The True Story behind Rewild Your Soul Retreats
When I was younger I had a very closed mind and grew up in a small farm down in Pennsylvania, where there wasn’t much potential to grow. I practically raised myself in a broken home, when I was 13 I battled depression, not thinking that there was any hope in life. At this time, my Aunt Maureen, brought me on my first flight and first adventure to Italy. I didn’t know it then, but this trip would save and change my life’s trajectory, we enjoyed unique culture, travel to ancient sites, to oceans and cities, ate the most incredible food and my eyes were opened to possibility, hope and adventure.
In 2013, I traveled around the world and had another transformation. I went to Kenya, Africa to complete my first ever yoga teacher training as a “Seva” (selfless) service project. I woke up at 5am and learned the teachings with 125 other people from around the globe and then we would go and work with different groups as part of our selfless service to the community. We went to prisons, orphanages, to special homes with children who were deaf, to tiny communities and we built a school in Kibera, the largest slum in all of Africa. This experience made me want to share the world with who ever I taught. As a new teacher, I felt under qualified to do so and began to teach yoga in Pennsylvania, Australia, Indonesia and then eventually in California.
In 2020, I moved to Mexico, I did a lot of healing in the 9 months that I was there. I worked with Mexican shamans, I practiced yoga for hours every day, I went to cacao ceremonies, experienced Janzu, breathwork and felt I had healed a lot of trauma that I had been holding onto for years. While I was there, I worked at a retreat center and felt so connected and aligned. After teaching and helping to guide retreats, I branched off on my own. Though this was slightly different due to lockdowns, I held my first ever 3 day “ONLINE” yoga retreat and I saw the impact that intentional practices left on my community and I knew that I had to get people out of their homes and into themselves through culturally immersive experiences, and dedicated uninterrupted time to healing.
Fast forward to 2021, I returned to Tahoe, and found myself in a women’s no-pressure singing group. One of the songs talked about rewilding our souls, through nature and I instantly started crying. It became my muse, as I created my first ever retreat in Mexico.
The name came to me when I meditated on what I should call my second in person retreat, that was located in the same town in Mexico where I had my healing journey.
When we rewild ourselves, what we are doing is taking a restoration back to a natural state through re-enchantment with the natural world, a re-awakening of our senses and intuition, a dissolving of the false boundaries between self and nature. We undo a lot of our old patterns, negative core beliefs and remember our greatest potential. We return to the wildness of all the elements that make us whole. We become our true radiant nature.