival.
June 22 – Saturday - Foxfire Series: Cooking with an Open Fire
June 23- Sunday - Wild Remedies – Addressing the Immune System
August 15 – Thursday - Foxfire Series: Working with Primitive Clay
August – 24– Saturday - Creating a Wild Food Forest
September 19 – Thursday - Wild Remedies – Addressing Depression and the Circadian Rhythm
September 21 – Saturday - Wild Remedies – Addressing Health Balance
Wildcrafting Basics: 2024 Wild Weekend
Free to members who can choose two of the following weekends:
- June 8 & 9
- June 22 & 23
- July 6 & 7
- July 20 & 21
- August 17 & 18
- September 7 & 8
Heartstone Workshops and
Events with a Membership
Members can select any three of the following workshops and attend for free. If you would like to attend additional workshops you can register and receive a 25% discount.
June 1 – Saturday – Heartstone Series: Dreamlab Workshop
June 2 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: First Contact – An Introduction to Yasei Firebending
July 18 – Thursday – Heartstone Series: The Wisdom of Mother Trees
July 27 – Saturday – Heartstone Series: Vision Quest – An Introduction to Yasei Airbending
July 28 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: The Cosmic Tree
July 27-28 Weekend – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Telluric Geobiology
August 10– Saturday – Heartstone Series: Ancestral Communication
August 11- Sunday – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Yasei Waterbending
August – 25- Sunday – Heartstone Series: An Introduction to Yasei Earthbending
September 22 – Sunday – Heartstone Series: Stone Circles
Expeditions – Free to Members
Volunteer for work in the wild experiences. These on-call events provide members a chance to accompany wildcrafters as they deliver a variety of projects that supports stewardship activities. Members are notified of these activities in advance and can participate if they like. These expeditions are great learning experiences that gives one a chance to create new and future old growth habitat.
April – Cottonwood and mid-story planting to regenerate riparian areas. Trail maintenance, and making biochar.
May – Seeding, potting and transplanting understory plants and mid-story trees as well as conifers. Digging in biochar while creating new riparian zones. Seed collecting.
June – Backcountry assessments and monitoring. Seeding, potting and transplanting understory plants and mid-story trees as well as conifers. Digging in biochar while creating new riparian zones. Seed collecting.
July - Cottonwood and mid-story planting to regenerate riparian areas. Backcountry assessments and monitoring. Seeding, potting and transplanting understory plants and mid-story trees as well as conifers. Digging in biochar while creating new riparian zones. Seed collecting.
August - Trail maintenance. Cottonwood and mid-story planting to regenerate riparian areas. Digging in biochar while creating new riparian zones. Seed collecting. Backcountry assessments and monitoring.
September - Cottonwood and mid-story planting to regenerate riparian areas. Backcountry assessments and monitoring. Seeding, potting and transplanting understory plants and mid-story trees as well as conifers. Digging in biochar while creating new riparian zones. Seed collecting.
We share other members Events and Special Offers from our special members website.
Please remember that if you enroll in any Wildcraft Forest School program we’ll deduct the “Annual Sanctuary Forest Membership” price that you paid for in that given year.
Please note that our membership is based on double occupancy so you can bring a spouse, partner, friend or family member…it’s like a two for one!
