We are currently seeking apprentices to live and work and play with us in Bayfield, WI and Viola, WI.
Peer Respite opportunities offer folks immersion experiences in emergent intentional community focused on regenerative, holistic wellness.
We are practicing weaving community by using our Circle Technology to create space for trauma recovery work and healing.
In Bayfield, WI, Monarda is focusing on embodied/somatic trauma- recovery practices using Plants, the Soil, Song, Stillness and Cold Water Submersion. These practices are body lead and participants will be supported in finding their own practices to support their body's unique needs.
In Viola, Wi, Johanna is focusing on building a community care web that centers folks experiencing complex trauma because of disability.
For more info and to inquire about Live-In Peer Respite opportunities, email [email protected]
March 22-24, 2019: Equinox- Balance
Ritual, Song, Feast, Celebration
Saturday, March 23
10am Opening Circle
Morning and afternoon- Co-created Equinox Ritual with kids and adults
3-5pm Community Song Circle
Evening pot Luck
April 12-14, 2019: Mid-Spring
Saturday, April 13
Medicine Making and Education: Herbal First Aid for Tick Bites
3-5pm Community Song Cirlce
Evening Pot Luck
Wild Farmacy seeks to create Sanctuary for those who need it most:
~for people who seek belonging
~for people with sensitive bodies
~for people in recovery from complex oppression and trauma
~for people who learn with their bodies, from song, from stories
~for people who have kids and want to raise them in community
~for elders who want to find ways to connect with youngers in wellness and creation.
Sanctuary Everywhere!
Together we are learning how to co-create spaces that feel safe (Sanctuaries). We do this by tending to ourselves, one another and the land that hosts these gatherings. Our practices are simple, we practice noticing the other people around us, tuning into ourselves and one another, it's like "living meditation". Each of us comes with our own intentions and needs. We practice listening and being present as best we can, while participating (or not) in the various activities.
There is space for more people to offer their healing, their medicine, their gifts. We have need for people to lead group movement. We have need for people who love to cook. We have a need for people who have many skills and want to be appreciated for their gifts!
*I acknowledge that those who most need sanctuary are often people with diverse racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, and class identities. I am on a journey of Decolonizing myself and my communities. As a qweer, white woman, I may not be able to address everyone's unique needs for safety, but I strive to offer Sanctuary to those who need it. I hope that people with diversities different from my own can find sanctuary with me and I welcome your comments and feedback about how I can make this project more inclusive.
Wild Farmacy's Sanctuary Gatherings are co-created spaces for us to practice healing/relationship/social skills. The Space is dedicated to real time, real life healing practice.
These immersion weekends are about learning how to connect with medicine and intuition. We may find and access medicine from many sources, including people, herbs, ceremony, song and play.
As an herbalist, plants are the most common access point for me for healing. Plant medicine will be the central element around which these weekends are formed. As we practice making medicine we will also practice social permaculutre (being human together).
When we gather we tend the needs of those present, only then can we work together to make medicine for the future.
With children and elders present, we focus on working together as a community, supporting one another and creating medicine to share. We are integrating, work, play, prayer, family, nourishment, creation.
The goal for the weekend is for people to learn how to work with herbal medicines at home, to develop the intuition and skills to diagnose, and most importantly, to practice integrating this work into daily life. We do all of this while we practice being in community in a new way.
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation for the Weekend:
Adult Friday evening thru Sunday noon $60-150
Adult $10 per meal, $15 per night, Saturday workshops $20-100
Children $5 per meal and $10 per night
For more information and to register, email me:
[email protected]
Past Gatherings:
Feb 15-18, 2019:
Saturday morning- Medicine Making and Fundraiser for Refugees in Mexico
Saturday 3-5pm- Song Circle
Community Potluck, Fire, Birthday Party!
Sunday afternoon- Simple Ritual and Community Conversation "What do we need to tend in our communities?
"How do reframe issues that are divisive? How is the need for space spaces and the need to create an economy of care inter-related?"
Community Potluck
Monday morning- Slow integration- We can ease into re-integrating into our Life in the world away from Sanctuary by practicing easeful, slow integration.
Soulstice Sanctuary Village
December 27 thru Jan 1
Buttermilk Falls CSA, Osceola, WI
*Making Elderberry Syrup
*Wassailing- Blessing of the Trees
*Community Conversation: In this work and play-shop we will delve into the question of how to create a just world that sees social-, emotional-, neuro-, spiritual-, and physical-diversity. Inspired by our work to create sustaining, compassionate and inclusive relationships with people who identify as neuro-divergent, we seek to broaden this conversation to include all of us.
