What is Wyldwood Sojourn?
We celebrate Natures Cycles. Here is a place to give back to the earth, to listen to her messages and to honour the beauty of the Darkness.
W.S. supports a simple rustic life style. It is located on two wooded acres with a seasonal waterfall. W.S. offers for use to its guests 2 studios, a large kitchen, and 2 bathrooms . Sleeping is communal and tenting in summer is an option.
W.S. is proud of its new solar run art studio and its tankless hot water system. A solo steam sauna is also a new addition.
Hidden in the woods stands an authentic Mongolian felt Yurt. A special Sanctuary for
Inner work with an interior of carpets blankets and pillows in shades of red..
W.S. offers vegan and vegetarian meals prepared off the premises (often boasting a 10 mile diet!)
We offer teachings for small intimate groups of 7 to 10 guests.
Please read on to discover what we offer to you and your awakening! The Yurt is also the home of a chapter of the world wide Red Tent Movement founded by Alisa Starkwater in 2008.
A Feature of Wyldwood Sojourn – The Dark Lodge (or Red Tent)
The circles & celebrations & teachings offered at Wyldwood Sojourn are intended to open us to restoring the inner balance, of the Feminine & Masculine Principals ..for both men & women. The sacred marriage within each of us!
There is so much to re-member …so much work to do! Re connecting with Nature & Her cycles is one way that is honoured here at WS.
Credits-inspirations: Rudolph Stiener, Anne Bancroft, Barbara Marciniac, Cindy Lindsay & all my wonderful creative soulful friends. Karen Holmes, Whitney Purdy, Monique Allore, Golden Bough, New Moon Farm, St.Marks Hall, Roula Said, Carole Tenbrink, Elia & Amber Walton, Amar and everyone who has touched my life & all the Elementals!
Because of too much focus on the outer world of light we are cut off from our inner Wisdom and Soulfulness! Here we re-member what has been dis-membered, through dance, celebration, song, chanting, art making, storytelling and ritual. Fall 2011 we will begin furthering our study of Cindy Lindsay’s translation of the ancient Blood Masteries of Peru,and the healing of wounded Soul energies within woman’s’ bodies.
Wyldwood Sojourn celebrates nature’s cycles & the divine Darkness, the place of creation. W.S. carries the knowledge of the 8th Chakra, which is the Womb Chakra. It is the home of the Soul & power center of Creation energies within a woman’s body. It is accessible by both women & men.
The teachings of the Womb Chakra & the Blood Masteries were passed on to W.S. by Cindy Lindsay PHD, who studied for 7, years in Peru with the Qero Indians.
The Qero Indians brought this wisdom through to the present day by avoiding all contact with the invading Spanish in the 15oo’s. They did not descend from the mountains until the 1960′s.
The existence of an 8th major chakra is not remembered by current patriarchal religious beliefs. In part because, we have allowed it’s forgetting. It is women’s’ responsibility, to restore & maintain connection to our traditions & to Sacred Feminine knowledge.
Our work is to dispel the current pervasive fear around what is Feminine and reclaim its pure truths, so restoring the much needed balance between the male & female polarities. We can also share this with men and help them in reclaiming respect and honor of their own inner feminine. In so doing both men & women regain our feeling centers and re-member our devotion to Earth as our Sacred home.
4 of the women who participate in W.S., and received this knowledge from Cindy Lindsay in 2009, were Maureen Walton, Karen Holmes, Monique Allore & Tania Tonanzin.
Workshops
Seven Waves Womb Dance spring 2012 May 26-27-see poster in gallery of images.
Earth-Ways Retreats by Karen Holmes
Facilitated and developed by Karen Holmes, B.Ed., MRE, Spiritual Director, Registered Yoga Teacher (500 hours), and Herbalist-In-Training. Email:spiritway@sympatico.ca Phone: 613-74-1303 Skype 613-374-1303
1-2 Day Retreats for women & men of all ages held at seasonal turning-points to facilitate deep listening to the Earth. Retreats include soul-singing, seed-chanting, dance, earth-craft and dark-lodge meditation. Activities are provided which encourage participants to carry their learning of the earth-ways and the competencies of deep listening into their daily experience, and into the honouring of their own bodies and those of others. Vegetarian meals provided. Cost per day-long retreat (24 hours): $150
Turning-points that we have visited as a group will be revisited again each year, and opportunities will be made to sit once again in the darklodge, to acquaint ourselves and deepen our acquaintance with the song of that particular season. Guests are invited to join the process at any time while realizing that each gathering is an unfolding of the one which preceded it.
