“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the Earth.”
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, creativity, fresh perspective, 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
All Hearts on Deck
-A Call for These Times-
We are living in a time when the collective nervous system is stretched thin.
Human and more-than-human, rivers and roots, elders and children—we are all feeling the pressures of uncertainty, change, and increasing complexity.
Many of us carry this in our bodies: fatigue, anxiety, grief, restlessness, overwhelm, and at times, fear.
Not because we are broken, but because we are paying attention. Because we care. Because we belong to this living world.
Our nervous systems are not separate. What happens in one heart ripples outward
through families, communities, ecosystems, and generations.
The health of our hearts and the health of the living world are more deeply intertwined than we often realize.
An ancient truth returns to us now as medicine:
Hatred never ceases by hatred.
Only by love is it healed.
This is not sentimental love.
It is courageous, embodied, fierce, listening love.
The kind that stays present with discomfort.
The kind that chooses tenderness in a culture of hardening.
The kind that remembers our belonging to one another and to the living world.
The kind that calls us into courageous action on behalf of all we love.
This is not a time to be ruled by fear. Nor is it a time to turn away from what is unfolding around us.
It is a time to practice the essential art of bearing witness.
To our own hearts.
To one another.
To the beauty and the grief.
To the rivers, forests, and countless beings with whom we share this living world.
To meet what is here with presence, courage, compassion, and community.
These times call for regulated hearts.
For community care.
For remembering that healing happens in relationship —with ourselves, with one another, and with the Earth.
The living world is constantly teaching us:
Presence.
Relationship.
Reciprocity.
Care.
Every act of kindness is ecological restoration.
Every act of care strengthens the web of relationships that sustains us.
Every moment of presence contributes to the healing.
Perhaps this moment is inviting us into something beautifully simple:
All Hearts on Deck.
May we learn to soften without collapsing, to stand without hardening, to bear witness without turning away, and to love this world fiercely.
“Amarin is such a good facilitator, it is a great time to get to reconnect and understand our environment and ourselves. It was beneficial to my well-being and gave me clarity.”
“Amarin has so much experience and is such a wonderful facilitator for mindfulness and meditation in nature. Her voice is incredibly soothing and her way of speaking is beautiful and succinct. In any practice I’ve had with Amarin, I feel safe and in wonderful hands. ”