Amarin Dawn is a nature-based guide and facilitator devoted to creating spaces where people can soften, breathe, and remember their belonging—within themselves, with one another, and with the living Earth.

For over 25 years, her work has been rooted in mindfulness, somatic awareness, and ecotherapy, shaped through long-term relationship with the forests and ecosystems of the Bragg Creek and Elbow River watershed. Through seasonal attunement, land-based observation, and reciprocal stewardship, Amarin honours the wisdom of place as an essential partner in healing.

Her relationship with the natural world began early, with the wild landscapes of Jasper National Park as her childhood playground. These formative years cultivated a deep reverence for land, wildlife, and ecological systems—an orientation that continues to guide her work today.

Rooted in ecopsychology, trauma-informed care, and embodied awareness, Amarin weaves together forest therapy, restorative and Yin yoga, meditation, ceremonial space-holding, and place-based immersions. Her offerings invite people to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the quiet intelligence of their bodies and the living web of relationships that sustains us.

Alongside her contemplative and somatic training, Amarin brings a strong foundation in outdoor leadership and safety. She is a certified Wilderness Medic and has extensive experience as a hiking and interpretive guide, ensuring that her work is grounded in responsible risk management, environmental ethics, and participant wellbeing.

Amarin is a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Awake in the Wild Facilitator, and Healing with Nature Trauma Care Practitioner, with over 2,000 hours of yoga teacher training and extensive study in mindfulness traditions. Her background also includes training in complementary modalities such as Karuna and Usui Reiki and Pranic Healing, which inform her subtle, attentive, and relational approach to care.

She is known for creating containers that feel both deeply held and gently spacious—spaces where people can rest, explore, release, and remember who they are beneath busyness and conditioning. Her work supports nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, spiritual inquiry, and a renewed sense of belonging to the more-than-human community.

Whether guiding a silent winter retreat, a forest immersion, a contemplative gathering, or a fireside circle, Amarin leads with humility, devotion, and trust in life’s unfolding. She believes that when people gather with sincerity, courage, and open hearts, something larger than us begins to move.

Her work is shaped by a simple invitation:

All Hearts on Deck
An urgent call to meet this moment with courageous presence and fierce love—for ourselves, for one another, and for the living world

• ‘Awake in The Wild’ Certified Facilitator

• Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (Jack Kornfield/Tara Brach)

• Certified Forest and Nature Therapy Guide (ANFT)

• Healing with Nature -Trauma Care Practitioner

• 40 hr Wilderness Medic

• Interpretive Guide- Apprentice (IGC)

• Hiking guide (OCC)

• Yoga Trainings 2000hrs +

• Awakening The Dreamer facilitator training

• Add'l Certifications: Pranassage, Reiki Master (Karuna & Usui) , Reflexology, Pranic Healing Master