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Nature-based creativity services

ElämysTilkku offers nature-based creativity services that bring peace, inspiration and insight within reach. Guided workshops, garden tours and shared moments combine the gentle rhythm of nature, working with your hands and experiences enjoyed together.

Autumn 2026 – summer 2027

Upcoming events

The tent sauna and the Tentsile tree tents are closed for the winter and open again in April 2027. The garden is still busy.

  • Nature club for children

    Every other Thursday 16–17.30: 8.10., 22.10., 5.11., 19.11. and 3.12.2026. A free nature club for primary-school children: art, outings, play and exploring nature in the garden and nearby. Run by the Häme district of the Finnish Nature League (Luontoliitto). Sign up (in Finnish).

  • Open Gardens Day 2027

    Sunday 12–17. Come and explore the half-wild garden and the Natura area on the shore of Lake Mallasvesi – no booking needed.

For questions and group visits, call or send a message: tel. 040 7059670 / elamystilkku@gmail.com.

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Season 2026

Past events

This is how the 2026 season went at ElämysTilkku.

  • Syyspaineentasaus

    A nature-based wellbeing event, 14–20: a garden tour for all the senses, a foot-bath salt workshop, a full-moon dance journey led by Mimmi Pearlman in the ElämysVintti loft, the tent sauna and the throat-singing choir Unfindable Answers.

  • Pimeen kaupan ilta

    Pälkäne’s traditional autumn evening: the garden open 15–18, the tent sauna experience 18–22 and a light show in the garden at 20.

  • Open Gardens Day

    The garden was open 12–17, with the glass installation Luovuuden lähde on show.

  • Last summer Wednesday of the season

    ElämysTilkku was open on summer Wednesdays 12–18. On the last one, the tent sauna was heated from 18.

My services include

Come and strengthen your wellbeing, awaken your creativity and get closer to nature — piece by piece, patch by patch.

A garden tour for all the senses

Forest mind exercises and tastings.

Art exhibition in the garden

Frames crafted from natural materials, and creative observation.

Foot bath

Making your own foot bath salts, followed by a relaxing foot bath.

Creative movement

A hula hoop dance session close to nature.

Creativity from nature

A craft session with natural and recycled materials (e.g. wreaths, decorations and scarecrows).

A pale canvas tent with a stove chimney at the edge of a forest, with firewood and water buckets beside it.
By Lake Mallasvesi

TelttasaunaElämys

Please note: this service is next available in April 2027.

The soft steam of the tent sauna soothes you in the middle of the wild nature around it. Cool off in Lake Mallasvesi in between. A warm herbal infusion keeps you gently warm after the sauna.

The tent sauna is heated by booking

and during events. The tent sauna holds 4-8 people.

To make the most of your sauna experience, please book your visit in advance by phone or message: tel. 040 7059670 / elamystilkku@gmail.com

Please bring your own towel, swimsuit and water bottle.

At other times, for groups by booking

Tent sauna experience 3h/ 200€

Includes the Päiväpiipahdus day-visit services and private use of the beach.

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Illuminated green glass artworks in a dim room.

Luovuuden lähde – a glass installation

Glass artists Aada Vainio and Saara Sirkeoja are bringing a glass installation into Tilkku’s garden in summer 2026. Come and see how a delicate glass artwork blends into the sensory atmosphere of the garden.

Luovuuden lähde opens to the public at Pälkäne’s summer opening on 23.5.