Mushrooms & Metamorphosis weekend 19-20.9.2025

A weekend experience for the senses, the soul, and your unfolding self. 🍄🌲✨

When: 📆 Friday. September 19, 2025 after work, 16:00 - 19:00 – mushroom foraging in the forest of Lakisto in Espoo. 📆 Saturday, September 20, 2025, 18:00 -21:00 – candlelit vegan dinner in Eira With: Mushroom guide Anna Nyman & vegan chef Pauliina Salmenhaara

🍄 What is Mushrooms & Metamorphosis? This is not just a nature walk or a delicious meal — It’s a journey through change. A pause in your everyday life to reconnect with the forest, your senses, your inner world. Like mushrooms emerging from the forest floor, transformation often happens quietly, underground. What metamorphosis is taking place within you?

🌲 FRIDAY: INTO THE FOREST WE GO We meet after work and step into the woods with foraging expert Anna Nyman, who will guide you through the ethical and intuitive art of mushroom foraging. You’ll learn:

• How to identify local edible mushrooms

• What the forest can teach you about timing, patience, and symbiosis

• How to awaken your senses and quiet your mind

• The spiritual messages of mushrooms

• You will leave the forest transformed.

🕯️ SATURDAY: A TRANSFORMATIVE MUSHROOM DINNER On Saturday evening, we gather for a slow, sensory dinner hosted by vegan chef Pauliina Salmenhaara, using the mushrooms we foraged together. Expect:

• A beautifully prepared, seasonal vegan meal

• Rituals of presence and reflection

• A chance to share stories, insights, and silence

• An atmosphere of gentle magic and metamorphosis

This is not a psychedelic experience—It’s something deeper. Simpler. More present. It’s a moment in your life to transform.

💫 For those who...

• Crave reconnection with nature and themselves

• Are curious about foraging but also the deeper lessons of the forest

• Love food as ritual, not just fuel

• Are in a time of transition, emergence, or inner inquiry

🎟️ Limited spots available – small group, big presence. 💌 Book now to join this weekend of wonder and reflection.

Early bird tickets, until DATE 15.7.25: €133

Full price tickets: €148

About the hosts:

Anna Nyman

Anna Nyman is a biologist, herbalist, and forager who guides others into the heart of the Finnish forest. Through her projects, books and events, she shares the edible and medicinal gifts of nature—from spring nettles to autumn mushrooms—with knowledge rooted in both science and folk tradition.

Anna’s walks and workshops invite people to reconnect with the land through taste, touch, and tradition. Whether you’re tasting sweet spruce tip syrup, learning the uses of yarrow, or identifying wild herbs under ancient pine trees, her gentle guidance opens the door to a deeper relationship with nature.

In her world, every leaf tells a story, every mushroom is a lesson, and every step through the forest brings you closer to the quiet magic of the wild.

Pauliina Salmenhaara

Pauliina is a vegan chef & educator who offers plant-based cooking classes, workshops, and magical dinners. In her kitchen witchery she brings everyday magic into food, rituals, and self-care, and hosts women’s circles and ceremonies, from seasonal rituals and drumming circles to rites of passage.

Pauliina’s approach is both grounded and enchanted, rooted in nature, ancient traditions, and everyday practicality. She is currently writing a book on Kitchen Magic in Finland.

In her dinners, Pauliina creates the setting for a deeper connection with yourself, the other guests, and something magical, through food, ritual, and intuition. Each meal is the opportunity for a metamorphosis.