Wild Heart Women’s Gathering 2024 Schedule
(Subject to the flow.)
Note: Please bring a blanket or cushion to sit on for all Meeting Place workshops. Chairs are also available.
Friday August 23
3-4pm: Arrive, set up camp or settle into lodging
4:30pm Welcome Ceremony at The Cottonwood with Della Romero and Crystal Wolfchild
6pm Dinner
7:30pm: Song Circle with Julie Hartline
Singing in community lives deep in our bones. It is our birthright and is a powerful tool of belonging. Weaving our voices together is an act of resilience and courage. Join song leader Julie Hartline to learn simple and inspiring songs to nourish the heart and soul of community.
Saturday August 24
6:30am: Tea, Coffee and Fruit Available at the House
7:30-9am: Embodied Kali Yoga with Jenna Pfingston at The Meeting Place (bring a mat)
Join Jenna Pfingston for a unique yoga experience as she infuses her signature work, Primal Embodied Wisdom into the art and science of yoga. Inviting the energy of Kali to be your north star guiding you back home into your earth body to align with your highest truth. This yoga class will embrace the energies of the Divine Masculine (Shiva) and Divine Feminine (Shakti) by interweaving: alignment, flow, primal sound, mudras, a Kali story, mantra, and the beauty of feeling stillness within the sacred heart.
9:15am Sacred Breath Ceremony with Isa Vasanti at the Meeting Place (bring a mat)
Embody your soul. Join us in a powerful healing and awakening ceremony to release toxins of all types, resolve emotional conflicts and connect with higher self, spirit guides and/or ancestors.
11am: Brunch
1-3pm: Cacao Ceremony with Kuku Cacao at The Meeting Place
Join special guests to Wild Heart this year arriving all the way from Mexico: Mother and Daughter duo Gayatri and Montse~ Kuku Cacao.
Kuku Cacao creates a beautiful ceremony that will connect you with the love and healing magic that exists within you. We will drink ceremonial cacao in front of a lively altar of flowers lit by a sacred fire. Wrapped in an aura of sounds and healing frequencies that will surely make your heart vibrate. Since ancient times, Cacao has been honored in sacred ceremonies by our Mayan ancestors. Each cacao seed contains 1.2% Theobromine, property that in Greek means the food of the Gods. We honor Kuku, the name of the Cacao Spirit, which means “Sacred over sacred”.
Our ceremony follows the Mayan Cosmovision. Kuku Cacao is the union of components and ideal energies that stimulates the opening of the heart and creates a inner communication in connection with our own spirit. It activates a very special and loving frequency in each person, harmonizing in emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
3:30-5:15pm: Spiritual Eros with Kayla Wexelberg at Meeting Place
In this workshop we will dive into the realms of our sexuality through the lens of our spiritual erotic bodies. In Kayla’s workshop we will uncover the foundational elements of eros: creative force. She will help guide you to open this energy center in a powerful way, not just in efforts to interact with others but first and foremost with ourselves. This is a somatic based hands-on tantra workshop that will lead you through several rituals designed to awaken your erotic body and to utilize its power and magic in navigating your life.
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3:30-5:15pm: Flower Power Textile Dying with Laurie Hall at the Cottonwood
Express your colorful self! There is magical color hidden in many plants around us. Join me to learn a bit about botanical dyes as you experience the ancient Japanese textile art of Shibori, a method of folding and tying to create specific patterns. Shibori textiles are traditionally dyed with indigo, but in this workshop, our color will come from fresh flowers from my dye garden in Mancos. You’ll use dye baths, flowers and Shibori techniques to create a flower-infused cotton top of your own design to take home (top will be provided by Wild Heart).
5:30pm Dinner at the House
7:30pm: Primal Movement with Jenna Pfingston at the Meeting Place followed by Crystal Bowl Sound Bath with Brandy Wade
This two-hour ceremony for your soul will invite you to: uncoil, shed, howl, taste pleasure, touch pain, and feel into the deepest spaces of your truth. Jenna Pfingston will open the portal with a Sensual Dharma Chat followed by one of her greatest loves, Primal Movement. Inhabit your whole body through awareness, non-linear movement, breath, and primal sound. Primal Movement is infused with a tantalizing playlist that will awaken your senses, desires, ancestors, and move you into a liberating experience for your soul. Finish the evening with a Crystal Bowl Sound Bath by Brandy Wade.
