Our gatherings take the form of day-long and multi-day ceremonies centered around a solo walk (or dance or sit!) with the land — a time to enter into sacred audience with a living world longing to speak with us…

Upcoming Ceremonies:

Biophilia

Spring Ceremony ✷ West Marin

Dates: April 3-5, 2026

Basecamp: Coast Miwok lands ༄ Point Reyes

In times of collective heartbreak, what does it mean to practice radical love with the more-than-human world?

This ceremony will create space for us to ask our hearts’ most courageous questions as we offer intimate witness to ourselves, one another, and the land.

Over three days, we will move and dance and dream with the expansive notion of biophilia. Through counsel, mirroring, and spacious time with land, we will wade into the waters of love and emergence, grief and ritual, and cultivate pleasure activism as we traverse the landscapes of our own wild hearts.

Together, we will explore what it means to be in right relationship with the more-than-human world, with ourselves, and with community during times of great upheaval.

Space is limited — email us to join.

Balrogs! Befriending Creative Resistance

Summer Ceremony ✷ Bay Area

Dates: Dates to be announced

Basecamp: the Dog Beach at Albany Bulb!

We travel through life accompanied by an invisible assembly of inner beings who tend to show up at the thresholds of our expansion. No strangers to these loud and fear-inducing voices, we have jokingly begun to call them “Balrogs,” after the dreadful fire demon who Gandalf battles in Lord of the Rings.

Join us for an expressive arts offering in the glorious urban wilds of Albany Bulb. This is a “Balrog party” where your gnarliest, peskiest, and most shameful limiting beliefs are gently invited toward integration within a courageous alchemical container. Bring your sense of humor and your loudest demons.

Ancient Mother River

Autumn Ceremony ✷ Malakoff Diggins

Dates: October 23-25, 2026

Basecamp: group campground at Malakoff Diggins, a defunct hydraulic gold mine on the San Juan Ridge 45 minutes outside Nevada City

What songs emerge from an extracted landscape?

Malakoff Diggins is a place of extreme wounding and wild regeneration.

This landscape was the ground zero of industrial gold mining in the Sierra Nevada, and an epicenter of the genocide and ecocide that devastated indigenous lifeways. This land is also the home path of the ancient Yuba River, who flowed here millennia ago, shaping the Sierras. This ancient river’s sub-surface layers were made visible along the walls of the mined “pit” after hydraulic mining (invented here during the Gold Rush) carved away the hillsides, revealing much older stories.

This is a place of mythic dimensions. Join us as we seek the wild mirrors alive in this land.

Desert Song

Winter Ceremony ✷ Sonoran Desert

Dates: mid-January 2027

Basecamp: Comet’s home in Tucson, AZ

Join us for a deep listening retreat in the Sonoran Desert! Yahoooooo!

Instruments are required.

Basin & Range: Exploring Our Inner Landscapes

Dates TBD ✷ Tuscarora, Nevada

Dates: Dates to be announced

Basecamp: the high desert near Tuscarora, Nevada

Join us under high desert skies as we navigate the expansive basins and sky-reaching ranges of this remarkable landscape, and explore the valleys and peaks within ourselves.

Art by Ron Arthaud

Courting the Midnight Sun

Summer Ceremony ✷ Norway

Dates: Dates to be announced

Basecamp: near Vågåmo, Norway

Join us in the land of Otter’s ancestors as we court the Midnight Sun — the guiding light in the land and within each of us.

  • Nourishing time in community and with the land

  • Ritual rooted in creativity

  • Tending the soil of heartbreak and complexity

  • Radical acceptance: come with whatever is on your hearts. The ceremony and the land can hold it all.

  • A multi-hour solo walk (or dance or sit or swim!) with the land

  • Welcome and rooting to the land, its beings, its ancestors and and its people

  • Ideas for ritual creativity during your solo, including (and most importantly) doing “nothing!”

  • Amazing co-created meals

  • A mirroring council to seek the collective story and amplify the gifts of your experience

What to Expect

Future Ceremony Locations…

The Sonoran Desert — Tohono O’odham & Pascua Yaqui lands

Sierra High Country — Washoe, Nisenan, & Northern Paiute lands, Northern California

Norway! — Sámi lands