Trail Use Policy
We are happy to share our beautiful forest with you. It is very important to us and to our forest that all users of the trails follow the following protocol to ensure...
Katherine Willow, N.D.
Dr. Willow took Premed at the University of Toronto and completed her Naturopathic Degree at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Katherine is a fourth generation naturopathic doctor with...
Personal Blog: Spring Growth in All Directions!
My view from the back of the new clinic is brown and grey now that the snow has melted. Green shoots are poking their way up through a blanket of old leaves. ...
Menu Plan for Forest Training Course
August 6-14, 2017 Here is an overview of meal options for the Forest Healing Retreat Bed and Breakfast. The main dishes are vegan with the choices of dairy, eggs and occasional fish, poultry...
Positive Turbulence!
The clinic basement is my new writing spot, with greying skies full of freezing rain and treetops visible through the high windows. A woodstove warms the damp, chilly air. This is where I...
Christmas Season Healing
It’s a quiet sunny afternoon and I’m at my usual writing place in the clinic kitchen, overlooking the front entrance where Stephen’s colourful glass art pokes out of the snowy garden. I’m sleepy...
Autumn Anxiety and Bliss…
As I gaze out the window from my kitchen writing spot I think this is the most beautiful fall I can remember. Felix and I spent two nights in the yurt over...
Ask a Naturopathic Doctor…
Why Meditate? When my spiritual teacher Baba Hari Dass heard us complain that we were too busy to meditate, he would be firm in telling us that this was absolutely the most important...
Getting Down to It
It’s lunch time and my mouth is full of buckwheat toast with peanut butter and honey. Ellie has given me a deadline so I need to use every minute The morning has been...
Ask a Naturopathic Doctor
Clearing Karma… Last week I had to smile after reading “Karma is Real” on a T-shirt. Eastern philosophy explains karma as consequences of good and bad deeds which attach us to the earth...