Sanctuary in the Wild Orchard: Empowering Our Gifts for Emerging Worlds
August 14 - 17, 2025
We invite you to rest, regenerate, (re)awaken your deepest gifts and visions, and be held by a community of kindred spirits on a regenerative farm in Taos, New Mexico.
As one world crumbles, many of us are sensing other worlds on the horizon, the myriad possibilities of what else could be. We may be growing more aware, even sure, we are carrying something vital within us for those other worlds and possible futures.
How do we protect and nurture these emergent seeds as we make our way through the rubble and chaos of these times?
How might we turn on deep gifts and capacities for tending these worlds?
We believe Sanctuary is a key.
Over this 4-day retreat, we will make sanctuary together—rooting into old notions of finding asylum in wild law and sacred ground beyond the human sphere—to empower and embody the gifts and medicines we are carrying for emergent worlds.
We will attune to, track with, and nurture those other worlds through the following:
Embodiment, grounding, and listening practices
Somatic / sensory-based immersions on the farm and in the wild (at a nearby area in the national forest)
Journeys/guided meditations into the imaginal
Ways of Council—sharing our stories and insights in circle and small groups
Creative expression (drawing/art-making, poeting, storytelling, sounding, movement, dance, etc.)
Collective altar-building on the land
Harvesting fruit and processing apples, peaches, apricots, pears, etc. together
Rest and relaxation—nervous system rejuvenation (with access to body workers)
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Facilitator, Somatics Practitioner
Allie Armitage guides people to trust their insight, vision and beauty even amidst the unknown. As a multi-modal practitioner and facilitator, Allie works with highly attuned thinkers, feelers, creatives, and visionaries, supporting them to the emerging worlds and their gifts for bringing them to life with intuition, integrity and wisdom. She finds joy in tracking the moon, sketching with pastels and taking walks with the sunset. Allie is based on Susquehannock and Piscataway lands outside of Baltimore, Maryland. https://www.theembodiedvisionary.com/
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Christian Leahy lives and dreams in El Prado, New Mexico. She is a story midwife, developmental editor, facilitator of radical imaginings and healed futures, and the writer of little stories of wonder. Most often, she can be found reverently wandering the high-mountain forests, tracking with all that is wild and holy.
