Shylah Ray Sunshine

Shylah Ray is a multi-award-winning Native Canadian Neo-Soul/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, DJ, and professional vocal coach based in Ojai & Los Angeles area. Her performances are soulful, immersive, and emotionally charged. She blends conscious R&B and New Age Jazz rhythms with organic, soulful roots and a powerful vocal presence. Following the success of her breakout single Into the Wild, Shylah recently released her album LESSONS IN LOVE and is currently booking dates across the U.S. with several regional and out-of-state performances already confirmed and on the way. Performances range from intimate, stripped-down acoustic sets to fully produced, stage-ready concerts with her full band. Whether headlining popular music venues or intentional festivals, her goal is to create a deeply moving experience rooted in healing, presence, and connection.

Offering:

Soul Voice Singing Workshop

Learn more about your voice and how to use it effectively by discovering your strengths and challenges. Together we will explore the connection between the mental, emotional, and physical elements required for full vocal expression. This work can include resolving emotional blockages in the vocal center, increasing self-esteem, eliminating guilt and shame in using one's voice, creating more power and confidence in public speaking, singing, songwriting, performing and more.

Soul Voice Singing is a growing community of both aspiring and established artists, singers, songwriters, poets and performers. Developed by Shylah Ray Sunshine (Singer/Songwriter & Professional Vocal Coach), this is a unique program and practice designed to help, encourage and inspire each other to embrace our challenges, heal our blockages, open our voices, and express ourselves fully. 

and a very special Sunday Evening Intimate Concert with Shylah Ray Sunshine!

Crystal Wolfchild

Crystal Wolfchild: By living in service through love, honor and healing work, Crystal, a Dakota woman, offers her gifts and stands for a World that works for everyone.

As a visionary leader and innovative makeup artist, Crystal stands for a world of beauty and service. A Sundancer, Mother, member of The Mother Earth Restoration Trust, walker of two 100 mile pilgrimages she is also a creative force in the beauty world. Crystal is the recipient of a 2008 First Americans in the Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in Technical Arts for Makeup, and is a two time Emmy nominated makeup artist for her work on “So You Think You Can Dance”.
Her true passion and why she moved back to Durango, is to create healing for all generations past and future through prayer, spiritual work, education and community.  In addition, a Co-founder of TIOSPAYE, a non profit Transformational Experiential/Education Leadership Program. Crystal has co-created massive positive change with the completion of 12 Leadership teams and graduated hundreds of people who have experienced the life changing work that TIOSPAYE offered. 
Since moving back home to Durango, Colorado, Crystal’s talents are currently focused on raising her two children and teaching them about and connecting to the Earth Mother and her relatives.

Dellabina Romero-Wolfchild

Dellabina Romer0-WolfChild is a Grandmother, Elder, Mother, and Sundancer. She is of Pueblo and Ute lineage and has been on the Healing path most of her life. Through her work she delights in awakening people to themselves, to become self empowered, to heal Self and create miracles!

Upon retiring Della co-founded, with her two daughters, the nonprofit transformational Leadership Program, Tiospaye (the making of relatives). In 7 years TIOSPAYE had significant positive impact on hundreds of attendees where a family of choice was created that is still in connection. Della continues to walk the path for the restoration of the Mother Earth. She is a Life-coach specializing on healing and spirituality, a ceremonialist and an Elder member of the Wisdom Keepers.

Della believes in and works wholeheartedly for a healthy future for the coming generations of the children. In collaboration. keeping the Mother at the forefront of her thoughts, words, and actions, works with others to bring in the Golden Age, preserve the purity and innocence of the children, protect the elementals of the Earth and plant loving seeds of awareness in the collective consciousness so as to rise together in this Vision.

Dellabina Romero-WolfChild and her daughter Crystal Wolfchild will be offering Opening Prayers, and:

Ritual Prayer and Braiding Sweetgrass

In this workshop, we will delve deep into the concept of prayer. In exploration we discuss the highest frequency of prayer, gratitude, as well as faith, belief systems, traditions and how prayer is ‘seen’ in the higher realms. We explore what it means to work as co- creators creating with Creator, declarations and fiats! 

