The dream came before the land.
Long before we arrived in Madoc, we imagined creating a place where people could step away from the pace and patterns of everyday life and reconnect with something deeper.
A place shaped by nature. By embodied experience. By meaningful conversation. By curiosity, transformation and wonder.
In 2022, that vision found its home on fifteen acres of gardens, forest and open sky.
Remember what you are made of.
Body
The wisdom beneath words.
Earth
The intelligence we belong to.
Intuition
The quiet signal
within.
Presence
The place aliveness returns.
Human renewal and planetary renewal belong to one another.
When we return to our bodies, we become more present. When we reconnect with nature, we remember that we belong to something larger. And when we feel truly alive, we begin to meet the world with greater care, courage and consciousness.
Two paths.
One shared vision.
Julia Ray
For more than thirty years, Julia has guided people into a deeper relationship with the body and soul. As founder of Ecstatic Dance Toronto, she has created more than 1,050 gatherings and helped thousands experience movement as a path of inquiry, transformation and collective remembering.
Weaving movement, dreamwork, imagination and nature, Julia invites people beyond intellectual understanding—to listen to the body’s wisdom, receive the guidance of their soul and embody the life asking to be lived.
Ian
Ian has taught martial arts for more than thirty-five years. He is also the founder of The Lions Hunt, a men’s program devoted to growth, embodiment and rites of passage.
His work explores how conscious practice, meaningful challenge and connection with nature reveal who we are capable of becoming.
The land is not simply the setting. It is part of the experience.
We grow food, prepare meals, tend gardens and move with the changing seasons.
The land teaches patience, interdependence and attention. It reminds us that transformation cannot always be hurried—and that creating something alive requires care.
Everything we offer here is shaped by that relationship.
