Another place, another time - another version of yourself.
What Women Are Saying
"I came looking for inspiration and found a whole new way of creating. The natural world showed me textures, rhythms, and new stories. My creative practice feels rooted and alive.”
~ Sofia, 38
“In the quiet of winter, this course helped me light a creative fire that’s still glowing. Each month gave me something to look forward to - something warm, alive, and full of wonder.”
~ Diana, 52
“This experience helped me slow down enough to hear myself again. The land became a place of deep rest and gentle remembering. It reminded me how to belong , to the earth and to myself.”
~ Ellen, 61
WELCOME TO LAND & BODY - Winter Series
A Season for Creative Return
This winter, come home to yourself. Slow down, listen deeply, and rediscover the quiet rhythm that lives beneath the surface of things.
Land & Body is a contemplative arts and self-development journey, an invitation to deepen your art by co-creating with the natural world. Through gentle creative practices, guided reflection, and connection with the land, you’ll explore how nature can become both teacher and collaborator.
As you spend four months in conversation with the elements, you may find that the landscapes you love most aren’t just places - they’re mirrors. They hold memory and meaning, calling you back to something essential. The land carries a quiet wisdom, offering reminders of your belonging and creative potential.
This season, let yourself be guided by the living world. Light a creative fire that warms and sustains you through the darker months. Discover how art, story, and nature can help you see yourself—and the earth—with renewed wonder and possibility.
Live Zoom Classes
Starts: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Course Fee: $250 CAD/$180 USD
Total Class Hours: 8 hours, includes a private gallery page and connections throughout the month with the instructor and women in the course. One Sunday per month - a slow learning and integration approach.
What if the land you’re drawn to holds a mirror to who you are becoming?
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I'm so glad you're here.
Land & Body is a 4-month immersive journey into the living relationship between place and self - a gentle, creative exploration of how the landscapes we move through can shape, reflect, and awaken the inner terrain of our lives.
Rooted in nature-based practices, quiet observation, and the language of creative expression, Land & Body invites you to wander slowly, listen deeply, and let the rhythms of the natural world speak to you. What hidden truths are waiting in the hills, rivers, forests, and the sea? And what new story of yourself might they be longing to tell?
Each class runs for two hours. In the first half, women share their creative work and reflections from the previous month’s assignment. The second half introduces new content related to the theme, and we explore women artists whose work touches on the topic we’re discussing.
In every class, we draw inspiration from the natural world — how the land itself teaches us about rhythm, change, and belonging. The conversations are rich and reflective, with time for each woman to workshop ideas and share her creative process, often guided by what the landscape is revealing
This program is for you if you want to:
Come Home to Yourself
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Feel more grounded, calm, and clear during life transitions
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Strengthen your intuition through focused attention, reflection, and presence
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Experience moments of clarity—glimpses—that reveal who you are becoming
Deepen Your Art with Nature
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Reconnect deeply with nature in a way that transforms how you see yourself
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Create meaningful art or writing inspired by your relationship with the natural world
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Explore your connection to land, place, and belonging to uncover new insights
Light a Creative Fire This Winter
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Connect with a supportive community of like-hearted women on a similar journey
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Feel re-inspired and creatively alive through the quiet, nourishing rhythm of the season
Classes & Monthly Themes
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Belonging to Place: Noticing Where You Feel Most at Home, and Why
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Begin by noticing and connecting with the places where you feel most at home - places that are also alive with wonder and possibility, and may serve as doorways to something new you’re seeking. Using deep reflection techniques, explore the feelings and memories these places bring up for you. Discover the connection between land and body through the work of women artists, whose pieces speak to shared themes of identity, belonging, and transformation - helping you deepen your understanding and inspiring your own creative expression.
Sunday, December 21, 2025 - Winter Solstice
The Land as Teacher: Listening, Presence, and Uncovering Wisdom
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Learn to pay close attention to the quiet messages and stories the land offers through thoughtful and careful observation. Develop your ability to listen deeply and be fully present as you spend time in nature, discovering a new language that brings fresh insights and guidance around tension points and feelings of misalignment in your life. Explore the natural concept of flow, and practice ways to bring its rhythms into your daily life.
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Listening to the Land: Symbols, Textures, Stories in the Natural World
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
This month centres on perception—the textures, shapes, and symbols the land offers to your awareness. Through mindful photography, drawing, and other creative practices, you’ll develop a visual language that helps you catch glimpses not only of place but also of what you are searching for within yourself.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
The Land That Calls You: Mapping the Terrain of Longing and Resonance
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST/1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Close the season by exploring your personal geography of belonging and yearning—the places you’ve come from, where you are now, and the steps ahead. Through the creative practice of handmade maps, you’ll weave your story into the larger story of the land, uncovering the paths and longings that guide you forward.
Between Classes
As you listen to the stories of others and return to the land again and again, you may begin to notice how place shapes your identity, memory, and belonging. This is an invitation to remember the landscapes that live within you - and to deepen your relationship with the living world around you.
Between monthly sessions, you’ll spend time in the natural world exploring your connection to the landscapes that are calling you, and record the changes and shifts that are happening for you. You can use any medium to do this - creative writing, photography, painting, sketching or simply wandering and observing the ecosystem around you.
Who Will Love This?
This course is for women who want to come home to themselves, to slow down, find presence and beauty in everyday life, and reconnect with the rhythm of the natural world. For those who feel drawn to a creative life and long to deepen their art and self-expression through relationship with nature.
It’s for women in seasons of change, ready to listen inwardly and uncover what’s quietly calling them forward. Through reflection, creative practice, and nature-based mindfulness, you’ll light a creative fire that brings warmth, clarity, and inspiration through the winter months.
Because when you are calm and clear inside, your art - and your life - begin to feel whole, alive, and deeply aligned.
No artistic experience needed. Just a curious heart and a willingness to listen.
Course Fee: $250 CAD/$180 USD
Total Class Hours: 8 hours, includes a private gallery page and connections throughout the month with the instructor and women in the course.
Facilitator
Rachel Schmidt BSW, PLC
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✨ Hello, I'm Rachel
I created Land & Body for women who feel more alive around certain landscapes, and are interested in understanding why. This course is for you if you've walked through a forest and felt wonder, stood at the edge of the sea longing for something, or you are searching for a home you can’t quite name.
Land & Body is a four-month creative exploration of how the landscapes we love—and the ones that call to us—can mirror, move, and transform us. Through nature-based mindfulness, contemplative practices, and creative work, we’ll explore the living relationship between place and psyche, body and belonging.
I use nature-based mindfulness, Psychosynthesis, and contemplative arts to support women in reconnecting with the deepest parts of themselves—often through their connection to the natural world. Many of the women I work with carry a quiet longing to live closer to what feels true. The land helps them find the way.
My studio is located in a forest in British Columbia, Canada, surrounded by 150-year-old trees. I hold a degree in social work and bring over 30 years of experience in the helping professions. I’m also certified in Psychosynthesis, a depth-oriented coaching approach that honours the whole self. A mother, artist, and activist, I feel most at home in nature - especially when paddling my kayak across a quiet lake beneath a sky full of stars.
With a background in counselling, teaching, holistic wellness, and the visual arts, I bring together these threads to create rich, reflective experiences like Land & Body. These online gatherings are deeply connected spaces where women come home to themselves through their relationship with land.
"I discovered a new way of being present, not just with nature but with myself. The practices opened up a longing for something more meaningful in my daily life, and what that might look like. Rachel is an amazing facilitator and created a safe and trusting online space, blending her background in counselling and contemplative arts. Highly recommend."
— Maya L.