SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!

Jul
27
Wed
MYCO-MEDICINALS @ Wellness Camper
Jul 27 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Join us for an exploration into the worlds of two renowned medicinal mushrooms coexisting in the forests of Cascadia. This workshop includes: an introduction to the classification of fungi, identification techniques for Reishi and Turkey Tail (including distinctions from common look-a likes), an overview of the medicinal constituents of each species and their histories in healing, conscious and sustainable wild harvesting skills, as well as medicine making techniques for tinctures, balms, and teas.

$30. Includes handouts and a balm sample.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Aug
10
Wed
FOREST AID @ Wellness Camper
Aug 10 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

The forests of the Cascadian bioregion are rich with medicine, and there is never been a better time to discover and re-connect with these gifts of life and the grandeur of the natural world. In this workshop we will learn to identify specific trees, lichen, plants, and fungi that contain therapeutics beneficial for human health, learn how to responsibly harvest them, and make first aid products for home use. Participants will walk away with an overview of the ecology of healing with plant medicines, ID skills, and techniques for making wound sprays, liniments, and muscle balms.

$30 per person. Handouts and a take-home sample included.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Aug
24
Wed
DIY Care For Stress, Anxiety, and General Mood Health @ Wellness Camper
Aug 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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In this special event we will come together in a cooperative effort to educate ourselves and make healthy plans for minimizing stress, living fuller and healthier, with endurance and spacious awareness. As a group we will come together and learn how to create personal refuges based in stress prevention and relaxation techniques. A general overview of stress and anxiety in human health will be met with yoga techniques, breathing methods, recommendations for natural therapeutics, creative outlets, mindfulness meditation, a discussion on diet, grounding techniques, and more. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of resources of personal empowerment, allowing them to improve mood health with understanding and confidence.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Space limited to 10 people.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Aug
31
Wed
Hydrotherapy Folk Remedies @ Wellness Camper
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Come learn the art of healing with water and temperature applications! The uses of water in its various forms have been utilized as medicine in various cultures across the world, from the Chinese to the Greeks and Indigenous North Americans. This workshop includes a scientific overview of how water (as liquid, ice, and vapor) acts as a medicinal carrier of temperature, a group sauna and cold plunge, and discussion/practice of traditional folk remedies for home use. We will cover methods of reducing muscle pain, treating stress and insomnia, headaches, immune system enhancement and more.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Bring a bathing suit!

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 8 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Sep
14
Wed
MYCO-MEDICINALS @ Wellness Camper
Sep 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Join us for an exploration into the worlds of two renowned medicinal mushrooms coexisting in the forests of Cascadia. This workshop includes: an introduction to the classification of fungi, identification techniques for Reishi and Turkey Tail (including distinctions from common look-a likes), an overview of the medicinal constituents of each species and their histories in healing, conscious and sustainable wild harvesting skills, as well as medicine making techniques for tinctures, balms, and teas.

$30. Includes handouts and a balm sample.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Sep
28
Wed
DIY Care For Stress, Anxiety, and General Mood Health @ Wellness Camper
Sep 28 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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In this special event we will come together in a cooperative effort to educate ourselves and make healthy plans for minimizing stress, living fuller and healthier, with endurance and spacious awareness. As a group we will come together and learn how to create personal refuges based in stress prevention and relaxation techniques. A general overview of stress and anxiety in human health will be met with yoga techniques, breathing methods, recommendations for natural therapeutics, creative outlets, mindfulness meditation, a discussion on diet, grounding techniques, and more. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of resources of personal empowerment, allowing them to improve mood health with understanding and confidence.

$30 per person. Handouts included. Space limited to 10 people.

RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542

Space is limited to 10 folks

Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!

Nov
24
Thu
Thanksgiving Feast Potluck
Nov 24 @ 5:00 pm

All guests staying at the Sou’wester (and community members too) are invited to a Thanksgiving Feast Potluck at the Sou’wester in the Pavilion! (All guests bring your own plates and utensils.) Dinner starts at 5:00pm. Desserts after dinner in the Main Lodge Living Room. Games in the lodge in the evening around the fireplace.

Dec
17
Sat
Handmade Bazaar & Thrifty Grand Re-Opening
Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Handmade Bazaar & Thrifty Grand Re-Opening

We have turned our entire lodge into a handmade bazaar, full of artists selling art, and handcrafted items from 10am-5pm:
***Artist Tables by:
***JULIA BARBEE STUDIOS:Her perfumes are uniquely composed, and the rest of her work is equally divinely conceived.
***NICKY KRIARA and NIKO FAR WEST makes functional ceramic ware inspired by the history, landscape, and textures of The Pacific Northwest.
***BROOKE SHEPHERD of SEAWATER STUDIO: will bring her hand dyed wares such as linen dish towels and kimonos
***HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN a stellar printmaker, will bring her work: limited graphic editions, drawings, and hand printed concert posters
***Artist JOE CHASSE, famous for his canned ham mini vintage travel trailers, will be selling his new works, tabletop recycled metal sculptures.
***VETIVER THERAPY selling Wildcrafted therapeutics.
***TERA STENZEL will bring her artwork, hand sculpted “taxidermy” mushroom people
***A COUPLE OF ARTISTS: Annie Eskelin and Bill Atwood will bring metal sculpture, original seascape paintings, mini prints and jewelry.
***DAWN STETZEL and NATURE NELL’S SISTER bringing 100% reclaimed materials cards and journals.

***and more……

We will have a “print your own card station” too! Print your own Mermaid Holiday Card with hand carved images by Heather McLaughlin, sliding scale $1-$5.

*free crafting supplies box in the lodge: feel free to take and/or add to

Visit our newly remodeled “Thrifty”, our popular Vintage Travel Trailer Thrift Shop, and it’s Grand Re-Opening. New and unusual thrifty items for sale. Please come and peruse!

Stay, or come back, for the live music of Lindsie Feathers at 8pm in the lodge.

New updates posted here too: https://www.facebook.com/events/328554510844818/

Dec
21
Wed
Winter Solstice Potluck, Bonfire & Sauna
Dec 21 @ 6:00 pm

Winter Solstice Potluck, Bonfire & Sauna

Come celebrate this shortest day of the year, the change of seasons, and the return of the light that the Winter Solstice brings. Join us for a potluck in the lodge at 6pm, harvest vegetables and winter delights, with a bonfire celebration in our sauna garden after dinner.

As part of the sauna bonfire we will serve locally harvested wild herb hot tea as a special treat. Mention SOLSTICE for 20% off your stay at the Sou’wester. Includes entrance to all of the Solstice events and a warm-up sauna any time of the day.

Community members or those already in the area, please join us for the potluck and if you want to use the sauna it is only $6 per person or $10 per couple.

Dec
24
Sat
Formal Dinner & White Elephant Gift Exchange
Dec 24 @ 7:00 pm

Formal Dinner & White Elephant Game & Gift Exchange

This always brings lotsa-laughs! Come celebrate togetherness at the Sou’wester with a White Elephant Gift Exhange! (Gift Price Range: $10)