Wild wisdom Hoh RETREATS
Created by llyn cedar roberts
immersE in the healing power of nature
Photos and video: Mitch Mattraw
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HOH RIVER VALLEY and RAINFOREST RETREAT ~
Open to Sacred Time and the Healing Power of Nature in this nature immersion in the Olympic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula, WA State, USA Llyn "Cedar" Roberts, coauthor with Sandra Ingerman of the Gold Nautilus award-winning book, Speaking with Nature, has expertly designed this simple yet life-changing, sacred nature experience. Email Llyn Roberts to register for June retreat. Email Lori Ferry' to register for the July or August retreat. View retreat details below. Open to nature's healing forces! |
WILD WISDOM RETREATS 2022 ----------------------- JUNE 20-25, 2022 Guided by Llyn Cedar Roberts (Filled) JULY 11-16, 2022 Guided by Rob Murphy & Lori Ferry' (Filled) August 8-13, 2022 Guided by Rob Murphy & Lori Ferry' (3 Spaces Remaining) |
Register Early! Spaces Fill Fast!
Join us in the Hoh River Valley and the largest temperate rainforest in the world in the Olympic Mountains to nourish a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth guided by “Cedar” and OMEC colleagues Rob Murphy and Lori Ferry'.
In these life-changing nature immersions and forest bathing experiences, you will open your heart to rainforest plants and wildlife, to old growth trees, to sacred springs and turquoise glacial rivers and expansive valleys as you also, communicate with ancient Earth protectors and spirit presences. Sit by roaring fires under vast starlit skies, for storytelling and authentic sharing. Play, muse, journal, incubate, create and take inward journeys - to receive nature’s gifts and to also learn how you can give back.
In immersing in the quiet spaces of nature and in her hidden dimensions you will be nourished, and guided back to the quiet internal spaces and the rich, hidden dimensions within you - the deep and ever-unfolding mystery of who you truly are.
Join us in the Hoh River Valley and the largest temperate rainforest in the world in the Olympic Mountains to nourish a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth guided by “Cedar” and OMEC colleagues Rob Murphy and Lori Ferry'.
In these life-changing nature immersions and forest bathing experiences, you will open your heart to rainforest plants and wildlife, to old growth trees, to sacred springs and turquoise glacial rivers and expansive valleys as you also, communicate with ancient Earth protectors and spirit presences. Sit by roaring fires under vast starlit skies, for storytelling and authentic sharing. Play, muse, journal, incubate, create and take inward journeys - to receive nature’s gifts and to also learn how you can give back.
In immersing in the quiet spaces of nature and in her hidden dimensions you will be nourished, and guided back to the quiet internal spaces and the rich, hidden dimensions within you - the deep and ever-unfolding mystery of who you truly are.
Capacity: Register early, as enrollment is limited to six (6) participants, to ensure an intimate experience.
To register for a JUNE or SEPTEMBER Wild Wisdom Retreat ($1,100* per person) with Llyn Cedar Roberts, joined by Rob Murphy. Please contact: Llyn Cedar Roberts
To register for a JULY Wild Wisdom Retreat ($800* per person) guided by Rob Murphy and Lori Ferry' and supported by Vic Ferry' please contact: Lori Ferry'
*Your per person registration fee includes facilitation and 5-nights accommodation. A non-refundable lodging deposit of $300 reserves your place. (Your deposit can be deferred to another Hoh trip if unavoidable circumstances prevent you from attending) Space is limited to a maximum of six registrants. *Prices include facilitation and accommodation and does NOT include transportation, food or other needs.
To register for a JUNE or SEPTEMBER Wild Wisdom Retreat ($1,100* per person) with Llyn Cedar Roberts, joined by Rob Murphy. Please contact: Llyn Cedar Roberts
To register for a JULY Wild Wisdom Retreat ($800* per person) guided by Rob Murphy and Lori Ferry' and supported by Vic Ferry' please contact: Lori Ferry'
*Your per person registration fee includes facilitation and 5-nights accommodation. A non-refundable lodging deposit of $300 reserves your place. (Your deposit can be deferred to another Hoh trip if unavoidable circumstances prevent you from attending) Space is limited to a maximum of six registrants. *Prices include facilitation and accommodation and does NOT include transportation, food or other needs.
