Puhpowee Day

Join me for Puhpowee Day where nothing is required and anything is possible.

€166 · Ceremony day · Various dates

Origin Puhpowee

The word comes from the Anishinaabe language family (including Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa), Indigenous to the Great Lakes region of North America.

Puhpowee refers to: the force that causes mushrooms to push up from the earth  or more poetically: the invisible energy that brings life into appearance. It is not only about a mushroom, but about the moment of becoming. The emergence of something that was already there in the field of potential, yet still hidden.
For example: The earth breaths us out when we are born and breaths us back in again.

The term gained wider recognition through Robin Wall Kimmerer, a biologist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, in her book Braiding Sweetgrass. She uses puhpowee as an example of how Indigenous languages name processes that often remain invisible in English.

Why it is so special

• It describes a process, not an object
• It acknowledges life force (Shakti) without trying to explain or control it
• It connects nature, language, and wonder

Where Western language says, “a mushroom grows,” puhpowee suggests: there is a mysterious movement from within to without.

What to expect: a day where nothing is required and anything is possible

In a small group of 2–4 people, you spend a day with me at Garden Club in Bergen.

You cultivate your mind, body, spirit, and the gardens. With Yang and Yin Yoga, ritual, art, bees, drawing, writing, cacao, fermenting food, and more.

No phones, no social media, no striving, no clock time.
Just you in nature—walking and dancing barefoot, with your hands in the soil. Planting seeds.

Taking a day to be in nature, to nurture and replenish your body. Enjoy meaningful fun and exchange. Care for and connect with our Big Body: the Earth.

We follow the organic flow of the group. Perhaps to the sea or to the dunes.
Harvest and prepare lunch together.

For whom

This day is for anyone who wishes to:

• Reconnect with life
• Discover what is alive in you
• Cultivate curiosity and wonder
• Cultivate and learn new skills
• Savor the beauty of your own body and this planet
• Digest stagnant energies, rest deeply, and reconnect with peace
• Celebrate life & meaningful fun

Practical Details

• Location: Garden Club Bergen (NH)
• Group size: 2–4 people
• Exchange: 166,-. Including ceremonial cacao, biological lunch, snacks, and drinks, with vegetables from the garden. Sleeping is optional and not included in the price.