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Aurora Sacred Healing is a land-based wellness and eco-tourism business in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba offering yoga, meditation, seasonal retreats, nature experiences, and Indigenous-inspired healing

🛶 CALLING ALL CRANBERRY PORTAGE PADDLERS — FROM OUR KIDS TO OUR SEASONED CANOEISTS! 🛶Aurora is excited to encourage our ...
09/04/2026

🛶 CALLING ALL CRANBERRY PORTAGE PADDLERS — FROM OUR KIDS TO OUR SEASONED CANOEISTS! 🛶

Aurora is excited to encourage our community to get out and take part in the Cranberry Portage Challenge on Saturday, September 12!

This is about more than winning a race. It’s about getting outside, moving our bodies, working together, learning traditional northern skills and celebrating the heritage of the community we call home. ❤️

And there’s something for every generation!

🌲 KIDS 12 & UNDER
The Kids’ Canoe Challenge takes place at 1:00 p.m. at the beach area. Life jackets are available, and a parent/guardian consent form is required. Parents, get those young paddlers registered ahead of time!

🛶 YOUTH 13–17
Grab a teammate and take on the full Paddle • Portage • Tea Boil challenge! Youth have their own division with prizes of $300 / $200 / $100 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

🔥 ADULTS 18+
This one’s for you too! Find a partner and put your paddling, portaging, fire-building and teamwork skills to the test. Adult prizes are $500 / $300 / $200.

The main Challenge meets at 9:45 a.m. at the Canoe Historic Monument in Cranberry Portage Park, with the race beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Teams of 2 • $50/team • Registration closes Friday, September 11. Canoes and equipment are available on a first-come, first-served basis with a $50 refundable deposit. Challenge teams must bring their own axe for the Tea Boil.

Register here-

https://www.cranberryportagewinterfest.com/event-registration

✨ Kids. Youth. Adults. Let’s get every generation involved.

PADDLE. PORTAGE. TEA BOIL.
A Celebration of Heritage, Strength, Skill & Teamwork.

From all of us at Aurora Sacred Healing — get outside, make some memories, cheer one another on and help keep this wonderful Cranberry Portage tradition alive. 🌲🛶🔥

🍂✨ HELLO, SEPTEMBER ✨🍂There is something about September that feels like a threshold.Summer hasn’t quite released us yet...
09/01/2026

🍂✨ HELLO, SEPTEMBER ✨🍂

There is something about September that feels like a threshold.

Summer hasn’t quite released us yet, but autumn is already whispering through the cooler mornings, changing light and first hints of colour on the land.

Nature reminds us that change doesn’t have to happen all at once.

There is a season for growing.
A season for blooming.
A season for harvesting.
And eventually, a season for letting go. 🍁

September invites us to begin gathering what this year has grown within us.

Not just what we accomplished.

But what we learned.

What strengthened us.
What softened us.
What surprised us.
What we survived.
What we are finally ready to stop carrying.

Maybe you aren’t the same person who entered this year.

Maybe you’re not supposed to be. 💛

As we move toward autumn, take some time to notice what is happening both around you and within you.

🌾 What are you grateful to be harvesting?

🍂 What feels ready to be released?

🔥 What part of yourself needs tending before winter?

💛 What do you want to make more room for?

September doesn’t ask us to have everything figured out.

It simply invites us to become present enough to recognize:

Something is changing.
And something new is making its way through.

So here’s to slower mornings.
Cooler evenings.
Walks beneath changing leaves.
Warm drinks held in both hands.
Fires under darkening skies.
Harvesting medicines from the land.
And making a little more time to listen to ourselves.

May September remind you that transformation is natural.

You don’t have to cling to every leaf.

Some things are meant to be gathered with gratitude.

And some are meant to be released to the wind. 🍂

✨ September Affirmation

I honour what has grown.
I release what has finished.
I trust the changing season.
And I welcome what comes next.

Welcome, September. 🌾🍁

Live Every Day Sacred.

— AURORA Sacred Healing

🌕✨ THE STURGEON FULL MOON • LUNAR ECLIPSE ENERGY ✨🌕There are moments in our lives when something shifts.Not necessarily ...
08/26/2026

🌕✨ THE STURGEON FULL MOON • LUNAR ECLIPSE ENERGY ✨🌕

There are moments in our lives when something shifts.