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WILD WISDOM RETREAT CREATOR AND GUIDE
Llyn Cedar Roberts, M.A. Creator and Guide
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Creator of the Wild Wisdom Hoh Retreat experience and facilitator of the June and September and private retreats, Llyn Cedar Roberts, is the celebrated author of books that encourage Earth-honoring wisdom ways, available in multiple languages: the recipient of the Gold Nautilus Medal award, Speaking with Nature (co-authored with Sandra Ingerman), the Independent Publisher's award-winning book, Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness and the bestselling book Shamanic Reiki. The founder of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle and Shamanic Reiki Worldwide, Llyn aka "Cedar" has facilitated experiences with indigenous shamanic groups in remote parts of the world for over 22 years - in the Amazon basin, the high Andes, southern and northern Siberia, and in the Maya-lands of Guatemala. She was initiated into ancient circles by Andean and Siberian elders and lived in the Hoh Rainforest for two years. A spiritual ecologist, Llyn has facilitated paradigm-shifting experiential seminars for thousands of people at prominent colleges, institutes and universities. She is spiritual advisor to Quiet Parks International.
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Llyn Cedar Roberts is partnered as an Ally and Mentor with the Transformational Travel Council and its mission to inspire, empower and support people to use travel as a catalyst for creating deeper connections with self and nature and as a tool for fostering global citizenry, communication, understanding, stewardship, and real human connection.
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WILD WISDOM RETREAT TEAM AND GUIDES
Rob Murphy - Guide
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Rob Murphy co-facilitates the July retreat with Lori Ferry' and assists retreats with Llyn Cedar Roberts. Rob is an initiated shaman in Brazilian and Ecuadorian and Celtic traditions and an ordained minister. He is a core teaching faculty member of Shamanic Reiki Worldwide. He founded the Richmond Shamanic Meetup and Drum Circle and is a core member of the NY Shamanic Circle. Rob offers earth-based programs in the United States and abroad, as well as sacred journeys to indigenous elders in South America. Regression therapy is an integral part of Rob’s shamanic healing practice. He is also a graduate of the Shift Network’s Peace Ambassador Training program. Rob is e member of the OMEC board of directors and a project director for the Olympic Peninsula Johnny Moses Projects. He is a master tender of sacred fires and is a steady support of your experience as he holds the sacred container for the Hoh Retreat.
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Lori Ferry' - Guide
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Lori Ferry' co-facilitates the July retreat with Rob Murphy. Lori is a Shamanic Reiki Master Teacher and a Traditional Reiki Master, Reiki Crystal Practitioner who has studied Core Shamanism. She carries a deep understanding and reverence for the Earth and nature, as well as indigenous based healing approaches. She facilitates Mindfulness Based Meditation workshops for the University of Washington Nursing Students Programs and addiction recovery 2-year program for John Volken Academy. She studied abroad working on her BA in Early Childhood Psychological Development. She is a registered yoga teacher with a mindful & restorative approach and a Registered Yoga Continuing Education Provider. As a member of the Guatemala Trip Sacred Travel Team, she assists Lis Traphagen and supports OMEC’s Maya Women Weavers project. She hosts OMEC HEARTH Circles in Milton WA and is the director of OMEC's Pillar Point Project, facilitated in association with CoastSavers.org
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WILD WISDOM RETREAT SUPPORT TEAM
Mitch Mattraw
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Mitch Mattraw: Videography and Sherpa Support Team. Mitch is the independent filmmaker of cabfareproductions.com He is one of Seattle's top wedding videographers and has also produced award winning branding films for businesses, web films for emerging companies, documentaries and films for non-profit organizations and many narrative shorts. Mitch produced the creative action alert video: The Olympic Peninsula is not for Electromagnetic Warfare Training, as well as the OMEC Guatemala trip, Johnny Moses and Maya Women Weavers projects promotional videos. He is an avid outdoorsman who honors the Earth and feels at home in the Olympic Mountains and the Hoh Rainforest. Mitch created the Wild Wisdom retreat video. |
