Grace Space

10/12/2025

BOOGIE + Yoga = BOOGA

BOREAL BOOGIE! Move into the YOGA RETREAT October 24th Jen Massie is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, Dance & Movement Facilitator and DJ/musician who has called the Yukon home for many years. She owns & operates Boreal Boogie indoors & outdoors across the Territory, combining her appetite for...

09/28/2025

Breathwork with Derek Friday October 3rd 6:30-9:30PM +++Pretty FULL! But Contact us for more info!

09/19/2025

New CLASSES + Fall RETREATS = WE GOT YOU COVERED

Breathwork with Derek Friday October 3rd 6:30-9:30PM +++Pretty FULL! But Contact us for more info!

08/28/2025

Last Call! September is next week! :)

YOGA Intensives open up new perceptions on and off the mat!

08/22/2025

When your yoga mat is everywhere on every rock, hillside, grass...

YOGA Intensives are all about setting the right tone for the whole day, week and month!

08/15/2025

Summer keeps giving! Clouds or No Clouds...we just cannot stop LOVING the LAND!

We keep you on your toes this FALL

08/06/2025

This trip is ending today (apart from 4 more flights!)
It was a journey based on Search and Research.
Search because at 18 and 23 when I came here, I was searching for a direction for my life, I did a first vipassana meditation and took initiation in Buddhism. I believe that I had left a part of me here. For many years I had a recurring dream of a place at the foothills in the pine and cedar forest of the Himalayas, and although I wanted to go back, I was always told it was not time and it would happen later in life. This journey was a genuine soul retrieval. I met a Tibetan man who told me when he was young, he kept on looking at Annapurna from his village and would dream and imagine what was behind it. He told me there is beauty and meaning in the unknown. When he was older and could travel and see that behind it were other mountains looking alike, all the fantasies vanished. Similarly, after this trip some of that mystery I was experiencing younger has also dissipated.
A trip based on Research because I am doing a doctoral project on attunement and co-regulation. I was interested in traveling to remote areas where there is no electricity or wifi to relate with people. That was a big success that was beyond my expectations. I felt love and connection in ways I had not felt in decades. The purity, spontaneity and innocence of people who are not entangled in layers of ego (self-identity), performance, and protection was remarkable and ever so touching. I know deeply now what most societies are missing and I have a language to express scientifically what my heart had once experienced and was longing for.
I am grateful and forever touched. I saw what is behind the mountain and I also climbed the peak.
❣️🌟❣️🌟❣️🌟

08/01/2025

The relationship with a guide is a mandatory one in many parts of Nepal and it is a highly intimate one. Just like every intimate relationship one is exposed to challenges and invited to self-growth. We had a crew in Dolpo with donkeys. In Mustang it has been Zara, me and our guide Bishnu.
There are many layers and multi dimensions coming through our exchanges: gender, cultural and linguistic, political and economic and religious. It often creates some frustrations and misunderstanding and other times lightness of Being and silliness. At times the obligations and duties are weighting heavy and are felt by both parties as it brings forward uncomfortable mirrors of power. Of course, the last thing we want to re-create is a colonialist exchange mimicking slavery. Our guide followed us almost everywhere. He watched us eat although he did not eat with us (even though we invited him to). He was the first one we saw in the morning and the last one at night. He told us where to walk and he set the pace. We are thankful for his assistance and at the same time we look forward to some freedom. We also sense that he is looking forward to freedom too. When walking, he is often on his phone responding to his own habits of distractions. Where there could have been silence and reverence, there was a lingering restlessness and sometimes what felt like annoyance. I cannot possibly completely understand. I come from the land of opportunities…and so I find myself having so many mixed feelings. Can I ever travel again like this? I am not sure it is right. I offer these reflections to you and welcome words of wisdom. Putting it all out here has been helpful to put the pieces of this puzzle together, express feelings and let it all go with compassion and empathy. Hari Om.

07/30/2025

What makes it a pilgrimage is visiting spiritual, mystical sights even when we don’t feel like walking…it is like doing a practice when the mind just wants to divert or entertain. You stick with it no matter what and that is when the surprises happen. Something fulfilling and lasting comes through with a dedication to a rigorous discipline on the body/mind. Today, Muktinath (Hindu temple), hiking up to Guya La pass at 4677m (not bad..it is at 5000 that it starts being challenging and breathing has to be monitored).

07/29/2025

We met this beautiful young outgoing Nepali/Tibetan woman who was lucky to be studying in the US and to be coming back to her parent’s village in Mustang with the funds to build a greenhouse. She was hoping to be able to finish her studies regardless of the recent political changes…she mentioned how much Mustang was relying on American financial aid. We can see it on bridges, gompas (monasteries) renovations… wishing them well…

07/29/2025

Terriiiie! I had a good laugh when I saw this rock! It looks like one of your puppets! ;) We went to one of the most famous cave (Chungsi) where Guru Rinpoche, a mythic mystic from 8th century meditated. There is a lot to say about upper Mustang, there is a sadness, every family has seen their kids leave to make a living elsewhere. Primarily the elders are remaining…it brings a real feeling of grief and somewhat depression to the landscape. Otherwise, apricot and apple trees, colourful and musical rocks (aeolian resonance), aesthetic artwork on furniture, wall paintings…

07/27/2025

Without having any clue, I ended up being invited to a 21days funeral puja in the last village we stayed in Dolpo (Sangta). There were the usual traditional prayers with drums and flutes and suddenly it all stopped and women started mourning, lamenting and crying in the most horrific and touching ways. I was taken aback, I ended up crying with them (it felt like all the sorrows of the world…)
Attuning to people regardless of culture and language barriers was the whole point of this trip, i am impressed that in a widespread technological era, it is still possible to meet at such a pristine and intimate level. The whole village invited me for diner and women came one after another to sit next to me (what a privilege). It is with saddeness that we then departed for Upper Mustang with Bishnu alone (our guide). We said goodbye to the rest of the crew. For the first time the donkeys allowed me to barely touch them (they were pretty wild those guys)…