Wild Woods Wellness

Wild Woods Wellness You were not born to be tamed; it's time to live wild and well! Bridging mind, body, and soul with earth and spirit so that you can live wild and well!

Wild Woods Wellness is a holistic healing practice based out of Creston, BC offering massage and energy sessions, personal wellness products, women's circles, and other transformational classes, workshops, and events.

Only a few days left to say "YES!" to this incredible experience 🔥🔥🔥Come join us for a journey of alchemy, connection, t...
11/08/2025

Only a few days left to say "YES!" to this incredible experience 🔥🔥🔥

Come join us for a journey of alchemy, connection, transformation, and remembering.

On November 15 near Creston, BC, you're invited to shed old skin, cross a threshold, and come home to your own sacred power - held in the arms of the Earth, witnessed by fire, and guided by the wisdom of ancient ways.

All details can be found by following the l1nk in my b1o.

11/06/2025

✨️Supporting the Flow of Life✨️

Lymphatic Drainage Sessions Now Available!

Your body has a quiet system working behind the scenes every day — the lymphatic system. It’s part of your immune system and acts like the body’s internal cleansing network, removing waste, toxins, and excess fluid while circulating immune cells to keep you healthy.

When this system becomes sluggish — from stress, poor sleep, lack of movement, or just the weight of modern living — it can show up as fatigue, puffiness, inflammation, digestive issues, brain fog, or a general feeling of heaviness.

💧Lymphatic drainage gently encourages the movement of stagnant fluid, bringing fresh oxygen into the tissues and helping the body find its natural rhythm again. It’s one of the most effective ways to support detoxification, reduce inflammation, and calm the nervous system — alongside good nutrition, sleep, and mindful living.

Even the healthiest people benefit from a lymphatic reset twice a year, and others find benefit through weekly or monthly sessions.

These 60-minute sessions are deeply relaxing yet powerful, supporting those experiencing:

• Auto-immune or inflammatory conditions
• Edema or water retention
• Fatigue + insomnia
• Stress + tension
• Digestive issues
• Migraines or vertigo
• Skin disorders
• Pre- or post-surgery recovery

Sometimes called lymphatic massage, this work is very different. Massage targets the muscles; lymphatic drainage works just beneath the skin with slow, rhythmic, and near feather-light movements. It’s about guiding your body’s flow, not forcing it.

✨️If you’re feeling stagnant, heavy, or in need of a gentle reset, this work helps you return to your natural state of balance, vitality, and ease.✨️

The investment is $100; book your 60-minute session today by emailing danette@wildwoodswellness.ca or texting 250-464-0321. Find more details by following the l1nk in my b1o.

✨️Supporting the Flow of Life✨️Lymphatic Drainage Sessions Now Available!Your body has a quiet system working behind the...
10/30/2025

✨️Supporting the Flow of Life✨️

Lymphatic Drainage Sessions Now Available!

Your body has a quiet system working behind the scenes every single day — the lymphatic system. It’s part of your immune system and acts like the body’s internal cleansing network, helping to remove waste, toxins, and excess fluid while circulating immune cells to keep you healthy. It also works alongside and supports the body’s cardiovascular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, muscular, and skeletal systems.

When the lymphatic system becomes sluggish — from stress, poor sleep, lack of movement, food and environmental toxins, and just modern living — it can show up as fatigue, puffiness, inflammation, digestive issues, brain fog, or a general feeling of heaviness. Supporting the natural flow of lymph can help restore balance, vitality, and ease throughout your entire body.

💧A lymphatic drainage session gently encourages the movement of stagnant fluid, bringing fresh oxygen into your tissues and helping your body find the pathways to move blood and lymph. It’s one of the most effective ways to support detoxification, reduce inflammation, and calm the nervous system, alongside good nutrition, quality sleep, and stress management.

Even the healthiest people can benefit from a lymphatic reset twice a year — much like a spring and fall cleanse. Others can benefit from weekly or monthly sessions.

These 60-minute sessions are deeply relaxing yet powerful, and help those experiencing:

• Auto-immune and inflammatory conditions
• Edema or water retention
• Fatigue and insomnia
• Stress and tension
• Digestive issues
• Migraines or vertigo
• Skin disorders
• Pre-surgery preparation and post-surgery healing

While lymphatic drainage is sometimes called lymphatic massage, the two are quite different. Massage works into the muscles, often with deeper pressure to release tension. Lymphatic drainage, on the other hand, uses slow, rhythmic, and near feather-light movements to stimulate lymph flow just beneath the skin. It’s more about guiding your body’s natural rhythm than manipulating it.

Because this work supports circulation and fluid movement, it’s not recommended for those with congestive heart failure or conditions that affect the heart’s ability to pump fluid, blood clots, kidney or organ failure, or active infections (sinus infections being an exception).