Vic Ferry'
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Vic Ferry': Sherpa Support Team. Vic was raised in the Pacific Northwest. He has owned a floor covering business with green and sustainable design options in his youth. Later, with his wife, Lori Ferry’ he lived for a time in Costa Rica - among the locals, immersed in community, land and nature. He is Reiki II attuned in the Usui Tradition. He loves to play, cook, to help people and to hold a healing space for others. A charismatic volunteer auctioneer who has raised funds for various charity organizations, he plays in Chef John Howie’s annual ‘The Kick Hunger Challenge Celebrity Poker Event’. Vic finds great joy in nature. He is an OMEC Committee member and in addition to supporting wild Wisdom Hoh Retreats, Vic is the Assisting Manager with Lori Ferry' working with the OMEC Pillar Point Coastal Clean Up in association with CoastSavers.org
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HOH RAINFOREST LODGING HOSTS
Marlene and Monty Davis Lodging Hosts
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Marlene and Monty Davis are the land-owner hosts for our Wild Wisdom Hoh Retreat experience. They have designed and crafted a comfortable rustic environment, on their private lands that lay at the edge of vast wilderness and in walking distance to the Hoh River. The lodgings and surroundings are full of creative elements that will support your own light-heartedness and creative engagement with nature, as you also feel safe and nourished during your stay in the magical Hoh. Marlene and Monty are based on the Olympic Peninsula and have a deep love and regard for the natural world. During your stay, you will enjoy Monty's capable presence, and also his humor! Llyn has been friends with Monty and Marlene since they were neighbors when she lived in the Hoh for two years, beginning in January 2012. Inviting retreaters to experience the Hoh is a delight for them all. |
DETAILS FOR REGISTRANTS:
Retreat Container: Relax into your physical and also your subtle senses, to reconnect - with yourself, spirit, and with nature. To keep this intention at the forefront Wild Wisdom Retreats maintain a substance-free environment with no alcohol, no mind-altering substances, and no smoking or vaping. Participants agree to support each other in an unplugged (daily 'touch-in' option) experience, valuing quiet and stillness - equally to laughter and sharing, to connect with nature and the spirit of the place. We employ simple cleansing rituals that awaken your senses and gentle 'questing' approaches that focus and expand your attention, have 'quiet zones' and incubation time, solo 'sits' as well as circle immersions in pristine locations. We have an outside campfire on every dry weather night (except during fire restrictions), with two evenings devoted to exploring the local lore of the lands. We focus on being in nature in an awake yet ordinary way, which is in itself ceremonial. We enact 'wandering', 'deep listening', and other simple nature-based practices on the Hoh River gravel bar and hike on an easy, as well as an easy-to-moderate trail. There are built in options on this hike, such as staying to commune by the river or to forest bathe, or going further on the trail for those with more desire and vigor. There’s always someone nearby to assist you. Every day and every moment and experience has its own texture and rhythm, and every person is encouraged to honor their own and changing rhythms - taking us individually, and as a group, deeper into relationship with ourselves, each other, with nature and the spiritual aspects of the land and of nature beings. "Living in the Hoh forever changed me (Cedar). Wild Wisdom Retreats in the Hoh River Valley and Rainforest are life-changing for those who hear and answer nature's calling." To date, retreaters have ranged in age from the 20's to 80. Join us!
Lodging: We describe the lodging as ‘varying degrees of pleasantly rustic’. These are safe and inviting, yet, they are very simple and earthy spaces.
1) There is one large cabin with three separate sleeping spaces. 'Cabin-dwellers' will each have a bed to place a sleeping bag upon. The cabin has a large wood stove, a full kitchen (standard sized electric stove with oven and full-sized refrigerator with all dish and cookware) where everyone will store and prepare the food, and eat. and a shared full bathroom. There are no machines to wash your clothes - let go of habituation and think 'simple'!
2) There is a large ‘bunkhouse’ with three wooden platforms topped with thick foam to place your sleeping bag upon. It has an outhouse and a wood-stove. ‘Bunk-housers' also have use of the cabin kitchen and bathroom facilities.