*New Years Eve Gathering and Ritual
August Pop-Up Village
Our first Sanctuary project
*Plant Spirit Medicine
*Grief Ceremony
*Weaving the New Story Workshop- What is the New Story that we long to dream into becoming? What stories need tending in order to bring a new collective story forward?
Ritual, Song, Feast, Celebration
Saturday, March 23
10am Opening Circle
Morning and afternoon- Co-created Equinox Ritual with kids and adults
3-5pm Community Song Circle
Evening pot Luck
April 12-14, 2019: Mid-Spring
Saturday, April 13
Medicine Making and Education: Herbal First Aid for Tick Bites
3-5pm Community Song Cirlce
Evening Pot Luck
Wild Farmacy seeks to create Sanctuary for those who need it most:
~for people who seek belonging
~for people with sensitive bodies
~for people in recovery from complex oppression and trauma
~for people who learn with their bodies, from song, from stories
~for people who have kids and want to raise them in community
~for elders who want to find ways to connect with youngers in wellness and creation.
Sanctuary Everywhere!
Together we are learning how to co-create spaces that feel safe (Sanctuaries). We do this by tending to ourselves, one another and the land that hosts these gatherings. Our practices are simple, we practice noticing the other people around us, tuning into ourselves and one another, it's like "living meditation". Each of us comes with our own intentions and needs. We practice listening and being present as best we can, while participating (or not) in the various activities.
There is space for more people to offer their healing, their medicine, their gifts. We have need for people to lead group movement. We have need for people who love to cook. We have a need for people who have many skills and want to be appreciated for their gifts!
*I acknowledge that those who most need sanctuary are often people with diverse racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, and class identities. I am on a journey of Decolonizing myself and my communities. As a qweer, white woman, I may not be able to address everyone's unique needs for safety, but I strive to offer Sanctuary to those who need it. I hope that people with diversities different from my own can find sanctuary with me and I welcome your comments and feedback about how I can make this project more inclusive.
Wild Farmacy's Sanctuary Gatherings are co-created spaces for us to practice healing/relationship/social skills. The Space is dedicated to real time, real life healing practice.
These immersion weekends are about learning how to connect with medicine and intuition. We may find and access medicine from many sources, including people, herbs, ceremony, song and play.
As an herbalist, plants are the most common access point for me for healing. Plant medicine will be the central element around which these weekends are formed. As we practice making medicine we will also practice social permaculutre (being human together).
When we gather we tend the needs of those present, only then can we work together to make medicine for the future.
With children and elders present, we focus on working together as a community, supporting one another and creating medicine to share. We are integrating, work, play, prayer, family, nourishment, creation.
The goal for the weekend is for people to learn how to work with herbal medicines at home, to develop the intuition and skills to diagnose, and most importantly, to practice integrating this work into daily life. We do all of this while we practice being in community in a new way.
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation for the Weekend:
Adult Friday evening thru Sunday noon $60-150
Adult $10 per meal, $15 per night, Saturday workshops $20-100
Children $5 per meal and $10 per night
For more information and to register, email me:
[email protected]
Past Gatherings:
Feb 15-18, 2019:
Saturday morning- Medicine Making and Fundraiser for Refugees in Mexico
Saturday 3-5pm- Song Circle
Community Potluck, Fire, Birthday Party!
Sunday afternoon- Simple Ritual and Community Conversation "What do we need to tend in our communities?
"How do reframe issues that are divisive? How is the need for space spaces and the need to create an economy of care inter-related?"
Community Potluck
Monday morning- Slow integration- We can ease into re-integrating into our Life in the world away from Sanctuary by practicing easeful, slow integration.
Soulstice Sanctuary Village
December 27 thru Jan 1
Buttermilk Falls CSA, Osceola, WI
*Making Elderberry Syrup
*Wassailing- Blessing of the Trees
*Community Conversation: In this work and play-shop we will delve into the question of how to create a just world that sees social-, emotional-, neuro-, spiritual-, and physical-diversity. Inspired by our work to create sustaining, compassionate and inclusive relationships with people who identify as neuro-divergent, we seek to broaden this conversation to include all of us.
*New Years Eve Gathering and Ritual
August Pop-Up Village
Our first Sanctuary project
*Plant Spirit Medicine
*Grief Ceremony
*Weaving the New Story Workshop- What is the New Story that we long to dream into becoming? What stories need tending in order to bring a new collective story forward?
