Your Year-long Seasonal Rewilding Journey
Commit to a soul journey through the whole wheel of the year! Every season that we move through throughout the year has tremendous potential and meaning for our soul formation. In the Wild Seasons rewilding courses, you will be companioned around the calendar of the year, deepening into the ways the more-than-human world resources you and expresses aspects of the Sacred Wild. The Wild Seasons Series will reconnect you to the much-needed personal and collective response in tending to the Earth as a spiritual expression and practice.
The Wild Seasons series bundles together the four rewilding courses of Wild Winter, Wild Spring, Wild Summer, and Wild Autumn. With the Wild Seasons investment, you will receive 60 professionally produced instructional videos that will offer theoretical and expert practical teachings on surveyed topics such as:
Sacred Biomimicry
Spiritual Ecology
Creation Spirituality
Christian Animism
Sacred Bioregionalism
Applied Mythology
Somatic Ecology
and so much more!
“As I journeyed around the Rewilding Wheel and through the Wild Seasons with Mary, I was able to connect my deep love of creation with my faith. By learning about spiritual ecology and participating in nature based spiritual practices, I rediscovered my own wild self and my interconnectedness with the more than human world. I gained new appreciation for water, earth, and the Creator’s breath in myself and all created things. Now I am beginning the journey again, feeling my roots sink in even deeper, as I learn how my gifts can weave into this wild and beautiful world.”
You will also be introduced to rituals and prayers that can be folded into your own faith and spiritual practices to reconnect to a transformational sacramental worldview. You will be taught how to create your own ceremonies and rituals that are connected to your local bioregion as well as our cosmic ecology. The Wild Seasons series provides you with over 100 pages of downloadable PDF material that contain:
Soul-centric meditations
Spiritual formation reflections
Sacred Phenology practices
12 Moon Phase meditations and rituals
Earth-centered ceremonies
and more!
“I have always felt deeply connected to each of the seasons, and getting outside, and connecting with the wilderness, mostly in a national forest, and more recently in our local greenspace! Now that I’ve experienced the full Wild Seasons course I am grateful for the added perspective and references for interacting with each season, where I find it. Thanks again for helping me to understand differently, and make new connections with the wild outside my door.”
Who is this for?
Spiritual seekers who want to connect their path to Earth wisdom
Environmental activists who want to strengthen the sacramentality of their work
Healers who desire earth-based modalities of connection
Mystics who yearn for new experiences of Divine Mystery within their bioregional context
Artists and creatives who want to explore the inspiration of the elements
Teachers and guides in need of Earth-based spiritual guidance
Curious individuals who want to deepen into practices that will connect them to their lineage and land-locatedness
There is a deep yearning to reconnect our faith to the ground beneath our feet. By going through the Wild Seasons Series, you will come away with a profound sense of your belonging and the sacred meaning of your emplacement.
The Wild Seasons Series is a response to the reality that our Western spiritual and faith traditions must realign with ancient understandings that the Holy is here, that our planet is a primary incarnation of the Divine
Buy the Wild Seasons series bundle and save $100 on all four courses!
Total investment is $400.00!
“Mary De Jong’s work in the Wild Seasons, deeply resonates in every corner of myself - mind, body and spirit, and moves out in ripples across my community as I share her work. I am grateful she re-members we as people, to be nature, along with the land, sky, sea and creatures. Her gift is to bring all together in an inclusive circle: challenging dualism and its extractive mind-set, and at the same time, supporting life through ever-widening connection.”
4 Seasonal Rewilding Courses
Wild Winter
Take a seasonal journey into the sacred dark this Winter.
Wild Spring
Take a seasonal journey into the mythic forest this Spring.
Wild Summer
Take a seasonal journey beyond the garden gates this Summer.
Wild Autumn
Take a seasonal journey into the wild waters of your watershed this Autumn.
Wild Seasons Course Overview
Wild Seasons helps you recover the ability to read the ancient script of nature found within the wheel of the year. How do the seasons speak to you? What can we learn when we lean in and listen to the conversation between the sacred energies of the cardinal directions West and the elements? How is our soul’s journey activated when we ground our spiritual formation in a place, learning to once again listen to the wisdom that is imminent within our particular bioregions? Through the application of a sacramental and animistic worldview, we recover the ability to read the seasons and elements as sacred script.
