Wilderness
Rites of Passage
Programs
An Ancient Ceremony of Transformation
Alone in the woods.
Empty.
A hollow bone.
A channel for Spirit.
Shedding a skin.
Releasing our Wild Self.
We are Spirit.
Playing the flute of ourselves.
The Seasons of Womanhood
This program is designed to help those of us who live as women in this world to step into the fullness of our womanhood. Through group ritual, archetypal work, storytelling, poetry, music and personal myth making we weave a circle of sacred sisterhood.
Part 1 March - April 2024: Thirteen Women’s Archetypes.
Together, live, online for six weeks we explore thirteen women’s archetypes. We each look at those we express fully, those under-expressed and those in Shadow. Together we craft personal rituals to bring healing wherever it is needed.
Part 2 July 2024: Dancing the Wheel.
Five day ritual immersion in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We deepen the work with the archetypes through group elemental ritual - earth, water, air and fire. We set up camp together for five days and find our wild women selves.
Part 3 October 2024 (optional): Prayer Fast.
A nine-day encampment around a four-day, four-night solo, forest fast. This is an opportunity to gather with the same circle of women to deepen into a prayer fast or vision quest experience. We provide personal guidance to help you create the ceremony you need to mark your stepping into the next version of yourself.
This program is offered in partnership with Rites of Passage Council.
Group Rites of Passage Programs
We have been intentionally loosing ourselves out in the wilderness since before history. It is a time honored way, used by peoples across the planet, to mark a transition into the next chapter of life.
Variously known as a Vision Quest, a Wilderness Fast, a Vision Fast and a Wilderness Rite of Passage this ceremony is ancient and powerful. We fast, alone, with minimal shelter in the forest for four days and four nights. We go in prayer, seeking guidance and support from Spirit, to return renewed, ready to bring the fullness of ourselves to life.
The four-day, four-night solo experience is the middle of this program. For three months before the solo time we gather online to prepare you to get the most from this sacred time. We support you through rituals of preparation and personalized, guided inner work. After the solo time again we gather together to help aid the process of integrating these changes into your life.
Individual Rite of Passage
At a crossroads in life? Not sure which way to go but know you can’t go back?
Then this is for you. Something has to change. So old part of you needs to step back so new versions of you can step up. You are ready to bring yourself to the world in a new way.
Together we will craft a ceremonial rite of passage just for you. We will weave in what is important to you - your spirituality, your understanding of who you are and who you are becoming, your dreams.
This may be something we do together on the land somewhere, it maybe something I help you design and you do yourself. It may be just us, or maybe you bring a group of family or friends. There are no limits. We create what you need at this time of your life.
“You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.”
— John O’Donohue