Connect with the rhythm of the sacred seasons and the calendar of the Earth that is on-going within you and throughout the world with this Blessed Beltane | A Cross-Quarter Day Mini-Retreat.
One day in-person Rewilding Retreat held at Storyhouse on Whidbey Island’s (Tscha-kole-chy) Whidbey Institute. Each Rewilding Retreat will teach on, and be responsive to, the sacred and seasonal wisdom that exists within the phenology of that particular season.
Organic and locally sourced lunch meal is included as well as light morning and afternoon refreshments. Each participant receives a copy of the Rewilding Wheel Workbook.
Early Bird Rate: $2600.00 per person (registration before December 31, 2023)
Regular Rate $2800.00 per person (registration after December 31, 2023)
THE 2024 PILGRIMAGE IS CURRENTLY FULL.
If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email mary@waymarkers.net
One day in-person Rewilding Retreat held at Storyhouse on Whidbey Island’s (Tscha-kole-chy) Whidbey Institute. Each Rewilding Retreat will teach on, and be responsive to, the sacred and seasonal wisdom that exists within the phenology of that particular season.
Organic and locally sourced lunch meal is included as well as light morning and afternoon refreshments. Each participant receives a copy of the Rewilding Wheel Workbook.
One day in-person Rewilding Retreat held at Storyhouse on Whidbey Island’s (Tscha-kole-chy) Whidbey Institute. Seasonal Rewilding Retreats teach on, and are responsive to, the sacred and seasonal wisdom that exists within the phenology of that particular season.
Organic and locally sourced lunch meal is included as well as light morning and afternoon refreshments. Each participant receives a copy of the Rewilding Wheel Workbook.
NEW DATE TO BE DETERMINED
We are offering a weekend long rewilding retreat in the Cascade Mountains at the Grunewald Guild, a retreat center nestled within a holding of shore pines and along the banks of the Wenatchee River.
This weekend will have all the markers of a traditional Rewilding Retreat: sacramental experience that explores the wild edges of our faith tradition through ecotheological teaching; ecospirituality exploration; and nature based practices. All this with a bit more spaciousness!
This retreat is a mixed gender offering and has room for 20 people.
One day in-person Rewilding Retreat held at Storyhouse on Whidbey Island’s (Tscha-kole-chy) Whidbey Institute. Seasonal Rewilding Retreats teach on, and are responsive to, the sacred and seasonal wisdom that exists within the phenology of that particular season.
Organic and locally sourced lunch meal is included as well as light morning and afternoon refreshments. Each participant receives a copy of the Rewilding Wheel Workbook.
You are invited to celebrate the turning of the Celtic Wheel of the Year in ceremony and community! Celebrate Imbolc, the mid-point of Winter (or the first day of Spring within the Celtic Wheel of the Year), by gathering together in a virtual sacred circle with this mini-retreat.
Join Mary DeJong along with friends and members of Westside Presbyterian Church at the Warwick Conference Center (New Jersey) for a rewilding retreat that is centered on the commanding invitation offered in Job 12: 7-10….
“But ask the animals what they think—let them teach you;
let the birds tell you what’s going on.
Put your ear to the earth—learn the basics.
Listen—the fish in the ocean will tell you their stories.
Isn’t it clear that they all know and agree
that God is sovereign…”
What will the response be if we are willing to put our ear to the Earth, and listen to a response from the wild ones about the state of our Earth and how our faith is in conversation with this reality.
Come to the Redwoods of Northern California for Earth Day weekend, a dedicated time to reconnect to a Sacred and animate Earth, and to put our ear to the Earth, leaning in to the wisdom of the wild ones!
This Women’s Weekend is a retreat hosted by Westminster Woods, a PCUSA camp outside of Santa Rosa, CA.
Join Wild Iona Journey co-guides Mary DeJong and Victoria Loorz on this virtual call to hear insight into this special offering. They'll share their personal stories that relate to the particularities of the Wild Iona Journey - plus give you a chance to contemplate your own motivations for taking part in the journey as well as answering any questions about this sacred offering.
There is no charge for this event. You can register to receive the Zoom link below. A recording will be posted to our website following the event.
Make a transformative journey to the wild edges of sea and sky, where the powerful presence of female companionship, revelatory elements, and ancient, spirited stories will awaken in you deep memories and divine inspiration to live forward renewed and reconnected to the primeval sacred text of creation. Our world and earth community needs people more than ever who understand our interconnection, that our soul-life is coupled with the health of the soil and salmon, seasons and sea. This pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland provides an immersive rites of passage experience that will invite this deep wisdom.
This day-long Institute offering will explore the illusion of separation and how through recovering a sacred animate worldview, our companionship practices and offerings expand to include the whole of the more-than-human world. These wild ones become our spiritual guides, companioning us with the invitation for us to practice companioning them as well through this increasingly complex and hostile world.
This weekend long retreat will engage the mythic imagination as a way to confront the Western mind’s illusion of separation. Through story and ceremony, we will reconnect to the ancient understanding of interconnection with an animate Earth. Our weekend praxis will be about this re-membering as a means to resilient hope in our current political, social, and environmental collapse.