3) Tenting is a welcomed option. There is tenting space near the cabin and you can also tent on the extensive gravel bar of the Hoh River Bed. If you choose to tent, you will still have a cabin or bunkhouse bed reserved for you.
“Cedar” (Llyn) lived in the ‘cabin’ for two years, while she wrote her portion of the Gold Nautilus award-winning book Speaking with Nature. She spent much of her writing time in the ‘hut’. Visitors were lodged in the ‘bunkhouse’.
Water: Fresh, filtered running water from the pure glacial waters of the Hoh River comes out of the tap in the cabin, and fresh well water also runs from an outside spigot.
Food: Participants will consult together before the trip in order to plan the week’s meals and purchase needs and other details. Sharing meals together and preparing favorite home-cooked dishes for the group has become a wonderful part of the bonding experience. You are also welcomed to buy personal food items that you may want to have on hand just for you – and you can also feel free to bring food and home-prepared dishes in with you from home, assuming you live locally.
Weather: Although there are definitely exceptions, the weather is unpredictable. It is typically dry and warm in July, yet there can be rain. June is a transitional month, there will likely be rain. You will want to bring layers to accommodate daytime and evening temperatures, as even in July - although the sun can get very hot in the afternoon it can feel quite chilly at night after the sun sets and the winds pick up. Although summer is considered drought season, again please be prepared for weather extremes including rainstorms, at any time. You will receive a list of clothing and packing suggestions.
Travel and Meet-Up: If flying, you can rent a car at SeaTac airport, or schedule a ride with the Rocket Shuttle transport to Sequim, WA, or carpool from the airport. If renting or driving your own vehicle from the airport, or from elsewhere, you are asked to share rides once you arrive on the Peninsula. We ask for a limit of three cars traveling in to accommodate participants. We depart together from Crescent Lake location just West of Port Angeles, WA on the first day of the retreat. Our exact meeting location will be announced. Please note that no one drives into, or departs from, the retreat location in the Hoh Rainforest without the group.
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
BOOKS - Required Reading: Please read these two before you arrive and bring the books with you ~ below are the main chapters you'll want to pre-read.
Speaking with Nature
Authors: Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts
Recommended chapters:
Glacial Silt
Mist
Earth Goddess Nunkui
Banana Slug
Elk
Wood Sorrel
Wild Western Hemlock
Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness
Author: Llyn Roberts
Chapters 1, 4, 5, 8
SOUND, IMAGE and other RESOURCES
View beautiful images and listen to the sounds of the Hoh Rainforest and River Valley at One Square Inch
Learn important perspectives about 'quiet' in our wild as well as urban spaces at Quiet Parks International
Check out this book by an inspiring young woman I introduced to the Hoh: The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing by Julia Plevin
HOW TO ORIENT
Open to the Deep Mystery within Nature - and within You!
BE COMFORTABLE WITH STILLNESS AND QUIET - Deeply Listen
BE A MASTER ‘RELAXER’ - Rest, Sleep, Incubate, Dream
BE A MASTER ‘OBSERVER’ - Open Physical and Subtle Senses
BE LIKE A CHILD - Curious, Playful and Open Hearted
REFLECT AND MOVE - Muse, Write, Draw, Play and Wander
SEE FROM THE HEART - Perceive Beauty and Ordinary Magic
MERGE WITH 'SPACE', THE 5TH ELEMENT - Embody 'Being'
REVIEWS
We left linear time, and all technology, to enter sacred time. We slowed down by being in silence while practicing deep listening. We communed with 1,000-year-old conifer trees, hanging moss, bright lichen, and ferns that were easily 5-feet tall. We snacked on huckleberries, salmonberries, thimbleberries (the leaves of which are nature’s toilet paper!). We made note of the tracks left by cougar, bobcat, and elk. We slowed down for banana slugs…walked for miles without seeing a soul and watched the mist settle on the trees at the end of the day. We shared meals together and sat around the fire telling stories under starry night skies. The balance of making time for nature and each other resulted in a feeling of well-being and love. Llyn’s teachings were gentle reminders to be in the magic, the one veiled by everyday busyness, but always available. Christina Burress San Diego, CA. USA
I'm very grateful to have experienced the Hoh Retreat guided by Llyn. It was such a unique opportunity to bond with nature and others in a mystical and beautiful location. My subtle senses were turned on and I accessed new and helpful information. During and after my time in the Hoh, I felt more centered and peaceful than I have in a while. I'm clearer about how I’ve been living, and how I want to live. This vivid and enriching experience is a rare gift that will always be with me. If you're debating whether to go, just dive in. The Hoh's mystery, the spiritual practices, and community will transform you in unexpected ways. Kelly Shaw Chicago, IL. USA
Wild Wisdom Wilderness Retreats are independently arranged and operated. They support OMEC's projects and its mission to encourage a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth - and to honor ancient Earth-honoring wisdom ways.
