About
Welcome to Boho & Knots™ —
a space where creativity, culture, and wellbeing
are woven together through the tactile language of macramé,
nature, and experiential learning.
We create sensory‑aligned, culturally responsive, and
accessible pathways for creative expansion — especially for those who thrive with texture, rhythm, grounding, and hands‑on exploration.
Our work blends fiber art, ancestral & traditional teachings, innovation, and land‑based practices to support remembrance,
connection, and creative renewal.
Through workshops, programs, and original designs,
we offer tools and keepsakes that hold and embody stories
of affirmation, meaning, and growth.
Most of are crafted as sensory supports, storytelling, or modalities for grounding, reflection, and rediscovery. Some are created or curated to support intergenerational and cultural continuity, for integration, and for restoration. We also make pieces to accessorize, amplify,
or represent a symbolic, spiritual, or cultural feature
for home, the car, or on your person.
Whether you are navigating transition, reconnecting with lineage,
seeking community, or exploring new creative pathways, our
offerings are designed to meet you where you are —
with layers of softness, intention, and care.
Our Approach
We are a unique [w]holistic wellness practice rooted in the Great Lakes Region —
based in midtown Toronto — where macramé, nature, and visual (and tactile)
storytelling come together to make creativity, grounding,
and joy more accessible for sensory‑aligned souls.
Our approach is designed for those seeking culturally sensitive pathways that honour
traditional practices, ancestral technologies, and human‑centred
ways of creating space to foster personal and collective wellbeing.
We recognize both holistic and wholistic frameworks, which is why our work intentionally
carries the integrated spelling [w]holistic — reflecting care for the whole
person, the whole story, and the whole ecosystem.
Sensory-Friendly
& Somatic
While our offerings are
open to all, our work is especially rooted in supporting sensory integration and
somatic awareness.
We create experiences that complement regenerative healing, meditative practices,
and creative recovery.
Our sensory-friendly approach acknowledges the restorative power of textured, tactile arts like macramé — practices that regulate the nervous system, replenish energy, foster balance,
and restore creativity.
We honour the truth that
each person carries their own rhythms, sensitivities, and
organic ways of being.
Because of this, our offerings are intentionally adaptive, responsive, and designed to meet people where they are.
Culturally
Responsive
Our work is rooted in approaches that honour the diverse identities, ancestries, and lived experiences that shape how people move through the world.
We recognize that many
individuals and communities
carry stories shaped by known or unknown experiences of migration, displacement, interruption,
and resilient reclamation —
stories that influence
how we learn, create,
connect, and heal.
Because of this, our offerings are intentionally adaptive
and culturally responsive.
We create space for all stories including those tied to people whose lineages include
gaps, silences, flattening, or transitions — due to
disruption, grief, loss,
separations,
and new beginnings.
Nature as a
Collaborator
Nature is not a backdrop in
our work — it is an
active collaborator.
Plants, wildflowers, botanicals,
and natural materials such as
wood, feathers, and glass
beads are woven into our
offerings as sensory anchors
that support grounding, mindfulness, and reconnection.
These elements carry symbolism, memory, and presence.
They help us slow down, return to our bodies, and reconnect with the simple, sacred teachings found in our natural surroundings.
Many of our workshops
take place outdoors or in land‑based spaces —
along the water, in parks,
on trails, at beaches, farms, and other places where
the land can guide
the experience.
We create space to hold stories, embrace diversity, and allow us to learn from lived realities — as teachings, offerings, and gifts. Through compassion, interconnectedness,
and natural rhythms, we find the patterns in the [k]nots that hold layers of meaning —
and, we do so in ways that feel safe, grounded, and affirming.
Our facilitation style centres human‑to‑human connection, respect for ancestral technologies and embodied ways of knowing, and practices that can adapt
to divergent, neurotypes, and cultural frameworks.
We meet people where they are, honour where they come from, and support them in weaving new threads of continuity, belonging, and expansion.
We Take Macramé Beyond the Knot.
How Our Work Integrates Into Community,
Education & Land‑Based Settings
Our offerings are designed to integrate seamlessly into community programs,
educational environments, wellness spaces, and cultural initiatives.
Whether supporting youth (15+), adults, or intergenerational groups, our work
provides accessible pathways for learning, connection, and creative development.
Community
Education and Early
Interventions
Our workshops support individuals, families, and communities in building awareness, strengthening safety, and developing relational skills.
We offer culturally
competent, accessible education that bridges early‑mid interventions, community‑driven
safety pathways, and restorative practices.
