Quantum Leaps Lodge - Golden, BC - British Columbia Retreat Centre - Personal Growth Workshops

Brian "O" is the founder of Quantum Leaps Lodge. A resident in the Blaeberry valley since 1974, he has been blessed with the wonderful opportunity to continually create/caretake this beautiful retreat/ lodge and workshop centre. In past years he has lead numerous adventure tours and wilderness experience workshops in such places as the Grand Canyon, Mexico, Nepal, Bali, China, Australia, New Zealand and the remote northern Canada and Alaska.

Brian has studied and taught in places like the world famous Esalen Center in California and has been licensed in various areas of personal growth movement and in outdoor activities such as White Water Rafting, Firewalking, Holotropic Breathwork, and Massage. For a number of years Brian ran a successful Rafting Adventure Company based in Golden, BC. He did the first descents on many rivers, including the Kicking Horse and Blaeberry rivers.

Brian has nurtured a passion for outdoor adventure and the inner life of Spirit since his youth in the Crowsnest Pass region of British Columbia. He is both an accomplished outdoor person and a perceptive teacher and guide.

Joining the journey is his life partner Annette Boelman. Annette is a registered bodyworker, trained at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts and a past ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides) hiking and backpacking guide. She is working now on her Cranial Sacral Levels with the Upledger Institute. She is a seeker of knowledge and spirit. She has studied and practiced Shamanic Drumming over the last 9 years. Nature/Native Spirituality is where she finds her peace and reference for all that is divine and good. In 2006, she and Brian were guided to begin leading Sweatlodges for all people, guided by the Grandmothers. She has been living in the Canadian Rockies since 1996 (coming from the Edmonton region) and moved in 2003 from Canmore, AB. Golden, BC is just the natural progression. She joins Quantum Leaps' vision and goals with a loving and open heart. The lodge is evolving as they work together in common vision and love.

to discipline myself to be in tune with myself and to follow my priorities, and to nurture those seeds to fruition
to not so much "manage time" as to manage myself
to be focused on preserving and enhancing my relationships and on achieving results rather than being focused on "time"and on "things"
to come to know my inner knowingness and integrity
to be aware
to be a channel for wisdom and compassion
to be of service
to come from a place of honesty and truth in everything we do