As indigenous people, we work with Nature and the gifts/ given to us to commune with Creator. We will share with you how and why we work with plants such as sweetgrass, sage, and cedar in altars and ceremony. Together, we will ritually braid sweetgrass that you will get to take home in and use in your own rituals. In this process, we deepen our connection and become empowered to Self, Creator, Miracles and Magic.

Brandy Wade

My name is Brandy Wade, my work flows through me and into life as a yoga teacher, bodyworker, and sound ceremonialist. I am committed in my personal life to slowing down, connecting with the rhythms of nature, the outer and inner cycles, clearing karmic patterns—both mine and my ancestors’—and supporting the repatterning of the mind. My mission is to help restore balance to this planet from the inside out, guiding us back to our original essence, beauty, and joy of being.  In this life, my purpose is to stay grounded in the body, to live as love, and to awaken heart consciousness on this planet, while anchoring feminine and unity consciousness. I am devoted to listening beneath the surface of what is being said, trusting the innate wisdom of the body, and learning to heed its subtle whispers.

This body is the Earth, and the Earth is this body—a sacred temple of life.

Within our body temples reside sacred waters, which can easily be imprinted by the energy of others—through sexual intercourse, the DNA of our ancestors, our thoughts, and the energies of our partners' ancestors. It is essential to tend to our sacred inner waters, to know our yes’s and no’s, and to empower ourselves through conscious choice.

Water is cleansing; water is life. The rivers of the Earth mirror the veins of blood in our bodies—without water, there is no life. So, how do we care for our inner and outer waters? Practices like vaginal steams, breast-womb massage, spirit plant baths, ancestor work, self-love and compassion, and the healing power of rose medicine are just a few of the ways we can nurture and honor this sacred flow within us.

In my life and in my work, I am increasingly committed to restoring and honoring the sacredness of the feminine. Through my life's work, I share this prayer of connection, belonging, harmony, safety, and unity—both within and without. I am eternally grateful for the Divine energy that moves through me and for the grace that carries me through every step of the way.

Offering:

Dancing with Shakti~ Movement, Breath, Voice and Sound

This is an invitation to soften the thinking mind and fully immerse yourself  in the living presence of the moment, allowing the many delightful ways that Shakti pulses through our breath, sound, and movement.  Surrender to and become her aliveness.  

Crystal Bowl Sound Bath

Join Brandy Wade for Crystal Bowl sound meditation.  Settle into the soothing wave frequencies from the Crystal and Tibetan bowls as well as a myriad of other instruments that will be woven into the soundscape.  This session will support the relaxation of mind, the softening of heart, and the settling of the nervous system. During our time together we will uplift our prayers and intentions to be heard, witnessed, and surrendered to the Divine.  We will shift our focus from thinking to listening as it is in these slower meditative brain wave states where deep healing is available.

Kayla Wexelberg

Kayla Wexelberg is a holistic nutritionist, chef, and grief tender whose work lives at the intersection of nourishment, embodiment, and ritual. With over twenty years in the culinary world and nearly two decades devoted to holistic health, Kayla’s path has been guided by a deep reverence for culinary anthropology, the energetics of food, and the body’s innate capacity to heal.

As the founder of Taste Your Roots, she weaves together food, movement, and somatic practice to help individuals reconnect with their vitality. Her background as a chef is not separate from her grief work; rather, it is foundational. For Kayla, food is ceremony. Eating is relationship. The table is an altar where the spiritual, emotional, physical, and energetic bodies meet.

Over the past five years, Kayla has devoted herself to grief work, studying with respected teachers including Laurence Cole, Ahlay Blakey, Martin Prechtel, and most deeply, Francis Weller. She is trained in post-traumatic growth facilitation, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and parts work, bringing a trauma-informed and somatically grounded approach to her offerings. Her work honors grief as a natural and necessary response to love, loss, and change. With steady presence and attunement, she creates spaces where grief can be safely felt, expressed, and integrated within community.

Offering:

The Deep Feast

The Deep Feast is an eating meditation intended to enhance one’s awareness of nourishing the gates of many bodies. The spiritual, energetic, physical and emotional bodies all find union here as we explore what it is to connect with food far beyond the "standard" nourishment rituals that are practiced everyday. The workshop will include an array of flavors and textures and a hands-on feasting practice between participants. The feast is silent and deeply rewarding, leaving participants full on many levels.

