Experience the Seasons at
Willow Park Ecology Centre
Immerse yourself in the beauty of the ravine along Silver Creek and the Credit River, connect with others, and discover the wonders of nature.
SPRING Yoga Under Trees
Second annual spring yoga to keep providing wellness programming. Sundays from 2:00-3:00 pm April 27th to June 29th, 2025. Registration of a sliding scale $5 or $10 to sign up and support the program, you decide! Yoga Instructor Maha Kali Jaya and facilitator Tunde Otto want to help people connect to the healing power of breath and mindfulness movement. Meet us at the pavilion. Access and parking off Mary St, Norval. Register Now on our store front!
2025 Summer Solstice
Come celebrate summer on June 22nd from 3:00 – 4:00 pm around a fire under the majestic willow tree with facilitator Maha Kali Jaya. She shares her musical talents and helps us fully embrace nature’s rejuvenating energy and reconnection to self and others. Together we will experience this circle of grateful reflection and intention-setting for the next season. People have shared that they leave feeling energized, relaxed, hopeful, grounded.
She also leads a yoga session from 2:00-3:00 pm this day. It is part of our Yoga Under Trees Program offered on alternate Sundays in spring and summer in the open-sided Pavilion. See you there with a mat and water bottle. Please register using the store link for the Summer Yoga item, we are asking for a minimum $5.00 registration fee and accepting donations of $10 to help further support the upkeep of the Ecology Centre.
Join us for both opportunities for self care and leave ready to embrace whatever comes next!
SUMMER Yoga-among-Trees 2025
YOGA–among-Trees Every other Sunday from 2:00-3:00 pm July 6th to August 31st, 2025. Registration of a sliding scale $5 or $10 to sign up and support the program, you decide! Yoga Instructor Maha Kali Jaya and facilitator Tunde Otto want to help people connect to the healing power of breath and mindfulness movement. Meet us at the pavilion. Access and parking off Mary St, Norval. Join us!
Register now on our store front!
Wellness Retreat Spring 2025
Rebuilding Connections with Nature for Wellness: A unique workshop series guides you through a process to empower you with the skills to create your own practice for everyday healing and nature supported wellness. Inspired by parent requests and the knowledge that adults deserve guided nature engagement, to benefit from its many healing powers and joys. Join our trained leaders for this chance for renewal on 3-Sundays in May/June. See you in the beautiful Credit River ravine green space along the sparkling Silver Creek at Willow Park Ecology Centre. Here are your 3 wonderful days of personal wellness sessions:
Session 1 Getting Comfortable in Nature: Enjoy, relax-in and refresh-with the therapeutic gifts of Mother Earth.
Session 2 Healing Power of Nature: Learn to practice using the healing power of nature by immersing in the hidden benefits of nature’s resources.
Session 3 Gardening for Meals: We close off with a chance to find out how using food as a therapy can help to keep, the 5-elements within, our bodies balanced.
Earthday 2025 FREE
You're invited to join the community in celebrating Earth Day by appreciating nature and the environment at Willow Park Ecology Centre on Sunday, Spend Earth Day giving back to the planet through activities such as gardening and trails renewal, park clean-up and habitat care plus a nature-themed scavenger hunt! Refreshments and gardening gloves provided (or bring yours). Suitable for student volunteer hours. Everyone is welcome to join this free event by registering through this link. You’ll leave feeling connected and grounded!
Spring Fireside Gathering FREE
Come join-in to welcome the wonderful energy of the new season around a warming fire. Connect to Mother Earth’s gifts in reflection and music by Maha Kali Jaya ( www.goldenagewayshower.com). Celebrate life’s sustaining earth, while connecting to others. FREE event, accepting donations. Willow Park Ecology Centre access and parking: Hwy 7 at Mary St, Norval (just east of Georgetown). Let us know you’re coming: signup through this portal and choose the donate $10 or the zero cost tab. Donations support resources for our children's programs and events.
It’s Maple Time
Join us at the park to celebrate the season!
What You Can Do
Learn about tapping sugar maple trees, collecting the sap and making sweet, delicious maple syrup
A warming fire and tastings will be available.
What to Bring
Dress warm and bring your curiosity and sweet tooth
Sleds to pull the kiddies welcome
Event Details
Fee is: $5.00 per person (aged 2 and under free)
Park trail hikes encouraged,weather permitting.
Registration is required for this event (link here)
Best parking off Mary Street, Norval and then a short hike to the first of (3) learning stations
Winter Fun-Family Day Feb 17
On Family Day, Mon. Feb 17, 2025 from 1-3pm
Join us for a leisurely afternoon in the beautiful Hungry Hollow ravine along sparkling Silver Creek in Norval. At our past event a Mom declared: "we're a happier family when we spend time together outdoors!"
We offer :
-Guided Nature Hikes
-Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows by a Fire
-Self-guided Scavenger Hunt Walks
$5/person (under 2 yrs free). Register by Feb. 13.
willowparkecology.org. Park Access off Mary St, Norval, ON
https://www.facebook.com/willowparkecologycentre/
Take photos, share with friends. Happy Family Day Weekend!
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Fall Equinox
Autumnal equinox, two moments in the year when the Sun is exactly above the Equatorand day and night are of equal length; also, either of the two points in the sky where the ecliptic (the Sun’s annual pathway) and the celestial equator intersect. In the Northern Hemisphere the autumnal equinox falls about September 22 or 23, as the Sun crosses the celestial equator going south. In the Southern Hemisphere the equinox occurs on March 20 or 21, when the Sun moves north across the celestial equator.
Equinox Gathering
Equinox reflection and meditation fireside event! Celebrate life’s sustaining earth, connecting to each other gathered around a warming fire.
It’s Maple Time!
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