Earth in Sky, 497 main Street east, Hamilton, ON (2026)

10/23/2026

This post was inspired by a conversation with my friend and fellow social worker, Molly McGregor about how limiting our ideas of identity can become.

We were talking about the roles, labels and expectations we inherit, and how even the stories we use to understand ourselves can sometimes limit our possibilities.

It reminded me why I’ve always loved mythology and fantasy. There are so many different kinds of characters, relationships and ways of living. Yet in real life, we often have such narrow ideas of what a meaningful life should look like.

Mythos refers to the stories, symbols and beliefs through which we make meaning of our lives and the world. It’s the deeper narrative that shapes how we understand who we are, where we belong and what’s possible.

As a social worker and animist minister, I’m interested in how expanding our imagination might also support our mental health and wellbeing.

Labels and familiar stories can help us understand ourselves, but they don’t have to define us.

This is part of what I’m exploring through The Animist Therapist and Earth in Sky. 🌿

Making room for more ways to be human, and more ways to fall in love with being alive. ✨

10/23/2026

🌞 A CALL TO ALL WANDERERS, DREAMERS & WAYMAKERS! You’re invited to join us this coming Monday evening to replenish.

The path of creating something of your own can be a wild and winding adventure. Full of possibility, uncertainty, unexpected detours, and the occasional dragon to slay (metaphorically usually). 🐉

But even the most independent traveller needs a place to rest, share stories, and find good company along the way.

🌿 Soulpreneur Sanctuary is a little oasis for entrepreneurs, artists, healers, makers, and creative spirits who are building something they believe in.

Come exchange wisdom, share your victories and struggles, discover one another’s gifts, and replenish your spirit among fellow travellers.

You’re welcome to bring something from your own work to share, but there’s no pressure to pitch, perform, or prove yourself.

✨ New adventurers and seasoned wanderers alike are welcome!

📍 Earth in Sky | Hamilton
💛 Pay What Aligns for You
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10/20/2026

🍂 ANIMOVA: THE FERTILE DARKNESS
A Samhain-inspired movement journey

There is life in the darkness.

Beneath the soil, within the womb, through the long nights and changing seasons, unseen things are growing, transforming and becoming.

And within us, there are places we have learned to fear, avoid, hide or reject.

For our next Animova journey, we journey into the fertile darkness. 🌑

An invitation to meet our fears, shadows and hidden parts with curiosity, compassion and love. To explore the unknown, make room for discomfort and discover new ways of relating to ourselves.

Through a carefully curated musical journey, we’ll listen inward and explore movement as a way of responding to what arises.

Stretch, sway, shake, dance, curl up, lie down or simply be still.

No choreography. No performance. Nothing to prove.

✨ THE EXPERIENCE

* Dreamy, atmospheric music with moments of intensity that explore themes of darkness
* Guided somatic exploration and reflection
* Low lighting, optional blindfolds and cozy places to rest
* An intimate, sober, phone-free gathering
* Tea, snacks and optional social time afterward

A Friday night for sensitive souls, curious spirits and social introverts.

Your shadows are invited to move. 🖤

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | 7–10:30 PM
📍 Earth in Sky · 497 Main St E, Hamilton
🎟️ $35 · Small group · 18+
🚪 Doors close at 7:30 PM to protect the experience.

Our last gathering sold out, so advance booking is encouraged.

Facilitated by Chauntell Dietrich of The Animist Therapist

Therapeutic group eligible for Social Work benefits.

Reserve your place: earthinsky.com/invites
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10/20/2026

🌱 A little update from behind the scenes at Earth in Sky.

Building something that reflects your values means being willing to question the ways you’ve been taught to do things.

I’m learning that creating a space for care, creativity and connection also requires extending those things to myself and to the process of bringing it all to life.

There is so much pressure to have everything figured out, to be consistent, to keep producing and to measure progress by how closely we follow our plans.

But I’m becoming more interested in what happens when we make room for curiosity, experimentation and the unexpected.

This little house of elemental care is still finding its own rhythms, and I’m learning alongside it.

Thank you for being part of its becoming. 🌿

Here’s to building lives, communities and ways of working that actually feel alive.

✦ Upcoming gatherings at earthinsky.com/invites

10/18/2026

🌞 SOULPRENEUR SANCTUARY 🌴
A little oasis for those making their own way in the world.

Building something you believe in can be a beautiful, challenging and sometimes a lonely journey.

Whether you’re just beginning, finding your footing, or have been walking this path for years, you deserve a place to rest along the way.

🏜️ Welcome to Soulpreneur Sanctuary!

A cozy, informal gathering for entrepreneurs, creatives, practitioners and soul-employed folks to come together beyond the hustle.

✨ Share stories from your journey
✨ Talk about the challenges and celebrate the wins
✨ Exchange wisdom, encouragement and support
✨ Connect with others who understand the path
✨ Enjoy tea, snacks and good company

No networking pitches, productivity pressure or expectations to have it all figured out.

Just a little oasis of mutual care, understanding and connection.

Come as you are and leave a little more replenished.

🌅 THE NEXT GATHERING

📅 Monday, October 26
⏰ 6:30–9 PM
📍 Earth in Sky | 497 Main St E, Hamilton
🧡 Choose your own monetary contribution

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Open to soulpreneurs at every stage of the journey.

10/13/2026

COMING THIS OCTOBER… 🎥

ONE OF EARTH IN SKY’S MOST IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES RETURNS.

Some journeys are watched.
This one happens through you.

You’re the main character. 🌟

We’re very excited to welcome Jay | Elemental Breathwork | Retreats | back to Earth in Sky for a very special evening of breath, live sound, music and ritual.

Jay’s previous offerings here have sold out, and this October he returns with a new evolution of the experience.