Sacred Grief Ritual

A sacred gathering for women ready to release what is heavy and holding us down. In this circle, we create a safe and intentional space to honor grief, soften resistance, and surrender what no longer serves. For centuries, women have gathered in prayer, in song, in quiet witness to one another’s becoming. Rooted in this lineage, through guided ritual and embodied practice, you will be gently supported to let go, reconnect with your inner strength, and reclaim your vitality.

Mistress Eustacia

Mistress Eustacia is a Professional Dominatrix, a former adjunct Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, an Advanced EMT, a recreational helicopter pilot, and an RYT-200. Eustacia has appeared on a number of BDSM related podcasts and events, offering workshops on situational awareness and self-defense, safety, and basic life support, mental health for sex workers, and using intuition, which she refers to as “The Dungeon Reflex”. As an EMS worker, she supports victims of domestic violence, placing them with appropriate advocates. As a professor, her focus was the teachings of Seneca and the tenets of Stoic philosophy, which is to protect one’s tranquility. She has worked for Calling for Karma, as a volunteer yoga instructor for incarcerated women. She sees her work as a dominatrix as “vigilante therapy”, providing a safe space for all genders to meet their trauma in the dark “subspace” of vulnerability and transcendence.

Offering:

Authentically Unapologetic

In this provocative, empowering workshop, we will discuss as a group why women so often apologize for existing, and explore the roots of over-acommodation and the transformative power of “No”. Drawing from decades of lived experience in boundary-setting and power dynamics, you will learn practical tools to speak clearly, hold your ground, and release the fear of displeasing others. Through discussion and experiential exercises, you’ll practice embodied boundary-setting, discover the strength of silence, and reclaim your right to take up space- without apology, without shrinking, and without asking permission.

Rose Krajnik

Rose Krajnik specializes in Ayurvedic and Yogic psychology, mental health coaching, and therapeutic art. She holds a B.A. in Ayurvedic Wellness and Integrative Health and an M.A. in Studio Art. She is also a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Panchakarma Technician. 

Rose believes that art is medicine, and medicine is art—and deep transformation happens when the two intertwine. Her work focuses on supporting mental, emotional and physical well-being through the integration of ancient wisdom and creative self expression.

Whether through painting, crafting, or holistic practices, she invites others to explore creativity as a path to healing, self-discovery, and empowerment.

Offering:

Sculpting the Sacred Feminine

In this workshop we’ll work with clay the way humans have done for thousands of years, with our hands, shaping earth into form.

You will create a small figurine inspired by feminine archetypes, ancient goddess forms, or simply an inner quality you wish to embody. Clay has a visceral quality to it. It asks you to slow down, feel, press, shape, and respond. Like kneading muscle and flesh you can connect to your own embodied experience as a woman. The process becomes less about “making something” and more about letting a form emerge through your hands and your spirit.

No art experience is needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to get a little messy.

You’ll leave with a small sculpture and the experience of connecting with clay as a deeply embodied creative practice.

Lily Russo

I feel very fortunate to have been practicing yoga for the past 25 years. It has been a path of health, joy, transformation and empowerment since I was just a teen. Initially, it was the physical practice that captured my attention, but over the years this led me to study all the other facets including pranayama, meditation, tantra, and yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda, as well as other influential disciplines, primarily Buddhism, the Tao te Ching, and plant medicines. I have participated in over 1000 hours of yoga trainings, and am an affiliate of Shiva Rea’s Samudra Global School of Living Yoga, leading 200 Hour Prana Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Trainings. In 2023 I earned a Master of Science degree in Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine from the Maharishi International University in Iowa.

As a Sacred Sensuality Guide, Yoga Teacher, Retreat Organizer, and Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, my goal is to guide others to embody a path of connection to their higher Self, and be empowered to access the universal source of radiance, creativity, and healing. My deepest passion is connecting with women and guiding them to cultivate their natural feminine powers of sensuality, intuition, compassion, radiance and pleasure! Connect with me at www.lilyrussoyoga.com

I am the founder of Awakened Heart Retreats and Vision Carrier for WHWG. The vision for Wild Heart Women’s Gathering began as a deep yearning to connect more deeply to sisterhood, authenticity, my elemental body, and the natural cycles and powers of our wild Mother Earth. During the gathering I will be facilitating ceremony, movement medicine, song, and connection between all guests and the land we will be gathering on.

