Wild Moons
Girls Rites of Passage
Rites of passage
A rite of passage honors a time of transition. In life, we move through endless rites of passage, some more immersive than others, yet all just as impactful. Pouring intention into a rite of passage ritual can be meaningful as we navigate the different seasons of life. It creates a container for crossing new threshold, a shift in one’s existence. It affirms the continuation of life's journey with a change in one’s step and breath. Rites of passage honor entering and moving through passages of life, allowing space for transmutation. Someone may choose to have a rites of passage for a personal transformation in their life, or at a time when there is a common variable in life. In Wild Moons, we feel both are true. Each participant has a unique experience, story, and transformation taking place. At the same time, our age group is for girls entering adolescence, thus we honor this threshold crossing in both personal and communal ways.
4 Core Elements
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Sisterhood
Sisterhood is a sacred connection between females. This connection holds such potent medicine. It’s a gift to trust, uplift, and grow with one another. Building sisterhood in adolescents creates a foundation of community to carry within. As young girls, we weave a web to hold each other in love and trust, building the foundation of community to nurture within. Often challenges can harm the beauty of sisterhood, and we believe it’s essential to facilitate a space where adolescent girls can come together and learn to support, surrender to, and uplift one another. Sisterhood reaches to the depths of your soul, carrying profound love and joy.
Joy
Joy is the expression of life moving through you. Tapping into the various ways, we can excess joy breathes life into expression. Joy can always be found within oneself. Arts, crafts, movement, exploration, and play are all simple modalities to connect with joy. Finding what lights up your soul and makes you feel alive is the essence of joy.
Authentic Self Expression
Joy weaves into authentic self-expression, finding what makes you feel alive and deepening into it. Finding what speaks to your soul and moves you from the inside out. By tapping into oneself and finding what sparks the fire within, we can embody our authentic way of being. As we move through life, our genuine expressions may shift. Recognizing the essence of what drives us to express ourselves will open up the portal to fully embodying our most unique and radiant selves.
Rewilding
Inherently we are of this earth. The roots of our being stem from the elements of the earth. We are made of water, fire, air, earth, and stardust. When we can drop into our bodies, our hearts beat to reconnect with our essence, raw and wild. Connecting with nature reminds us of ourselves and brings us from the mind into our bodies.
Basic Schedule Outline
(slight adjustments as necessary)
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Thursday 7/27
Arrival and time to settle in
Welcome circle
Dinner
Evening Circle
Friday 7/28
Morning meditation and movement
Breakfast
Morning activity: Blindfoldwalk and Animal Game
Free time: crafts, read, journal
Lunch
Evening activity: Paint flower pots and cyclical living workshop
Dinner
Evening circle
Saturday 7/29
Morning meditation and movement
Breakfast
Morning activity: Setting the container for rites of passage and sacred sticks
Lunch
Evening activity: Solo sit and returning ceremony
Dinner
Evening circle
Sunday 7/30
Morning meditation and movement
Breakfast
Morning activity: Morning hike and closing ceremony
Potluck and celebration with family
Pack up and return home!
When: July 27th- 30th
If you are interested in this offering and want to gather a group of young women, we are happy to travel and offer our rites of passage depending on circumstance.
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Where: Mystic Springs (BZ Corner/ White Salmon)
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Investment: $300-$600 sliding scale.
We understand that while this is a valuable experience for families, it is not always accessible. We have calculated approximately 300$ will cover our basic costs. Of course, if more people signup the less this cost becomes. If this is truly inaccessible and it is something you and your child would really value, please reach out to discuss more.
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Who: 11-14 year old girls
Exceptions on both ends depending. Please reach out about this.
Haley currently lives nestled among the mountains in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. She is passionate about sharing what lights up her heart with others. She finds joy in immersing herself in the natural world, creative arts, dance, yoga, mountain biking, backpacking, mindfulness, and herbalism. Her upbringing in a Waldorf school provided her with an appreciation for nature and the arts, which influenced her choice to study Psychology and Adventure Education at Prescott College. She aims to instill a sense of curiosity in people for the natural world and themselves. Through her experience leading youth on outdoor expeditions and helping young girls connect with themselves, each other, and nature, Haley has learned the importance of helping others discover their inner strength and potential. Her background in yoga, mindfulness, and dance motivates her to guide others in intentional and empowering movement practices.
About the Facilitators
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Haley Congistre
Savannah grew up among the Redwoods and Oaks of Northern California. She went to a Waldorf School from 1-12th grade and later taught in Waldorf education. She studied Adventure Education and Environmental Studies at Prescott College getting her bachelors in Sustainable Community Development. She has attended and worked at a number of Outdoor Schools including Kroka Expeditions, Headwaters Outdoor School, and Women’s Wilderness. She has worked with youth in the backcountry for the last five years. While her background is in outdoor education, her heart is in the waking of wildness into the everyday life of each and every one of us. She loves working with youth as she feels they are our teachers and are born with the wisdom of the universe. She sees her role as teacher, birthkeeper, songwriter, and earth-lover is to hold the space and structure as needed for transformation and growth to organically unfold.
Savannah Clancy
A note from both of us:
We grew up together. We have gone through so many seasons of friendship over the years. This offering is born from both our experience growing up and remembering what we needed coming into our adolescence, as well as from our later experience working with youth in the outdoors. We are so excited to be creating and offering this together. Here are some photos of our own rewilding, sisterhood journey that has lead us on a powerful and transformational path.
The four elements of a rite of passage are preparation, threshold, crossing that threshold, and integration. Over our three nights together, we will be incorporating each of these elements. Each person will come with their own personal journey that they want to honor. This will be the focus of the rite of passage on a personal level. While we will acknowledge, discuss, and welcome adolescents, this is not our main focus in the ceremony. By focusing on our personal thresholds, we are creating community and trust between women. Through sharing, stories, and common experiences, we welcome adolescence in a way that does not feel scary and isolating, but instead organic and communal. Our intention is to honor this time in each girl's life while creating a foundation of sisterhood and stories to support them into the next phase of their life.