Community Classes

Community Classes for Stress Relief & Wellness

Seasonal Forest Bathing Classes:

Join our once monthly forest bathing classes to embrace the gifts of living in a four-season climate and explore the benefits of a consistent forest bathing practice. These classes are designed to help you cultivate presence in your day-to-day experiences and tune into the slower pace of nature, as we move through the seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter. Classes include a guided nature meditation, a brief breathwork practice in the fresh air, a season-specific forest bathing invitation, and a closing community circle among the trees. As a new feature, you’ll also head home with a forest therapy scroll to use at a later date, which is a written prompt or inspiration that will help you nurture your forest bathing practice in-between classes. Classes from May-September are 1.25-hrs, offering us a bit more time to enjoy the comfort of the warm weather season, and classes from October-April are 1-hr long, with these sessions including high value comfort items like our signature hot stone handwarmers to help you stay warm. We hope you’ll join us as we relax, refresh, and reconnect to the magic of nature year-round, with classes hosted on the first Saturday of each month at 10am.

Single Class: $18

Class Packs: as low as $14/class

Classes hosted in various forests around Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Community Classes about Wild Foods & Wild Mushrooms

Foraging & Wild Tending Class:

Are you interested in learning more about foraging, plant identification, and the incredible foods and medicines on the landscape around you? This class is for you! During our monthly Foraging & Wild Tending Classes, you’ll learn about the plants and mushrooms we encounter as we walk the forest trails together. Each class includes an extensive overview of a variety of plants and/or mushrooms, which our guides will discuss in depth to help you truly begin to understand how to identify and develop a relationship to them on your own. This class is taught from the perspective of “wild tending,” which acknowledges our relationship to nature from a place of respect, ethical foraging, reciprocity and gratitude. Classes hosted year-round on the third Saturday of each month, 10:30am-12pm.

Single Class: $22

Class Packs: as low as $15/class

All classes hosted at the Grand River Drive entrance of Cascade Peace Park in Ada, Michigan (unless otherwise noted)

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Mushroom Identification Classes

If you are fascinated by the world of fungi and want to expand your knowledge of the mushroom kingdom, our once monthly Mushroom Identification Classes are for you! During these 1.25-hr learning experiences, you’ll head into the woods and get to know various mushrooms of the season with MDARD certified wild mushroom expert, Luke Venechuk. Luke will guide you to a few of his favorite mushrooms growing in a given area and teach you how to confidently identify the mushroom, whether it is edible/ medicinal/ poisonous / or none of the above, the role it plays in the ecosystem, fun facts related to habitat recognition and foraging, and MORE! Classes hosted from May-Sept on the first Wednesday of each month, from 6-7:15pm. October’s class is hosted on a weekend (due to lack of evening daylight), with the date to be announced in September.

Single Class: $22

Class Packs: as low as $15/class

Classes hosted in various forests around Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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