Wild Women’s Weekend – $395.00 (Deposit $100.00) – Friday 1 pm to Sunday 1 pm
Finally, an outdoor program just for women! Everyone loves the great outdoors, but many of us were never taught the most basic of outdoor skills. Self-reliance is empowering! Learn ancient, archetypal skills, commune with your sisters, and fortify your connections with yourself and the generative Earth.
As women, we have a deep physiological and spiritual connection with creation. No matter our backgrounds, all of us have female ancestors who lived with the rhythms of Earth’s patterns and cycles. Women’s relationships with plants, animals and spirits have been foundational to human culture for millennia.
We’ll gather around an altar and a fire to share stories, rituals, and prayers. Together, we’ll explore traditional crafts, self-care, wild foraging, medicine making, and more.
Gain competence and confidence as you learn with your hands and heart. As we practice ancient skills and explore timeless ideas, we will connect with each other and with the nature of womanhood, throughout the ages and across all walks of life.
We will cover all the basics of camping and proper gear selection. You’ll learn numerous survival skills and many wonderful nature awareness exercises. Learn how to set up camp, make a natural shelter, make a fire, tie useful knots, purify water, and more. Wild edible and medicinal plants will also be utilized and discussed in this program.
Throughout the retreat, we will collectively tend an altar where we will honor goddesses from various traditions, the animistic elementals, as well as the essential female archetypes of maiden, mother, matriarch, and crone. Our altar-tending will be based on the backgrounds and training of our instructors. The women who lead these ritual practices will be speaking and teaching from their own cultural identities and acting from a place of honoring, with permission and respect.
Students are invited to participate as they feel moved, and nobody will be pressured to do anything that doesn’t feel right to them.
Skills you’ll learn during the week include:
· Advanced awareness exercises and techniques
· Advanced survival skills
· Advanced tracking skills
· Altar building & tending
· Earth-centered self-care
· Emergency priorities
· How to locate and access drinking water
· How to make an emergency shelter
· How to start a fire
· Natural camouflage (essential for nature observation)
· Self-protection skills
· Traditional broom making
· Understanding the “pulse” of the woods, allowing you to sense disturbances and potential threats
· Wild foods cookery
· Wildcrafting and plant medicine