Sara Ross BIO 2024

Sara Ross is a Burnaby-based mother, artist, and land-connected human who thrives in collaborations, including with non-human realms.  She identifies as part of the Scottish diaspora and connects with this part of her identity through hand-skills such as spinning and weaving, also through tending wild spaces, ceremony, and learning Scottish Gaelic.

Sara aims to be a good guest on these unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking/Coast Salish peoples.  One way is through her work as a Bird Language teacher, where she helps people understand communication between and amongst birds, as a pathway into awareness and connection.  She is Co-Founder of the Community Nest Finding Network, where she helped a mama Hummingbird stop construction of a new oil pipeline in 2021.

Sara has supported water ceremonies with Indigenous and non-Indigenous, including Spirit Fast for the Fraser, and a four year series of Ceremonies connected with land and water protection led by Red Hummingbird Judy Wilson and family.  Water is life, and that’s not just a slogan. 

Previous iterations of Sara’s creative world include: bicycle-inspired performance collective (B:C:Clettes), landscape painter (retrospective), deep immersion in collective living & intentional community (beehive collective house), former Lead Instructor at Soaring Eagle Nature School, Zen Buddhism including co-founder of ZenYU/Young Urban Zen (Mountain Rain Zen), and a micro-business called land connection medicine.