Wild Summer |

Your Sacred Seasonal Rewilding Journey

Wild Summer is a part of the Wild Seasons series, a quarterly virtual offering that reflects the teaching and practices I guide people through at the seasonal Rewilding Retreats that I convene at The Whidbey Institute on Whidbey Island, WA. These retreats have held the intention of supporting others in recovering the wisdom found within the wild. In response to Covid, I was challenged to imagine other ways to offer my teaching and practices.

Now, through a wonderful partnership with a creative production team, I am able to offer you Wild Summer and the other Wild Seasons courses where you will learn and practice seasonal rhythms and rituals to connect to Sacred Guidance through the natural world to grow an earthen and elemental guidance.

Here you will expand your sense of rootedness and belonging to a place through the practice of the Rewilding Wheel, a sacred wheel circuit, influenced by Celtic spirituality and indigenous wisdom traditions, and designed to cultivate seasonal practices and disciplines that nurture a conscious and inspired relationship with the earth, the elements, and the divine. You will come away with grounded theory and routine, regular, and repeated rhythms and rituals that honor and connect with Earth's seasons and elements as a way to recover your sense of your own Wild Self and the Sacred in the very real soil of your daily existence!

Curriculum

Within the Wild Summer curriculum, you will be offered both theories and practices so that you can begin to form your own eco-praxis. Theories that are surveyed in the Wild Summer course include Ecotheology, Eco-Feminist Theology, Deep Ecology, Somatic Ecology, and Sacred Nature Connection. You will receive access to five modules with 15 segments of beautifully filmed and produced teaching; application and reflection questions; deepening materials; practices to engage an earth-based spiritual practice; and inclusion into a community of other practitioners where you can be inspired and share ideas.

This is a trauma-informed offering.

Module One: Summer As Teacher

Segments include:
Rewilding Wheel of the Year;
Summer as Season;
Summer: Hildegard | Finding Grace in the Garden

Module Two: South as Prayer Mat

Segments include:
Sacred Directions;
Wisdom Within the South;
Praying with the Earth | Calling in the Directions Garden Blessing Stick

Module Three: Earth as Guide

Segments include:
Elemental Remembering;
Earth as Guide | Getting to Know Gaia;
Rewilding Practice | Earth as Sacrament

Module Four: Garden— Landscapes of the Sacred

Segments include:
Landscapes of the Sacred-Somatic Ecology;
the Sacred Bioregion of the Garden;
Rewilding Practice | Delight & Discipline

Module Five: The Mythological Journey

Segments include:
The Post-Heroic Round | The Journey of Exile;
The Double Descent | Nourishment in the Underworld;
Restorying Your Life | Courting the Wild One One Home

Bonus Material:

Full Moon Wheel Practices and Lunar Leading Wisdom for Wild Summer’s Full Moons:
Strawberry Moon, Buck Moon, and Sturgeon Moon.

Extensive and curated bibliography on the topics of Ecotheology, Eco-womanist Theology, Sacred Nature Connection, and Rewilding as a soul practice.

Register for

Wild Summer | Your Sacred Seasonal Rewilding Journey

Your investment in this soulful journey is $125.00.

Purchased and delivered through Teachable.com.

Wild Summer 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.