If you’re feeling stagnant, heavy, puffy, or simply ready to give your body a reset, a lymphatic drainage session can help you reconnect to your natural flow from the inside out and help restore a sense of balance, vitality, and ease.

✨️Your body knows how to heal. It just needs space to flow again. And lymphatic drainage is that gentle invitation for your body to remember its natural rhythm.✨️

The investment is $100 and you can book your 60-minute session today by emailing danette@wildwoodswellness.ca or texting 250-464-0321.

I was ready to quit, but then I realized that I just needed to be willing to walk away.After all, it is the ultimate sur...
10/29/2025

I was ready to quit, but then I realized that I just needed to be willing to walk away.

After all, it is the ultimate surrender. When you feel like your back is against the wall in one of those "what do you want from me?" moments with life, and you reach the pinnacle where you're willing to leave it all behind.

That happened to me in the spring of this year. Through a whole series of events, I was willing (and ready) to walk away from my practice. I was prepared to return to the workforce. I wrote a resume, applied for jobs, went through interviews, turned a couple things down.

It felt so clear at the time that I was supposed to let go, but the most peculiar thing happened. No other door opened. I was left floating in a liminal space, for months, with no idea what it was that I was to do next.

I was confused. Why did I feel so guided to walk away when nothing else was open? And then I realized...

I wasn't supposed to quit. Spirit just needed me to have that willingness. To let go and loosen the hold so that I was able to see from a different perspective.

So many things that I was trying to control, push toward, and push away simply needed to be released. Yet another layer of shadow work to be revealed. Quite possibly my biggest yet. A reckoning with my higher self to clean out the beliefs, thoughts, habits, and all the things that were not aligned, on a level I didn't even know existed.

And in that, I found that I simply needed to be willing to quit so that I could see things in a different way.

Through that process, I signed up for some CE courses with a massage school. I remembered something when I stepped into that classroom.

I have many, many passions. I love to lead women's circles. I love to firewalk. I love kundalini yoga. But maybe I lost touch with one of my biggest passions. Maybe there was too much distortion in the way.

Because I absolutely love working with these crazy, complicated little meat suits that we all reside in. I love the complexity. The beauty. The puzzle of it all. And I love to find ways to help people feel better, more embodied, more settled, within their vessel.

How could I ever think I was supposed to quit?

I often say that the thing we resist the most is what we're actually meant to turn toward.

I'm grateful for the new perspective I've gained through this journey. I'm grateful for the clarity and the renewed passion. I'm excited to work with clients in new ways.

And I share this with you because maybe you too don't need to quit. Maybe you just need to be willing to so that life can restructure and bring you a new perspective 💜💜💜

Join us for a journey of alchemy, connection, transformation, and remembering. On November 15 near Creston, BC, you're i...
10/22/2025

Join us for a journey of alchemy, connection, transformation, and remembering.

On November 15 near Creston, BC, you're invited to shed old skin, cross a threshold, and come home to your own sacred power - held in the arms of the Earth, witnessed by fire, and guided by the wisdom of ancient ways.

All details can be found by following the l1nk in the comments.

10/21/2025

Are you ready to walk?? ❤️🔥👣🔥❤️

It's happening ... November 15 near Creston, BC! Save the date and watch for all of the details and registration to be posted later this week.

I hope to meet you in the portal and make magic together.

✨ Creston friends; if you have been curious about Ayurveda, this is your opportunity to book a session! Michele Rose fro...
10/01/2025

✨ Creston friends; if you have been curious about Ayurveda, this is your opportunity to book a session! Michele Rose from Dusty Rose Lifestyle in Golden, BC will be at the Wild Woods Wellness studio offering a pop-up Ayurveda clinic for one day only on October 7th! There are only a limited number of spots so be sure to book yours right away. ✨

As the winds cool and the days shorten, our bodies long for warmth, rhythm, and deep nourishment. Abhyanga, the ancient practice of warm oil massage, meets us here — grounding the mind, supporting digestion, easing stress, soothing joints, and bringing radiance to skin and hair. 🍂

💆‍♀️ Choose your experience:
* A full body session for deep restoration and balance
* A shorter upper body session (head, neck, arms) — a beautiful way to experience Ayurveda when time is limited
✨ Optional add-ons:
* Herbal hair oiling ritual for deep nourishment of scalp, hair, and nervous system
* Reiki + sound healing to restore subtle energy and invite calm

This offering is gentle and fleeting — a single day, with only a handful of spaces. If you feel called to receive, Michele would love to share this practice with you. 🌿

Booking link is in the comments & below — reserve your session today, and gift yourself the grounding you deserve this season.

Booking link:
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=26397150&appointmentType=category:Location%3A%20Creston%20%28Wild%20Woods%20Wellness%20Clinic%20Space%29

November/December and 2026 dates TBA depending on interest! Due to travel costs, Michele will need a full schedule to make this possible. If you know anyone who might be interested, PLEASE SHARE THIS POST with them!

