Lindsay Donovan

Panorama Hare Scramble 2016 from Lindsay Donovan on Vimeo.

Adventures along Toby Creek in the forest fire haze with Owen Peters.

Smoke is in the air, but that didn’t stop us from going on an adventure in the backyard. Loving the epic views of Toby Creek we saw along the way. Grateful to call Invermere home and to have an all mountain bike that has opened up a lot of new terrain to explore. <3

Taking a moment to reflect on this winter and honour the journey it's taken me on so far. Facing fears and overcoming setbacks. I am sooo grateful for the wide array of situations it's presented me with this season. For all those who have supported me in various ways, a warm heart felt thank you, I wouldn't be where I am without you. Constantly learning, connecting, creating and growing, I'm blessed to do all this but the reality is with PCS it can all get very overwhelming, confusing and create a lot of pain if not managed. Meditation, intention setting, gratitude, yoga, reiki and writing have all been key tools that I practice daily to ground me. To help bring me back to centre so that I can carry through the demands of life. It's a roller coaster, a constant act of remembering. Aiming for balance, and practicing compassion and patience. In transformation, i feel like I'm being guided and supported in this re-build. I am continually humbled by this experience and look forward to the lessons and growth still to come. Sending love and light, may it hold and support you wherever you are on your journey. ✨🙏🏻💙

Grateful to be back out at @chattercreek for the next two weeks. I am recovered from the whiplash concussion I sustained on the 9th and have been doing all I can to stay on top of my health. My mind and body are feeling up to the task at hand. I will be taking it easy (as I was before but accidents happen)... I recognize that I am still prone to injury and am balancing caution with confidence for moving forward. As we all know, there is a fine balance to be had between the two. Staying focused, positive and present in my body is my intention. What's yours for today, this weekend or even month? We have a new moon and lunar eclipse happening tomorrow, any intention you do set where conscious or subconcious will be even more potent at this time ✨💙Wishing you a wonderful weekend my friend 🙏🏻

Hanging out in Nelson for my birthday. With beautiful people in a beautiful place. So blessed for all this and all the love. For family and friends. Reflecting on the year, and what a year it has been. A full cycle. Another revolution round the sun. It's been such a wild one. I injured my brain just a week following this time last year. It's been such a humbling and insightful road to recovery and mind body connection enhancing. Learning, growing and awakening to a new reality. I've gone within and re-framed perspective. I'm sitting in uncertainty and looking forward to what the Universe has in store for the year ahead. I'm grateful for all your support. I honour you, wherever you are on your journey. May there be many new adventures and growth. An aquarian in the age of Aquarius and Saturn returns. I am embracing the magic of the unknown. Let the word be written. In love and light. I will dance away and celebrate the night ✨💙🙏🏻 (at City of Nelson, British Columbia)

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha

Starting the day off with an attitude of gratitude is a relatively new practice for me. I've noticed how beautiful this simple practice can be. Today I'm especially grateful for my body and despite the discomfort of it constantly shifting, there is a gift of awareness that comes with it as I watch and feel all the movements. I can feel it getting stronger, releasing tension, holding on to emotion, practices of learning to work through these blocks in various ways and gradually getting closer to coming back to 'home'. I'm grateful for all the beautiful souls who have offered words of wisdom, love, support or hands on healing along my path. I'm grateful for this journey for it has helped me realize a deep longing to move into a place of helping to empower others to heal through my own experiences. I'm still healing and know this experience is a part of the gift I have to offer others. I'm just not sure how all this will show up yet and look forward to being open to the process and however it decides to show up. What are you grateful for in this moment? (at Chatter Creek Mountain Lodges)

Intimate Landscapes is a series this beautiful #solo_tree is a part of. Its currently hanging up at the Blue Dog Cafe in Invermere, BC. If you're in town go check it out (and grab a delish bite to eat if you need to feast more than your eyes on something). This body of work is a reflection and meditation on nature's beauty. As well as how this has been a part of my healing journey. The artist statement is almost done and will be joining the rest of the work soon. Oh and my completely new website (mobile friendly) is almost ready to go live! Stay tuned for more updates. In the meantime, I'm off to Crowfoot Pass for my last day of the Avalanche Safety Training level 2. Wishing you a Sunday funday ✨❄️💙🙏🏻 (at Blue Dog Cafe, Invermere BC)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein (at Chatter Creek Mountain Lodges)

What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill

Sibling snowboard shred + Owen. Chill pow day at Panorama. Dec. 30, 2016. Film: Owen Peters Edit: Lindsay Donovan Music: ODEZA - Sun Models

Flashback to January in 2014 at @chattercreek. This was taken when I was shadowing long time staff photographer, Dylan Page. Unsure if I'd get the job as I didn't quite have the skills yet but I worked hard and made it happen. I've grown so much over the years and I'm sooo grateful for many things, one being all of you! Yes, you! You are a beautiful soul and so thank you for being here and showing your support. Especially those who have actively participated in the process, thank you! That means you: Isabelle, Alain (@alainsleigher), Dylan, Charlie, Jen, Diane, Matt (@yellow_mustard_seed), Rachel, Josh, Laura, Steve, Hacker, Dan and the list goes on and on. Thank you fam, looking forward to connecting soon! Thank you for believing in me and pulling my ass outta the snow, keeping me safe in sketchy avi conditions, providing a shift in perspective when needed and the making of unforgettably amazing times. Since ending my season early, February 27th last winter, it has been a wild and humbling journey. Wonder how I'm feeling about heading back out there after the injury, I'll post on my other page tomorrow - @lindsaydonovan_) Alright so right now I want to take a moment to get you to think of what you are grateful for and take a couple breathes visualizing and embodying it. Although extremely challenging I'm so grateful for this deeply transformative experience. Learning to let the Heart sing and call the shots in this dance of life. Living life, it's an art; a meditation. ✨ What life are you sub/consciously designing? (at Chatter Creek Mountain Lodges)

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~ Buddha

"It's not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It's a question of UNLEARNING much" ~ Osho (at Panorama Mountain Resort)

In a state of inner reflection, there has been so many realizations, insights and questions that have risen. I'm learning to breathe and come back to the present as soon as I catch myself having moved away from its centring force, this is my guide. To understand and begin to act in alignment. I'm navigating some rough waters. The ship has set sail and honestly its been pretty rocky but I wouldn't have it any other way. I also acknowledge all is as it's mean to be. Unearthing the old ways, dusting out the dark places. Its been enlightening. It's also been forever since I posted here, an inner battle, actually a tug-o-war seams to be most fitting. The silence, the lack of posting, is a way that I let FEAR win. Then I fall into SHAME. Then I realize I have been posting else where. Why this disparity in platforms? Why this disconnect? Oh that makes sense, it's part of the problem. This compartmentalization I did at some point to survive in the dark realms of fear I lived. Re place I'm pulling myself from. It supports the masks and the old ways. I'm looking back through a new perspective, getting clear on where I've come from, finally open to learning all the lessons. I'm in a rebuild. Thanks for your patience. I'll be pushing past the fears and limitations. Sharing more. Doing more. Being more. Living fully! Tenaciously. Connected. I'd love to hear how you have been if you feel called to share. What difficulty are you facing, and do you think that it could use a new perspective or approach? What have you been reluctant to try in order to solve it? Why not give that a try?! In my experience, it's usually the areas I face a little resistance, that when faced, is the path of best results! Our feelings are the key, and this sensation of reluctance usually says that we are pushing out of our comfort zone. And that my friends, is where all the magic happens! So here I am, I pushed and I'm back. <3 Trust. Breathe. Believe. (at Panorama Mountain Resort)