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Caelen Starblanket La Rocque
Instrumental Acoustic Guitarist, Caelen Starblanket La Rocque will host a discussion and exploration of 'Music & Your Creative Spirit'. A skilled, full-time artist and musician, Caelen will discuss his personal view on integrating creativity and music into your own personal journey. (He'll also perform some of his music along with our guests.) His vision is that our guests will "come away from the presentation inspired with fresh insights and renewed enjoyment about music in their lives."
Starblanket La Rocque, named for his great grandfather - a prominent and influential Saskatchewan Chief - credits his Sioux-Metis culture with providing him with both a spiritual and structural base for his own creative life.
Caelen will also perform his captivating music for our dinner on Saturday evening at Halcyon’s Kingfisher Restaurant. Read more about Caelen, listen to his music and view his latest music video on his website: www.caelensguitar.com
Instrumental Acoustic Guitarist, Caelen Starblanket La Rocque will host a discussion and exploration of 'Music & Your Creative Spirit'. A skilled, full-time artist and musician, Caelen will discuss his personal view on integrating creativity and music into your own personal journey. (He'll also perform some of his music along with our guests.) His vision is that our guests will "come away from the presentation inspired with fresh insights and renewed enjoyment about music in their lives."
Starblanket La Rocque, named for his great grandfather - a prominent and influential Saskatchewan Chief - credits his Sioux-Metis culture with providing him with both a spiritual and structural base for his own creative life.
Caelen will also perform his captivating music for our dinner on Saturday evening at Halcyon’s Kingfisher Restaurant. Read more about Caelen, listen to his music and view his latest music video on his website: www.caelensguitar.com
Terri McLeod
Terri has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and holds a Teaching Certification from the Kripalu Yoga Centre. As a Rehabilitation Consultant with a training background in Psychotherapy, Terri has a compassionate sensitivity and attention to the process of each student’s practice. The Kripalu Yoga method uniquely blends the physical postures of Hatha Yoga with the contemplative meditation of Raja Yoga.
Terri has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and holds a Teaching Certification from the Kripalu Yoga Centre. As a Rehabilitation Consultant with a training background in Psychotherapy, Terri has a compassionate sensitivity and attention to the process of each student’s practice. The Kripalu Yoga method uniquely blends the physical postures of Hatha Yoga with the contemplative meditation of Raja Yoga.
Gillian Redwood
Gillian Redwood is a professional Visual Artist and Art Educator whose artwork focuses on expressive acrylic paintings on canvas. Highly skilled, with a degree in Creative Art & Design from West of England College of Art UK, her insights have led her to create a unique style of contemporary figurative painting. Colourful, lively and heartful, her paintings are critically acclaimed and much-sought-after.
A lifelong experience of art through learning and teaching has inspired Gillian to develop ‘Your Creative Spirit’. She brings many of the components of her influential and successful creative project for women in Wales, UK called “Project 2020 Vision”.
With it’s blend of body balance, relaxation & freedom of expression, ‘Your Creative Spirit’ will inspire women to nurture & celebrate their own creativity… & integrate it into their lives.
A resident of Nakusp, B.C., Gillian exhibits & sells her work from her combination Studio & Gallery called ‘The Small Gallery’, just a few steps from the Main Street of Broadway, on 3rd Avenue. View Gillian’s work, read her Blog and details of her current exhibitions
on her website: www.gillianredwood.com
Gillian Redwood is a professional Visual Artist and Art Educator whose artwork focuses on expressive acrylic paintings on canvas. Highly skilled, with a degree in Creative Art & Design from West of England College of Art UK, her insights have led her to create a unique style of contemporary figurative painting. Colourful, lively and heartful, her paintings are critically acclaimed and much-sought-after.
A lifelong experience of art through learning and teaching has inspired Gillian to develop ‘Your Creative Spirit’. She brings many of the components of her influential and successful creative project for women in Wales, UK called “Project 2020 Vision”.
With it’s blend of body balance, relaxation & freedom of expression, ‘Your Creative Spirit’ will inspire women to nurture & celebrate their own creativity… & integrate it into their lives.
A resident of Nakusp, B.C., Gillian exhibits & sells her work from her combination Studio & Gallery called ‘The Small Gallery’, just a few steps from the Main Street of Broadway, on 3rd Avenue. View Gillian’s work, read her Blog and details of her current exhibitions
on her website: www.gillianredwood.com
Chef Tyler Leeson
A native of the Revelstoke and Nakusp area, Chef Tyler Leeson discovered a natural talent for the culinary arts while working in Canada's cultural and culinary epicentre,
Montreal, Quebec. Tyler identified cooking as his first true passion and went on to obtain his Red Seal. Working under industry-recognized chefs, Tyler gained a thorough understanding of Mediterranean cuisine.
