Wild Winter is a season-long, on-demand, self-study course. It is more like a retreat experience than an intellectual exercise. And while its 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 Winter. See this as a virtual retreat space where you can tap in to ground into the mysteries of the season and come away renewed and refreshed. You can join this offering and begin working with it at any time. You'll 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 sacred ecology of your bioregion.

Spiritual ecology, Christian Animism, and applied mythology hold additional theoretical frameworks as you will also be introduced to shifts in perception and invitations into practice that will deepen your sense of place during this Covid time of displacement; and leave you more connected to the seasons and wild others, an antidote to our collective feeling of disconnection in these times.

Wild Winter offers you six professionally produced modules that are intended to provide a felt sensory experience of being out in the wilds of Winter. Each module contains 2-5 lectures that will guide you through the quadrated seasonal learning: Winter as Teacher, Air as Guide, North as our prayer-mat, and Mountain 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.