Waymarkers provides accompaniment along your personal path of spiritual formation to receive guidance from your particular places, cultivating a sacred perception of the soul and wild nature.
Reclaim the sacred within the revelatory more-than-human world through guided practices and seasonal retreats & pilgrimages.
Remember the meant-for interconnection between and throughout all of creation through wonder-filled writings and emplaced instructions.
Reconnect with the wild within your inner and outer nature through a sacralized and animate worldview and nature-based communion.
Vision and Mission
Vision
The vision for Waymarkers is that by restoring an inter-communal relationship between humanity, the earth, and the cosmos, our individual and collective journeys will become more illuminated, meaningful, and participatory in the flourishing of all life.
Mission
The mission of Waymarkers is to expand and deepen our relationship with the sacred found within one another and the more-than-human world.
Your Wild Soul Guide
Mary DeJong is a spiritual ecologist, ecotheologian, wild soul guide, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of "rewilding" and has instructed other spiritual directors and companions through Spiritual Directors International. Mary facilitates retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the natural world. She has studied and practiced within the Celtic Christian spiritual tradition, her own maternal line heritage, for over twenty years, and is influenced by the lives of Celtic saints, and the lands that guided them.