About
Welcome to Boho & Knots™ where we
Defy the Ordinary by making wellness and creative expansion more accessible to diverse and neurodiverse groups, with adaptative strengths, through hands-on, sensory-friendly, and culturally responsive experiences using an integration of macrame, elements of
nature, and experiential learning.
Tactile, textured, and visual [re]storytelling are a core component of our work as we believe our stories, across generations and including those of ancestors, play an integral part of our practices for wellbeing by inspiring aligned connections, purposeful expressions, and helping us activate and maintain a sense of
more joy, creativity, and wellness.
How
We offer macrame indoor and land-based workshops, original and signature designs, and POD and DIY. We also offer our signature Macrame Affirmation Dolls™.
Our workshops are provided in different formats (online, in-person, and outdoor) and our workshop types include theory, creative, and some are therapeutic-art focused.
We specialized in creating space for those seeking sensory aligned, culturally rooted, and tactile pathways to enhance wellbeing to address barriers found in some conventional structures for those
with divergent sensibilities.
Diversity
We hold space to affirm neurodiversity and ethno-cultural diversity, similar to biodiversity, as natural, vital, and interconnected parts of our collective story, wisdom,
and expansion - and eco-system.
Woven into every thread of our offerings, we recognize see differences and divergence as teachings that affirm and reveal the depths our wholeness; they serve as invitations
for us to expand our learning about others and ourselves.
We see diversity as an offering that allows us to practice more mindfulness and to explore the sense of curiosity, signals, and activated resonance.
Macrame supports this exploratory process.
Our Approach
Culturally Sensitive and [W]holistic
We are a one-of-a-kind [w]holistic wellness practice based in the
Great Lakes Region — specifically midtown Toronto — that weaves
macramé, nature, and visual storytelling together to make wellness
and joy more accessible for sensory souls.
Especially for those seeking culturally sensitive approaches that
are affirming and accommodating to traditional practices,
ancestral technologies, and human-centred approaches to wellness.
We acknowledge both concepts of "holistic" and "wholistic" which is
why it shows up in our work as [w]holistic.
Regenerative, Sensory-friendly, and Responsive
While our offerings are open to all, our work is rooted in supporting sensory integration to support and compliment regenerative healing,
recovery, and meditative practices.
We use a trauma-informed approach that acknowledges the restorative
benefits of textured and tactile arts, like macrame, and structures that
promote or compliment wellness practices that replenish
energy, foster balance, and restore creativity.
While we recognize that conventional practices and processes have their
place, we also are mindful that we are all born with divergent sensibilities,
natural rhythms, and organic ways of being that require more
adaptive approaches to wellness.
Nature As a Collaborator
Plants, wildflowers, and other botanicals, including those transformed into essential oils for aromatherapy, are woven into our work. We use wood, glass beads, feathers, and other symbolic elements that help us stay present, grounded, and connected to the simple, sacred, elements offerings found in our natural surroundings.
These elements are more than aesthetics. They are sensory anchors that support mindfulness, regulation, and reconnection. As such, many of our offerings include outdoor and land-based spaces, including nature walks, hikes, and
workshops in parks, at beaches, farms, and more.
Creative, Sensory Responsive, and Trauma Informed Regenerative Wellness
We use the fiber art of macrame, repetitive patterns, and gentle creative processes to support nervous system regulation, grounding, and emotional expression.
Our trauma-informed approach creates safer spaces for individuals, families, and community members impacted by complex lived experiences.
Particularly those on the path for personal or intergeneration healing, repair, and growth as a response to generational forced migration or displacement rooted to social, systemic, or environmental structures, practices, or factors that are
out of alignment with all
divergent sensibilities.
Cultural, Land, and Ancestral Teachings, Offerings, and Technologies
Our work borrows and integrates ways-of-being, and knowing, from the intersecting diverse ethno-cultural people and communities in parts of Quebec, Nova Scotia,
and Ontario.
