Makoons is the author of Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (hardcover 2009, paperback 2023) and the editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (2015, written by her mother Mary Siisip Geniusz). Her mother’s Cree and Métis family comes from the Pas in…  Read More →

Relax and recharge at the Forest Lodge Educational Campus for a meditation, forest bathing, and yoga retreat. The schedule includes unstructured time in the woods, yoga, forest bathing, and guided meditation. We are experimenting with a drop-in retreat style. You can come for the day, stay overnight, stay for several nights, or join us for…  Read More →

Join Eiko Mizushima, Aziza Bisanz, and Lila Sarene for an evening of embodied storytelling and practice about opening to and deepening how we listen to our ancestors and our ancestral inheritance. With our bodies and the land as guides, we will gather information from those who came before us about cultural wisdom, survival, relationship and…  Read More →