The Braided Pathway:

Weaving Internal & External Ecosystems

With The Eternal

As we mend our connection to the Earth, and remember we are Earth, we heal ourselves, our home, and our world.

April 17th - May 12th, 2023

8 hours of online curriculum before in-person practicum:

Sessions 10 am-12 pm: March 19th & 26th, April 2nd & 9th

* sessions will be recorded

Our Signature Course

A workshop that goes beyond the textbook version of permaculture & regenerative design, explores how our inner landscape determines how we approach and relate to the external landscape. 

This course emphasizes the interconnected healing journey of humanity and Earth. 

In unpacking our cultural training, the story of separation, and how it informs our connection to the ecological community, we ask:

How do we collectively remember ourselves as Earth, as caretaker, as guardian, when our culture of inter-being has been fractured and replaced with throw-away culture?

It is our sacred responsibility to care for our living home & community.

This course is for you if:

  • You want to walk the talk of earth stewardship and grounding the vision from ideas to action

  • You are looking to gain skills to live a life of earth regeneration

  • You are ready for a full lifestyle immersion

  • You wish to develop skills for right livelihood; to make a living aligned with the heart, health, and hands

  • You want an experience that will radically bring to light the connections between different disciplines of caring for self and the planet.

  • You crave a way to connect inner reflection with the hard skills of tending the earth

  • You want to get a Permaculture Design Certificate endorsed by the Permaculture Institute of North America and go beyond the textbook

  • You want to live in a community of like-minded people focusing on a daily practice of healing arts and earth-based skills

  • You are interested in exploring decolonization and your role in it

  • You are curious about exploring the role of grief in well being

  • You want to learn how to work with fire to heal the land and self

  • You want to spend a whole month in nature recalibrating to the best version of yourself, eating beyond organic locally grown foods prepared for optimum vitality

  • You want to learn skills to act on your feeling that the time is now to care for the earth and yourself

  • You want to get a real taste of living in land based-off-grid community

  • You want to develop your relationship with the four elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

  • You resonate with the idea of earth-based spirituality

  • You want to be on the ground level of bringing humanity from the industrial revolution to the regenerative revolution.

Week by Week

The Braided Pathway is a 4-week program, with one required weekend and the remaining weekends free. Weeks 2 and 3 are the Permaculture Design Course. Weeks 1 and 4 are designed to support and deepen the PDC with internal landscaping, community building, and extended time on the land.

    • Integration and Orientation

    • Inner Landscape; Qi Gong, Herbal Allyship, Ayurveda, Sit Spot, Council, Journal Play Shop

    • Dragon Dreaming Workshop

    • Cultural Competency

    • New Moon Ceremony

    • Biodynamics; Rhythms of the stars and plants

    • Making fire

    • Tending our eco-greif

    *Weekend will include: Fire as Medicine for healing the internal & external landscape (Required for l for Braided Pathway Students)

  • PDC Student Join the Braided Pathway

    • Intro to permaculture systems on site

    • Mapping and site analysis

    • Garden classroom; Keyline Design, HugleKultur, Zones, Water Usage, Hands-on prepping and planting

    • Compost exploration and creation

    • Community Building

    • Permaculture Cultural Competency

    • Intro to forest stewardship, saws (safety and maintenance)

    • Trail building

    • Forest Gardening: Marrying the Wild

    • Watershed Regeneration; beaver dams, creek stuffing

    *Weekend will include: Fire as Medicine for healing the internal & external landscape (Required for PDC Students, Optional for Braided. Pathway Students)

    • Herbal Allyship

    • Greywater system design

    • Intro to natural building (2 Days)

    • Pole selection, harvest, and peeling (fuels reduction —> building materials)

    • Mushroom logs

    • Full moon Ceremony and Closing

    *Optional Integration Weekend for PDC Students

    • Healing Arts and Permaculture Incorporation

    • Old Growth Redwoods Visit

    • Tea Ceremony, Silence

    • Nature solo and optional fasting

    • Reflection, Community Cirlce, Closing

Daily Schedule

6:30 am Morning Sit Spot (Optional but encouraged)

7 am-8 am Morning Practice (Optional but encouraged)

8:30 am -9:15 am Breakfast 

9:15 am-9:45 am Community Morning Meeting

10 am-1 pm Class Session 1

1 pm-3 pm Lunch and Siesta

3 pm-6 pm Class Session 2

6 pm Dinner

7:30-9 pm Evening Program (Sometimes optional, sometimes required, sometimes free night)

What make this course unique?

  • The internal arts will thread asana, chi gong, and silence throughout the program

  • All lunches and dinners are labeled to increase your understanding and awareness of ayurvedic doshas and temperaments

  • Herbal allyship and space held for “dieta”

  • Working with fire as medicine for land and people

  • Inquiry into the meaning of indigenous and how it relates to all people

  • Working with an off-grid, non-textbook site, forested and mountainous

  • Tea ceremony, Moon Ceremony, The Way of Council

The Internal

The personal ecosystem within our own being. How we have been imprinted/impacted by the External. Restoratively building resilience, adaptability, and awareness of interconnection.

  • Qigong

  • Morning Asana

  • Tea Ceremony

  • Soul-craft Journaling

  • Forest Sit Spots

The External

The health of all our relationships; kith & kin, flora & fauna, fire, water, earth, air, food & medicine, soil, ecosystems, the built environment, over culture, society, and beyond.

  • Permaculture Design Course

  • Remembering Good Fire

  • Forest Mushroom Propagation

  • Community Council of Resilience

  • Herbal Medicine Crafting

  • Intro to Natural Building

  • Grey Water System

The Eternal

Unchanging patterns & truths, exploring the ineffable, walking with the stars and soul.

  • Pattern Language

  • Star Study

  • Nature Solo

  • Elemental Teachers

  • Cycles & Rhythms

  • Intro to Natural Building Course

  • Permaculture Design Certificate

  • 5 days a week for 20 days; guided Asana and Qi Gong

  • Dragon Dreaming Workshop

  • Into to Fire on the Landscape

  • Biochar Workshop

  • Ayurveda in practice

  • Herbal Allyship

  • All organic food (emphasis on on-site and local farmers)

  • Camping Included

Cost Values

Priceless

  • On-site Spring Water

  • Like-Minded Community and Connections

  • New & Full Moon Ceremonies

  • Learning the language of the wild

Early Bird = $2,500

Available till March 1st

Solidarity level = $2,700

suggested if you make less than $40k/year or have been affected by systemic inequality

Sustainer level = $3,200

suggested if you make between $40k and $100k/year

Supporter level = $3,700

suggested if you make more than$100k/a year or just want to be super awesome and support this program and help make sure other dads can participate

Work Trade and Scholarship available. Inquire.

Together we heal ourselves and our mother planet.