Praxium Learning Foundation

The Praxium is a Vancouver-based learning community. As a not-for-profit academy, we offer nature-based healing, guided dialogue, and volunteer-led projects that help people grow, connect, and act together across borders, cultures, and generations.

Welcome to the Praxium


VISION
”Unity and Freedom for All”

A world united in spirituality, where all are free to learn and change continuously throughout their life journey.

MISSION

To create fellowship by valuing diversity and holding space for the practice of freedom in the Endeavor.

Learn more about the Endeavor Philosophy
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Our Activities

Join a Lyceum

Explore real-life questions through guided community dialogue

Attend Shinrin Yoku

Reconnect with yourself, community, and Nature

Support a Call to Action

Volunteer, donate, partner, or help advance social change

Click here to learn how to join the Praxium

Our Theory of Change:
The Endeavor as a
Personal Journey

Reflect

Explore your values, needs, questions, and lived experience.

Connect

Learn with others through Shinrin Yoku, Lyceums, and other communal practices.

Act

Participate in a personal quest, project, or Call to Action.

Return

Share what you learned on your quest and help someone else on their path.

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Start Your Journey Today

Core Council

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    Ehren Gruber

    CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT
    CANADA
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  • A man smiling outdoors with mountains and trees in the background, wearing a blue athletic shirt and sunglasses on his head.

    Chase Kubik

    CO-FOUNDER, VICE PRESIDENT
    USA
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  • A young man with short brown hair, a beard, and blue eyes, wearing a grey collared shirt, smiling slightly against a plain light-colored background.

    Hezekiah Jenkins

    CO-FOUNDER, SECRETARY
    USA
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  • A smiling woman with glasses and shoulder-length dark hair taking a selfie in a public space with people in the background.

    Rachel Gruber

    CO-FOUNDER, TREASURER
    CANADA
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Shinrin Yoku
(森林浴)-
A Practice for Healing

(Sept. 2025 - Feb 2026)

Our Impact

Flyer for Shinrin Yoku Forest Bathing event sponsored by the Consumer Initiative Fund, held at Coral Mountain Wellness. The flyer lists project goals, key achievements, statistics, and client experiences, with photos of people engaging in nature activities.

Our gratitude to the Consumer Initiative Fund (CIF) for their support. Through CIF funding, this project:

1) Increased participants’ access to nature-based healing with fewer financial barriers

2) Invited people into community connection, not just individual wellness

3) Cultivated a culturally rooted, accessible practice in service to Vancouver

Help us continue our service to strengthen individual ties to community and Nature!

3% Cover the Fee
Learn more about Shinrin Yoku - A Practice for Healing
Learn more about Shinrin Yoku - A Practice for Healing

Our Partners

Join our community

Sign up to join us in an Endeavor
3% Cover the Fee

Make a Donation

Every act of generosity—big or small—helps build a world that reflects our shared values. Your support empowers hope for a better future.

“Your Life, Our Journey”

Let’s discover how you can cultivate your spirit, heart, mind, and body. Share a message with us as we embark on our journey together!

The Praxium acknowledges with gratitude that our academy exists on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), & Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.