Return to the
magic and the mythic
in everyday life...
Join us as we gather around powerful stories that lead us back to our intuition, wildness, and self-belonging.
“Within us is the old one who collects bones. Within us there are the soul-bones of this wild Self. Within us is the potential to be fleshed out again as the creature we once were. Within us are the bones to change ourselves and our world.
Within us is the breath and our truths and our longings – together they are the song, the creation hymn we have been yearning to sing.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In this course we dive into the realms of the Wild.
We gather around stories that guides us as we learn to re-wild our lives.
Within the container of a small circle we witness and encourage each other as we unlearn and shed the ways of being and knowing that have kept us too small, too tame, too obedient.
Taking up the book Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes in our hands, we hold it like a lantern as we roam into the wild places.
This course is a ceremony of gathering bones – that is, we gather the visions we have buried, the words that have been silenced and petrified like stones in our mouths, the wild gestures that have been violently domesticated, the parts of us that have been cornered into being good while giving up our knowing and sovereignty.
We gather these bones and we sing to them.
We sing with our attention, with our devotion, with our openness to see and to understand. As we sing, the bones are fleshed out – the lost is found, the forgotten is remembered.
To sing is to uncover, name, and love. To sing is to attend to those lost ones, to devote ourselves to our own homecoming and belonging.
This course might be for you if you:
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Desire to slow down and listen deeply to your own life
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Want a safe community to explore these realms with
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Long for a truer way of being in your life but don’t know how
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Want to cultivate trust in your own knowing and intuition
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Feel tired of the status quo and aware of the bullshit messages of the patriarchy but don’t know what the other options are for how to live a life that makes more sense
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Want more myths, stories, symbols, and imagination in your life
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Long for a more creative, handmade life
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Feel like you are spinning and trying to keep everything going and everyone happy, but you find yourself wanting more ~ more depth and spiritual meaning but you are too overwhelmed to know where to start
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Feel unrest and longing and but don’t know what it means or what to do about it
"To say that my time in Gathering Bones changed me, would be a massive understatement. It shifted my consciousness, expanded my inner knowing, and tuned me into myself in unshakeable ways. I now feel a deeper connection to soul, to my discernment; that place within the deepest corners of me that cannot nor should ever be ignored. The way that Vanya weaves sacred space, leads ritual, and guides this heavy, but imperative work, is truly remarkable. It is emotionally stirring and worth every moment. I am looking forward to running back to this pack of wolves someday for another workshop."
Hallie O.
This course will help you...
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Return to parts of yourself and your experience that have been forgotten, buried, or injured so that you can experience more inner friendship, self-belonging, and freedom
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Remember what you are made of and what you belong to so you can return to your wild and cyclical nature without apology
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Connect your inner world with your outer world so you can feel like you are not hiding an unlived life
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Learn to listen deeply to your own knowing and intuition so you can create a life that makes sense for you, one with more meaning and depth
What to expect during our gatherings:
During our gatherings, we explore myths, stories, themes, and images within a kind and loving community.
We start each gathering with a grounding meditation, paying attention to our breath and spending a little time arriving and creating space together, and we always end the gatherings with a grounding meditation again.
Then during each session we gather around a story from Women Who Runs With the Wolves. I tell the story and then we dive into its mythic wisdom and ancient medicine together.
The gatherings include storytelling and teaching, open discussion and exploring the themes together, and engaging in some practices that helps us deepen into what is coming up for each of us (like dream tending!).
This course includes:
12 Monthly Story Sessions
Together we create an intimate container where we can dive deep into the stories and themes, unearth lost parts of ourselves, and bring them back into belonging. We will follow the seminal book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, into the realm of the wild. Through stories like Vasalisa, The Handless Maiden, and Bluebeard we will explore themes like intuition, power, and self-belonging and much more. This is an opportunity not only to know these particular stories, but also to develop a mythic sensibility so that we can learn to see our lives and world through the mythic imagination and return that sense of magic, metaphor, and myth to our everyday live.
Mini-Dream Tending Course
Getting to know the dreams that visit us while we sleep is a powerful way of returning to the deep wisdom and guidance of the mythic imagination. As part of this course, you will receive a pre-recorded dream tending course to help you befriend these wild friends that offer us so much wild wisdom
Weekly "Coffee Time" Q & A
Once a week you will have the option of joining the community for a relaxed conversational space where we can explore questions and related experiences that have been coming up during the month. This will give us an opportunity to stay connected and continue to deepen into the work together between sessions
You will also receive access to the
Belonging to the Wild Community
an ongoing community that includes:
Weekly Monday Morning Circle
We begin each week with a pause. As we prepare to step into the current of culture we take a few moments to listen and attune to our deeper wilder lives. We do a grounding meditation, reflect around a poem, theme, or story and then leave with a question for the week.
Monthly Dream Circle
Once a month we gather to share and explore our dreams together. As we do this we build community, strengthen our ability to befriend the dreams and learn their wisdom, and also cultivate our mythic sensibilities together so that we can be more connected to the myth and magic in everyday life.
Private Online Space for the Community
This is a private space dedicated to the community of like hearted folks. There you can connect with others on this path and share your experiences as well.
When
Monthly Story Gatherings:
Sundays at 9 am pacific
Weekly Coffee Time Q & A:
Thursdays at 8 am pacific
Weekly Community Meditation:
Mondays at 10 am pacific
Monthly Community Dream Circle
Mondays at 9 am pacific
Where
Our gatherings are all virtual.
They are always live and only the dream course is pre-recorded.
Want to join us?
The next cohort starts in September!
If you are interested, please join the waitlist and you will be the first to know when enrollment doors open.
“Vanya is a rare breed! Her vast knowledge is shared with humility and deep compassion, not just for the work in which she is so clearly inspired by, but for all of those souls fortunate enough to meet with her along their own journey back to the self. I thoroughly enjoyed my workshop experience with her and look forward to attending many more in the future.”
Candice