Wild wisdom RETREATS
with llyn cedar roberts
Forest bathing and nature immersion
Photos and video: Mitch Mattraw
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WILD WISDOM RETREATS
2019 Aug 12-17 (filled) Sept 9 - 14 (filled) 2020 June 15-20 (7 spaces) July 13-18 (8 spaces) Aug 17-22 (filled) Sept 14-19 (8 spaces) |
HOH RIVER VALLEY and RAINFOREST RETREAT ~
Forest Bathing and 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. View retreat details below. Register at: llynroberts@gmail.com Open to nature's healing forces! |
Llyn "Cedar" Roberts, MA
With Rob Murphy and Special Guests
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”.
In this life-changing nature immersion and forest bathing experience, 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.
With Rob Murphy and Special Guests
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”.
In this life-changing nature immersion and forest bathing experience, 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 eight (8) participants, to ensure an intimate experience. To register, send an email to Llyn Cedar Roberts at: llynroberts@gmail.com
Exchange: $900* per person fee includes facilitation and five (5) nights accommodation. A non-refundable lodging deposit of $300 reserves your place. Space is limited to a maximum of eight registrants. *Price includes facilitation and accommodation and does NOT include transportation or food. Thank you for offering up to a sliding scale of $1200, according to your means.
Exchange: $900* per person fee includes facilitation and five (5) nights accommodation. A non-refundable lodging deposit of $300 reserves your place. Space is limited to a maximum of eight registrants. *Price includes facilitation and accommodation and does NOT include transportation or food. Thank you for offering up to a sliding scale of $1200, according to your means.
Llyn Cedar Roberts, MA
Creator and facilitator of the Wild Wisdom Hoh 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 21 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.
WILD WISDOM RETREAT TEAM
Rob Murphy
Rob Murphy 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 vice president of the OMEC board of directors and is the project director for the Olympic Peninsula Johnny Moses Projects. Rob is a master tender of sacred fires and will support every aspect of your experience as he holds the sacred container for the Hoh trips, with Llyn.
Mitch Mattraw
Mitch Mattraw is a Sacred Travel Team member for the annual Guatemala trip and assistant and media director for the Wild Wisdom Retreats in the Hoh Rainforest, with Llyn Cedar Roberts. He is the applauded wedding videographer of cabfare productions in the Pacific Northwest, known for his wholly original style. As an independent filmmaker of many years, he 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. As an avid outdoorsman who honors the Earth and feels at home in the Olympic Mountains and the Hoh Rainforest, Mitch is a great resource and support person for our retreats. He is partnered with Llyn in their home life.
Marlene and Monty Davis
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.
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Llyn Cedar Roberts is partnered 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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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 learning about 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. (Cedar) Living in the Hoh forever changed me. 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) There is a small ‘hut’ with two sleeping options – two wooden platforms topped with thick foam pads you can place your sleeping bag upon. It has an outhouse and a small wood-stove. ‘Hut-ties' also have use of the cabin kitchen and bathroom facilities.
4) 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 bed reserved for you.
“Cedar” (Llyn) lived in the ‘cabin’ for two years, while she wrote her half 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 also runs from an outside spigot. Additionally, there is well water available.
Food: Participants will consult together before the trip, assisted by Rob, 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 typically dry and warm in the summer months. June and September are more unpredictable, and can bring rain. You will want to bring layers to accommodate daytime and evening temperatures, as even in the summer months - 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, 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 a TBD Sequim, WA location on the first day of the retreat. No one drives into, or departs from, the retreat location without the group.
Contact Cedar at llynroberts@gmail.com for more details, to register, or to arrange for a private group experience. 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 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'
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 learning about 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. (Cedar) Living in the Hoh forever changed me. 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) There is a small ‘hut’ with two sleeping options – two wooden platforms topped with thick foam pads you can place your sleeping bag upon. It has an outhouse and a small wood-stove. ‘Hut-ties' also have use of the cabin kitchen and bathroom facilities.
4) 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 bed reserved for you.
“Cedar” (Llyn) lived in the ‘cabin’ for two years, while she wrote her half 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 also runs from an outside spigot. Additionally, there is well water available.
Food: Participants will consult together before the trip, assisted by Rob, 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 typically dry and warm in the summer months. June and September are more unpredictable, and can bring rain. You will want to bring layers to accommodate daytime and evening temperatures, as even in the summer months - 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, 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 a TBD Sequim, WA location on the first day of the retreat. No one drives into, or departs from, the retreat location without the group.
Contact Cedar at llynroberts@gmail.com for more details, to register, or to arrange for a private group experience. 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 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'
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.
