Forest Medicine
The forest provides the medicine and the therapy. The Wildcraft Forest School issues a series of certifications linked to Forest Medicine including various Yasei Shinrin Yoku (Forest Therapy) programs and Earthing Therapy programs. This page displays programs that are delivered through a camp setting and supported by online learning.
Forest Therapy: Yasei Shinrin Yoku
Comprehensive Forest Therapy Practitioner Certification Training Camp
Our Practitioners training allows participants to deliver a 12 Session Forest Therapy Program to individuals, groups and into the public and private sectors. Training begins online when you register and then you completer your certification at one of our 5-day camps.
Sanctuary Forest Design Program
Stewardship and Regeneration Certification Training
Delivered within a year long semester program that includes in-person camps, live conferences, online learning and a mentorship process.
A Sanctuary Forest represents a location where stewardship is taking place which seeks to protect, expand or rewild the natural biodiversity of a place. A Sanctuary Forest is also seen as a spiritual centre where the stewards of the place have created a sentient relationship with all of the biotic beings located there. It can be located on private or public land and is largely placed there by the sheer will of those individuals willing to steward that place. A Sanctuary Forest is created upon certain pillars that include stewardship, science, sentience, spirit, semiotics and sanctuary.
Forest Discipleship:
Sanctuary Forest Practitioners Training
A Forest Therapy 5-Session Program that engages nature for strengthening mindfulness, discipleship and reconciliation within people in faith-based communities.
This training is delivered within both an online training option and an in-person option. Training is delivered from a series of Sanctuary Forests and successful participants will receive certification as Yasei Shinrin Yoku Practitioners and specializing in Healing and Sanctuary Forests. This series was prepared as a leadership program to help communities, spiritual retreats, churches, temples, and other faith-based centres imagine how nature can be incorporated into their work and how nature can serve as a means to strengthen acts of empathy, mindfulness, reconciliation and discipleship.
Yasei Shinrin-Yoku Bodywork and Spa Certifications
Providing bodywork practitioners and spas with enhanced opportunities that will compliment their independent practice. The Wildcraft Forest School has applied its unique approach to nature-based wellness and combined it with Ayurvedic practices in order to provide a clinical approach to Yasei Shinrin Yoku.
Shamanic Coaching:
Energy Medicine and Biofield Therapy Certification
Become a Biofield Practitioner and explore First Contact,
the Guardian Spirit Complex and Shamanism.
Learn how to deliver a 12 Session Shamanic Coaching Program to individuals, groups and into the public and private sectors. This Shamanic Coach training is available through an in-person 5-Day Camp with additional online lessons; it can also be done through a one year semester program that includes a mentorship process.Training provides topics and methodologies for each session as well as nature-based exercises and meditations.
Dragon Guide of the Forest:
Become a Yasei Shinrin Yoku Dragon Guide
Engage with the Stars, Sacred Fire and Ancestral Energies
within the practice of Forest Therapy
This unique Forest Therapy practice is designed to be delivered within the 45N and 60N Latitudes around Planet Earth. This practice familiarizes individuals within this Star Map and teaches the Yasei Dragon Guide 5 Session Program which includes techniques Firelight Therapy, Ancestral Mapping and an understanding of our cosmic relationship with the night sky.
The Wildcrafting Herbalist
An advanced wildcrafting program that offers a
Wildcrafting Foods and Medicines Professional Certificate
This program provides a working understanding of wildcrafting, the growing and use of naturalized herbs; creation of food forests and stewardship methods. Presented within a three day Camp Program with online lessons and live conferences.
Alchemy
Certification Training in Historical and Contemporary Alchemy
Delivered within a 14 month semester program featuring online and in-person training
This Alchemy program presents the historical practices of alchemy which aimed to transform materials, create elixirs, and achieve spiritual enlightenment, contributing to the development of modern chemistry and herbalism. This program offers a contemporary approach to the ancient wisdom that first defined alchemical practice.
Bioregional Specialist Certification
This camp series offers training in food and medicine security and small footprint living and planning. As a Bioregional Specialist you will be consulting with individuals, NGO’s, businesses, communities and governments in order to help them deliver tangible long-term actions that supports the regenerative stewardship of local watersheds. As a specialist you will be introducing regenerative efforts that link economics and community development so that they work within natural systems linked to local watersheds and ecosystems.
Presented within 5 day camps during the summer.
Explore courses, camps, experiences and distance
learning by visiting our Wildcraft Forest School Index page at our registration website.
Rewild Distance Learning
We offer online courses, certifications, seminars and outdoor challenges and restoration programs which provide an inspirational and creative environment for students ranging from children to adults and from beginners to professionals. We seek to share quality experiences, from leading edge artists, thinkers and do’ers locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Our scope is to link the forest therapies, arts, creativity, wild-dynamic permaculture, food, wellness, spirituality and activism with wildcrafting.
Wildcrafting Basics – Weekend
Wildcrafting Basics is a great opportunity to explore the art of wildcrafting. This weekend hands-on demonstration event allows you to learn plant identification in the wild while we introduce you to plant spirit medicines and wild foods. Wildcrafting Basics Weekend is held every second and fourth weekend throughout the summer at the Wildcraft Forest - call us to reserve your space which includes free camping.
Heartstone Centre: Wildcraft Forest Mystery School
The Wildcraft Forest School has collected its more esoteric teachings and placed them within a dedicated campus called the Heartstone Centre. The Heartstone Centre is a contemporary Mystery School which offers programs in the remote forests of British Columbia as well as other sacred locations throughout the world. Heartstone carries the ancient teachings held by Smiths who were the Shamanic Firekeepers from long ago and who still carry certain teachings linked to the power of the Earth and the Cosmos.
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Wildcraft Forest School
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Discovery Centre – 250.547.2001 Email: treks(at)uniserve.com
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“The Wildcraft Forest is a magical place where I can reconnect to my own humanity it is literally euphoric. I’m talking about it for days after I leave. The inspiring conversations, the mind-expanding curriculum, the fresh natural landscape. I first took the Wildcraft Basics course a couple years ago, I didn’t know what to expect when I went, but I had no idea that it was going to have such a lasting impact. I learned about how being influenced by nature can turn you into a patient, connected person who really cares on a deeper level. Now I’m eager to learn more about Wildcrafting and plant medicine and the importance of our natural world and the Wildcraft Forest provides and ongoing vehicle for me to do that. Don and others are endlessly working to make our community and the world community a better place. The school works on countless projects to bring awareness to environmental issues and also runs an online magazine outlining these issues for the general public. I’ve never seen such a great example of doing so much with such few resources including brilliant courses, delicious teas and foods, and even just an atmosphere of non-judgment and inclusiveness. It is TOP PRIORITY to have this place expand for the goodness of our community and the goodness of our Earth.”
Leah M.
Railway Employee – Vancouver, BC
school offerings
The Wildcraft Forest School issues a series of certifications linked to wildcrafting, Yasei Shinrin Yoku, the ancient arts and regenerative stewardship. We also offer seasonal camps, workshops, seminars, fieldtrips and distance learning, which provide an inspirational and creative environment for students ranging from children to adults and from beginners to professionals.
