Creative Courses

Location: Gunnison River

Nurture your creative self. Draw inspiration and insight from the natural world on a four-day canoeing and expressive arts course designed to spark self-discovery through multi-media journaling and other forms of art in nature. Explore beyond the traditional concept of journaling through words, as you get to know yourself and your surroundings in a new way, incorporating several different art forms including sculpture, scribble drawing, poetry, photography, collage-making, and writing. Learn new artistic techniques from our experienced staff and broaden your wilderness skills through an introduction to canoeing, river camping and backcountry ethics.

Daily creative projects will celebrate and incorporate the environment through which we travel, including day-hikes in stunning Dominguez Canyon, visits to petroglyph/pictrograph sites, and plenty of time to simply soak in the diverse and amazing Gunnison River ecosystem. Relish this unique adventure as you broaden your observational focus through open-ended artistic exploration, new skills, and a fantastic group of co-creators. Begins and ends in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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Price: $650.00
Number of Days: 4
Fitness Level: Gentle

Location: Utah Desert Canyons
Give yourself the gift of reflection.
Take a step towards identifying, achieving and living your personal goals while drawing inspiration from Utah’s slickrock canyons. Experienced life coach Katie Asmus and Sandra Gaskill, a therapist specializing in Hakomi, have designed this course for women who wish to rejuvenate any aspect of their life, deepen personal understanding and proactively work with personal objectives around balance, choices, transitions and expectations.
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Price: $715.00
Number of Days: 4
Fitness Level: Moderate
Guest Teachers: Katie Asmus | Sandra Gaskill

Location: Vedauwoo, Wyoming
Look through a new lens.
Capture the beauty you see in the wilderness on this three-day outdoor photography course taught by fine art photographer Niobe Burden. Using the spectacular rock formations and unique beauty of Vedauwoo, a.k.a. Land of the Earthborn Spirit, as a canvas, you'll learn how to find and capture extraordinary images in nature and practice observing new details throughout the landscape. This magical oasis is world-renowned for its dramatic pre-cambrian hoodos and outcrops, granite spires, sandstone cliffs and abundant wildlife and scenic valleys. Examine an unending selection of subjects in beautiful light, watch for moose, elk, antelope and eagles, and appreciate the changing fall colors in a magnificent and varied setting.
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Dates:
Price: $480.00
Number of Days: 3
Fitness Level: Moderate
Guest Teacher: Niobe Burden