Sunday August 25th
6:30am: Tea, Coffee and Fruit Available at the House
7:30am: Wild Expressive Flow with Lily Russo at the Meeting Place (bring a mat)
Embrace your wild, fierce and powerful big cat energy with a Viagri ~Tiger Namaskar. Experience a practice designed for releasing anger and pain, expressing your boundaries, and harnessing your power, with your roar and your own unique sound expression. Balance these powerful practices with the softness of organic, flowing movements, embodying the healing energy of water.
9:15-11am: Flower Power Textile Dyeing with Laurie Hall at the picnic tables near the Cottonwood
Express your colorful self! There is magical color hidden in many plants around us. Join me to learn a bit about botanical dyes as you experience the ancient Japanese textile art of Shibori, a method of folding and tying to create specific patterns. Shibori textiles are traditionally dyed with indigo, but in this workshop, our color will come from fresh flowers from my dye garden in Mancos. You’ll use dye baths, flowers and Shibori techniques to create a flower-infused cotton top of your own design to take home (top will be provided by Wild Heart).
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9:15-11am: The Medicinal Power of Wild Weeds with Katrina Blair (Meet at the House)
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, juices, 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 on the land and make a healing lotion to share as well as a medicinal salve to take home.
11am Brunch
1-2:45pm: Living in Rhythm with Lily at the Cottonwood (bring a mat)
In nature, we see animals and plants instinctively living in rhythm with the sun. A bird wakes at sunrise and starts to sing, then cleans herself, then looks for food. A flower opens up with the light and closes in the evening. Just like plants and animals, we are meant to live in alignment with the cycles of nature. Morning, mealtime, and evening rituals are especially helpful in establishing healthy rhythms to our day for optimal energy, digestion, and sleep. In this workshop, we’ll study the Ayurvedic recommendations for living in alignment with nature, and we’ll practice some embodiment rituals appropriate for the sacred junctures of sunrise and sundown.
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1-2:45pm: Sacred Sound Healing Ceremony with Isa Vasanti at the Meeting Place (bring a mat)
The crystal sound of singing bowls transports us in the realm of oneness where the Self can be known. In the silence of the mind, realize your true self, one and untethered.
3-5:30pm: Rest and get ready for Deep Feast (Wash and dress in red)
Optional Activities: 3-5:30pm:
Take a dip at the pond, soak up some sunshine (clothing optional)
Enjoy a Massage with Hope or Brooklyn outside
Body and Face Adornment with Emma Hooper at the House
5:30pm Deep Feast Ritual with Kayla Wexelberg (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 Ecstatic Dance At The Meeting Place with DJ Asha Akashic (Ashley Grandkoski) followed by Sound Bath by Brandy Wade
As DJ Asha Akashic, Ashley combines her ability to channel healing energy and hold space for transformation with powerful and ecstatic musical medicine, crafting dance sets that take you on a deep and rapturous journey of embodiment and soul-connection. The music she plays invites you into deeper relationship with self, inspiring clarity, vision and a feeling of heart-centered joy. Her music tastes span a wide range of genres, but often include heart-opening vocals, inspiring lyrics, earthy, tribal and world beats, conscious hip-hop and high-vibe electronic dance music.
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Song Circle in the Sauna with Julie Hartline at the Sauna
Singing in community lives deep in our bones. It is our birthright and is a powerful tool of belonging. Weaving our voices together is an act of resilience and courage. Join song leader Julie Hartline to learn simple and inspiring songs to nourish the heart and soul of community. Meet at the Wooden Sauna building with a towel and/or sarong and a full water bottle. The warmth and womblike safety of the sauna is both purifying and clearing while providing a beautiful container for our voices to unite. Nudity is welcome, swimwear is as well.
Monday August 26th
6:30am: Tea, Coffee, and Fruit Available at the House
7:30-9am: Monday Morning Sadhana Practice with Brandy Wade at the Meeting Place (bring a mat)
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.
