Wild Spring is offered as a season-long, self-study course; however, it is more like a retreat experience than an intellectual exercise. And while it’s seasonal in nature, it is perennial in design. You will be able to return again and again to this content, much like a seasonal devotional that will connect you to the spirit of Spring. See this as a virtual retreat space where you can ground into the mysteries and magic of the season and come away renewed and refreshed. You can join this offering and begin working with it at any time. You will have access to your material for the lifetime of this website.

You will be guided through the vast topography of somatic ecology, specific to the seasonal correspondences within the Rewilding Wheel, a wheel of life that aims to reconnect you to the “spirit of a place,” the sacred ecology of your bioregion.

Earth Centered Spirituality, Nature Spirituality, Creation Spirituality, as well as teachings on panentheism and applied mythology hold additional theoretical frameworks within this offering. You will also be introduced to the sacred practice of Soul Rewilding, the holy work of bringing your Wild Self back into whole relationship with the seasons, the more-than-human world, and the locale in which you live as a way to cultivate flourishing conditions not only for your soul but the flourishing of the wild and wonder-filled world.

Wild Spring offers you five professionally produced modules that are intended to provide a felt sensory experience of being out in the wilds of the Spring time woods. Each module contains 3-5 lectures, and deepening reflections and practices, that will guide you through the quadrated seasonal learning: Spring as Teacher, Fire as Guide, East as our Prayer-mat, and Forest as sacred landscape.

Mary DeJong has been guiding in-person rewilding retreats for years at the Whidbey Institute, a transformational learning center on the Pacific Northwest island Tscha-kole-chy, named Whidbey Island by colonial settlers. These day-long retreats offer a return to a holy and revelatory wild world, invitations into a sacramental worldview, and rediscovering ways to read the natural world as sacred script.

You can now enjoy these offerings from your own location, benefiting from Mary's expert teaching and deep experience as a wild soul guide and spiritual ecologist. No matter where you are in the world, you can take this journey that will take you deep into the profound archetypal conversations within Winter, a journey that will powerfully influence your own spiritual practices and soul formation.