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June 21, July 14, August 11
Visit the Garden for a unique and elevated experience at our after-hours events featuring children's music performed by your favorite local musicians. A special area will be available for the kiddos to dance along in the garden's Covered Arbor. Spread out your picnic blankets (please pack it in and pack it out) in the nearby meadows to enjoy a summer evening with family and friends.
June 19, 2023 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
July 14, 2023 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Paint the garden in watercolor. Learn to paint what you see and create beautiful watercolors. This class will concentrate on watercolor washes and mixing colors. We will also talk about composition. Suitable for all skill levels, material list sent upon registration.
This class is for adults 18 and older.
About the Instructor
Melissa Gannon 's artist's statement: Inspiration is everywhere—in the forest, the desert, the city, the ocean and in every living thing. Sometimes I just wander around and marvel! Subjects to paint come from my hikes, travels, outings, my imagination or from asking the question, “What if...?”
My work is impressionistic, spontaneous creation using jewel tone colors and descriptive brush work resulting in a painting that you can not only see but FEEL.
Visit my GALLERY to view my work.
June 23, 2023 6 PM to 8 PM
Forest bathing is a nature connection experience inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku. These immersive experiences offer the chance to break away from the stress of daily life and to find healing and nourishment through intimate engagement with the beings with whom we share our place.
While offering a renewed sense of interconnection with the natural world, forest bathing also allows access to beneficial nervous system states that can support our long-term health and well-being. Research has proven that forest bathing boosts immune strength, improves cognitive functioning, and reduces stress, anger, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness.
Offered through a series of guided invitations, the walk will help participants move beyond the chatter of the thinking mind and find a deeper sense of embodied engagement, enabling access to new ways of being and a transformed relationship to self and others. This intentional practice of embodied presence cultivates access to powerful experiences of curiosity, awe, and wonder that are essential for resilient engagement with this era of dramatic change and transformation.
No experience necessary; just an open heart and willingness to connect.
Enrollment is limited to 12 people.
Walks are offered on multiple dates. Each is a separate event requiring its own registration and payment. You will receive more info about what to bring and current covid protocols after registration.
Weather: Walk offered rain or shine.
Accessibility: Garden paths are dirt/gravel and include some stairs and slopes.
Scholarships: Limited amount of scholarships available for the walks. Please email connect@temenosrising.com to apply for a scholarship. Include your requested walk date and how the walk will support your well-being.
Register for class on June 23
About the instructor:
Irene Bailey (pronouns: she/ her) is the Program Director for Temenos Rising and a certified guide with The Association for Nature and Forest Therapy. She has been designing and facilitating experiences that connect people more deeply to themselves, their community, and the natural world for over fifteen years. Irene has worked with numerous environmental and sustainability education programs as an educator, leader, mentor, and wilderness guide. She acknowledges her privilege as a white cis-woman to access the natural world and feel mostly safe. Irene supports the creation of safer spaces in the natural world and offers herself as a conduit to the natural world so that others can get the healing and nourishment they deserve to live well. Her life and work is rooted in possibility, gratitude, connection, and compassion.
June 5, 2023 9:30 AM to 12 PM
Choose a subject and render it as realistically as possible. Class will address how to make shapes, add values and how shadows can be used to define objects. If desired add pen and ink, colored pencil, watercolor, pastel or a medium of your choice to colorize your drawing. Suitable for all skill levels.
About the Instructor
Melissa Gannon's Artist’s Statement: Inspiration is everywhere—in the forest, the desert, the city, the ocean and in every living thing. Sometimes I just wander around and marvel! Subjects to paint come from my hikes, travels, outings, my imagination or from asking the question, “What if...?”
My work is impressionistic, spontaneous creation using jewel tone colors and descriptive brush work resulting in a painting that you can not only see but FEEL.
Visit my GALLERY to view my work.
Register for June 5 class
Register for August 7, 2023 class - Available July 2023
Garden Plants & History Tour
First Thursday of each month from 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Head Gardener, Scott Hoelscher, will take you on a tour of the Garden and share details about our plants and history. You will visit the Stone Cabin on the south side of Johnson Creek. He'll be happy to field your gardening questions too!
We walk rain or shine. Dress for the weather and wear shoes appropriate for gravel trails, slopes and stairs.
$5 fee includes Garden admission, reserve your spot in advance using the below links:
June 1, 2023
July 6, 2023
What's New Garden Tour
Second Thursday of each month from 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Take a casual stroll through the Garden with Adam Hart, Leach Garden Horticulture Director. He will show you what's new in the Garden, what's in bloom, new additions, upcoming projects and more - with lots of time for answering questions. We walk rain or shine. Dress for the weather and wear shoes appropriate for gravel trails, slopes and stairs.
$5 fee includes Garden admission, Reserve your spot in advance using the below links:
June, 8, 2023
July 13, 2023
