Regular Sanctuary Forest
Annual Membership Fee: $160.00
You can purchase your membership via this secure PayPal button or you can contact us and we can arrange a bank transfer with you.
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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
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 endeavours which then becomes a worthwhile adventure on many levels as we learn how an ecosystem works while we explore the remote living forest.
With your membership you can help us with hands-on stewardship work but we understand that you might be unable to bushwack into wild areas to help us plant trees and restore remote habitat. We understand that you might simply need to relax and become regenerated on a soul level.
Annual Sanctuary Forest Membership - $160
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 endeavors which then becomes a worthwhile adventure on many levels as we learn how an ecosystem works while we explore the remote living forest.
Did you know?
When you register for one of our multi-day certification or self-improvement training camps that you can attend any future camp of that kind at no charge. We have made this opportunity available for decades now and we suggest a donation but only if you are able.
This policy continues, but we have realized increased costs as more people visit so we have created this Sanctuary Forest Membership as a way to help with the ongoing expenses of the camp.
- If you like you like the fact that we make our offerings available to people for return visits to the forest and our programs, then perhaps you would like to pay-it-forward by purchasing this membership.
- If you are returning to a specific camp series and you would like to chip in and help us out with some of the expenses that are taking place during your camp, perhaps you would like to purchase this membership.
- We know that there are always lots of people who take our camp programs and can’t afford to make a donation – and that’s ok we will never turn folks away. But perhaps you would like to purchase a membership to help sustain their continued efforts to drop-in and return so that they can maintain their sense of community here.
- Buying this membership is a statement that says. “I love what you are doing and just keep doing it!”
We never turn down additional donations and other contributions because it all helps!
With your membership you can help us with hands-on stewardship work but we understand that you might be unable to bushwack into wild areas to help us plant trees and restore remote habitat. We understand that you might simply need to relax and become regenerated on a soul level.
The Wildcraft Forest Foundation has launched a channel on the Roku platform. This unique channel features Deep Nature and and includes stories, experiences and insights from our many students around the world. Join "The Forest".
The Wildcraft Forest Channel is a deep nature story portal which can be viewed on Roku. Download the Wildcraft Forest Channel from the Roku Channel Store. The subscription is free and it will appear on your Roku menu as “The Forest”.
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If you have questions about our offerings please contact our front counter at: wildcraftforestextension(at)gmail.com or call 250.547.2001
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Outback Fieldtrip Membership - $160
As many of our participants know, we often include outback fieldtrips to remote areas. This membership acknowledges the many large and small tasks that need to be done in these remote forests so that they can be ready for your visit.
Our various Forest Campuses serve as base-camps close to a great number of natural attractions and as a forest therapy centre we have attractions and activities that can offer you a great escape into deep nature. This membership also acknowledges the stewardship activities that take place at each of these locations.
- I was inspired and loved my outback fieldtrip and want to support this cause!
- I love what you are doing and just keep doing it!
Remember during a camp program and with the help of volunteers we will include you on all outback fieldtrips, this membership is a option that allows you to simply kick-in further support or to pay-it-forward.
We never turn down additional donations and other contributions because it all helps!
Wizards Cafe Membership - $60
Our new Wizards Cafe is the place in the forest where people who are taking our programs gather to connect and chat in the mornings and evenings. This small internet teahouse also represents the place where we greet people when they arrive.
Wizards Cafe is open at set times at the Wildcraft Forest for our members to drop in for a cup of wildcrafted tea and a hot lunch – for free. We don’t charge. Refreshments to members are available for free but if you like, you can make a donation or pay it forward.
- If you purchase a membership it supports our efforts to keep Wizards open and going. It’s a great compliment to this working forest and members can take the time to walk the trails and perform their Yasei Shinrin Yoku exercises and meditations.
Wizards has full internet access and we are eager to premiere our latest production from the Wildcraft Forest Channel.
But really it’s about great tea, good conversation and awesome company.
Our Wildcraft Forest Memberships
All of our memberships allows you to become part of our network that provides access and information to various opportunities like volunteer activities, wild tea tasting events and our Sacred Fire Circles. Members have a chance to try out our various products that also include massage oils and essences all harvested from the wild.
Membership includes open access to our Healing Forest Trail System which includes an “Earthing Trail” where you can connect barefoot and in the mud under the rich and thick tree canopy.
Membership also includes our seven session online introduction to Yasei Shinrin Yoku called the “Six Pillars of Wild Intention”.
Drop by the forest and we’ll take you, your family and friends on guided walks. Be part of a ceremony and enjoy the guided experience.
When you purchase a membership we provide you with our Sanctuary Forest Membership Kit which provides wonderful details about our community.
You can “Offset” your recreation and leisure by supporting the Wildcraft Forest with a Sanctuary Forest Membership. You can use it for yourself or gift it to another – this is your chance to support people who are doing the work required to regenerate a local part of the planet that we share.
We encourage you to visit our Support Page where you can contribute to other great initiatives like the Wildcraft Forest Channel, The Forest Almanac and the Mother Tree Hub.
Sanctuary Forest
Outback Fieldtrip
Membership - $160
Sanctuary Forest
Wizards Cafe Membership - $60
community supported stewardship