This Summer Rewilding Retreat will focus on spiritual practices prayerful postures associated with the season of Summer, the element of Earth the cardinal direction of South, and the bioregion of the garden and field. Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
This Spring Rewilding Retreat will focus on spiritual practices prayerful postures associated with the season of Spring, the element of Fire, the cardinal direction of East, and the bioregion of the forest. Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
This Winter Rewilding Retreat will focus on spiritual practices prayerful postures associated with the season of Winter, the element of Air, the cardinal direction of North, and the bioregion of the mountains and high places. Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
Join me at Ghost Ranch this October for a week of wild encounters with the Sacred Wild, world renowned teachers Fr. Richard Rohr and Geneen Haugen, and guided and personal wilderness exploration. This will be an immersive week in sacred ecology teachings and a time that will surely reconnect you to the Holy that is here.
This immersive Rewilding Retreat will go deep into the mythopoetic realm of the Westward Autumn Quadrant of the Rewilding Wheel circuit. This powerful women’s-only weekend retreat will create the context wherein we will learn together from the archetypes within the Celtic Selkie much and its potential form and meaning for the woman’s journey towards authentic be-ing and belonging.
The Zephyr Point Women’s Retreat provides a chance to get away with other women and experience the rest, relaxation, and re-creation afforded by the majestic setting of Lake Tahoe. Mary will be the guest speaker at this retreat, facilitating learning and experiences that will reconnect us to the Sacred Wild!
Make a transformative journey to the wild edges of sea and sky, where the powerful presence of female companionship, revelatory elements, and ancient, spirited stories will awaken in you deep memories and divine inspiration to live forward renewed and reconnected to the primeval sacred text of creation. Our world and earth community needs people more than ever who understand our interconnection, that our soul-life is coupled with the health of the soil and salmon, seasons and sea. This pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland provides an immersive rites of passage experience that will invite this deep wisdom.
This Summer Rewilding Retreat will focus on prayers and spiritual practices associated with the season of Summer, the element of Earth the cardinal direction of South, and the bioregion of gardens, fields, and farms. Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
Camp Souldust is where the simplicity of the summer camp meets a world of soulful exploration. You’ll become part of our group of vibrant, glorious, curious souls united in an analog, magic-infused experience complete with cabins, camp counselors and s’mores. We’ll make space to help you unearth your soul’s calling right under the forest canopy.
This Spring Rewilding Retreat will focus on prayers and spiritual practices associated with the season of Spring, the element of Fire the cardinal direction of East, and the bioregion of the forest and woodlands. We will even go out with a mycologist to forage mushrooms in the Chinook Forest! Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
This Winter Rewilding Retreat will focus on prayers and spiritual practices associated with the season of Winter, the element of Air, the cardinal direction of North, and the bioregion of mountains and high places. Threaded within these corresponding categories are deep mythopoetic meaning and psycho-spiritual themes that will inspire your wild soul formation and connection to the Sacred Wild.
Join the Turner Lectures Planning Team for another thought provoking series of discussions and fellowship. This year's Lecturer, Mary DeJong, is a long-time urban naturalist, practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. Mary will be sharing her theological framework for bringing the imago Dei tradition into a whole and integral relationship with the more-than-human world and this work is critical for a flourishing future for all of creation.
This immersive Rewilding Retreat will go deep into the mythopoetic realm of the Westward Autumn Quadrant of the Rewilding Wheel circuit. This powerful women’s-only weekend retreat will create the context wherein we will learn together from the archetypes within the Celtic Selkie much and its potential form and meaning for the woman’s journey towards authentic be-ing and belonging.
Come spend a day of reflection and retreat at the Peace and Spirituality Center, a lovely set-apart place that shares space with a magnificent second growth forest and the lapping edges of Lake Washington. Here we will engage in a liturgical rhythm that will invite a deep remembrance that the community of creation was God’s first sacred text, that within the natural world we can participate in a holy reading that profoundly connects us to ourselves, the more-than-human world, and the Divine. Come away for a few hours to sink into the scripture of creation!
You are invited to a unique forest church service this summer in Seattle, Washington. Hosted by WilderSoul and Waymarkers. Through nature-based practices that draw upon the wisdom of sacred narratives and older traditions, we will cultivate a deeper connection with nature and our own wild wholeness. Take a step across the threshold toward a culturally creative vision for life. Renew your sense of hope and courage to face our current spiritual and ecological crises together, rooted in kinship and community with one another, the wild earth, and the great mystery we call God.
Is your sense of the sacred feeling stunted? Are you feeling disconnected from the rhythms and seasons of the natural world? Do you desire a deep feeling of communion with the whole community of creation? Then it is time to rewild your wonder! Respond to this call to seek the sacred within the text of the natural world and recover your feral faith on Whidbey Island for this day long retreat with Mary DeJong at the Whidbey Institute's Storyhouse, a nurturing cabin surrounded by legacy forest and the whispers of wild life half a world away from the urban hustle and bustle.
Are you feeling called to trace ancient steps to discover, and remember, your wild and precious life? Do you desire a deeper connection with the divine through our wild and wondrous world? Perhaps you desire a way to mark a transition in your life, a threshold, with meaning and memory. Make a transformative journey to the wild edges of sea and sky, where the powerful presence of female companionship, revelatory elements, and ancient, spirited stories will awaken in you deep memories and divine inspiration to live forward renewed and reconnected to the primeval sacred text of creation.
Is your sense of the sacred feeling stunted? Are you feeling disconnected from the rhythms and seasons of the natural world? Do you desire a deep feeling of communion with the whole community of creation? Then it is time to rewild your wonder! Respond to this call to seek the sacred within the text of the natural world and recover your feral faith on Whidbey Island for this day long retreat with Mary DeJong at the Whidbey Institute's Storyhouse, a nurturing cabin surrounded by legacy forest and the whispers of wild life half a world away from the urban hustle and bustle.