Inspired by the Kootenay region’s fruitful bounty, Tyler Leeson has created a extraordinary menu for 'Your Creative Spirit' guests, from the finest of locally-sourced ingredients. He takes great pride in his work and appreciates that the key to fabulous food rests in the quality of the ingredients & understanding the synergy of food.
Read more about Chef Tyler in this recent article in YFM Magazine
(Canada's top insider Dining, Food & Hospitality Publication) and view Chef Tyler's
Special Menu for 'Your Creative Spirit'.
A native of the Revelstoke and Nakusp area, Chef Tyler Leeson discovered a natural talent for the culinary arts while working in Canada's cultural and culinary epicentre,
Montreal, Quebec. Tyler identified cooking as his first true passion and went on to obtain his Red Seal. Working under industry-recognized chefs, Tyler gained a thorough understanding of Mediterranean cuisine.
Inspired by the Kootenay region’s fruitful bounty, Tyler Leeson has created a extraordinary menu for 'Your Creative Spirit' guests, from the finest of locally-sourced ingredients. He takes great pride in his work and appreciates that the key to fabulous food rests in the quality of the ingredients & understanding the synergy of food.
Read more about Chef Tyler in this recent article in YFM Magazine
(Canada's top insider Dining, Food & Hospitality Publication) and view Chef Tyler's
Special Menu for 'Your Creative Spirit'.
Staff
Halcyon Hot Springs Village and Spa Staff
In partnership with us, Halcyon Hot Springs Village and Spa's friendly, professional and knowledgeable Spa Team, Front-Desk Team & Kingfisher Restaurant Team are all here to insure that 'Your Creative Spirit' retreat weekend is an exceptional experience. Spa Treatments are available, subject to availability. Please enquire in advance or your stay, or at Front Desk, for the full range of Treatments and Prices.
Details also available on their website: www.halcyon-hotsprings.com
In partnership with us, Halcyon Hot Springs Village and Spa's friendly, professional and knowledgeable Spa Team, Front-Desk Team & Kingfisher Restaurant Team are all here to insure that 'Your Creative Spirit' retreat weekend is an exceptional experience. Spa Treatments are available, subject to availability. Please enquire in advance or your stay, or at Front Desk, for the full range of Treatments and Prices.
Details also available on their website: www.halcyon-hotsprings.com
Barbara MacPherson
We are honored to have Barbara MacPherson lead our retreat guests on a Guided Nature Walk on the Halcyon grounds. Barbara is a Certified Herbalist with a passionate interest in wild plants and herbs. Over the years, she has had several herbal enterprises: growing and selling plants; making medicinal formulas; conducting herb classes and wild plant walks; and producing products such as herbal vinegars, soaps, and jellies. Also a freelance writer, Barbara has written many articles on the uses, history and romance of herbs and is a Contributing Editor for the magazine The Herb Quarterly.
Deeply influenced as a child by the wild landscape of the Cariboo where she grew up, she learned to identify wild flowers and plants at an early age. Also interested in Ethnobotany, she considers it a privilege to have seen some of the indigenous healing plants of Belize, Hawaii, Scotland, England, and France. She and her family have lived in Nakusp for nearly 35 years.
We are honored to have Barbara MacPherson lead our retreat guests on a Guided Nature Walk on the Halcyon grounds. Barbara is a Certified Herbalist with a passionate interest in wild plants and herbs. Over the years, she has had several herbal enterprises: growing and selling plants; making medicinal formulas; conducting herb classes and wild plant walks; and producing products such as herbal vinegars, soaps, and jellies. Also a freelance writer, Barbara has written many articles on the uses, history and romance of herbs and is a Contributing Editor for the magazine The Herb Quarterly.
Deeply influenced as a child by the wild landscape of the Cariboo where she grew up, she learned to identify wild flowers and plants at an early age. Also interested in Ethnobotany, she considers it a privilege to have seen some of the indigenous healing plants of Belize, Hawaii, Scotland, England, and France. She and her family have lived in Nakusp for nearly 35 years.
- Goshia & Sharon, two of Halcyon Hotsprings Spa Team's Massage Therapists
