The Well Of Wild Wisdom
Saturday April 12th | Worcester, Vermont
Welcome To Your Midlife Retreat …
Join us for a wild, wise and wonderful full moon retreat, nestled in the lush green hills of Vermont to tend to your spirit at midlife. Imagine carving out a whole day (within a community of soul sisters) for ritual, rest, renewal and deep listening to the wise woman within. Imagine a place where you can freely express your grief, your love, your confusion and even your holy rage in a safe, loving & supportive container.
Imagine what it would be like find your authentic truth and gifts in communion with nature and spirit, while dreaming into this new beginning. Imagine being supported by experienced guides and fellow seekers while bravely and skillfully navigating the midlife passage.
We are so excited to be on this journey with you. Enjoy a lovely introductory retreat video & learn more about us here.
With Love & Excitement- Your Midlife Guides & Soul Sisters,
Anjali Budreski & Fearn Lickfield
Are you seeking a supportive container of women to be with on your midlife journey?
Are you looking to find deeper meaning and reverence for the second half of life?
Have you felt alone or groundless (without a map or guide) during this wild & potent passage?
Do you feel enlivened by mythology, magic, nature & transformative experiences?
Would you love to view midlife through a new lens that is both healing and empowering?
Welcome Friends!
If you are seeking a powerful and healing retreat to explore midlife, we are here for you. Midlife is an opportunity to liberate ourselves form all the ‘shoulds’, to embrace the richness our our experience and to offer our unique gifts back to the world.
It is one of the deepest passages of our lives, yet one of the least talked about and most misunderstood in our culture. It’s time to write a new story about this pivotal portal. It’s time to write your own story and to feel seen and supported in the process. .
We are blessed to gather in retreat at Dreamland, a potent magical sanctuary with many gifts to share. We will be held within her healing spaces, including the stone circle, the labyrinth, the faery well, and all of the elements of nature.
“I faced my dead parts, and let them burn away. The truth is, by the time we reach menopause, we've all lived with too much loss; we've all been broken open. We've accumulated too much pain. Menopause is the time to transform it.” - Sharon Blackie from the book Hagitude
About Our Retreat Day:
Saturday April 12th, 10 am to 8:30 pm at Dreamland Sanctuary In Worcester, Vermont (20 min north of Montpelier) with the option to sleep over in the rustic yurt on Saturday night. Registration Deadline: Friday April 4th.
General Schedule:
(subject to change depending on weather and the needs of the group)
10 am Saturday- Arrival & Opening Reception:
Begin to land in sacred space, settle into the retreat yurt and enjoy warm tea and healthy, yummy snacks.
PART 1- The EARTH ELEMENT:
10:30 am: Opening Circle: Welcome & orientation to our day, guided meditation to ground into our wise and wild selves, whole group introductions & intro to our day
11:30-11:45 am: Embodied Movement & Break
11:45-12:45: Wise Woman Council & Sacred Storytelling: Meeting the mythic hag, reflecting & sharing. Space to be heard, seen, validated and celebrated for all you are going through. All emotions, feeling and thoughts are welcome.
12:45-1 pm: Lunch prep/ Break/ Solo Time
1 pm: Delectable, simple, local, organic lunch (provided)
PART 2- The WATER ELEMENT:
2 -3 pm- Release Ritual:
Time to release and wash away old, outmoded ways of being, feeling and believing. Beautiful guided labyrinth walk + sacred individual, ritual cleansing at the fairy well. Take time to drop your limitations, burdens and feelings into the water element in this fully guided practice and emerge refreshed and renewed!
PART 3- The AIR ELEMENT:
3-3:45 pm- FREE TIME: For integration, woods wander, or solo space for yourself to process the journey thus far.
Enjoy self-guided writing prompts for dreaming in the new, reimagining & discovering your calling/gifts at the midlife threshold. Allow yourself to move slowly and sink into your own sacred center of inner peace & knowing.
BONUS: Enjoy a self-care station with oils, medicine cards + treats!
3:45-4:45- Restorative Journey To Meet Your Inner Wise Woman:
Fearn and Anjali join forces to guide you on a magical inner journey. While Anjali guides the restorative pose and offers healing touch, Fearn will guide you to meet your own inner Wise One who carries abundant gifts and guidance for you.
4:45-5:15 pm- Dinner Banquet Prep:
Heat up potluck dishes, prepare food and beverages (alcohol free) + get ready for a community feast. Please bring your finest fancy dish to share for the feast!
5:15- 6:30: Bountiful Dinner Banquet
We will all bring our favorite/ special ancestral dishes to the table and enjoy a lovely feast together.
PART 4- The FIRE ELEMENT:
7-8:30pm- Fire Ceremony To Claim Your Wild Wise Woman:
We will walk up the hill to the grounding & mystical standing stone temple and enter into the deepest part of our day. Enjoy a roaring bonfire and the opportunity to name, claim and EMBODY your own fierce midlife wisdom and truth. We will dance, sing, revel and lean into this new being that we are becoming. Ceremony will culminate with a collective sending out of our most wild, fierce and compassionate power and prayers to the larger world.
8:30 pm- Retreat Formally Closes: Feel free to hang out around the fire and linger longer, if you choose.
Who Is This Retreat For?
This retreat is for women and women-identified folx within and beyond the menopausal passage. It is designed for those who are ready to delve deep into meaning, myth and magic to find and embody the wise and wild archtype within.
In order to create a sacred container focussed on the midlife passage, we welcome those who self-identify as perimenopausal, menopausal or postmenopausal. If this resonates with you and you feel an inner ‘yes’ to join us then we would love to have you.
How Do I Sign UP?
Simply fill out this registration form and then head over here to register & complete payment >>> SIGN ME UP!
Investment:
$133-333 Sliding Fee Scale (choose your price when you register by sliding the bar) We have adjusted the pricing of this retreat to make it more affordable and accessible to as many of you as possible. We are living in unprecedented times and we would so LOVE for you to gather with us.
CAMPING: We do have space for rustic camping in the yurt or your own tent if you’d like to spend the night with us. Please let us know if you plan to spend the night. Camping is $25 cash for the night. The yurt is a shared space.
>> REGISTER HERE (and choose your preferred ticket tier when you sign up).
Cancellation Policy:
We are sorry but due to the limited number of spaces in this retreat, we cannot offer any refunds at all, except in the event that we can fill your spot. If the retreat is full and you register, you will automatically be added to the waitlist. You do need to go ahead and register to be on the waitlist.
Please note that lunch will be provided and that dinner will be a potluck feast. Please bring a dish to share.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have and we cannot wait to see you on retreat!
“But I always related to the Old Woman. The one who haunted the edgelands, the mysterious shadow in the heart of the darkwood. The exile, the rebel, the one who shrugged off the fetters of conventional society; the one who imagined and cultivated her own vision of how the world should be, thank you very much. At the earliest of ages, I already knew that was the old woman I wanted to grow into. The spirited, unpredictable, not-to-be-messed-with elder. An elder who’s always ready to tell you the often-unwelcome truths about the condition of your life — leavened, of course, with compassion, and a glint of fierce humor in her eyes.”
― Sharon Blackie, Hagitude
