ancestral craft

Weaving ourselves back together with Earth. “When we gather, craft, walk and breathe with nature, we reawaken what has always lived within us.” There comes a time in each of our lives when the old ways of being, the stories we inherited, the expectations we carried, the identities we tried to maintain, begin to loosen their grip. We feel the edges fray. The shape of who we once were no longer quite fits, and yet the new form has not fully arrived. This soft, uncertain thresho

Honouring Earth, Spirit, and the Tender Act of Holding “Rocks are the bones of Earth — ancient beings carrying the memory of time.”   Rocks are the bones of Earth. They hold stories older than language, older than memory, older than us. When we place a stone in our hands, we are touching the ancient body of our planet — a being shaped by fire, water, pressure, and unimaginable time.   In the Japanese Zen tradition, the practice of Tsutsumu invites us to enter into a quiet, re