🔥 Come Gather 'Round the Fire 🔥 Fire burns, destroys, transforms, alchemizes, offers warmth, and shines light into the d...
09/29/2025

🔥 Come Gather 'Round the Fire 🔥

Fire burns, destroys, transforms, alchemizes, offers warmth, and shines light into the darkest of spaces. It is such potent medicine, whether we are walking on it or gathering around it. And next week, under the full moon on the shores of Kootenay Lake, Michelle Hunt and I invite you to come gather ‘round with us on Monday, October 6.

Something magical happens when we circle around the fire. Our ancestors have been doing it for longer than recorded history. When we sit with the flames, we connect to our ancestors who did the very same thing, drawn to the fire’s warmth and light. Recognizing how it turns darkness into a place of connection.

Around the flames, stories were told, songs were shared, meals were prepared, and wisdom was passed down from one generation to the next. Fire was so much more than survival. It was (and still is) ceremony and ritual. Fire holds our grief, our joy, our prayers.

When we intentionally gather around the fire, something awakens in us. Even if we can’t name it, there’s an ancient rumbling, a remembering somewhere deep within, something that is much larger than ourselves. The fire burns away what no longer serves, it ignites our inspiration, and weaves us together into community, heart to heart and soul to soul.

A recent study found that when we look into the fire, the stem cells in our bodies turn on. So that something that happens when we get still, present, and gaze into the burning embers, that something that we can’t always name, is truly an activation within our bodies. It is the remembering.

When we tell stories in community around the flames, we awaken deeper parts of ourselves. We become more of who we really are, who we came here to be.

So come take a pause with us for a magical, heartfelt full moon ceremony on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake. Immerse yourself in the elements, experience the heart-opening medicine of cacao, connect to your ancestral lineages, and give to and receive from the fire in whatever way you need, with an optional lake dip at the end!

Michelle and I bring years of facilitation experience, weaving together practices and modalities with the art of holding space. We’ll guide you through a heart-full connection to the sacred plant medicine of cacao. (Our cacao is ethically sourced and supports women in a village in Guatemala.)

Michelle is a Family Constellations Facilitator and will share an ancestral meditation with you, helping you connect to your ancestors and begin to understand the hidden influences of your lineage. Although we will not be immersing in a full Family Constellations experience, Michelle will share about this “language of the soul” and how the experiences of your ancestors impact your life today.

In this heart- and soul-expanded space, we will turn to the fire. As a Certified Sundoor Firewalk Instructor, I will share fire teachings and lead you through an offering and ritual to both give and receive with the light, medicine, and power of the fire.

We will begin at 6:30pm on Monday, October 6 and intend to wrap up the evening by 8:30pm, but will stick around and have a lake dip for those who want to join us for the ultimate cleanse and refresh under the fiery Aries moon.

The Details:

Monday, October 6 | 6:30pm to approx. 8:30pm | On the East Shore of Kootenay Lake about 10 minutes past Twin Bays

Investment: $30

***Pay online through a secure Square site here: https://square.link/u/qp1K1xdN (l.i.n.k. in bio), or etransfer to danette@wildwoodswellness.ca and send a follow-up email with your name and contact information. Specific details about the address, what to bring, etc., will be sent out via email a couple days prior to the event date.

We'd love to have you come gather 'round the fire!

🍂🧡 Happy Autumn Equinox! May you land ever-so-softly into this sweet season of surrender 🧡🍂Our gardens teach us to be gr...
09/22/2025

🍂🧡 Happy Autumn Equinox! May you land ever-so-softly into this sweet season of surrender 🧡🍂

Our gardens teach us to be grateful for the abundance in our lives, while also being mindful to clear out what is old, rotten, decaying, and no longer needed.

The trees teach us to soften, get still, and let go. That transformation is beautiful.

Fall is also associated with the water element. Water moves us. It asks us to be moved. And it also invites us to get still and reflect. Flow with the raging of the rapids and the calmness of the lake, the vastness of the ocean and the smallness of the pond.

You may see lots of rituals to perform and ways to call in the new season. I want to remind you that your spirituality does not need to be complicated nor performative.

Simple, sacred, and soulful. That's where it's at. Honour the turn of the wheel in whatever way feels right in your heart. In whatever way is available to you right now.

Breathe in the beauty as the air becomes more crisp and the landscape transforms in such a magical way 🍂🧡🍂
{Side note: this photo is one of my most loved larch trees on Haystack Mountain}

This was a rough week. On so many levels.And although it's very rare that I ever get political here, I'm not sure that t...
09/13/2025

This was a rough week. On so many levels.

And although it's very rare that I ever get political here, I'm not sure that this is even political. More human than anything. And it feels right to share it here.

