sisters of the wild
rooted in love, from the ground up
Sisters of the Wild Gatherings are weekend getaways where we share our skills and stories, remembering the simple pleasures of living in harmony with nature. This is an opportunity to retreat from the attachments of everyday life and tune in to the simplicity of gathering together, bonded by our love for each other and the earth.
When women come together, we become stronger and liberated from society's judgments and expectations. We start to relax into a sense of freedom and begin to remember our true selves.
We’ve been taught for many years to think we must have certain things in order to survive, but what if we choose to savor simplicity? Let’s walk barefoot in the grass, wrap up in blankets by the fire, drink tea, and share stories of what it means to be a woman.
autumn gathering
19th — 23rd September 2024
Carmarthenshire, Wales.
At the heart of Sisters of the Wild is love, and for love to thrive, each of us must gather with a willingness to cultivate a deeper sense of embodiment and presence within ourselves as we take up our rightful place in nature. Each group that gathers creates a unique constellation and in the stillness, we’ll remember who we are as we restore balance in our nervous systems.
We’ll gather at Penpynfarch which is a 28 acre secluded smallholding and home to an ancient river, a spring-fed lake and family of red deer. A relic of native, wild land nestled in a Welsh valley. A place to kindle memory and evoke imagination for the future.
We will co-create our time together, knowing, that as women with soft edges, we can curate beautiful experiences with ease and flow. In lush surroundings we'll learn and share new crafts such as brush making and botanical dye, and there will be a central fire in the evenings for storytelling, drumming, and song. The simplest of things wrapped in a magical setting.
herstory
I had broken the tether of my earthly connection, my wildness, I’d forgotten how water moved over rocks, how the wind sang and trees talked to one another through intricate mycelium. The life I was living was so out of alignment with what my body craved that I decided to embark on a long distance solo walk around the coastline of the Scottish Highlands late September of 2015. On day four of the walk I reached the most majestic mountain with a road ahead snaking up like curls of smoke.
It was on that mountain that I asked, “how could I be the only woman who feels this way?” My inner voice sang loudly to me that I was to gather women who also recognised the pull of their own wildness, but found modern society quite adept at pressing down so hard on them that they had forgotten it was there at all. Women who hungered for reclamation of self and the reawakening of our alliance to the earth, women who are Sisters of the Wild.