Our work can be
offered in community
settings, institutions,
trainings, and 1‑to‑1 or
group formats.
We are mobile and
able to meet communities
where they are.
Outdoor, Land‑Based & Nature‑Integrated
Programs
Our offerings extend beyond
indoor spaces and into
the land itself.
We collaborate with parks, campsites, family farms, cultural programs, and newcomer services to create grounding, nature‑rooted experiences that support connection, belonging, and sensory regulation.
Land‑based workshops,
nature walks, and outdoor creative sessions offer participants a
chance to reconnect with natural
rhythms, explore creative
expression in open spaces,
and experience the restorative benefits of working with
organic materials in their
natural environments.
These programs are especially meaningful for newcomers, intergenerational groups, and communities seeking culturally responsive, accessible, and place‑based pathways for
learning, healing, and
creative exploration.
Skill Building, Experiential
Learning & Creative
Empowerment
Through hands‑on
textured art and experiential
learning, participants
develop practical, emotional regulation, and fine
motor skills that support
focus, self‑expression, confidence, and creative problem‑solving.
We create accessible, non‑competitive learning spaces for diverse groups
and adaptive neurotypes, honouring each person’s unique design
and capacity
for creative expansion.
Our approach integrates STEM/STEAM principles,
tactile exploration,
and empowerment‑
based learning.
Defy the Ordinary. Create Your Way.
Collaborative & Supportive Pathways
Art Therapists | OT | Rehab | Neurodiversity | Low-Vision Therapists
Dementia & Memory Care Programs | Brain Injury & Stroke Recovery
Our offerings complement the work of occupational therapists (OT), rehabilitation
specialists, neurodiversity‑affirming practitioners, low-vision therapists, and other related
areas that focus on sensory engagement, awareness, and wellness.
While we do not provide clinical therapy, our tactile, rhythm‑based, and sensory‑aligned
practices can support goals related to grounding, focus, motor coordination,
emotional regulation, memory anchoring, and creative expression.
We work primarily with individuals who benefit from adaptive, accessible, and culturally responsive
approaches — including those navigating sensory sensitivities, life transitions, lineage‑related gaps,
life transitions, memory challenges, or the need for new gentle, hands‑on pathways
to connect with their minds, bodies, stories, and environments.
Additional Areas We Collab With
Expressive Arts Facilitators | Recreational Therapists | Life Skills Coaches |
Eldercare Program Coordinators | Newcomer Settlement Workers |
Long-Term Care & Hospice Services | Spiritual & Meditation Practitioners
Community & Mental Wellness Workers
Our work is adaptable for all creative levels.
What Our Work Supports
Our offerings create gentle, grounding pathways that help individuals reconnect with themselves, their stories, and their communities. Through tactile creativity, rhythm, and culturally rooted practices, participants often experience:
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Renewed creative purpose
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Greater emotional grounding
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Deeper connection to joy and meaning
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Clarity in boundaries and self‑expression
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Strengthened sense of self and autonomy
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Increased capacity for calm and regulation
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Connection to affirming relationships and communities
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Compassionate navigation of transitions, grief, and change
More of About Us
At Boho & Knots™, we weave
traditional teachings, ancestral
technologies, and sensory‑aligned
creativity into offerings that
support wellness, intentional living,
and meaningful connection.
Our signature Macramé Affirmation Dolls™
are hand‑crafted keepsakes
inspired by seasons, memories, and
moments that shape your journey.
Each doll is created as a soft,
resilient symbol — a thread of joy,
lineage, and becoming that
you can hold, honour,
and pass forward.
Rooted in sensory care, we work
with organic, tactile fibers and
earthy hues that echo
the textures, layers, and stories
that move through us.
These materials help create
grounding, soothing pieces
that support sensory‑aligned
souls and those seeking
gentle, embodied
pathways to creativity.
Alongside our dolls, we offer a range of
original macramé designs, DIY kits, and
custom commissions for individuals,
families, and small‑batch orders.
Every piece is crafted
with intention to cultivate connection,
remembrance, and creative expansion.
We also host indoor, online, and
outdoor land‑based workshops —
spaces for learning, making, and
reconnecting with self,
community, and the land.
Macramé Affirmation Dolls™
Our dolls are more than décor — they are tactile keepsakes
that hold and affirm memory, identity, and story.
Each series invites reflection, connection, and
gentle creative grounding. Some of the dolls are part
of expanding series and collectables.
Explore our collection by clicking the button below.
