What would it feel like to trust yourself? To have full faith that when you turn inward, you have the wisdom and guidance to know your purpose and the path that brings you closer?
We’ve been taught to look outside of ourselves, to believe that the answers lie out there.
Someone else knows more, knows better. Their way is the way.
So you follow their process, live by their rules, and build the life that you were told you should want.
But that life has left you with an emptiness you can’t describe, an emptiness that is constantly seeking to be filled. And an unyielding longing for a truth and a purpose that feels intimately, undeniably, yours.
There is a remembering stirring in you…a truth that wants to be reclaimed, an innocence that wants to be re-enchanted, a knowing that was never actually lost, just drowned out by the promise of a clear path.
And you are standing at the threshold, being invited to cross it.
you were never separate.
You were always home.
You can feel the shift already happening in the way your old life doesn’t fit anymore. You can’t unknow what you know. You can’t go back to pretending.
You’re tired of performing and proving. Tired of making yourself small to fit into a life that was never really yours.
The longing won’t disappear, even if you try to ignore it.
It will wake you at 3am and whisper there has to be more than this. It will continue to ask, first quietly, then insistently, what if you trusted yourself?
You’ve done all the "self-help" and learned your patterns, and yet, there is still a gap between the life you are living and the one you know is possible.
A gap between who you've had to be are and who you truly are.
You want more than awareness - you want embodiment. You’re ready for closure, to cross the threshold and start living the way that feels true -
to stop looking for answers out there and start trusting what lives inside of you, in your body, your intuition.
In the knowing that life is meant to be rich, deep, and beautiful.
When we return to our authentic self, to the grounded wisdom of a life lived at a slower pace - rooted in connection, community, and harmony with nature - we reclaim our joy, our creativity, and a life full of beauty and meaning.
when life doesn't seem to "fit" anymore...
As women, we are the embodiment of nature - the cyclical rhythm of life and death and rebirth. Simply to exist is to be in ceremony.
But to be intentional with our existence, to live close to the land and her wisdom, to be intimate in our connection with Earth, our bodies, and other women - that is is our true nature.
To remember our Sacred Wild is to reclaim our birthright as the wisdom keepers and ceremonialists - to bring our truth forward into this world.
During our weekend, we will gather in ceremony to remember the elements within us -
while also reclaiming our ancestral practices of storytelling, song, dance, and ritual.
AIR
our breath, stories, and ability to shift perspectives
FIRE
our soul fire, passion, and creative life force
WATER
our emotions, nourishment, and ability to flow and surrender
EARTH
our embodied wisdom, grounded truth, our soul home
remembering ceremony
meet your facilitators
Emily Galligan
We met in 2023 on a retreat in Maine.
Of all the women in the tent - we looked at each other and both felt incredibly intimidated.
Slowly we warmed up to each other.
Tina commented on Emily's pants (which she now owns), and Emily finally admitted that she couldn't remember Tina's name because it just didn't feel right.
Clearly there was something between us that began much longer ago than 2023...
tina Melendez
Though we live far apart (Tina in Maryland and Emily in Massachusetts), we still make an annual trip to see each other.
Mostly it involves screaming in the woods, sitting in ceremony, and lots of oracle cards.
Then one day in 2025 we randomly bought the same book with the words "Sacred Wild" in the title and while we laughed about the coincidence via text,
we both knew it held deeper meaning -
that it was time to return to the woods,
but this time - to gather the women.
Emily galligan
My grandmother always told me "Whatever it is you want to do with your life, you're already doing it." So when I decided to get my Master's degree in Environmental Education, it wasn't because I wanted to teach, it was because I remembered my days as a young girl - nestling myself in the branches of a crabapple, singing to the salamanders in my backyard stream, weaving wildflower crowns into my unruly blonde tangles.
Somewhere along the way that unruly girl tried to make sense of the world in straight lines and well-laid paths and ascending ladders. But no matter how hard I tried, I always found myself seeking the sacred wild.