Chef Chloe Bovoletis will be crafting up delicious, nourishing, gluten free, locally inspired brunches and dinners (2 meals per day, brunch and dinner, starting with dinner on Friday and ending with brunch on Monday.)

About Chloe:

My inspiration for working with food has bloomed from a deep relationship with wild lands along with a need for  self healing. My journey with cooking began while healing and managing symptoms from multiple autoimmune diseases. Along the way,  I’ve had many revelations of how food  affects our mind, body, emotions, and overall vitality. That’s why I strive to offer the highest quality, organic, and local ingredients that I can gather from our regional food system. My focus is on preparing nutritious, balanced, whole food dishes that are made from scratch, with a specialty in customizing meals to meet special diets and food allergies. I’ve gathered over 15 years of experience from foraging and working with wild foods. I’ve been employed as a raw foods chef, a tempeh maker, a fermenting specialist,  as an in-home personal chef and a caterer for a variety of retreats. I believe food is medicine and meal times are a ceremony for body, soul, and the senses. I’m excited to bring my soulful, creative, cuisine to elevate your experience! 

Please Note:

Teas, fresh fruits, and filtered water will be available throughout the day.

Please bring your own snacks. Suggestions are fruit, dates, bars, nuts, seeds, and superfood drink mixes.

Special diets will be lovingly accommodated to the best of our ability.

Body and Face Adornments

Rose Krajnik will be holding sacred space for a unique and intimate experience: using your body as a living canvas on Sunday before the Deep Feast.

Through intentional adornment, you’re invited to express your essence, your prayers, or the transformation you are stepping into during the retreat. Whether you're marking the beginning of a new journey or honoring the path you’ve walked, this is a moment to let your body speak without words.

These adornments are more than decoration — they are a bold, beautiful reflection of your inner world. A celebration of your fierce beauty, your individuality, and your place in the greater whole.

By donation.

True Radiance Tallow by Alli Cloyd

True Radiance is a small woman-owned movement supporting beauty, local regenerative farmers, and your ancestral roots. Compared to most conventional skincare brands out there, we use only simple, non-toxic ingredients. We never use essential oils or fragrances - yuck! The nourishment of True Radiance Tallow is an experience you’ve never had before - one of guaranteed confidence and deep-rooted health. Because, unlike the products that strip your precious skin leaving it bare, our tallow has the power to regenerate your skin and keep it thriving.

Native Heritage Apothecary

Native Heritage Apothecary is a woman-owned business based in Pagosa Springs, CO, that helps connect people to nature & the innate wisdom that resides within us all so we as a community can overcome challenges through our resiliency. We use only organic herbs and ethically sourced materials in our products. At Wild Heart Women's Retreat, Skye will showcase her specialized formulas of: herbal teas, women-focused tinctures, smoke blends and yoni steam herbs. Skye will be happy to support you in what will work best for individuals. 

Hope Miller

My name is Hope Miller, I am a certified Rolfer and Reiki Practitioner based out of Durango, CO. The goal with all of my sessions is to help you return to your body and find alignment and ease as you interact with the world around you. The patterns that we hold onto in our lives manifest as tension and disorganization in our bodies. When we have more spaciousness and options for movement, we open up a whole world of possibilities and we can interact with the world differently and more openly. Rolfing is designed to help your body come back to its natural alignment so you can spend less energy fighting gravity and put more energy towards what is alive in you. I pair Rolfing's fascia and alignment work with energy work to find what is blocked in your body and encourage your body to let go of these patterns that are no longer serving you. To pre book a session, contact Hope via www.hoperolfing.com

Hi! I’m Jordan, the photographer behind Ponderosa Portraits, based in the San Juan Mountains in/around Durango, CO. For the past several years I’ve been documenting love stories, intimate weddings, and meaningful elopements in wild places. I shoot both digital and 35mm film and am drawn to creating images that feel nostalgic, honest, and full of emotion. I love noticing the little details that make a moment special, like wind moving through the trees, creased faces of friends laughing together, or the quiet in-between memories that might otherwise go unnoticed.

I grew up exploring these mountains, and my relationship with nature is a big part of how I see and photograph the world. For me, photography is really about connection with each other, with ourselves, and with the places we gather. I’m so honored to be part of the Wild Heart Women’s Gathering and to spend time with such an incredible community of women while documenting this experience!