Symbols & Stories™
In addition to our signature doll series,
we also have a Symbols & Stories™ collection
that features handcrafted scalable
and customizable wall hangings
designed to honour memory, identity,
and creative expression.
Each piece blends natural fibers, symbolic
patterns, and sensory‑aligned textures to create
art that supports grounding, reflection, and
meaningful connection.
All our handcrafted textiles and pieces are
available in different formats.
We invite you to view more of from our
collections and designs by visiting
our portfolio using the button below.
Weaving & Wisdom
Wellness Requires Remembering
Our practice honors the wisdom carried through ancestral routes —
the migrations, disruptions, and teachings that shape our healing today.
We believe that healing begins with remembering, and that the knots we carry are
not just burdens but encoded messages waiting to be unraveled and reframed.
Our somatic approach is especially supportive for people who benefit from tactile,
hands-on, or outdoor practices. It offers an alternative when traditional
wellness environments are overstimulating, inaccessible, or unable to meet the needs of
neurodiverse and others who need or prefer more sensory-friendly and
adaptive pathways for improving one's sense of wellbeing.
Every piece we create — from macramé dolls to symbolic wall hangings — is made through
slow, intentional handwork with natural materials. These designs carry the same
grounding, sensory, and ancestral qualities that guide our somatic practice.
All our handcrafted pieces and custom designs
extend this practice into your home, office, or any space that benefits from a
tangible reminder for grounding, remembrance, and connection.
Evidence-Based &
Culturally Informed
Modern research affirms what ancestral practices have long embodied: that textured art, nature, and land-based technologies support [w]holistic healing — especially for
those whose histories are rooted in migration, resilience, and creative survival.
The methods support regulation,
recovery, and integration in ways that are accessible and culturally responsive.
The Missing Thread
What’s Was Known by Ancestors is Rarely Named in Care.
While studies continue to affirm the benefits of textured art and time spent in nature —
both of which support holistic physical and neurological wellbeing — these healing prescriptions
are not always shared or accessible within standard healthcare practices.
In many families and communities, especially those shaped by ancestral disruption, these
modalities and their related teachings are rarely named, discussed, or explored.
When threads of ancestral knowledge are forgotten, denied, or devalued, the pathways for
recovery and repair become fragmented, compromised, or blocked.
To access more of our sensibilities — including the joy required to create abundance —
the cords that were removed must be remembered, retrieved, and restored.
Boho & Knots™ exists to support that process.
[W]holistic Wellness
Approaches & Models
Many people hold the innate capacity to self‑regulate, yet regulation becomes
difficult when they haven’t been supported in
integrating sensory experiences, understanding what their bodies are communicating, or naming emotions in ways that feel grounding rather
than overwhelming.
Most dominant wellness models overlook these missing threads. They focus on behaviour or symptoms without acknowledging the sensory, ancestral, and identity‑rooted contexts that
shape how regulation develops.
Our approach differs.
We work with the hands, the land, and the
body to restore the pathways that help people interpret sensation, recognize emotional
signals, and express themselves with
clarity and empowerment.
This is what makes our model truly
[w]holistic — it honours the full story of
how people learn, feel, and heal.
The Medicine in Our Hands
Macrame Reminds us: Every Knot is a Story — In Every Thread, a Truth
At Boho & Knots™, we believe healing begins with restoring connection —
to ourselves, to our stories, and to the lineages that shaped us.
When conversations about cultural identity, trauma, and belonging are missing
from mainstream wellness spaces, it’s not just an absence — it’s a signal.
A signal to weave new routes to wellness, rooted in ancestral wisdom and
creative, land-based technologies.
Even when these practices resonate deeply with people from ethno‑culturally
diverse communities, they are often excluded from the spaces where healing is offered
or validated. This exclusion can create a false sense of isolation.
Yet each lived experience is interconnected — part of a collective
need for recognition, reconnection, and repair.
Disclaimer:
This refers to cultural, creative, and ancestral and cultural
“medicine,” not medical treatment.
Our spaces welcome those whose identities, histories, or ways of being are often
overlooked in mainstream wellness. We honour the complexity of mixed, racialized,
neurodivergent, and diasporic experiences — and the medicine each person carries.
Healing from injuries, like macramé, is not linear. It loops, knots, adapts, and unfolds.
When wounds go unaddressed, they don't disappear — they weave themselves itself into patterns of
survival and adaptation. Sometimes in ways that have a negative impact on our sensory wellness which impacts
how we receive, interpret, and process information and form connections.
Our work helps gently unravel those threads and restore connection.
