Tracking the Seed: Personal Growth Workshop
Men's and Women's Retreat
Friday, March 6, 6:00pm - 
Sunday, March 8, 12:00pm
The Lodge at Sleepy Creek: Berkeley Springs, WV
$300
*$250 if you enroll by January 1




Transformative engagement with a beautiful wild cave is the centerpiece of Tracking the Seed, this unique weekend-long personal growth retreat.  Open to all adults, Tracking the Seed takes place at a beautiful lodge in Berkeley Springs, WV (about an hour and a half's drive from Washington, DC), where you will spend the weekend exploring your inner need to grow and change, and the obstacles that may stand in your way.  On Saturday afternoon, we will bring the exploration process underground, into the wild halls of a nearby limestone cave.  The cave environment offers an unmatched setting for pursuing transformation and self-knowledge, as well as the opportunity for deepening your connection with the earth.

Similar to all of my workshops, Tracking the Seed is structured as a rite of passage: a community-supported and nature-engaged gathering, brought together for the purpose of supporting individual growth.  Rites of passage are pan-cultural and time-honored tools for change, for which there is no modern equivalent.  Tracking the Seed is an "open-content" rite of passage, which means that the workshop provides the structure, tools, and supportive environment for change, but you fill in the details: your own unique culture, belief system, and life story, as well as the specific changes you are hungry for.  We offer you a gateway into your personal depths, some tools to explore it, and a way to get back home - but it is you who will decide where you will go when down there, and what you want to take back with you.

Visit our Tracking the Seed workshop description or Contact Keely for more information.

Tracking the Seed: Personal Growth Workshop
Women's Retreat
Friday, January 30, 6:00pm - 
Sunday, February 1, 12:00pm
The Lodge at Sleepy Creek: Berkeley Springs, WV
$300
*$250 if you enroll by January 1



Transformative engagement with a beautiful wild cave is the centerpiece of Tracking the Seed, this unique weekend-long personal growth retreat.  Open to all adult women, Tracking the Seed takes place at a beautiful lodge in Berkeley Springs, WV (about an hour and a half's drive from Washington, DC), where you will spend the weekend exploring your inner need to grow and change, and the obstacles that may stand in your way.  On Saturday afternoon, we will bring the exploration process underground, into the wild halls of a nearby limestone cave.  The cave environment offers an unmatched setting for pursuing transformation and self-knowledge, as well as the opportunity for deepening your connection with the earth.

Similar to all of my workshops, Tracking the Seed is structured as a rite of passage: a community-supported and nature-engaged gathering, brought together for the purpose of supporting individual growth.  Rites of passage are pan-cultural and time-honored tools for change, for which there is no modern equivalent.  Tracking the Seed is an "open-content" rite of passage, which means that the workshop provides the structure, tools, and supportive environment for change, but you fill in the details: your own unique culture, belief system, and life story, as well as the specific changes you are hungry for.  We offer you a gateway into your personal depths, some tools to explore it, and a way to get back home - but it is you who will decide where you will go when down there, and what you want to take back with you.

Visit our Tracking the Seed workshop description or Contact Keely for more information.

Winter Solstice Gathering
December 21, 4pm - 8pmSilver Spring, MD
Contact Keely for further details

The northern hemisphere of the earth is tipped furthest from the sun at 6:03pm on December 21.  The winter solstice is the organic anchor of the winter festival tide, which includes the whole big upcoming winter holiday season.  The winter holidays include a time of decorating with light, sharing and coming together with family, and taking time away from the daily grind - and they end with New Years, which includes the famous resolution.  To connect with nature, I begin each year by celebrating the actual planetary solstice in a traditional way: by lighting a fire, and then keeping some part of it lit all throughout the longest night of the year.  And to balance out the New Years resolution, I offer people the opportunity to think about what they want to let go of in the New Year, in order to balance out the things they want to claim.  We typically burn these 'offerings' to the 'old fire' before lighting the new fire, which will take us into the holiday season and the new year. 

The Solstice gathering is a potluck with opportunity for holiday gathering and socialization, and also for a mindful holiday-time rite of passage.  Take some time to think about the changes you want to make for next year, and the things you want to let go of in order to make those changes real.