Not necessarily with a great announcement or dramatic ending.

Sometimes it happens quietly.

We simply realize…

I cannot keep living from the same old story anymore.

This Full Moon invites us to look beneath the surface—to the patterns, beliefs, relationships and versions of ourselves that may have once protected us, but no longer belong where we are going.

And perhaps that is why the Sturgeon Moon feels like such a beautiful symbol.

The ancient sturgeon has survived for millions of years. It moves through deep waters, enduring changing seasons and changing worlds.

There is wisdom in that.

Survival teaches us how to endure.
Healing teaches us when we no longer have to. 💗

So much of our behaviour can come from old programming we don’t even realize we’re carrying.

Be good.
Keep everyone happy.
Don’t disappoint anyone.
Hold everything together.
Don’t be too loud.
Don’t be too sensitive.
Don’t ask for too much.
Make yourself smaller so others are comfortable.

Until one day we begin asking:

Who am I underneath all of that?

Maybe this season isn’t asking you to become someone new.

Maybe it’s asking you to stop abandoning the person you’ve always been. ✨

To release the need to prove your goodness.

To stop measuring your worth by how much you do for everyone else.

To recognize that you don’t have to earn love by overgiving, overexplaining, fixing, rescuing or carrying what was never yours to carry.

You are allowed to simply BE.

Raw.
Unpolished.
Still learning.
Still healing.
Still worthy.

🌕 FULL MOON SOULWORK

As you sit beneath the moon, light a candle, make a cup of tea, pull a card, walk beside the water or simply find somewhere quiet.

Then ask yourself:

✨ What has this season been revealing to me?

✨ What pattern can I finally see clearly?

✨ What belief about myself am I ready to question?

✨ Where have I been performing a version of myself in order to feel loved, accepted or “good enough”?

✨ What am I carrying that I am finally ready to put down?

✨ And perhaps most importantly…

Who am I becoming when I stop trying to be who everyone else needs me to be?

You don’t need to have all the answers tonight.

Seasonal practice isn’t about forcing transformation.

It is about creating enough stillness to hear yourself.

Because when we regularly pause…
when we listen…
when we spend time on the land…
when we pay attention to the cycles happening around us and within us…

we begin noticing what we couldn’t see before.

And every once in a while, we reach one of those beautiful threshold moments:

⭐ Right here. Something shifted.

The story before this moment does not have to be the story after it.

Let the moon illuminate what is ready to be seen.

Let the water carry away what you are finished carrying.

And let yourself step forward as more fully, unapologetically YOU.

You are valuable.

You are worthy.

You are allowed to be seen.

🌕✨ Live Every Day Sacred.

— AURORA Sacred Healing

08/21/2026

🛶💙 Grateful for Berens River

What a privilege it was to spend time in Berens River and experience even a small piece of this incredibly beautiful place.

The land. The water. The people. The generosity and hospitality shown to me throughout my time there — all things I will carry home with me. 🌿

One of the highlights was having the opportunity to bring the AURORA canoes out for Cultural Day and help get people onto the water. There is something pretty special about watching canoes fill up, paddles hit the water and people simply enjoy being out there together. 🛶

I am especially grateful to the community members who welcomed me, shared their time and knowledge, helped with logistics, checked in on me, and made me feel at home while I was there.

And the Berens River itself… absolutely stunning. 💙 I understand why these waters and this land hold such deep meaning for the people who call this place home.

I arrived excited to paddle.

I leave crossing back over not only the Berens, but also the Bloodvein and Manigotagan rivers - made me grateful for so much more to discover in this area -

Miigwech, Berens River, for welcoming me. Until our paths cross again. 🛶🌿💙

I can’t even begin to say how excited I am to be heading out on another northern adventure — this time taking youth onto...
08/17/2026

I can’t even begin to say how excited I am to be heading out on another northern adventure — this time taking youth onto the absolutely stunning waters of the Berens River and into the mighty Lake Winnipeg! 🛶💙🌲

There is something incredibly powerful about giving young people the opportunity to experience the North this way — slowly travelling by canoe, learning from the land and water, challenging themselves, working together, and discovering just how capable they really are.

The Berens River is breathtaking wilderness, rich with history, culture and connection to the land. I feel so grateful for the opportunity to paddle these waters alongside the youth and the people who call this land home.

Another adventure awaits… and I am SO ready. 🛶✨

Wild waters. Strong youth. Northern adventure.



