Events
2010 Events coming soon….
Here is a listing of our past events;
Saturday, May 30 – Sunday, May 31 9 – 5 pm
EcoNest: Turning Your Dream Into Reality
Instructors Paula Baker-Laporte and Ingrid Cryns
Fees: $225*
Thursday, June 11 7 - 9 pm
How to create your Healthy, Off-Grid, Green, Dream, Eco-Home
Instructor Ingrid Cryns
Free
For more information see below or contact us at;
info@somaearth.com
416-656-4444
More info here...
How to Create your Healthy, Off-Grid, Green, Dream, Eco-Home
Thursday, June 11 7 - 9 pm
Free
Instructor Ingrid Cryns
Find out the beginning steps of what to look for in buying land, choosing non-toxic, EMF free, healthy building materials – inside and out, and how to deal with building permit/zoning/authority concerns. Learn how to create a living, breathing home that is full of beauty, is a true sanctuary and reflects authentic sustainable living & environmental stewardship. Empower yourself with in-depth information from Eco-Architect, Ingrid Cryns, and find out what some of those first steps are. Come and be inspired by real life examples and lots of tips of how to begin planning your Green, Dream Home!
Where: Eco-Existence (Eco-Products) Store, 21 Vaughn Rd. (Bathurst, S. of St. Clair)
Recommended Reading:
EcoNest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw and Timber, by Paula Baker-Laporte and Robert Laporte ($25)
Prescriptions for a Healthy House, by Paula Baker-Laporte, Dr. Erica Elliott and John Banta ($30)
soma earth HOME ENERGETIC BALANCING, by Ingrid Cryns ($15)
EcoNest: Turning Your Dream Into Reality
Saturday, May 30 – May 31 9 – 5 pm
Fees: $225*
*Workshop fees INCLUDES lunches!
Instructors: Paula Baker-Laporte & Ingrid Cryns
Do you dream of living in an authentic home; a legacy of beauty, health and environmental stewardship that reflects your deepest values? Perhaps you have already searched the conventional real estate offerings and realized that to truly fulfill your deepest vision you must build from scratch; quite a daunting challenge! This seminar will empower you to embark on your unique journey home. Prepare to be inspired as you gather with an intimate group for a deep exploration of all that a home can be - a living sanctuary!
This is an interactive workshop with experiential exercises and an intimate group in a unique setting. You will come away with more information and knowledge about what you want, what you prefer, what are all the steps to consider and what are the healthier (non-toxic), better Natural Building design details & systems to create the perfect EcoNest dream home for yourself.
Learning Objectives
- Defining your unique dream - personal resonance
- Creating a living sanctuary - deep health and ecology
- Choosing your land and siting your house - environmental stewardship
- Understanding Invisible Environmental Energies; how to enhance & protect your home
- Assembling your team - harmonic process
- Selecting the materials - the biology of building
Where:
Raven Essences
51 Belmont Crescent
Maple, ON, Canada
L6A 1L5
Directions to Raven Essences: www.mapquest.com (Rutherford & Keele, East of Hwy 400, North of Hwy 7) For more info. about Raven Essences see: www.ravenessences.com/
Tool List:
An open mind!
Pen & Paper or other writing device
Recommended Reading:
EcoNest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw and Timber, by Paula Baker-Laporte and Robert Laporte ($25)
Prescriptions for a Healthy House, by Paula Baker-Laporte, Dr. Erica Elliott and John Banta ($30)
soma earth HOME ENERGETIC BALANCING, by Ingrid Cryns ($15)
Books can also be ordered from soma earth Architect or bought directly from the Eco-Existence (Eco-Products) store at 21 Vaughan, (St. Clair & Bathurst/Vaughan).
Instructors;
Paula Baker-Laporte
Hailed by Natural Home Magazine in 2005 as one of the top 10 green architects in the USA, PAULA BAKER-LAPORTE leads the EcoNest design team. Paula is the primary author of "Prescriptions for a Healthy House", is co-author of "EcoNest" and is a contributing author to "A People's Ecology".
Paula graduated from the University of Toronto School of Architecture in 1978 and moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1981 where she currently lives with her husband Robert Laporte and daughter Sarah. Paula has been designing fine custom homes in Santa Fe since 1986. She is an architect, a certified Bau-biologist (Building Biologist), and a co-founder of the Healthy Housing Coalition.
Paula and the EcoNest design team specialize in non-toxic and sustainable design. "We create attractive home and workplaces which are conceived with an ecological mindfulness and endowed with health enhancing qualities. Your ideas, your budget, and your dreams are the palette around which our team creates with you." She lectures, writes extensively and travels throughout the US and Canada consulting about healthy building. For more information about Paula, please see www.econest.com
Testimonials
www.econest.com/comments/index
Ingrid Cryns
INGRID CRYNS, BES, B Arch, OAA, CBT, brings versatility and a wide range of experience to her work as an Eco-Architect. A University of Waterloo graduate (1984) Ingrid has over 15 years of experience running and managing a variety of complex projects from small houses, renovations, additions & multi-residential housing to large (up to $12ML) community centres, museums, performing arts centres & commercial projects. Her work as an Architect and designer has been published in various magazines in Canada & the US. Ingrid is a guest critic in the OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto) Design Studio & guest lecturer at the Sheridan College, Interior Design Program (Oakville) & the Fleming College, Sustainable Design Program (Haliburton), as well as the Project Architect for the 2007 (RD Lawrence Museum, Minden) & 2008 (Madoc Performing Arts Centre) Natural Building projects at the Fleming College Sustainable Design Program.
Ingrid is on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Strawbale Building Coalition (www.osbbc.ca). Her work focuses on natural building design, including healthy, non-toxic, earth & biofibre (e.g. strawbale) buildings.
Ingrid has recently published ‘soma earth HOME ENERGETIC BALANCING’ (2009), a compilation of several years experience, learning how to heal and balance the invisible energies (such as electromagnetic, electrical, geopathic, water courses, metaphysical, Feng Shui, space clearing, etc.), in the spaces that she lives and works in. Ingrid also leads monthly shamanic journeying workshops, is an energy healer and can read and sense body energies. For more information about her, please see www.somaearth.com