When was the last time your hair rose as you watched the moon rise over the tree line?

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Or you wept for the delicate beauty of a blooming wildflower?

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Or were brought to your knees by an ancient remembering unearthed from the marrow of your bones after centuries of forgetting?

When women listen, individually and communally, to the animate natural world and our bodies, we grow rooted in creative partnership with their wisdom. Speed leads to forgetting, yet slowness enables us to remember. We can step away from culturally imposed narratives and timelines, take space, and align our rhythms with nature. Once this primal connection is restored, we can begin remembering our reciprocal relationship with the Living Earth.

What arises in our bodies can be as mystical as a dream. Dreams happen whether awake or asleep and are an archetypal feminine quality related to being intuitive, nurturing, receptive, interior, and gestational. A woman’s womb can give birth to emerging dreams and help us attune to the cave womb of the dreaming Earth. If we turn our attention toward our dreams and act on what they reveal, we can reimagine ourselves and our world.

We are born of Gaia, and our bodies are designed to communicate with her. We are made to receive dreams, visions, images, sensations, emotions, and signs from the living world. Through coming home to the Earth’s holding, resting our body against hers, matching our breath and heartbeat to hers, we link ourselves to her immense and mysterious intelligence. There's a precious joy as we experience ourselves as felt and known by a wise and sacred being. And as we attune with her, our dreams merge with her imagination, and we become midwives to Earth’s Dream.

The soul is feminine, ebbing and flowing, as constant yet changeable as the moon and tides. In patriarchal societies, people are taught to obey external power structures and focus on what they can do, produce, or accomplish. We invite a different focus, emphasizing listening to nature and our bodies while allowing ourselves to feel, sense, imagine, and be led by a knowing that reaches beyond our strategic mind. To embrace the feminine, we must attend to our psyche’s quieter, less-known voices and honor the intelligence of dreams and the imaginal world.

Join guides Erica Rhinehart and Rebecca Wildbear in this 5-day Ceremonial Immersion--a profound experiential dive into nature-based practices designed to pierce our collective amnesia through an embodied relationship with each other and our sacred planet. We will engage in Wild Yoga, dreamwork, deep imagination, ceremony, soul poetry, song, story, and intimate conversations with the land to help us perceive the Dreams we were meant to follow, so we can make our unique contributions to our world and feed the web of life.

With loving guidance, soulful connection to other women, and ample time in the rich, wild forests of the Colorado Foothills, we aim to help you open and listen to the animate world with all of its wild, heart-pounding requests. Our relationship with nature renders us vulnerable so that we may receive the memory of the Dream we were made to carry and make visible in the world. We will journey together and find our way into the nourishing support of authentic sisterhood.

This is an all-camping program, although no previous wilderness experience is required. We welcome a sense of adventure, curiosity, and enthusiasm.

About the land where we’ll be:

Bell Meadow Farm in Sedalia, Colorado

Bell Meadow Farm comprises 480 acres of traditional Ute territory, which was homesteaded in 1878 by the Kruetzer family. Their son was born on this land and became the first Forest Ranger in the United States. With this history, the land has been designated a Douglas County Historic Landmark.

The land is surrounded by the Pike National Forest and is part of the headwaters of Indian Creek. It is protected by a conservation easement and hosts beautiful Aspen groves and conifer forests with multiple boulder formations of spiritual significance. Multiple herds of elk are attracted to the wallows in the meadows. The land is also home to a colony of prairie dogs rescued from a development site in Castle Rock. Many other species also call this place home, including bobcats, bears, golden eagles, coyotes, hawks, owls, and other rodents.

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