From previous extensive work with Indigenous cultures throughout Ontario, and with related roots to the eastern homelands of Atlantic Canada, which includes diasporic traditions, our offerings are influenced by art, land-based activities, creating gathering spaces, and intentional community care.
Based on the history of this country, we recognize the impacts of intergenerational harms and injuries and the need for restorative spaces and opportunities.
Community Education, Prevention, and Early-Mid Interventions
The workshops we offer support individuals, families, and communities (youth, adults, and seniors) in building knowledge and elevating consciousness to recognize and understand safety risks so they can gain the tools and resources needed to strengthen their sense of safety and build reciprocal and collectively rewarding relationships.
We offer approachable, culturally competent, education that bridges awareness, early interventions, and community-driven safety pathways.
Our work is adaptable to be offered at the community level, in institutional settings, as trainings, and 1-to-1.
We are also mobile and can meet you where you're at.
Skill Building, Experimental Learning
(IE: STEM) and Empowerment
Through hands-on textured art, creative exploration, and confidence-building activities, participants learn practical skills that support focus building, self-expression,
and expansion.
We create accessible, non-competitive learning spaces for diverse groups and individuals with adaptive strengths.
In addition to respecting the unique design of all individuals, we also recognize each other as beautiful examples of creative expansion and makers with purpose. We enjoy creating spaces and opportunities where we can recognize the teachings and offerings each person brings in all ways.
We Support Regrowth, Repair and Reclamation Journeys By Helping to:
Reset emotional regulation system
Reclaim individuation and autonomy
Break self-harm cycles and patterns
of self-sabotaging
Set and maintain healthy boundaries
Replace self-limiting beliefs
Express more gratitude
Engage in purposeful creativity
Restore and protect intrinsic joy
Manage stress and anger
Let go of guilt and shame
Honour self and lived experiences
Process grief & loss
Navigate conflict & recovery
with compassion
Recognize and integrate into
affirming relationships & communities
More of About Us
With our work, we weave in traditional teachings, medicines, and ancestral technologies to support wellness, intentional living, and
creative expansion.
One of our signature offerings is
our collection of hand-made
Macramé Affirmation Dolls™.
Each one is crafted to reflect a
season or moment in your life that
resonated with your sense of joy.
We help transform these memories into tangible symbols — soft, resilient threads passed down through your lineage — to support the purpose of your being and becoming.
Rooted in sensory care, we
use organic materials
sensory-friendly fibers, with earthy hues, to capture and celebrate the textures, layers, and stories that
move through us — echoing our
sense of wholeness.
In addition to our dolls, we offer a range of original macramé designs, DIY kits, and commissions for individual and small-batch orders.
Each piece is created to cultivate meaningful connections
for sensory souls.
We also host indoor, online,
and outdoor land-based workshops — spaces for learning, creating, and reconnecting with self,
community, and the land.
Macramé Affirmation Dolls™
Our collections are more than dolls, crafts, or décor — they are living archives of memory, diversity,
imagination — and identity.
From Affirmation Dolls™ to Diversity Threads™, Wind Catcher™, Compassion Companion™, Garden of Knots™, Family Threads™, and Grounded Spaces™, each series invites connection,
reflection, and storytelling.
Together, they form a tapestry of healing and creativity — honoring identity, ancestry, and the art of soft living.
There's Medicine in the Hands
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 modality is ideal for those seeking hands-on or outdoor options to support rehabilitation, recovery, or emotional regulation.
Especially when conventional wellness spaces cannot accommodate the full spectrum of each person's neurodiversity or personal lived experiences.
Evidence-Based & Culturally Informed
Modern research affirms what ancestral practices have long embodied: that textured art, nature, and land-based technologies support holistic healing — especially for
those whose histories are
rooted in migration, resilience,
and creative survival.
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 [w]holistic physical and neurological wellbeing, these
healing prescriptions are not always shared or accessible to everyone
when it comes to standard or conventional healthcare practices.
In many families and communities, especially those shaped by ancestral disruption, these modalities, the related factors are rarely discussed or explored.