✨ EMBRACING CHANGE & MAKING SPACE FOR A NEW VISION AT THE AURORA HUB✨Many people have been asking why Aurora is consider...
08/13/2026

✨ EMBRACING CHANGE & MAKING SPACE FOR A NEW VISION AT THE AURORA HUB✨

Many people have been asking why Aurora is considering selling Portage House, especially when it has become such a successful and well-loved guest accommodation.

The answer is simple: we are ready to concentrate our time, energy and resources on the next chapter of Aurora Sacred Healing. 🌿

Portage House has been a meaningful part of our journey. Since opening its doors in 2023, it has welcomed families, fishing groups, travelling professionals and workers from near and far. It has earned wonderful reviews, repeat clientele and reservations extending into 2027 and 2028. We are incredibly proud of what it has become.

This decision is not being considered because Portage House is struggling. Quite the opposite—it is a thriving, established accommodation business that may now be ready for someone new to carry it forward.

Our hearts are being drawn toward Heron House and the original vision of developing it into a true northern retreat centre—a place where people can rest, heal, reconnect and experience the beauty and medicine of the land.

We have big dreams for the property, including further developing the outdoor space to offer camping experiences, land-based programming, wellness retreats, paddling adventures, gatherings and opportunities to live more deeply in relationship with nature.

Maintaining two properties divides the funds, focus and energy needed to bring that larger vision fully to life. Selling Portage House would allow us to simplify, reinvest and pour more of ourselves into creating the retreat centre we believe Heron House is meant to become.

We are embracing the powerful shifts in energy happening right now—releasing what may have completed its purpose, making room for new possibilities and trusting where Spirit leads us next. ✨

At this stage, we are simply exploring interest. Nothing has been finalized, and we will only move forward if the right person and the right opportunity come along—someone who recognizes the value of Portage House and wants to continue welcoming people through its doors.

Sometimes growth asks us not only to build, but also to release. This may be one of those moments.

We are deeply grateful for every guest, supporter and community member who has been part of the Portage House story. Whatever comes next, we trust that the path will reveal itself in the right way and at the right time.

Here’s to honouring what has been—and stepping with courage and faith into what is waiting to be created. 🌿🧡


07/31/2026

🌕🦌 FULL BUCK MOON — A TIME TO GROW 🦌🌕

Tonight we welcome the Buck Moon, the Full Moon of July (sound on for video from tonight’s brilliance).

Its name comes from the season when a buck’s new antlers are growing—soft at first, but becoming stronger and more magnificent with each passing day.

What a beautiful reminder from the natural world:

Growth doesn’t always happen loudly.
Sometimes we are becoming stronger long before anyone can see it.

The Buck Moon invites us to reflect on our own growth.

🌿 What has strengthened within you this year?
🌿 What are you outgrowing?
🌿 What burden are you ready to put down?
🌿 Where are you being called to stand taller?
🌿 What part of yourself is ready to be seen?

Like the buck growing a new crown each season, we too move through cycles of release, renewal and becoming.

Tonight, step outside if you can.

Stand beneath Grandmother Moon.

Put your feet upon the Earth. Take a few slow breaths. Perhaps light a fire, make a cup of tea, paddle quiet waters, journal, create moon water—or simply sit in stillness and listen.

You don’t need an elaborate ceremony.

Your presence can be the ritual.

Place a bowl or jar of fresh water beneath the moonlight and hold it for a moment while setting an intention for the month ahead.

Then offer these words:

**Grandmother Moon,
illuminate what is ready to grow within me.
Give me courage to release what I have outgrown,
strength to protect what is sacred,
and wisdom to recognize the path before me.

Like the buck who grows his crown anew,
may I trust the quiet work of becoming.

May I walk gently upon the Earth,
honour the lessons behind me,
and welcome what is waiting ahead.

Miigwech. 🌕**

And remember—the Full Moon isn’t only one moment. You can continue your reflection, moon-water practice, journaling or quiet time beneath her light over the next couple of evenings.

May this Buck Moon remind you:

You don’t have to become someone new.
You are growing more fully into who you already are.

🌕🦌🌲

Live Every Day Sacred.

Address

107 Blue Heron Road
Cranberry Portage, MB
R0B0H0

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 7pm
Sunday 9am - 7pm

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+12046202149

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