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Located just a few minutes from downtown St. Charles, Illinois, the Koi Whisperer Sanctuary & Japanese Gardens sits on two beautiful wooded acres on the Fox River. Once a working Koi Farm, the property features a Hillside Ranch Home with Koi Ponds, Greenhouse, a Japanese Onsen, Enso free floating circular Meditation Deck over the Koi Pond, Buddha Tea House on the Fox River and Ryokan Spa amenities indoors that our Guests and Clients absolutely love including a Full Cedar Sauna and Stone Room.

An enlightening and inspiring nature spa habitat, the Sanctuary is the private home and studio of international award winning infrared photographer, author and designer MaryEllen Curran Malinowski. This is where the creative forces of light + design connect to the intuitive insight into nature.

Our Koi Whisperer Sanctuary is a perfect featured film location for artistic photography, wedding and film shoots. Located just 4.5 miles from downtown St. Charles, on two wooded acres with river front access. A Zen Living setting both indoors and outdoors, the location has been a backdrop for weddings, airbnb, magazine and print publications.

Named the Most Relaxing Destination, in the Zen Guide for CHICAGO MAGAZINE in November, 2019, the Koi Whisperer Sanctuary & Japanese Gardens welcomes guests from all across the globe who come to seek the mindfulness, healing energy and enlightenment within nature. Airbnb Super Hosts and Celebrities have stayed here to be renewed and create within nature while calling this sanctuary, home.

Passionate about enlightening humans about living a simplified lifestyle of beauty and purpose, she has traveled extensively including Hawaii, the Caribbean Islands, Bonaire, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Japan and Iceland to educate and empower on conscious intentional living with nature. Biophillic Plant Design, Japanese Garden and Aquaculture Design has been her primary focus within the Horticulture Industry. MaryEllen’s nature photography is currently represented by Saatchi Art in the United Kingdom and her work can be discovered throughout the Sanctuary and be experienced in her book, en.light.en

M has been an invited Guest Speaker that includes the Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, Anderson Japanese Gardens, Fabyan Japanese Gardens and the Koi Whisperer Sanctuary & Japanese Gardens on the beauty, simplicity and connective light that lives around us.

“It is amazing how we can rise above… under the most difficult and challenging of situations, if we believe. Now, our Koi Sanctuary and Japanese Gardens inspires people to be enlightened by the the spirit discovered in nature, our Koi, and the beauty of our Japanese Gardens. Awaken to the invisible thread that light gives us through the experience of connecting to nature. Intentional living is so simple when you let go of all the preconceived ideas of what we should be and listen to your intuitive voice. Study light, embrace nature and you will experience truth.” Love & Light… M

BOOK YOUR STAY WITH US! We can’t wait to welcome you. Koi Whisperer Sanctuary Nature Ryokan St. Charles, Illinois

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Call us at 630.631.9566 we look forward to hearing from you.

View the online gallery of available photographic images from our publications at maryellencurran.com