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, 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 surroundings and our shared, evolving story, as we celebrate the depth and complexity of being human.
Our Journey with Water – Winter 2026
In this dark, reflective time of year, immerse yourself in the element of Water, associated with winter, yin, wisdom, vitality, and the life force within. Through meditations, nature connection, deep listening, creative expression, and invigorating adventures, we’ll explore fearless, equanimity, and the ebb and flow of life.
Along the way, we’ll dive into playful, watery creative activities: watercolour, music, and other flowing crafts that awaken the senses and spark imagination. Set in stunning locations around the bay, this course offers a space to connect deeply with yourself, with others, and with the natural world, celebrating the fluid, ever-changing nature of life.
Our second session takes us inland to the river, following the movement of water as it flows through the landscape and through us. This session invites us to explore the emotions of Water, fear and lack of fear, adrenaline and excitement, and the role these emotions play and have always played in our lives. Time by the water, journalling, and meditation provide space to reflect on the power of rest and slowing down, helping us acknowledge and align with the natural rhythms of life. Nature connection, wet felting, and listening practices offer ways to investigate how water has shaped human history, culture, and inner experience. Gentle movement, discussion, and creative expression then help us open to the ancient wisdom of water and what it can teach us about moving fluidly and effortlessly through life.
Our final session takes us to the sources, the hidden springs where water begins its journey. Here we turn toward deeper patterns, exploring how water reflects fear, courage, and clarity in our lives and in collective systems. Through walking, meditation, journalling, and collaborative dialogue, we will consider what helps us trust and how fear has been used to shape societies and influence our connections. Creative practices, from landscape drawings translated into music to playful marbling, invite us to engage with unpredictability, complexity, and the beauty of the unexpected. Time for deep listening, inner wisdom exercises, and optional movement or dance allows us to integrate insights, cultivate steadiness and equanimity, and open to the subtle rhythms of life. This day is about reflection, reverence, and connection, offering space to gather wisdom from the source before flowing onward on our own meandering journeys through life.
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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