Courting The Wild Unseen
- a ritual of grief and praise -
March 13 - 15, 2026
Salt Spring Island, BC
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An invitation:
This is a ritual of grief and praise that honours belonging, meaning, love, and loss. In this journey of expression we will work with myth, poetry, movement and nature connection. By coming together and listening to ourselves, each other, and the unseen, we can explore the subtle edges of our heart’s sacred longing.
Early Bird Price
$550 - $750 - until Feb 15th 2026
Regular Price
$750 - $950 - until March 7th, or all tickets sold.
Apply here:
https://forms.gle/53HTsVHm71bVKTbY6
Applications will be taken on first come, first served basis. After applying you will be contacted by a facilitator for an intake call. Full payment after the call (via e-transfer) secures your spot.
We look forward to gathering together! ❤️🔥
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Tended by:
🌿 Sequoia Lesosky
Following his cry for village, Sequoia has become an embodied specimen of a human devoted to be in service to the collective health. His gifts work like the fungi, sometimes unseen, but connecting people to vital nutrients that keeps them thriving. Humble as fungi, he loves to support others in finding their authentic roars and cries. He brings deep love, care and harvestable dedication to ritual and community containers.
✨ Christopher Isa Muscat
Weaving the interstitial threads of poetry, ecology and ceremonial life, Chris aspires to offer eloquence to our broken language and the importance of the soul. Through tending, remembering and feeding sacredness. He advocates willingly for the animate, the tempered heart and grief as the holiest of companions. You might catch him laughing like a coyote or watching the mystery of life like a hawk, whispering Blessed are the things that go from us.
💗 Amber Friedman
A wild gypsy spirit making her way through the hearts of those in the qathet region and the surrounding islands. Amber is a mother, an artist and she works with plants to create magic healing potions. Passionate about educating the nation on the lost arts of; natural dyes, plant medicine and community building. Her heart has been called to tending to those who walk with grief, and supporting them on their journey. www.wildspiritapothecary.ca
🪶 Trevor Mervyn
Trevor is a ritualist, storyteller, and wilderness fast guide based in the qathet region of BC. "My passionate curiosity around the
intersection between ritual, myth, initiation, grief, reverence, and nature has laid claim to me. I believe in the sacredness of mystery, and the deep wisdom of the more-than-human-world. I believe in the night." www.sacredgestures.com
💫 Max Baron-Veale
Max is currently several years into a ritual apprenticeship that has had him tilling the soil of cultural necessities needed by human and other-than-human life to co-exist and mutually thrive. His passions include authenticity, uncovering a cosmology to hold all things, and a gentle approach to the ‘being yourself’ school of hardknocks.
🐚 Amber-lee Bartlett
Amber came to this work through her own journey with profound loss and grief. She understands healing to be an initiation out of exile into our wild gifts, through relationship with community, the ancestors, the earth, and the Otherworld. She believes that our imagination and creativity are sacred tools that bridge us to the unseen. Her gift is creating art, meaning and beauty out of shattered circumstances, and pouring love and understanding into the most shamed, isolated, wounded parts that we carry with us. As a midwife she walks the tightrope between joy and sorrow, and life and death, with deep accountability and care for those who she walks alongside.
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