Skwachays Lodge

Hotel

The lodge offers an 18 unit boutique hotel and healing lodge, offering well appointed rooms with cable, wifi Internet, and in-suite coffee service. Cultural amenities include a sweat lodge, smudge room and ceremonial gathering spaces. Skwachays Lodge offers and authentic Aboriginal experience, the the heart of Vancouver. Cultural amenities include a sweat lodge, smudge room and ceremonial gathering spaces.

Art Gallery & Gift Shop

The Urban Aboriginal Fair Trade Gallery showcases Aboriginal artists from across Canada. Most are based in Vancouver, and many are participants in the Skwachays Artist in Residence program. The Urban Aboriginal Fair Trade Gallery features a gift shop where guests can purchase gifts, souveniers and one of a kind art pieces. Items include jewellery, hats, art cards, clothing, rattles, bentwood boxes and other items.

Artist Studio

The Skwachays Artist in Residence program is home to 18 emerging Aboriginal artists and serves a community gathering place for countless other Aboriginal artists living and creating in Vancouver's east side. The in-house workshop is the site of daily painting and carving and upstairs the Urban Aboriginal Fair Trade Gallery Regularly features art talks, in-studio sessions, storytelling and special events. The Artists in Residence are highly skilled in diverse mediums and are available for special projects, workshops, commissions and public art projects. Just ask and the creative team will make it happen.

Sweat Lodge

Visitors to the Skwachays Lodge have the opportunity to benefit from the sacred healing experience of a traditional sweat lodge. Traditional practitioning Elder, Old Hands, is here to support and guide you through the cleansing exercise. No payment is taken for this spiritual experience, but donations are warmly accepted and go directly towards the healing programs of Skwachays Healing Lodge. "Old Hands", the sweat leader, is incredibly well-versed in the various teaching of Aboriginal healers across North America, and is wonderful resource to everyone interested in incorporating traditional medicine into their lives. This will be in operation in January 2013. By advance reservation only.