Retreat Container: Relax into your physical and also your subtle senses, to reconnect - with yourself, spirit, and with nature. To keep this intention at the forefront Wild Wisdom Retreats maintain a substance-free environment with no alcohol, no mind-altering substances, and no smoking or vaping. Participants agree to support each other in an unplugged (daily 'touch-in' option) experience, valuing quiet and stillness - equally to laughter and sharing, to connect with nature and the spirit of the place. We employ simple cleansing rituals that awaken your senses and gentle 'questing' approaches that focus and expand your attention, have 'quiet zones' and incubation time, solo 'sits' as well as circle immersions in pristine locations. We have an outside campfire on every dry weather night (except during fire restrictions), with two evenings devoted to exploring the local lore of the lands. We focus on being in nature in an awake yet ordinary way, which is in itself ceremonial. We enact 'wandering', 'deep listening', and other simple nature-based practices on the Hoh River gravel bar and hike on an easy, as well as an easy-to-moderate trail. There are built in options on this hike, such as staying to commune by the river or to forest bathe, or going further on the trail for those with more desire and vigor. There’s always someone nearby to assist you. Every day and every moment and experience has its own texture and rhythm, and every person is encouraged to honor their own and changing rhythms - taking us individually, and as a group, deeper into relationship with ourselves, each other, with nature and the spiritual aspects of the land and of nature beings. "Living in the Hoh forever changed me (Cedar). Wild Wisdom Retreats in the Hoh River Valley and Rainforest are life-changing for those who hear and answer nature's calling." To date, retreaters have ranged in age from the 20's to 80. Join us!
Lodging: We describe the lodging as ‘varying degrees of pleasantly rustic’. These are safe and inviting, yet, they are very simple and earthy spaces.
1) There is one large cabin with three separate sleeping spaces. 'Cabin-dwellers' will each have a bed to place a sleeping bag upon. The cabin has a large wood stove, a full kitchen (standard sized electric stove with oven and full-sized refrigerator with all dish and cookware) where everyone will store and prepare the food, and eat. and a shared full bathroom. There are no machines to wash your clothes - let go of habituation and think 'simple'!
2) There is a large ‘bunkhouse’ with three wooden platforms topped with thick foam to place your sleeping bag upon. It has an outhouse and a wood-stove. ‘Bunk-housers' also have use of the cabin kitchen and bathroom facilities.
3) Tenting is a welcomed option. There is tenting space near the cabin and you can also tent on the extensive gravel bar of the Hoh River Bed. If you choose to tent, you will still have a cabin or bunkhouse bed reserved for you.
“Cedar” (Llyn) lived in the ‘cabin’ for two years, while she wrote her portion of the Gold Nautilus award-winning book Speaking with Nature. She spent much of her writing time in the ‘hut’. Visitors were lodged in the ‘bunkhouse’.
Water: Fresh, filtered running water from the pure glacial waters of the Hoh River comes out of the tap in the cabin, and fresh well water also runs from an outside spigot.
Food: Participants will consult together before the trip in order to plan the week’s meals and purchase needs and other details. Sharing meals together and preparing favorite home-cooked dishes for the group has become a wonderful part of the bonding experience. You are also welcomed to buy personal food items that you may want to have on hand just for you – and you can also feel free to bring food and home-prepared dishes in with you from home, assuming you live locally.
