Mindful Canoeing Nature Experience - Full Day Guided Tour

Mindful Canoeing Experience

“The repetitive rhythm of paddling and a waterway’s natural ebb and flow are a rich metaphor for the cultivation of mindful awareness.” 

Enjoy a complete body and soul reset on a gentle, contemplative canoe trip with an emphasis on nature connection. Surrounded by towering sandstone cliffs, the Shoalhaven Gorge offers hidden pristine waterfalls and swimming holes, an abundance and array of wildlife, and is the most scenic flatwater paddling venue in Australia.  

Your tour will involve expending a moderate level of energy while paddling, but having ample time for relaxing throughout the journey as we pause and reflect on the wonders around us. 

Your instructors will coach you in cultivating moment to moment awareness through the grounded activity of paddling with the aim of experiencing a magical moment: a congruence and oneness of body, boat, paddle and water. Unencumbered. Purposeful. Smooth. 

No experience is required: you’ll get full support from qualified instructors. 

Those who are new to mindfulness will get the most out of this session - especially in the depths of winter when we finish around sunset. A full day, at a slow pace – renew your spirit and be nourished in nature!

Session Time

Allow a full day for this experience. Approx 9am - 5pm (this can be flexible, just let us know). This includes:

- Travel time from the office to the start location and back

- Briefing time, to get you into your PFD's and teach you the skills to paddle your canoe

- Purposeful moments created for mindfulness to connect to yourself and Country

- Paddling to a beautiful location for morning tea

- Morning Tea

- Explore the surrounding areas allowing for the opportunity to stop, listen and just 'be'.

- Lunch

- Activities related to mindfulness/ a short explore on foot (optional)

- Relax or swim in the pristine waters of the river

- Paddling back to the finish location

Inclusions

Your experience includes the following and more:

- Professional, passionate and experienced guides 

- Foundational canoeing instruction with a focus on purposeful moments to stop and reconnect to yourselves and the surrounding environment

- All activity related equipment and comprehensive safety equipment including a first aid kit and a satellite communication device

- Transport from our office to the venue (and return!)

- National Parks fees paid on your behalf

- A light morning tea, including a hot cuppa if you desire

- A delicious lunch made locally in Kangaroo Valley

- Additional information on the local area and the flora and fauna you might see along the way

- An experience where you are disconnected from the busy world (there is limited service where we go) and reconnected with yourself and nature