Wild Seasons invites you to the integral the work of recovering a worldview that sees the seasons, and all of the natural world, as part and parcel to the health and flourishing of our human and community health. Rewilding Practices are offered that will awaken dormant spiritual lives, stimulating roots of interconnection between our selves, the Sacred, and the more-than-human world.
Wild Seasons offers you 60 professionally produced modules via the on-line course platform, Teachable. You will come away with the felt sense of being out in the wilds the mountains, forests, and watersheds; and in contrast, the domesticated domain of gates and gardens. You will explore the sacred and archetypal bioregional features that are interconnected to the seasonal round of the Wheel of the Year. Modules contain segments that will guide you through quadrated seasonal learnings that will see the particular season as Teacher, the element as Guide, the cardinal direction as your personal Prayer-mat, and explore the Sacred Landscape of your personal bioregion.
Wild Seasons offers theological and theoretical teachings around Eco-spirituality, Christian Animism, Sacred Biomimicry, Earth Centered Spirituality, Celtic Spirituality, Watershed Theology, Somatic Ecology, Soul Rewilding, Applied Mythology and the re-enchantment of the world within the Christ tradition as frameworks for this work of recovering our heritage of experiencing the world as an enchanted and holy place. You will be provided with reflection questions and personal application prompts to deepen your experience within the course content, offering you creative challenges to help live the teachings. You will have access to a supportive community where you can discuss course content and join in themed conversations on a private platform with others on the journey.
Wild Seasons is a self-paced study, on-demand journey, one to which you can return throughout the whole round of the year and in years to come. See this as a virtual retreat space where you can tap in to ground into the mysteries of the season and come away renewed and refreshed. You can join this offering and begin working with it at any time; you’ll have access to your material for the lifetime of the Teachable website.
Wild Seasons aligns with the content of Waymarkers’ Rewilding Retreat programs, a Whidbey Institute offering that has historically been offered in the legacy forests of a small Pacific Northwest island buttressed by the Salish Sea. Now, no matter where you are, you can rise rooted within this earth-based stream of spirituality!
Purchased and delivered through Teachable.com | Wild Seasons is non-fundable based on the nature of this on-line course.
Your Guide
Mary DeJong is a spiritual ecologist, ecotheologian, wild soul guide, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of "rewilding" and has instructed other spiritual directors and companions through Spiritual Directors International. Mary facilitates retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the natural world. She has studied and practiced within the Celtic Christian spiritual tradition, her own maternal line heritage, for over twenty years, and is influenced by the lives of Celtic saints, and the lands that guided them.
Mary's theoretical and praxis focus within deep ecology, ecotheology, ecopsychology and specialization in Thomas Berry's Universe Story delves into why place matters, the sacramentality of creation, and how together this informs the development of our ecological self. Mary terms this work “sacred eco-awakening” and sees this as a critical and holy endeavor as it allows us to come to grievous terms of our human history and to posture ourselves once again side-by-side with the whole of creation.
Says Mary: "I help people recover ancient, seasonal wisdom to cultivate psycho-spiritual soul formation and sustenance in our modern lives without fear of losing the wisdom within their religious or spiritual tradition. Wild Autumn is a part of the Wild Seasons course series that aims to guide one through the spiritual wisdom that resides within the cyclical seasons of the year. It is far time we reconnect to a sacramental worldview that understands that our spiritual practices and the sacred earth are aligned.”
What are Wild Seasons Students Saying?
“I appreciate Mary’s passion for life and ecology and the beautiful world we share.”
— A.J.
“Mary’s guidance is in tune with seasonal, political, and ecological realities, calling me to listen, engage, and respond in transformative and meaningful ways. ”
— R.B.
“I appreciate Mary’s enthusiasm for her [teaching], and the emphasis on the natural world as such an important teacher of spirituality. I appreciate the practices she offers and the richness of the material she has provided as additional resources.”
— M.P.”