Weather: Although there are definitely exceptions, the weather is unpredictable. It is typically dry and warm in July, yet there can be rain. June is a transitional month, there will likely be rain. You will want to bring layers to accommodate daytime and evening temperatures, as even in July - although the sun can get very hot in the afternoon it can feel quite chilly at night after the sun sets and the winds pick up. Although summer is considered drought season, again please be prepared for weather extremes including rainstorms, at any time. You will receive a list of clothing and packing suggestions.
Travel and Meet-Up: If flying, you can rent a car at SeaTac airport, or schedule a ride with the Rocket Shuttle transport to Sequim, WA, or carpool from the airport. If renting or driving your own vehicle from the airport, or from elsewhere, you are asked to share rides once you arrive on the Peninsula. We ask for a limit of three cars traveling in to accommodate participants. We depart together from Crescent Lake location just West of Port Angeles, WA on the first day of the retreat. Our exact meeting location will be announced. Please note that no one drives into, or departs from, the retreat location in the Hoh Rainforest without the group.
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
BOOKS - Required Reading: Please read these two before you arrive and bring the books with you ~ below are the main chapters you'll want to pre-read.
Speaking with Nature
Authors: Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts
Recommended chapters:
Glacial Silt
Mist
Earth Goddess Nunkui
Banana Slug
Elk
Wood Sorrel
Wild Western Hemlock
Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness
Author: Llyn Roberts
Chapters 1, 4, 5, 8
SOUND, IMAGE and other RESOURCES
View beautiful images and listen to the sounds of the Hoh Rainforest and River Valley at One Square Inch
Learn important perspectives about 'quiet' in our wild as well as urban spaces at Quiet Parks International
Check out this book by an inspiring young woman I introduced to the Hoh: The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing by Julia Plevin
HOW TO ORIENT
Open to the Deep Mystery within Nature - and within You!
BE COMFORTABLE WITH STILLNESS AND QUIET - Deeply Listen
BE A MASTER ‘RELAXER’ - Rest, Sleep, Incubate, Dream
BE A MASTER ‘OBSERVER’ - Open Physical and Subtle Senses
BE LIKE A CHILD - Curious, Playful and Open Hearted
REFLECT AND MOVE - Muse, Write, Draw, Play and Wander
SEE FROM THE HEART - Perceive Beauty and Ordinary Magic
MERGE WITH 'SPACE', THE 5TH ELEMENT - Embody 'Being'
REVIEWS
We left linear time, and all technology, to enter sacred time. We slowed down by being in silence while practicing deep listening. We communed with 1,000-year-old conifer trees, hanging moss, bright lichen, and ferns that were easily 5-feet tall. We snacked on huckleberries, salmonberries, thimbleberries (the leaves of which are nature’s toilet paper!). We made note of the tracks left by cougar, bobcat, and elk. We slowed down for banana slugs…walked for miles without seeing a soul and watched the mist settle on the trees at the end of the day. We shared meals together and sat around the fire telling stories under starry night skies. The balance of making time for nature and each other resulted in a feeling of well-being and love. Llyn’s teachings were gentle reminders to be in the magic, the one veiled by everyday busyness, but always available. Christina Burress San Diego, CA. USA
I'm very grateful to have experienced the Hoh Retreat guided by Llyn. It was such a unique opportunity to bond with nature and others in a mystical and beautiful location. My subtle senses were turned on and I accessed new and helpful information. During and after my time in the Hoh, I felt more centered and peaceful than I have in a while. I'm clearer about how I’ve been living, and how I want to live. This vivid and enriching experience is a rare gift that will always be with me. If you're debating whether to go, just dive in. The Hoh's mystery, the spiritual practices, and community will transform you in unexpected ways. Kelly Shaw Chicago, IL. USA
Wild Wisdom Wilderness Retreats are independently arranged and operated. They support OMEC's projects and its mission to encourage a sacred and responsible relationship with the Earth - and to honor ancient Earth-honoring wisdom ways.
