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.)
one who journeys through the threshold of their wild longings toward depth, expression and connection.
Core Ethos
Our mission is to help people come into intentional relationship with their environment, Nature's rhythms and cycles, and their true voice in order to radically embody wildness and soulcentric creativity.
Wild Wayfarer creates a warm and inspiring space for this relationship to unfold. We offer retreats in nature that coax out our inner genius; online journeys that follow the lunar and seasonal cycles and usher the wild into our day-to-day experiences; 1:1 guidance that grounds us into our true voice and creative life force; and an apothecary full of wildcrafted herbal products that bring us closer to the land we live on through the products we use on their bodies.
Wild Wayfarer creates a warm and inspiring space for this relationship to unfold. We offer retreats in nature that coax out our inner genius; online journeys that follow the lunar and seasonal cycles and usher the wild into our day-to-day experiences; 1:1 guidance that grounds us into our true voice and creative life force; and an apothecary full of wildcrafted herbal products that bring us closer to the land we live on through the products we use on their 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 be as fully ourselves as possible, to create from the deepest of roots, and to share and listen from the heart. No sugar coating, no fluffy spirituality, no dogma. What we do here is experiential.
Holistic HealthWild Wayfarer strives to help others feel more at home and rooted in their bodies, in their wildness, and in their local landscape—ultimately aiming to foster more vital ecosystems that we are cultivating deep relationship with.
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EmbodimentWe prioritize creating experiences, as a compliment to what one may learn from books or observation. We do not want to just share knowledge—we strive to tell the story of experience as it unfolds, and live out the individual values that develop as a result.
LiberationWild Wayfarer is dedicated to liberating our inner wildness. 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 ignore, oppress and destroy the environment and more-than-human beings. Wild Wayfarer stands in alliance with black, indigenous, people of color, LBGTQ+, women, and female bodied people. We stand as protectors of the wild places that are exploited daily. We are dedicated to uplifting and liberating oppressed and underrepresented groups by actively challenging the status quo which upholds these oppressive institutions.
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There is a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
you have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen, people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.
"The Way it Is," By William Stafford
On Wildness
"Wild" is inherently an abstract word. It is thrown around haphazardly, and in the modern surge of environmentalism, land preservation, and new-age soul-searching, the word has taken on an array of confusing and sometimes misleading meanings. At Wild Wayfarer, we are reclaiming this word.
The wild is not a place that humans visit when they want to escape their structured world; wilderness boundaries and land designations in themselves contradict the very meaning of the word. Wildlife parks are ironically occupied by the caged and spade versions of beings that were once, but no longer, wild.
Rather, wildness is a state of being that exists within each person, human or otherwise. It is the state in which we were born, and the forces which birthed us. Wild people and wild environments are, in essence, inseparable. The wild is the undomesticated, barefooted child that plays in the crevices of every adult's psyche. It is what we long to express, what longs to move through us. It is the living, breathing land that humanity was born into. The rivers that are dammed, and the inner creative that is likewise stifled by the same institutions.
The wild of the world is diminishing, and humanity is not immune to it. Wild places are being converted into shopping malls and ski resorts. Humans are roaming further and further from our natural state and the land that feeds us, toward lifestyles that are isolating and ungrounded. The dominant culture's oppressive force pushes most toward distraction and numbness as a way to cope with the immensity of this loss—it is, indeed, heart-wrenching.
Now is not the time to look the other way. Now is not the time to turn our backs on our true voice, our wildness that tugs against the current of the dominant culture. Now is not the time to turn a blind eye to the atrocities done to our environment and to systematically oppressed humans.
Now is the time to turn our faces toward the bitter wind and change course.
The wild is not a place that humans visit when they want to escape their structured world; wilderness boundaries and land designations in themselves contradict the very meaning of the word. Wildlife parks are ironically occupied by the caged and spade versions of beings that were once, but no longer, wild.
Rather, wildness is a state of being that exists within each person, human or otherwise. It is the state in which we were born, and the forces which birthed us. Wild people and wild environments are, in essence, inseparable. The wild is the undomesticated, barefooted child that plays in the crevices of every adult's psyche. It is what we long to express, what longs to move through us. It is the living, breathing land that humanity was born into. The rivers that are dammed, and the inner creative that is likewise stifled by the same institutions.
The wild of the world is diminishing, and humanity is not immune to it. Wild places are being converted into shopping malls and ski resorts. Humans are roaming further and further from our natural state and the land that feeds us, toward lifestyles that are isolating and ungrounded. The dominant culture's oppressive force pushes most toward distraction and numbness as a way to cope with the immensity of this loss—it is, indeed, heart-wrenching.
Now is not the time to look the other way. Now is not the time to turn our backs on our true voice, our wildness that tugs against the current of the dominant culture. Now is not the time to turn a blind eye to the atrocities done to our environment and to systematically oppressed humans.
Now is the time to turn our faces toward the bitter wind and change course.
I'm Jacqueline
Rachel Gibbons Photography
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My unique niche as your Wildness guide is in creating and holding the transformational container for self exploration and expression— while providing the resources, tools and practices which can assist you in tuning into the rhythms of the natural world, accessing your creative genius, and bringing your true voice to the surface.
As a professional singer-songwriter, a creative writer, an herbalist, a teacher and a wildness guide, I embody my message and walk the same path that I guide others down.
The path is rooted in soulcentric creative expression and nature: digging into the deepest places of the self in order to allow the most authentic embodiments come to life—whether in the form of an art, a conversation, or a calling. |
I graduated from Northern Arizona University with degrees in Environmental Studies and Outdoor Leadership and 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, feminine-form spirituality, foraging, herbalism, deep imagination, the dream world, and Soulcraft with the Animas Valley Institute.
I am also a retired wilderness therapy guide and alpine mountaineering/rock climbing 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.
Guided by song, soul, passion, creativity and the erotic, I have compiled both professional experience in my field as well as the wisdom only gained through trial, error, and my personal path toward wholeness.
I am also a retired wilderness therapy guide and alpine mountaineering/rock climbing 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.
Guided by song, soul, passion, creativity and the erotic, I have compiled both professional experience in my field as well as the wisdom only gained through trial, error, and my personal path toward wholeness.
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.”
I long to bring life and deep feeling into the lives I touch. I do this through song. This is my unique way of being as fully myself as possible: letting music move through my body and breath such that I cannot help but to feel every word as an emotion on my tongue. Singing taps into something beyond comprehension. Art is an act of tapping into the roots, the core, the soul and the soil.
That is what I want to guide others toward.
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.”
I long to bring life and deep feeling into the lives I touch. I do this through song. This is my unique way of being as fully myself as possible: letting music move through my body and breath such that I cannot help but to feel every word as an emotion on my tongue. Singing taps into something beyond comprehension. Art is an act of tapping into the roots, the core, the soul and the soil.
That is what I want to guide others toward.