Wild Women Vision Fast
August 9 – 18, 2023
Guides: Tracey Forest and Jonah Ruh Roberts
Are you at a crossroads in your life?
Are you seeking a journey to the mountain to find your true voice again?
Are you longing to immerse in the forest, in Mystery in conversation with soul and the wild and sacred others?
Offered only once a year, this 10-day-vision fast ceremony created by and for women will help you realign with your deepest truth and most authentic self.
The time is now, dear one, Earth needs us to step forward and claim our place in the Earth Community.
We need Earth lovers, healers, way showers, activists, ceremonialists, artisans and singers in every village re-enchanting the human community with songs, art, and medicine to bring people home to deep love and reciprocity with Gaia. We need to move from Soul and lift our voices. We need authenticity and sovereignty as the times of subservience have cost us too much. Join the groundswell of wild women, so together we may weave a new culture of care, sustainability, and consciousness into the world.
In the wildlands of Spirit Hollow, among mountain streams and the calls of the barred owl, you will be invited to step through the portal to seek the place where your dream and the Earth’s dream meet. This program is about getting you back to some of your “original instructions,” so you can re-member who you truly are. By engaging deeply with Mystery, Earth, and the other-than-human ones, you will gain perspective, insight, courage and clarity to begin living with deeper purpose in the world.
Dear Sisters,
Earth is singing her daughters home. Do you hear her call?
She is calling us back to the soul stream that flows underneath everything – inviting us to shed our too-small coats of fear, and drop into deep time, so we may remember her ancient rhythms in our own bodies, hear and chant her potent voice, feel her generative love, and infuse in her ancestral wisdoms, making our own selves an offering on the altar of her beautiful and vulnerable, green and flowering heart.
As women of Gaia, in these challenging times, we are being asked to listen below the maw of destruction and human ego, so that we can learn to trust and move from a more feminine, life-giving place. That liminal, magical place can only be accessed when we wander away from the ‘village’ of our dayworld lives, cross the threshold into the realms of Mystery and make ourselves vulnerable to our dreams, our grief, our longings, and our embodied wholeness.
Details
The first few days of the program will be spent at base camp in preparation for the solo fast. In a series of ceremonies, councils, journeys and wanders, you’ll be guided to lovingly call your authentic self back out from hiding, see where you have been conforming to stories that are not your own, and open doorways to your deepest gifts. In sacred space, you will be guided to hone your intentions, identify obstacles and fears holding you back from walking your truth, and learn Wild Mind wholing and self-healing tools to resource you for your solo.
The 72-hour solo and fast will be your time out on the land to open your whole being to guidance, inspiration, and clarity. You will cross the threshold into the mystery and magic of your depths, and be held and mirrored by the living Earth, to reanimate your wild self, to meet your soul in all its beauty.
The last two days back at camp, will be held in deep council, integration, ceremony, emerging from the wild lands, back into the ‘village’ resourced, clear, inspired and empowered on your path.
This immersion is held at Spirit Hollow in Shaftsbury Vermont. This beloved sanctuary is a deeply resonant, revered, and protected hollow in an expansive forested wilderness area in the Southwestern Vermont Taconic Mountains where vision fasts, shamanic trainings, warrior and goddess camps have been held for decades. The trees, the stones, owls, waters, and earth know our pain, witness our breakdowns and breakthroughs, and reflect for us what we need to hear.
For women ready to take it to the next level
Daily Wanders in the Forest with Offerings and Invitations from the Guides
Powerful Group and Self-Designed Ceremonies
Dream Work
Wild Mind Wholing Work
Deep Council Processes
Immersion into the Soulscape
Deep Imagination Journeys
Authentic, Ecstatic Movement
72-hour Vision Fast
Tools for integration and actualization of the Vision
Cross the Threshold
Total exchange for the program is Sliding scale $1111-$1555
This immersion requires an application. Once you have been accepted into the program, a $444 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot. Participants are responsible for bringing their own breakfasts and lunches.
“It was an honor and a privilege to have you both as guides. The holding environment you created was one of the most safe and positive I have experienced. This allowed me to go to the depths and mine for those resources. I am forever grateful.”
~ 2022 participant
“The Wild Women Vision Fast was a life-changing experience. My intent was to gain clarity of myself and the underlying anxiety, dichotomy I felt inside of me. The guides held such a beautiful space and were so present. It was a magical, heart-filled experience.”
– Michelle T, 2022 participant
“The Wild Women Vision Quest was a transformational experience. I am deeply grateful for the powerful and sacred container Tracey and Jonah created for us. The solo fast changed my life and I received the vision I had been seeking. The preparation and return were equally important, and I felt deeply witnessed and held in each phase of the journey. Tracey and Jonah are gifted healers and have much wisdom and guidance to offer any soul seeker.”
~ 2020 participant
I highly recommend this immersion experience into deepening your understanding of soul and spirit within and without. It will inform your life in ways both subtle and obvious and add to the ever-widening pool of consciousness that has the power to bring healing on both a personal and a universal level.
– Cynthia H., 2018 participant