I've traveled all around the world in search of the great mystery - and it has always led me back home to my roots: the earth, my body, and the wisdom within.
I am a certified womb circle facilitator and rites of passage mentor. My work is deeply rooted in earth-based spirituality and somatic processing.
women's wisdom & earth magick
tina Melendez hamilton
intuitive guide, shadow walker, reiki healer
I grew up in a home that valued obedience and productivity over independence and intuition. To be alive meant serving others while ignoring the deep knowing that life was meant for something greater.
I willfully silenced the resistance in my body and fell in line, performing a life I was told I wanted in hopes that someone would rescue me. That someone else would give me the permission I sought to build the life of my dreams.
No one ever came for me.
Instead, I came face to face with my demons. Where I thought I would die, I found hope. I found faith in myself and learned to trust my inner knowing and deepest desires as the breadcrumbs I needed to bring me home.
And now, I work at the intersection of shadow integration, ancestral wisdom, and body-based intuition, to invite women to stop performing transformation and instead, embody it.
I lead shadow work containers, co-facilitate women’s circles, and host the Wounds to Wisdom podcast. But what I’m really doing is holding space for women who are tired of searching and ready to come home to themselves.
about the retreat
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Four days/ three nights in a shared yurt or cabin
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Three nourishing meals per day, plus tea and snacks
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Daily Sacred Connection Ceremony & Rituals
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One group wood-fired sauna session
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Access to hiking trails on 33 acres. Enjoy views of the nearby White Mountain National Forest and a beautiful spring-fed mountain brook
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Pre-retreat welcome call – Drop into the collective field before the retreat begins – a space to gently introduce yourself, share intentions, and begin weaving the circle together
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Post-retreat integration call – After we return home, we’ll gather once more in a virtual circle. This integration call gives you space to reflect, reconnect, and continue weaving the wisdom of the retreat into your everyday life
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A community of soul-led, heart centered women
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A guide of rituals you can take home and customize
what's included
what's not included
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Travel costs
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Travel insurance
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Any optional add-ons
optional add-ons*
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60 min Energy Healing with Tina ~ $111
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A combination of Reiki, intuitive healing and oracle channeling, this session will help you move through energetic blocks and restore balance and clarity.
Great for those who are at a threshold and need to release their grip on old wounds, stories and patterns.
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75 min Earth Body Alignment session with Emily ~ $144
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Identify your primary element and experience a guided, custom ritual to reconnect you to emotional sovereignty, grounded truth and personal power.
Great for rites of passage, embracing change, stepping into new chapters, and reclaiming childhood joy.
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*To be schedule outside of the retreat dates. Great for post-retreat integration.
A green certified eco-retreat
The retreat will be held at Nurture Through Nature, an eco-retreat center in the beautiful forests of western Maine.
Unplug from the hustle and bustle of daily life and and drop in to the grounding rhythm of nature with the mountain stream and trees as your backdrop.
You’ll stay in shared off-grid yurts and cabins nestled in the woods. Think glamping, not luxury lodge. Each one is cozy, simple, and immersed in nature. This is part of what makes the retreat so special: you get to unplug and reconnect to your natural pace again.
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WHAT YOU'LL TAKE HOME
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A deeper connection with nature, your body, voice, and intuition
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A re-enchantment with Mother Earth - an embodied life of wonder and joy
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Tools for creating ceremony in your life and community
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Sacred sound and song practices to use in your personal rituals and help you reclaim your voice
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All the beauty captured in images
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A community of heart centered women
A gift no other can give you...
what other women are saying...
"These women have both healed me in different ways, giving me back parts of myself I didn't know I had lost. I can't wait to be in the same space with them again!"
"Emily is the wisest person I have ever met and her presence is so nurturing. I've never felt so connected to my body before."
"Tina is an incredibly intuitive energy healer with the ability to tap into a group's consciousness and provide them an experience tailored for their specific growth needs."