True North

This is an invitation-only retreat intentionally limited in size in order to create a deeply connected communal experience — a temporary sangha built through openness, trust, curiosity, reflection, and shared presence.

Participants will stay in a combination of traditional farmhouse rooms, rustic barn accommodations, and cozy glamping tents located throughout the property and forest.

Participants are responsible for arranging their own airfare to Vancouver, British Columbia. Additional travel guidance, transportation information, packing recommendations, and retreat preparation materials will be provided upon registration.

A $500 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your place in the Journey. Remaining balances may be paid in installments beginning July 2026, with payment deadlines scheduled for August 1, and September 1, 2026.

Together, we journey inward.
Together, we learn from the land.
Together, we pause before a new year begins.
And perhaps, together, we return to our True North.

At the heart of the Journey is the belief that every person carries within them a True North — an inner compass often buried beneath distraction, responsibility, ambition, grief, fear, routine, and the relentless pace of modern life.

Together, with the guidance of teachers, monks, Indigenous elders, movement leaders, healers, and friends, participants will journey through ceremony, meditation, movement, forest exploration, contemplation, water, silence, and shared community in search of deeper clarity, connection, and alignment.

Nature comes first, always. The rainforest, the cedar trees, the rivers, the salmon, the rain, the moss, the mountains, and the changing seasons become part of the teaching itself.

Through ancient spiritual practices and wisdom traditions that continue to live today, participants will be invited to slow down enough to listen — not only to the voices around them, but to something quieter within themselves. The lessons of patience, balance, resilience, interconnectedness, stillness, and return are revealed through the natural world and the ancient ways that honor it.

This Journey does not seek to tell you who to become. It simply creates the conditions in which your own Truth — your own True North — may begin to reveal itself.

• Meditation + Learning: morning meditation with the monks. No prior practice needed. Tea Talks with spiritual leaders of this region sharing valuable lessons to help us find our truth.
• Movement in Nature: gentle yoga most mornings, long walks through the forest, space to move in whatever way your body is asking for. Ancient moss-covered forests, towering cedar trees, cold rivers, ocean air, and the living wisdom of the land itself. During this season, the salmon return home. The First Nations peoples have long understood these places as teachers: reminders of rhythm, patience, resilience, and connection.
• Sacred Ceremony: the foundation of each day. Ancient rituals and practices shared by teachers from three different traditions. Ceremony asks something of us, presence, discomfort, attention, surrender, and in return often reveals clarity, connection, and a deeper sense of True North.
• Meals: three shared plant-based meals each day, prepared by an octogenarian Chinese vegan chef using locally grown ingredients whenever possible. Simple. Nourishing. Eaten together.
• Freedom: nothing is mandatory. You can find your own peace on the farm, either working on the cannabis farm, in the kitchen, or just watching the wild salmon return upstream in the backyard. There are no rules except for the ones you impose upon yourself.

Twenty is small enough that you'll know everyone by name on day two, and small enough that the kitchen can cook for us properly.

It's the size where you can actually have a real conversation with everyone over the week, rather than meeting half the room in passing.

October was deliberate. The trees are letting go, the days are getting shorter, and most of us are already slowing down whether we want to or not. We're going with that.

A week off; not a vacation and not an offsite. Time to take honest stock and figure out what's next, without having to come back with anything to show for it.

Each person arrives with their own questions, intentions, griefs, hopes, transitions. The week makes space for them, through silence, forest walks, shared meals, ceremony, contemplation, and time.

Some people come because something needs to change. Some come because something already is. Either is fine.