Seasonal Gatherings & Land-Based Retreats
Practice living as sacred embodied human animals in rural Missouri, where the Milky Way is visible and Earth’s rhythms guide the days.
What These Gatherings Are
These aren’t workshops or retreats in the conventional sense. These are opportunities to practice what it means to live as sacred embodied human animals in relationship with Earth’s rhythms, not empire’s demands.
You’ll be on land where the Milky Way is visible most nights, where plants grow that become medicine, where children learn through relationship and discovery, where the seasonal wheel is felt in your body rather than just marked on a calendar.
This is embodied practice, not conceptual learning. You’ll work with your hands, move with your body, eat food grown in relationship with this land, and remember what your animal body already knows.
Seasonal Gatherings
Single-day or weekend gatherings aligned with seasonal transitions: solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days. These mark the turning of the wheel through embodied practice.
What happens:
- Seasonal ceremony and ritual
- Plant walks and medicine making
- Fire tending and shared meals
- Stellar navigation and cosmology
- Somatic and embodied practices
Who should come: Those ready to practice Earth-based living beyond intellectual understanding. Small groups to maintain energetic integrity.
Multi-Day Retreats
Immersive 3-5 day experiences for deeper work. Limited to very small groups (6-10 people) for those ready to fully step into embodied animal living.
What happens:
- Deep nervous system rewilding
- Wildcrafting and plant relationship
- Ancestral skills and land practice
- Embodied cosmology and stellar work
- Deconstructing empire programming
Who should come: This work requires commitment. If you’re curious but not ready to practice, wait. If you’re ready to remember you’re an animal and act accordingly, come.
Private Land Use
The land is available for private gatherings, ceremonies, and practices for small groups who resonate with this work.
Possible uses:
- Family gatherings and celebrations
- Small group ceremonies
- Intentional community meetings
- Seasonal practice with your people
Requirements: Alignment with the work, respect for the land, small numbers. Contact us to discuss possibilities.
Upcoming Events
Spring Awakening Gathering
Two-day gathering marking the spring equinox. We’ll work with the land as it awakens, practice seed blessing and planting, learn about early spring medicinal plants, and align our bodies with the returning light.
About the Land
20 acres in rural Missouri where the Milky Way is visible most nights and humans can practice what it means to live as sacred embodied animals in relationship with Earth’s rhythms.
This land grows the plants that become medicine. Children learn here through doing and discovering, not curriculum. Rabbits breed, gardens produce, seasonal cycles are felt in bodies not just marked on calendars.
When you come here, you’re not escaping to nature. You’re remembering you ARE nature. You’re animal. Always have been.
Dark Skies
Milky Way visible, real stellar navigation
Wildcrafted Plants
Medicine growing in relationship
Food Production
Gardens, rabbits, seasonal harvests
Sacred Space
Fire circle, ceremonial areas, gathering places
Is This For You?
Come if you:
- Are ready to practice embodied living, not just learn concepts
- Understand you’re an animal and want to live accordingly
- Can hold sacred space and respect energetic boundaries
- Are willing to work with your hands and your body
- Want to learn from the land and plants directly
- Respect that this isn’t entertainment or tourism
This isn’t for you if you:
- Want passive experience or to be entertained
- Expect hotel-style accommodations
- Aren’t comfortable with rustic outdoor settings
- Seek transcendent spirituality rather than embodied practice
- Can’t respect small group energy and sacred space
These gatherings are for the remnant. Those ready to remember and live differently. If that’s you, welcome.