The Seed Lodge

09/02/2026

We are officially sold out! It’s truly an honour to be welcoming so many incredible creative art therapists, healers, psychologists to the Seed lodge for our first ever outdoor conference. For those of you who couldn’t make it this year please sign up for our newsletter so you can join us next year. We will share the beautiful news as it unfolds. Xoxo Esther

08/20/2026

What does it actually look like to stay at the Seed Lodge? Come and find out. We are offering incredible programming throughout the summer and fall season. Link in bio.

08/18/2026

So excited to welcome Michelle Buckle to the Rooted &Alive conference and camp on September 5! Registrations still open. Link in bio.

08/12/2026

Something shifts when the session moves out of the office and amongst the trees... but a lot of therapists aren't use to working in this way.

ROOTED & ALIVE is an outdoor camp/conference/retreat and four days of exploring what healing can look like outdoors. Curated for practicing mental health professionals, our theme is Nature as Co-Therapist: Taking therapy outdoors.

Whether you're a therapist curious about taking your practice into the wild, a creative arts practitioner looking to expand your therapeutic repertoire, or simply someone drawn to being outdoors, you're welcome here.

Through dance therapy, art therapy, drama therapy and music therapy, forest bathing, somatic practice, and workshops on the land itself, we'll ask a simple question: what's possible when we invite our relationship with nature to run the session?

Come find out what the old trees already know. Join us now:
https://www.theseedlodge.com/rooted

Book soon as there are limited spots available and registrations closes on August 24th.

To see a full conference schedule see link in first comment.

08/11/2026

Welcome to The Seed Lodge! We can't wait for you to be here for our first Rooted and Alive -- Outdoors Creative Arts Therapies Conference & Retreat happening Sep 3-6, 2026, Meaford, ON. We'd love for you to be part of this community-building weekend.

For more information about the conference and to book your ticket click here: https://www.theseedlodge.com/rooted

Follow along on Instagram or Facebook for updates, ride share information, outside lodging information.

Can’t come this year… be sure to sign up for the ROOTED newsletter to find out more about the conference in 2027. This will be a yearly tradition. https://retreats.theseedlodge.com/landing-page

We’d love to hear from you, email us with questions.

08/10/2026

Most people, including therapists themselves, think therapy happens in a room with four beige-painted walls, a closed door, and a ticking clock.
BUT... what happens when we step outside?

ROOTED is four days of exactly that. Dance, art, drama and music therapy. Forest bathing, somatic practice, and workshops on the land itself. We ask one simple question: what's possible when we invite our relationship with nature to run the session?

For therapists ready to take their practice past the office door, for creative arts practitioners, and for anyone who's ever felt more honest outdoors than in.

September 3 to 6, 2026. Spots are limited.

Link in bio&below to hold yours.

Come find out what the old trees already know. 🌲

https://retreats.theseedlodge.com/rooted

08/08/2026

Incredible line up of practitioners at ROOTED & ALIVE

Sarah Brodie is presenting at this upcoming long weekend skill share & festival for creative therapists-- The Seed Lodge in Grey Highlands, 2 hours from us The Arterie


Some program highlights include -
Awe, Gratitude, and a Resilient Nervous System: Cultivating Sustainability from the Inside Out
Forest Bathing and Clinical Approaches to Climate Grief -
The Wild Home: An Eco-Art Therapy Experience
Our Nervous Systems on a Changing Planet: Playback Theatre for Grief, Hope, and Regulation
The Dancing Tree, movement and Qi Gong session at the edge of the woods.
Daily Kundalini Yoga & breathing workshops
Swimming, paddling, hiking, free-time & incredible organic home cooked meals
Featured session: Taking Therapy Outside: What Happens When Nature Is the Co-Therapist? — presenters share what it actually looks like to move sessions outdoors, including how it supports transformation with clients navigating identity, culture, and climate grief.

08/07/2026

I am in AWE of our profession right now.

In utter disbelief at what happens when a group of people just say YES.
At the end of May, my colleague Jessica and I had an idea: a weekend creative arts therapies skill share and gathering, outdoors, just us and this work we love. It took until July to even land on a date.

Then we sent one call out to the community.

One month later — look. what. happened.

This program is rich — full of different voices, different practices, and more than anything, a deep, unmistakable love for what we do. And right now, with everything happening in the world, coming together like this — to celebrate each other and just how good this work is — feels essential.

So here it is. THE ROOTED & ALIVE YEAR 1 PROGRAM SCHEDULE. (Link in comments — go look. Now.)

This schedule is incredible. Highly experienced and skilled therapists working outdoors share their skills.

If a conference outdoors, incredible food, and gathering with some of the most amazing practitioners in this field sounds like your thing… join us.

Only 23 spots left. We are almost sold out.
More information: https://www.theseedlodge.com

We'd love to see you in the forest.

08/06/2026

Time to sign up! Conference program is ready and we need you to show up 🌟 four days of incredible programming. Outside. With amazing people. Food. What more do you need to end your summer?

08/06/2026

Rooted &Alive camp and conference is happening on labour day weekend. The schedule is up!!!! Check the link in bio for this incredible line up of presenters 🌟🌟🌟🌟