MONTHLY SUNDAY MORNINGS
DEEP NATURE CONNECTION
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Backyard Sessions Returns:
November 12th & Dec 10 2023
Jan 7, Feb 11th, Mar 3, April 14th, May 5th 2024
Times: Sundays 10am – 1pm
Location – Lila Music and Nature Centre, Duncan BC
Please contact Cari to discuss scholarships and trade options.
Proposed focus – subject to change
*Nov 12 – Focus on fire, bowdrill, nest building, burn bowls.
*Dec 10 – Making gifts, small baskets, candles, cordage
*Jan 7 – Fire Nest making, Weaving diagonal pouches with cattails, Primitive Bow and arrows, Blindfold Trust walk.
Feb 11th – Working with fresh willow, ivy, local plants, tray, weaving rattles Extra fee for willow trays and rattles.
*Mar 3 – Eco Dye with plants, making paints, wax pencils
April 14th, Bird Language, working with wool
May 5th – Wild foods foraging and medicine making,
Kindly pre -register by sending your payment to Cari ( At) cariburdett (dot) Com
Please email number of people in your family group so we can prepare materials in advance.
$40/ Adult
$60/ family
Children by donation.
Contact Cari for trade options.
No one turned away.
Message Cari to reserve your spots and ask questions.
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Last year’s successful monthly gathering for all families and individuals who wish to connect deeply through nature is inviting you all to join us in our 2nd year.
We invite you to deepen your skills, practices and connection with Core Routines, 8 Shield Teachings, Fire Skills, Plant work, Survival kills, Story sharing, Scouting, Crafts, Tracking, basket making, Wool felting and more.
The mornings will follow this:
10am – Welcome/Gratitude/Awareness/Games/ Song
11am -Intro/teaching of skill share/harvest
12noon – Hands on making/creating/crafting
1pm – Brief Closing circle
Lunch you are invited to stay for lunch on the farm land.
PS – DUNCAN MYTH CLUB
Four of the dates there is an afternoon of Myth and Story telling with the amazing Story Teller – Stephanie Mackay who has studied with Martin Prechtel for 13 years and runs her own Nature School up island called Fianna Wilderness School.
Dates: Nov 12, Dec 10 2023 and Jan 7, Mar 3 2024
Times: Sundays from 2-5pm
Where: Lila Music and Nature Centre
Facilitator: Stephanie MacKay
Email Stephanie to register etc – stephanie AT fianna dot COM
It is with deepest respect and gratitude that we ( Lila Music Centre, Cari Burdett and Ingrid Mertens), recognize that we are living on this sacred stollen land, of the Quw’utsun, Coast Salish peoples. We honour the First Peoples who came before us and acknowledge their great teachings, skills and cultural practices created from the land that surrounds us. With utmost respect, we acknowledge the land skills, songs, foraging, medicine making, living skills and crafts that have been passed on for generations to the First Peoples and recognize that much of these cultural practices were stollen away from the First Peoples over the last centuries through genocide and colonization, and acknowledge it is still occurring in devastating ways everywhere. It is with an open heart and humble awareness, that we recognize our privilege as white settlers here in this Quw’utsun Valley and see the predicament of wanting to teach nature based crafts as white settlers. With curiosity, we are returning to our cultural ancestral practices and connecting with the crafts and practices from these lands of our ancestors. Humbly and with great love, we wish to also practice skills of crafting, working with fire and plants and re connecting to the land around us for our own healing and the collective healing of this planet. We believe that everyone can find a deeper connection of self through their own deeper connection with nature. We want this to be a safe place of inclusion, where differences are met and accepted and that the cultural division can be acknowledged with humility and care for building our ways together in a healthy and caring way. We practice Nutsa’maat Sqwalawun, One Heart One Mind.
We hold a working allyship and relationship with local Quw’utsun Indigenous Elders and friends and are truly grateful to invite them to teach and share what they wish with us from their traditional Coast Salish ways. As settlers, we will focus on sharing the skills we have learnt of crafting/ creating with using what can be known as “invasive Plants” and local heritage plants that are found in the area, unless we have been given permission to share something of the local traditions with you.
Our first Class on October 16th, will include a permission ceremony, where we will ask pubically at the gathering for permission to offer this skills, teachings and work on this traditional land of the Quw’utsun, Coast Salish Peoples. We are grateful to have Hwiemtun, Fred Roland, come to bless our work here at Lila Music Centre. All are invited to come and witness this blanket ceremony.
We created this humble offering to bring together a passionate diverse ‘village’ of all ages and stages, in the recognition that we can all learn to deepen our awareness and connection with nature.
Have you been inspired by nature and want to deepen your connection with the elements, meet others in the Quwut’sun Valley who also are keen to create with nature? Are you inspired to learn how to make cordage, weave baskets, make medicine with plants, work with the wonders of kelps, learn how to make fire by friction and work with wood?
We imagine us all gathering as a village, sipping tea from freshly picked wild harvested plants, crafting beautiful, simple, useful objects from nature, sharing stories, singing songs around a sacred fire. There will also be the invitation to play games, awaken our senses with exercises and sit spot, wonder to forage, build a shelter, create burn bowls and more…
This is for all families and individuals who wish to connect through nature with nature.
Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Pre Registration and payment required.
We need to know who is coming so we can prepare enough materials for everyone to be able to create their bushcraft.
Please email Cari( at ) cariburdett.com
or text 250 710 – 4174,
for questions and last minute requests to join.
Please register by sending e transfer or dropping off cash
Cash can be dropped off at Lila Music Centre.
Materials fee will be added for certain projects.
Contact Cari for trade options.
Please enquire – cari@cariburdett.com
What to Bring:
Bring a snack, water, hat, solid blade knife, something warm to sit on – we will be outside!
We look forward to Creating and Connecting with you,
Cari Burdett, Ingrid Mertens & Guests
Cari spent the Covidian years in forests, beside the rivers and the Salish Sea, deepening her connection with nature. She is grateful for her mentors Jean – Claude, Ingrid and Arnaud, with whom she studied in the year long Immersion course, with Wisdom of the Earth, on Salt Spring Island, where she learnt many amazing things.
Cari continued her training and mentorship with Arnaud Gagne, Connection Pathways, Thriving Roots Wilderness school, Seraphina Capranos and committing to living each day in gratitude, connection and service to the land and it’s peoples.
Cari enjoys working with all ages and is in her third year as a mentor at the Thriving Roots, Cowichan Scouts weekly program. She runs voice workshops, choir and is excited to continue building this new village on her farm in the Quwut’sun Valley.
Cari is committed to continuing her studies and practices with deep nature connection, ceremony, ritual and practices. She is presently studying with Sal Gencarelle, a Lakota knowledge keeper, who offers trainings through the Helpers Mentoring Society. and Jon Young, the founder of the 8 Shields model for Deep Nature Connection and his new offerings at Connection First, as well as continuing with Seraphina Capranos in her new school the Centre for Sacred Arts.
Last year’s poster:
