Re-connection with Nature Through the Senses and Incense Workshop

Experience an off-grid, immersion weekend to deepen your connection to the earth and anchor yourself more deeply in Quebec’s environment.  Through direct experiences, you will learn techniques and tools to nourish your connection with local nature, in your daily life, all year long. We will be using an animist approach, where everything in the natural world is alive and has a spirit.

In the first workshop: We will begin with a program of re-connection to nature activities in the forest. We will explore the living world, learn the secrets of the forest and its benefits on our health. Through simple exercises and meditative moments, we will activate our senses and relearn how to take the time to observe what surrounds us.

In the second workshop:  Together, we will craft an incense, using the plants and trees that you have met in our forests and gardens.  This sacred scent will support your re-connection to Quebec’s natural world and help guide you on your healing path.

In the third workshop: We will use incense as a tool to cultivate mindfulness, stimulate creativity and then share our experience with group.

Your Hosts:

Bonnie Kerr (Be en Foret) herbalist, incense maker, perfumer and owner of Esprit de la Nature. Bonnie has lived off grid, in the forest, for decades.  Her work with fragrance is inspired by her deep connection with nature.  Focusing on the flora of the Boreal forest and northern gardens, her fragrant creations are known around the world.

Lucie Bosquin, passionate about nature, she created « La Coureuse des Champs ». Traveling through the forests and fields of Quebec, her mission is to maximize the beauty and magic that surrounds us through the variety that nature can offer us; medicine, food but also endless survival and craft equipment. Lucie encourages us to look at nature differently, through our sensitivity and our senses!