At Boho & Knots, we aim to Defy the Ordinary,
and offer a space where all patterns can be named,
honoured, and gently transformed.
As a result, healing becomes as a
creative act of reconnection - mind, body, spirit.
Our land-based macramé workshops invite you to create in nature —
a space that inspires, grounds, and offers its own medicine
Rooted in Place, Guided by Land
Our practice is shaped not only by ancestral wisdom, but by the land we inhabit.
Nestled near the shores of Lake Ontario, Toronto Island, and the Ravine System Trails, our work is
nourished by the textures, rhythms, and teachings of the Great Lakes region.
These spaces offer more than beauty — they offer medicine.
The land holds memory, movement, and metaphor.
A short distance away, the Niagara Region, the Bruce Trail, and the Escarpment
wind through waters that connect Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and the sacred
Georgian Bay that cradles Manitoulin Island.
These landscapes shape our offerings and inspire our macramé practice,
reminding us that nature is not a backdrop — it is a collaborator.
While our roots are here, our work is mobile.
The principles of land‑based, tactile healing can be carried to any environment,
honouring the teachings of each place and the stories held within its soil, water, and wind.
This next section offers a visual journey through the natural textures and colours
of the Great Lakes — from moss‑covered stones and windswept shorelines
to the intricate patterns held in bark, water, and sky.
Similar hues and textures appear throughout the city’s Ravine System, an
accessible network of trails ideal for gentle hikes and quiet reflection.
These visuals echo the knots and threads of macramé, reminding us
that nature teaches us how to weave, hold, and release.
These landscapes also serve as ideal settings for our outdoor excursions
and land‑based macramé workshops. Whether gathering organic materials through
guided foraging or knotting fibres beneath open skies, each experience is designed
to reconnect participants with nature, craft, and community.
Foraging for Organic
Materials
Macramé begins here — with boots on the trail and wood waiting to be found to become part
of a wall hanging.
Land & Water Inspiration
Our work weaves together macramé, nature, and ancestral wisdom to support
emotional regulation, sensory integration, and creative expansion.
We intentionally incorporate elements from our natural surroundings into both our designs
and workshops — drawing inspiration from the textures, rhythms, and teachings of the land.
We are deeply fortunate to live and create in a region where the Great Lakes are so accessible and generous,
offering a landscape rich with memory, movement, and story. These waters and shorelines hold a history of
grounding, remembering, and reconnecting in the spirit of creation.
This moment — macramé resting on stone, framed by trees and lake — captures the essence of our practice.
The land is not a backdrop; it is a collaborator. It shapes our designs, informs our
workshops, and reminds us that creativity is a dialogue between hand, material, and place.
Through textured art and land‑based teachings, we offer accessible experiences that awaken the senses,
ground the body, and reconnect you with a broader sense of your wholeness.
At the heart of our practice is the ancient art of hand‑knotting — a tradition found across diverse cultures —
used here as a modality for the [re]discovery needed to experience more attunement and balance.
These gatherings reflect what macramé makes possible: connection,
presence, and shared creativity held by land and water.
Macramé is a gateway to greater clarity, confidence, and abundance. At Boho & Knots™,
we see macramé as more than craft or décor — it is a doorway and a bridge to
[re]discovering more accessible parts of you.
A tactile practice that invites self‑discovery, supports nervous system regulation, and nurtures intergenerational repair.
Each knot becomes a channel for [re]storytelling, remembering, and reclaiming.
Macramé is a language.
A meditative ceremony.
A cultural medicine for sensory souls.
This is where our practice begins — with intention, texture, and the quiet power of creation.
Macramé as a Bridge
Macramé is more than craft —
it is a bridge.
A tactile practice that invites steps of self‑discovery, supports nervous
system regulation, and nurtures intergenerational repair.
Each knot becomes a pathway for [re]storytelling, remembering,
and reclaiming.
Defy the Ordinary, and explore
something new with our way
of doing macramé.
Join us in exploring the transformative power of knots —
blending fibre arts with nature and embracing our common threads alongside
the stories that shape the wisdom reflected in our divergent sensibilities.
Each gathering, workshop, and handcrafted
piece is an invitation to reconnect with creativity, land, and the stories held in our hands.
Our work invites you into deeper connection with yourself, your stories and the wisdom within.
For more information about Boho & Knots™, collaboration inquiries, or to request
a quote for macramé pieces, Affirmation Dolls™, or workshops, please use
the link below to complete our general inquiry form.
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Toronto, ON (Midtown)
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