Deep Listening for Earth’s Wonders & Mysteries
2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Retreat for Samhain
2010
Beltaine: That She Might Move As She Desires
Michaelmas/Autumnal Equinox: Harvesting the will: The double spiral way to sacred body
2011
-Oestre/Vernal Equinox: Anointing The Coming Resurrection
-Lammas: The Fruits of the Mother
-Winter Solstice: The Dream of the Dark, Conceiving the Dark Feminine
2012
-Imbolc: Tending the Birthing
-Summer Solstice: The Messages of Stars
Seven Waves Holistic Movement and Bellydance – Roula Said
Years of devotion to the wisdom within bellydance has led to the creation of “Seven Waves Holistic Movement System”. Seven Waves is simple and profound. The waves are explored as pathways through the body – sequencing up and down through the three weights of the spine and through the chakras. Using the Waves, Roula has created sequences of movement in different relationships to gravity: lying down, seated, on the side, on all-fours, standing up. These sequences awaken the body’s intelligence by engaging the nervous system and the imagination in an organic and uplifting experience that increases freedom of movement, core strength, coordination, breath awareness and overall well-being. . The Seven Waves can be easily incorporated into the practice of yoga, meditation, other dance forms, and as a way to survive your computer or even your massage therapy practice…and it is the greatest primer ever for bellydance technique.
Roula will teach Seven Waves as a practice unto itself and then segue into an uproariously fun foray into the wonderful world of bellydance. Roula will include a rhythm and music component to her workshop so do bring a drum (a goblet-style drum such a dumbek or djembe is ideal, but a tambourine or frame drum is great too). Finger cymbals are also welcome for those who own them. Some percussion instruments will be available to borrow. Dress to move!
Teachers
Maureen Walton
Maureen offers her studio home as a sanctuary for you to learn in and receive the valuable offerings of various teachers who compliment the mission of Wyldwood Sojourn. As an artist and storyteller Maureen offers her skills as enrichment to each workshop offered.
Maureen has supported herself as a mural artist for 12 years and also has a background in animation and illustration and in the fine arts. She traveled extensively in earlier years, and gave birth to her daughter while living in the Netsilingmiut community of Kugarruk.
Maureen has also begun to pass on her drafting skills with life drawing sessions, held in her studio. The class is called: Drawing a Mythical Storyboard. ( incorporating the art of storytelling.)
Roula Said
Explore the wisdom of the feminine through the ancient lens of bellydance as interpreted and re-imagined by modern day master instructor, Roula Said.
Roula Said is a dancer, musician and vocalist. She has devoted the last 20 years to studying, teaching, choreographing and performing Middle eastern dance and music. Her journey into a culture specific art form has taken her into realms of artistic exploration and personal healing that transcend any one culture. Roula has a true gift for distilling the essence of bellydance, which she embodies and transmits as a “Love Yoga”.
Alison Normore
Alison Normore PHD is a gifted healer, writer & teacher who masterfully blends medicine from east & west ,ancient & new. She is offering workshops at Wyldwood Sojourn of Feminine Initiation Rites, sourced in Peruvian traditions. She also leads workshops & sacred earth tours to Gross Morne National Park. Visit her web site at; www.alisonnormre.com & blog; http://alisonnormore.com/sacred musings
Karen Holmes
Karen Holmes, B.Ed., MRE (Master of Religious Education), Spiritual Director, Registered Yoga Teacher (500 hours) and Herbalist-in-training is a retreat facilitator who has extensive experience in encouraging spiritual formation in people from many walks of life.
She has worked as an elementary and highschool teacher, a Waldorf early childhood teacher and as an adult educator, programme designer and spiritual director.
Margherita was called to work with the healing powers of gems & crystals 15 years ago.Her workshops at Wyldwood Sojourn focus on our divine birthing out of darkness..with crystals,and in our awakening on all levels. Margherita creates inspiring projects for you to make your own crystal tools..for ceremonial use,or daily wear. The stones hold the wisdom of the stars & our ancient history.Let us begin to re-member!
Dates & Directions
| Workshops | Date | Time | Cost |
| Red Tent Gatherings | Every New Moon | 6:00PM-9:30PM | Donation |
| Seven Waves Womb Dance | May 26-27 | 4:00PM-4:00PM | $160 |
| Initiation Rites of the Laikas | Sept 15-16 | 4:00pm – 4:00pm | $150 |
| Summer Solstice | June 15-16 | 4;00pm – 4:00pm | $150 |
| 4,Life drawing classes | ongoing | Sat 1:00pm to 4:00pm | $75 |
| Crystal Medicine Sojourn | june 22-23 | sat 6:00pm to sun6:00pm | $160 |
Accommodations
Wyldwood Sojourn is an intimate hideaway on two wooded acres. Maureen designed this small, rustic home to be a comfortable working space, finished with natural materials and supporting a simple life-style. It is built as a passive solar dwelling but does boast of a mini solar station that meets the energy needs of her art studio. W.S. also has hot water on demand and a solo steamer.
Please bring your own sleeping bag and pillow. We offer cots, mats and a spare room with double bed(to accommodate 9 guests altogether). Camping is also an option.
Because it has its own well and septic system care must be taken to use water wisely by flushing the toilets only when necessary and by spacing quick showers 3 hours apart. Please feel welcome and at home! We are open to support your Soulful connection to Nature.