When threads of ancestral teaching and ways of being are forgotten,
denied, or devalued, the pathways for recovery a repair become
fragmented, compromised, or blocked.
In order to access more of our sensibilities, including the joy to create abundance, the cords that were removed have to be remembered, retrieved, and restored.
Boho & Knots™ exists to support that process.
Macramé Workshop Offerings
[W]holistic Wellness
Approaches & Models
Identity-based and ancestral traumas often form the root system beneath more widely recognized expressions of
distress caused by injury and harm that can lead to emotional dysregulation and
boundary challenges.
When these origins are overlooked, dominant healing models may normalize and reinforce disconnection and exclude ancestral presence from the regenerative healing process.
We are part of the healing & wellness eco-systems that honour traditional ways of being that are proven to cultivate and foster internal and external connections.
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 —
not just treating symptoms. 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 individuals from ethno-culturally diverse communities, they are often excluded from the spaces where such healing is offered or validated. This absence can create a false sense of isolation.
Yet, in truth, each lived experience is interconnected —
part of a collective need for recognition, reconnection, and repair.
This includes those who are mixed-race, racialized, neurodivergent, or part of
BIPOC communities — as well as those with related ancestry or loved ones
whose lives are shaped by these realities.
Whether through direct lived experience or relational proximity, the
need for inclusive, culturally attuned healing is undeniable.
Our healing framework recognizes that everyone within these dynamics carries medicine — and is in need of it. Like macramé, healing is not linear.
It loops, knots, and unfolds. When trauma goes unaddressed, it doesn’t disappear — it adapts. It weaves itself into patterns of survival, silence, and protection.
Our use of the reference BIPOC is not to dismiss or flatten identities. We use it with the intention to acknowledge those who may prefer, see, or sense themselves as having intersecting or "mixed" identities due to the make-up of their ancestral
linage of their parents, grandparents, and ancestors.
As such, we use BIPOC to acknowledge that some wish to hold space
for the expanded version of their identity which can overlap with a spectrum
of more than one race, ethnicity, culture and/or nationality.
While societies that have diverse populations of races are conditioned to group people based on phenotype, this conventional process flattens identities in the process — which can cause social assimilation — a type of
forced displacement of identity and belonging.
In Softness, We Create
At Boho & Knots, we believe creativity
is a birthright — sacred, ancestral,
and often denied. We recognize that
many of our ancestors were silenced, their artistry suppressed, their hands bound by survival.
Yet in the quiet of their labor, the tension of their displacement & migration, and their settling in new places, they dreamed.
They prayed that we, their descendants,
would one day create freely — not
just with our hands, but with
our whole being.
When we're in our softness, we
nurture the creative process and
complete the circle. When we create,
we remember, and we return what was taken — what we were conditioned to believe never existed and served no purpose.
We tend to it like a garden, with care,
with reverence, and with joy.
When we create, we become an ancestor's vision fulfilled, a wish come true, an answered prayer.
We take the knots to mend the parts of the threads that were torn away — reinforcing the strength — symbolizing the
resilience of our lineage.
Our creations revitalize and honour our stories of origin, and land-based heritage, and
support generational repair.
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 not only shaped by ancestral wisdom — it’s also deeply informed 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.
We are located only 30 minutes from the Toronto harbourfront that oversees the shoreline of Lake Ontario, Toronto Island, and several entry points to the Toronto Ravine System Trails and nearby conservation areas.
These spaces offer more than beauty - they too offer medicine.
The land holds memory, movement, and metaphor.
Just a few hours away, the Niagara Region and the Bruce Trail wind through the Escarpment, surrounded by the waters of Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron — including the magical Georgian Bay that cradles Manitoulin Island.
These landscapes shape our offerings, inspire our macramé practice, and remind us that nature is not just a backdrop — it’s a collaborator.
This section to follow is a slider of images that celebrate the natural textures and colours of the Great Lakes — from moss-covered stones and windswept shorelines to the intricate patterns found in bark, water, and sky.
