Wild Heart Women’s Gathering is a call to gather as women in the shared rewilding of our true feminine essence. In reconnecting to the earth and sharing our earned and inherited skills, our intention is to further the evolution of our collective feminine wisdom. With dance, yoga, ritual, feasting, song, sensuality and herbal medicine, we send out a primal call to join in this celebration.

Campers must bring all their own camping gear such as tent, sleeping bag, pillow, tent, tarp, blankets. Campers have access to the Showerhouse/bathrooms.

Bunkhousers will get a plain cot, top or bottom bunk and must bring their own sheets, blanket, and pillow. The bunkhouse is a short walk to the Showerhouse/bathrooms.

The Loft is an upstairs unit with 6 bedrooms and several bathrooms which will be shared amongst Loft guests. All bedding is provided. The rooms have two twins, and you can choose the shared or private option.

The House, which includes the Kitchen and dining room and some activities, also has a cozy upstairs bedroom with a queen bed (all bedding provided). You can choose your own private bedroom, the bathroom may be shared with up to 2 other women.

Our amazing culinary team, headed by Renee Palmer, will be crafting up five delicious, nourishing, locally inspired brunches and dinners (2 meals per day), starting with dinner on Friday. Teas and filtered water will be available throughout the day. Please bring your own snacks. Suggestions are fruit, bars, nuts, seeds, and superfood drink mixes. Special diets will be lovingly accommodated to the best of our ability.

Schedule

Subject to change.

Friday June 2nd

3-5pm: Arrive, set up camp or settle into lodging

5pm Welcome Ceremony at The Cottonwood

6pm Dinner

7:30pm: Healing the Sister Wound with Bubs at the Meeting Place

Healing The Sister Wound is dedicated to uncovering, nurturing, and healing the wounds we have collected in our relationships with other women.  Whether from childhood or from a more recent experience, we may have felt hurt, abandoned, or betrayed by other women.  It can be a painful experience to love and trust women in our lives if we haven't addressed these wounds or the social conditioning that comes with being a woman.  We will excavate these wounds and work with somatic exercises to help alchemize the hurt with more love.  We will co-create a connected container where vulnerability is accepted and celebrated.  When you allow yourself to be seen and held in your pain, big transformation can occur.  This is an opportunity to drop comparison and judgment and leave feeling full of love for your fellow sisters.  

Saturday June 3rd

7:30am: Movement Medicine (Yoga) with Monica Mesa Dasi at The Meeting Place 

Plant Walk with Katrina Blair at the Cottonwood

In the Wild Heart's Plant Walk we will take the time to be together on the land and learn about many common medicinal and edible plants that are at our fingertips to integrate into our meals, tea, and medicines. We will connect to the wisdom of the plants and open to their communication with us as we touch and taste and enjoy the powerful presence of our plant allies. We will gather and harvest some local wild greens for a green juice to finish out time together. 

11am: Brunch

12:30pm: Shadow Work with Kayla Wexelberg at The Meeting Place

In this workshop we will explore shadow. We’ll sink into areas of our hearts and emotional bodies where old stories and patterns have been hiding. With a set of hands-on tools we will somatically move these shadows through our systems, liberating them and letting go of what no longer serves so we can step into the strong powerful women that we are. The class will focus on emotional release techniques that you can use for the rest of your life. Please bring yoga mat and pillow 

2:30pm: Crystal Bowl Sound Bath Ceremony with Brandy Wade at The Meeting Place

Join Brandy Wade for an hour of 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.

3:45pm: Nourish Yourself the Ayurvedic Way with Lily Russo at the Meeting Place

On our path to more deeply loving ourselves, we must tune in to all the ways we can deeply nourish ourselves. Ayurveda, the Knowledge of Life, is the most ancient holistic health care system on earth. Ayurveda looks at the whole person: physical, mental, emotional, and environmental. In this workshop, cozy up with some Golden Milk to stoke your digestion and nourish your heart, while exploring the ayurvedic approach to nourishment. Learn about specific digestive tendencies, how to eat the ayurvedic way, and ayurvedic self care practices to uplevel your self care routine.

5:30pm Dinner

7:30pm: Wild Women Dance Project with Maddalena at The Meeting Place

Wild dancer Maddalena Tumminaro will be facilitating an exploration of feminine movement for all bodies and abilities. Dance into your juicy fullness through this grounding exploration in flesh, bone and sisterhood. Come nourish and love on your body, and enjoy a greater sense of empowerment. This year’s focus is cultivating laughter and play through community and movement.

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Women's Song Sauna with Nuriya at the Sauna

The women’s sauna has traditionally been a place to offer songs and sing as we cleanse and renew our bodies with heat, sweat, and detoxification.  The songs, breathwork, and free toning will support us in release and letting go, forgiveness, nurturance and nourishment of our bodies and spirits. Songs will be chosen from Nuriya’s Sacred Elementals and Heart & Song, Roots & Earth collection.

Sunday June 4th

7:30am: Sacred Body Flow for Emotional Release and Energy Gathering with Lily Russo at The Meeting Place

Deeply attune and honor your body as the supremely intelligent and divine being you are. Mobilize and release stagnant energy and align with the cosmic source of flowing intelligence. This unique movement practice is rooted in Prana Vinyasa yoga, somatic release, tantra, and bhakti traditions. Invoke each of the primal elements that your body is made of and experience a renewed sense of love and connection with yourself. Bathe in the nourishing current of universal life force flowing inside and all around you.

9am: Herbal Medicine for the Rooted Heart with Elliot at the House

A deep dive into herbs that help us embody our purpose, live in alignment with our authenticity, sink into the pleasure of embodiment and speak from our heart. You will be introduced to a few different categories of herbs for the heart gate, such as shen tonics, herbs for the spiritual heart and aphrodisiacs. We will all taste and experience the herbs together, and discuss medicinal attributes as well as best medicine making techniques for each. Everyone will get to make their own heart opening tea blend to take home. $5 cash materials fee paid at time of class.

11am Brunch

1pm: Tantra For Women with Monica Mesa Dasi at the Meeting Place

Sacred Sensuality, Spirituality and Self Love (Further Description coming)

3pm: Rest, take a dip in The Pond, get body painted (at the house) henna each other (find Henna at Pond Platform), get ready for Deep Feast

5:30pm Deep Feast Ritual (Please wash and dress in red) Meet at the House

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. 

7:30pm-9 Ecstatic Dance At The Meeting Place with DJ Asha Akashic (Ashley Grandkoski)

Monday June 5th

7:30am: Monday Morning Sadhana Practice with Brandy Wade at the Meeting Place

A subtle body yoga practice that weaves, breath, movement, and bodily alignment.   We will align our bodies to our vertical nature as conduits between Heaven and Earth, circling our breath within the currents of our beings, connecting to the spatial awareness around us, and receiving the grace of connectedness as a whole body prayer.  A great way to close out our retreat space and time together. 

9am: Fruit and Snacks available at House

9:30am Gather and Share (Reflections, songs, prayers, poems, spoken word, etc) at The Cottonwood (in case of rain, the House)