Join us on an immersive year-long journey through the five elements of nature: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal and learn how they reflect and affect your own inner landscape. Each element has its own season, emotions, qualities and wisdom.
Through nature connection, creative practices, personal reflection, movement, meditation and shared experiences in stunning locations around the bay, you’ll explore how this ancient and eternal cycle can support your health, understanding and flourishing, along with that of our planet.
This is a space to engage with the wider systems and cycles of life, to reconnect with our beautiful Bay and our shared, evolving story, as we celebrate the depth and complexity of being human.
Our Journey with Wood – Spring 2026
Step into the vibrant energy of Wood, spring, growth, courage, and vision. Through yoga, nature connection, creative expression, and compassionate exploration, we’ll awaken leadership, purpose, and the fertile force of new beginnings.
Along the way, we’ll dive into hands-on, nature-based crafts, weaving, art, foraging, and other creative practices to spark imagination and connection. Set in stunning locations around the bay, this course offers a space to stretch, grow, and align with your inner vision, celebrating the dynamic, ever-renewing energy of Wood.
Course Dates: April 11th, 18th & 25th, 2026
Location: Torbay
Cost: It is our heartfelt wish to offer this course as authentically as we can and to anyone who is drawn to it. Therefore, we are offering it based on Dana. Dana is an ancient Pali word meaning generosity or giving and comes from the Buddhist tradition.
In practice, it means that at the end of the course, you will be asked to consider the value of the experience and teachings you have received and give what you can to ensure that courses can continue for others. There is no set price – just like all other aspects of our lives, each of our financial circumstances is unique. In the Dana tradition, the amount is less significant than the intention to enhance the lives of others. This is an intention which has kept the Buddhist tradition alive for the last 2,500 years, it is a commitment to our Collective well-being.
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Open to the Elements A Quest for Personal & Planetary Well-being