Similar colours and textures are found in the intricate, yet accessible,
Ravine System in the city which is ideal for hikes.
These visuals echo the knots and threads of macramé, reminding us that nature teaches us how to weave, hold, and release.
These locations also serve as ideal settings for our outdoor excursions and land-based macramé workshops. Whether gathering organic materials through guided foraging or knotting fibers beneath open skies, each experience is
designed to reconnect participants with nature, craft, and community.
Our outdoor workshops and retreats are ideal for those who
are nature lovers or outdoor curious.
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 and grateful to live and create in a part of the province where the Great Lakes are so accessible and generous — offering a rich landscape and history for grounding, remembering, and reconnecting in the spirit of creation.
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.
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 serves a channel for
[re]storytelling, remembering, and reclaiming.
Macramé is a language.
A meditative ceremony.
A medicine for sensory souls.
This is where our practice begins — with intention, texture, and the quiet power of creation.
Macramé as
Bridge or Portal
Rooted in ancestral wisdom
and land-based teachings, our macramé practice is both meditative and expressive —
a way to reconnect with the
body, awaken the senses, and honour the stories that live within and around us.
Whether you're tying your first knot or returning to the practice with new intention, macramé offers a space to slow down, listen deeply, and create with purpose.
In addition to our dolls, we also have a collection of signature line of macrame wall hangings called: Symbols & Stories™ that weave meaning into form.
Each design carries symbolic details — knots, colors, textures — that
tell stories of resilience, imagination, and belonging.
Together, they remind us that every thread holds memory, and every
symbol speaks to the journeys we share.
Options:
Order a replica with the name specs, or use the images below as inspiration and let us craft a wall hanging that represents your story and a name that resonates with your sensibilities. More designs to be added soon.
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We Can Replicate or Customize
The Journey:
Routes & Waves™
Symbolism
Details to Come
Represents
Details to Come
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mm
Colour: Beige/Natural
Mount Type: 10" Bamboo Hoop
Accessories: Wood Beads
Dimensions: 10" W x 29"L (3ft)
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or for a Quote.
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We Can Replicate or Customize
A Celestial Body -
Wisdom & Stars™
Symbolism
Details to Come
Represents
Details to Come
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mm
Colour: Beige/Natural
Mount Type: 10" Bamboo Hoop
Accessories: Wood Beads
& Feathers
Dimensions: 10" W x 29"L (3ft)
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or for a Quote.
We Can Replicate or Customize
Tree of Life & Love™
Symbolism
Details to Come
Represents
Details to Come
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mm
Colour: Beige/Natural
Mount Type: 10" Bamboo Hoop
Dimensions: 10" W x 23" L
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or for a Quote.
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Layers of Becoming™
Symbolism
Details to Come.
Represents:
Details to Come
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mmColour: Beige/Natural
Mount Type: 24"
Accessories: Wood Beads
Dimensions: 24"W (2ft) x 26" L
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or for a Quote.
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We Can Replicate or Customize
Echoes of the Spirit™
Symbolism
Details to Come
Represents
Details to Come
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mm
Colour: Beige/Natural
Mount Type: 10" Bamboo Hoop
Accessories: Wood Beads
& Feathers
Dimensions: 10" W x 29"L (3ft)
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or for a Quote.
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We Can Replicate or Customize
Seasons & Dreams™
Symbolism
Details to Come.
Represents
Details to Come.
Featured Design Specs:
Material: Cotton
Cord Size: 3mm
Colour: Beige/Natural
Accessories: Wood Beads
Mount Type: 10" Bamboo Hoop
Dimensions: 10" W x 24" L (2ft)
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or for a Quote.
Our Full Catalogue Will be
Available Soon!
Join us in exploring the transformative power of
knots and blending fiber arts with nature and embracing the
beauty of divergent sensibilities.
For more information about Boho & Knots™, collaboration inquiries, or for a quote for any of Macrame pieces, Affirmation Dolls™, or workshops, clink the link below to complete our general inquiry form.
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