Wild (adj.)
living in a state of nature and not ordinarily tame or domesticated; not subject to restraint or regulation; going beyond normal or conventional bounds.
Wayfarer (n.)
A person who travels from place to place, especially on foot; a person who goes on a journey.
Way (wei; meaning an opening, passageway, or direction) + farer (Faer; meaning a journey, road, passage, or expedition.)
Way (wei; meaning an opening, passageway, or direction) + farer (Faer; meaning a journey, road, passage, or expedition.)
Facilitating Deep Attunement with nature's rhythm,
the inner wild, true voice, and the creative cycle
Core Ethos
Our mission is to help people come into intentional relationship with their environment, their creative cycles and their true voice by attuning to Nature's rhythm in order to radically embody wildness and Earth-rooted creativity.
We offer...
We offer...
- Immersive wilderness retreats that bring participants into intimate relationship with nature & creativity
- Online experiences that usher the wild into our day-to-day experiences
- Events that take participants on journeys through sound, space, and ritual
- Workshops that explore the transformative power of songwriting
- A wildcrafted herbal apothecary that brings us closer to the land we live on through the plants we use on our bodies
"The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door. if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If your yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door”
- Clarissa Estes, The Women Who Run With Wolves
Values
AuthenticityWe are here to create from the deepest of roots, and to share and listen from the heart. We seek to show up. No sugar coating, no fluffy spirituality, no dogma.
Eco-CentricityWild Wayfarer takes an eco-centric & earth-based perspective in everything that we do. We believe that what we do to our environment, we do to ourselves. Reciprodicy is key, and at the core of every program, product & offering is the deep longing to heal the wild Earth and its inhabitants. This means listening, creating, and expressing from a place that is rooted in Nature.
We believe that what the world desperately needs right now is earth-rooted imagination & creativity that supports ALL life on earth. Nature MirroringEvery single Wild Wayfarer offering is designed with nature's rhythm as the foundation. Seasonal & lunar cycles sit at the core of how we offer our programs & products.
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EmbodimentIn the modern world of armchair expertise and infinity online courses, we prioritize offerings that go beyond words, books and explanations. We are not here to "teach"; we strive to create the containers, intentional spaces, tools, journeys and experiences that facilitate deep, experiential and embodied transformation.
We are tired of the "explanation." Let's tell the story of experience as it unfolds, and live out the values that develop as a result. LiberationWild Wayfarer is dedicated to liberating our creative, wild & true self. It is impossible to separate this individual task from the collective urgency to dismantle oppressive institutions in place that not only discriminate and limit millions of humans, but also oppress and destroy the environment. Wild Wayfarer values protecting the wild places that are exploited daily, and is dedicated to uplifting and liberating oppressed and underrepresented groups by actively challenging the cultural norms & institutions that uphold the patterns of oppression & destruction.
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I'm Jacqueline
Rachel Gibbons Photography
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My unique niche as a space-holder, journey-curator, creative-song-maker and earth-rhythm-guide is in creating resonance between humans and nature. I am here to help you tend to your grounded relationship with the wild, your own creative potential, and your true voice.
Have you ever noticed how a group of people listening to a live music performance can wordlessly attune to each other? How a few days spent in in the wilderness has a harmonizing effect, as your rhythms and nature's entrain with one another? How, when someone sings a lyric that really speaks to your experience, it resonates and hums inside of you, evoking feeling?
This is what I live for. This is what I do, This is what I long to create. Because humanity is out of balance & out of sync with our own humanness and the natural world, and the effects break my heart every day. |
I graduated from Northern Arizona University with degrees in Environmental Studies and Outdoor Leadership & Education. I am a certified yoga teacher through the Kula Collective and apprenticed with Darcey Blue of Sacred Wildness and Shamana Flora in shamanic herbalism. I am a student of Ayurveda, herbalism, deep imagination, the dream world, and Soulcraft through the Animas Valley Institute.
I am also a retired wilderness therapy, alpine mountaineering, rock climbing & backpacking guide who now applies my skills to the terrain of the wilderness within—which, in my opinion, is just as thrilling as scaling a cliff face.
I am a professional singer-songwriter and performer through both my solo project, Jacqueline Marie, and my band Sleep Stampede. I am, above all else, a creative whose craft is Journey, Song & Voice.
I am also a retired wilderness therapy, alpine mountaineering, rock climbing & backpacking guide who now applies my skills to the terrain of the wilderness within—which, in my opinion, is just as thrilling as scaling a cliff face.
I am a professional singer-songwriter and performer through both my solo project, Jacqueline Marie, and my band Sleep Stampede. I am, above all else, a creative whose craft is Journey, Song & Voice.
My credentials, however, are not what brought me here. I have a fire in my heart.
My whole life I have been on the journey of unfurling my true voice. This is my unique path to wildness. But music is just one side of it— the process of unlearning the “right” way to sing is just a mirror to the dire need to unlearn the “right” way to be a human. My journey to wildness is about shaking off the shackles that read “this is how to behave to be loved.” It is about stripping off the corset that says “this is how to look to belong.” It is about ripping the sock out of my mouth that says “this is how to sing.”
My whole life I have been on the journey of unfurling my true voice. This is my unique path to wildness. But music is just one side of it— the process of unlearning the “right” way to sing is just a mirror to the dire need to unlearn the “right” way to be a human. My journey to wildness is about shaking off the shackles that read “this is how to behave to be loved.” It is about stripping off the corset that says “this is how to look to belong.” It is about ripping the sock out of my mouth that says “this is how to sing.”