This is one you don’t want to miss.

I like to think of it as a sober psychedelic experience: a chance to step outside the ordinary for an evening, enter another world through breath and sound, and meet yourself more deeply along the way.

The journey begins with energy, rhythm and intensity before gradually bringing you back down into softness, grounding and integration.

Your inner child might thank you. 🤍

Jay Ziebarth is a musician, breathwork guide, animator and multidisciplinary artist who performs with multiple bands, works across sound, voice and visual art, and somehow seems to have collected an unreasonable number of creative abilities for one human. 😄

Chauntell Dietrich, Registered Social Worker and Animist Minister (The Animist Therapist), will open and close the evening and hold the therapeutic space surrounding Jay’s breathwork journey, with time afterward for grounding, integration, tea and a gentle return to ordinary reality.

Candlelit. At sundown. Small group.
Breath. Live sound. Instruments. Voice. Ritual.
A little journey beyond the ordinary.

✦ Sunday, October 25 · 5:30–8 PM
✦ Earth in Sky · Hamilton, Ontario
✦ $75 · Limited capacity
✦ Social Work receipts available for benefits reimbursement
✦ Full details + booking: earthinsky.com/invites
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10/12/2026

REMEMBERING THE SPIRIT OF THE HARVEST 🎃

For thousands of years, humans have gathered to celebrate the harvest, honour ancestors, and give thanks to the many beings that sustain life.

The sun, rain, soil, plants, animals, and unseen worlds beneath our feet and all around us. Every harvest is the work of countless lives, not just our own.

Across many animist traditions, the world was understood not as a collection of resources, but as a living community of relationships.

Yet somewhere along the way, many of us have become disconnected from the land, from spirit, from community, and from the deeper meaning of our existence.

Colonization violently accelerated this separation through stolen lands, forced displacement, and attempts to destroy Indigenous cultures, spiritual traditions, and relationships with place. These atrocities continue to have consequences today, alongside ongoing Indigenous resistance and cultural resurgence.

We cannot truly honour the Earth while overlooking the peoples whose relationships with these lands have been violently disrupted.

Returning to the true spirit of the harvest isn’t about recreating the past, but remembering what we’ve forgotten… that we belong to the Earth, rather than the other way around. That the world is not here for our consumption, but for reciprocity. That gratitude is more than a feeling, it’s a relationship expressed through how we live.

May this season be an opportunity to reconnect with land, spirit, meaning, and one another.

To remember how to honour what sustains us, protect what is sacred, and consider what we can give in return. 🍄‍🟫

10/07/2026

COMING THIS OCTOBER… 🎥

ONE OF EARTH IN SKY’S MOST IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES RETURNS.

Some journeys are watched.
This one happens through you.

You’re the main character. 🌟

We’re very excited to welcome Jay | Elemental Breathwork | Retreats | back to Earth in Sky for a very special evening of breath, live sound, music and ritual.

Jay’s previous offerings here have sold out, and this October he returns with a new evolution of the experience.

This is one you don’t want to miss.

I like to think of it as a sober psychedelic experience: a chance to step outside the ordinary for an evening, enter another world through breath and sound, and meet yourself more deeply along the way.

The journey begins with energy, rhythm and intensity before gradually bringing you back down into softness, grounding and integration.

Your inner child might thank you. 🤍

Jay Ziebarth is a musician, breathwork guide, animator and multidisciplinary artist who performs with multiple bands, works across sound, voice and visual art, and somehow seems to have collected an unreasonable number of creative abilities for one human. 😄

Chauntell Dietrich, Registered Social Worker and Animist Minister (The Animist Therapist), will open and close the evening and hold the therapeutic space surrounding Jay’s breathwork journey, with time afterward for grounding, integration, tea and a gentle return to ordinary reality.

Candlelit. At sundown. Small group.
Breath. Live sound. Instruments. Voice. Ritual.
A little journey beyond the ordinary.

✦ Sunday, October 25 · 5:30–8 PM
✦ Earth in Sky · Hamilton, Ontario
✦ $75 · Limited capacity
✦ Social Work receipts available for benefits reimbursement
✦ Full details + booking: earthinsky.com/invites
✦ Link in bio

10/06/2026

What if the world is more alive than we’ve been taught to believe?

This Thursday, we’re gathering over tea to talk about animism, what it means to experience the world as alive, and what an animist way of relating might look like in everyday life.

There’ll be a short talk followed by open conversation. No particular beliefs or knowledge of animism needed. Come curious.

Earth & Spirit Talks: What Is Animism?
Thursday, Oct. 8 · 7–9 PM
Earth in Sky · Hamilton
$15–30 sliding scale · Tea included

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10/05/2026

WHEN DID EVERYTHING GET SO LOGICAL?
Great question to explore actually!

There was a time when life seemed wonderful. Actually wonderful. Full of wonder. ✨

Then…

🤖 WELCOME TO YOUR RE-EDUCATION.

Please take your seat students. Yes, “sit down and be still” they said.

You will now be taught which things are alive, which things are objects, which experiences are real, which are imaginary, and which parts of yourself should be abandoned if you would like to become a sensible adult.

Congratulations. Please proceed to adulthood. 🎓

But who taught us what counts as real in the first place?

🌙 This Thursday, Earth & Spirit Talks explores ANIMISM: what it means to relate to ourselves not as humans wandering through a world of objects, but as participants in a living world of relationships.

Breaking free from mental rigidity doesn’t mean abandoning logic, science or critical thinking.

It means questioning who taught us where reality ends.

Come drink tea and wonder with us. ☕🌿

Thursday, October 8 · 7–9 PM
Earth in Sky · Hamilton
Sliding scale $15–30 · Small gathering
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earthinsky.com/invites

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