I do invite you to read through to the end, without jumping to conclusions as to where I'm going with it...

So, I go back to last weekend. Saturday night, I took the boys to a demo derby in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Something I noticed is that they had the Canadian flag hanging alongside the American one. And when we stood for the anthem, they sang ours first.

I was honestly surprised. I looked around, waiting for the reaction, and there wasn't one. Just respect, followed by cheers. Given the state of North American affairs right now, and how much the media tries to convince us that Americans are the enemy, it touched me.

I've spent a lot of time in Northern Idaho throughout much of my life. And what I can tell you is that these are some of the kindest, salt of the earth people I have ever met. Many of them would literally give you the shirt off their backs.

One night when our vehicle broke down and we were trying to find a room, owners of motels were offering to come pick us up and even set up beds so we had a place to sleep even though their motels were full. And on this particular night, my bank card wouldn't work at the grocery store and three men, including the cashier, had their wallets out offering to pay for my order, literally within seconds.

You know what else. This is Republican country. Big time.

Jump ahead to later in the week, a teacher who I've learned a lot from and have looked up to in many ways posted a video on social media about the fear of Republicans becoming n***s. It made me instantly feel sick to my stomach.

This person is positioned as a leader with thousands and thousands of followers. Huge communities of followers. Teaches about love, acceptance, unity, and non-judgment. And in this one post, this one moment, all I felt, right to the sickness in my core, was division, alienation, and hate.

I felt shocked. Angry. Sad. Maybe even betrayed.

The very next day, Charlie Kirk was murdered.

It shook me harder than I ever could have imagined.

I want to be clear. I'm not a Republican or Democrat. I'm not left or right, or Liberal or Conservative. I'm not a Trump supporter, nor am I a hater. And the same goes for Charlie.

But I have watched a lot of Charlie Kirk content. I've seen the discussions and debates, even the ones being madly cherry-picked and quoted out of context.

Charlie was a disruptor, a challenger. And he did it in a way that was respectful and intelligent. I personally have not agreed with everything that Charlie said. But I always admired his approach and the way he got me to really think about big, complex things.

I've always felt that we need more Charlies. Not in belief and ideologies, but in approach, in the ability to have uncomfortable conversations and respectfully debate opposing points of view. Because it's in those spaces - if we're willing to be open and get curious - that we can actually learn, grow, and maybe even gain new perspectives. That simply doesn't happen by sitting in communities where we surround ourselves with people who only think the way we do. Who only see the world the way that we do.

Some of these are the ones celebrating his death, or justifying it. Like he deserved it because of his beliefs. I honestly appreciate the clarity this has given me because I know, without any doubt, that these are not the communities where I belong.

I feel like there's a bigger point here being missed. Maybe it's not about choosing sides. Maybe that's the exact fu***ng problem. That everyone feels this great need to be on a side and as soon as we do that, we've become superior to the other. Whether we want to admit to it or not. And it doesn't matter what side you choose, it's the same evil at the top.

They don't care who you choose. They just want you to grab on to that side and not let go. Because that's how they divide, control, and conquer. We're all playing into it beautifully, aren't we?

The thing is, I do not give a s**t who you vote for. I don't care what your political ideologies are, or if you meditate, or if you're spiritual or Christian, or how much yoga you do or how many enlightened experiences you have, how many books you've wrote or retreats you've led. I don't fu***ng care.

I want to know if you're kind. I want to know how you'll behave when someone is down. Especially if they're different than you. How do you show up when life gets hard? Who do you become when things get uncomfortable? What really shows when the mask slips? I want to see if your words align with your actions. I want to see if you really put words like love, diversity, and inclusivity into practice, especially among people who are seemingly opposite of you.

I want to see if you're still in touch with your humanity. The rest of it? It does not matter.

I choose humanity.

I support humanity.

That's it.

Ram Dass had it right: love everyone and tell the truth.

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A Journey Like No Other...

Lightworker, Wild Woods Woman, Warrior of the Heart: Bridging Mind, Body, and Soul with Earth and Spirit

My journey into the spiritual world began at a young age. I always identified with a greater universal energy as a child. I have led quite an extraordinary life in many ways, right from the moment I was conceived. It is a story unlike many others, and the stories slowly make their way to pages that will eventually fill a book.

I was incredibly blessed as a young child to grow up in a family that was deeply connected to the land. My childhood memories include having pet squirrels (that were brought home as rescued babies), holding “memorials” for dead birds found on my grandparents’ farm, watching my grandmother bottle feed fawns, and touching noses with a young black bear through a sheet of glass at our family’s backcountry cabin. A cabin where we spent weekends, celebrated birthdays, and lived off the grid before living off the grid was a thing.

I have spent more hours of my life in the backcountry than I could attempt to even guess. My dad and extended family gifted me with a love and understanding that I never fully grasped how important and meaningful it was until just a few years ago.