Women and the Wild Retreat
The Wild has been Waiting for You
Are you living your wildest dreams yet? Let's find out together.
"I wasn't aware I was so out of balance with who I am."
--September 2026 Retreat Participant
"Going into my heart space was exactly what I needed."
--September 2026 Retreat Participant
Retreat Description
Through playful introspection, connect with like-minded others and find new ways to deepen your relationship with nature and yourself. Reawaken your wildness and let it guide you toward your authentic path in life. Join us in Evergreen, Colorado to feed the resident deer, greet the white buffalo, and witness the changing aspen leaves as you connect, refresh, and play. Come on your own or bring friends--this is a community in the making.
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Evergreen, Colorado
Contours of the Retreat
What happens when we attune to nature's messages? How do we open ourselves to Her resonance, Her wisdom, Her generosity? What can we learn about ourselves and our soul's path when our wildness resonates within? Through conversation, introspection, nature immersion, and soulful curiosity, we will each find our way to wildness that is our truest guide.
Opening Space
Introductions and Intentions
wildness
What is wildness for you? Where does it live?
Reflections of Sef and Nature: Aligning our Connection
How is my relationship with nature connected to my relationship with myself?
Walk in Beauty
After exploring the reflections, take time to walk in nature and explore how you meet nature and yourself when you encounter both together.
Lunch and Connection
The Wildest Life
How might we live from a place of intuition, resonance, and reciprocity?
Wild Mapping
What wildness in you is ready to be free?
Opening the Gifts of your Wild Self
What secret is your Wild Self offering you through your relationship with nature?
Shamanic Journey
What lessons and messages are meant just for us?
Gathering Wisdom
What changed in you and for you today, and how will you carry that with you?
Awaken Your Wildness!
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About your Retreat Guides
Christy McConnell, PhD
Christy is the author of the forthcoming book Awakening Wildness: Reconnecting with Nature and Ourselves (Bloomsbury, October 1, 2026). She has been a professor of education for 19 years and has delivered international keynote addresses, presented workshops and retreats on ecological experience, and published extensive research on cultivating meaningful experience. Christy earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction and her MA in Professional Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She has won numerous national awards including Outstanding Dissertation (AERA), Outstanding Book (AATC), Distinguished Mentor (AATC), and Master Scholar (DU). As an ecologically minded adventurer, teacher, and Level One Interspecies Reiki certified practitioner, Christy hopes to help humans, animals, and nature thrive through connection.
Connect with Christyfor speaking engagements, interviews, consulting, and coaching.
Mail to: awakeningwildness@gmail.com; awakeningwildness.com; IG: @awakening_wildness
Karen Fortuin, ScD, MPH
Karen is a Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner, spiritual mentor, clinical herbalist and founder of Fireheart Soul Alchemy, LLC and the Soul Embodiment Method™. Before following her own spiritual calling, she spent nearly 30 years as an Associate Professor and public health researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where her work focused on human behavior, health and transformation. Karen earned her Doctor of Science and Master of Public Health degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and trained in Shamanic Energy Medicine through The Four Winds Society, including direct study with Q’ero shamans in the Sacred Valley of Peru.
Karen’s work weaves ancient wisdom with modern understandings of human behavior, nervous system regulation and holistic wellness. She is also trained in clinical herbalism, integrative nutrition, Reiki, Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the Akashic Records, and has worked with hundreds of clients through individual healing sessions, spiritual mentorship, group coursework, ceremonies, workshops and retreats. A lifelong traveler and student of the Earth, Karen’s spiritual path has taken her to sacred sites and landscapes around the world. Karen also creates handcrafted orgonite energy pieces designed to support energetic balance, transmute stagnant or unwanted energy and bring greater harmony to personal and sacred spaces. Through Fireheart Soul Alchemy, she helps others deepen their connection with themselves, Spirit and the natural world to bring spiritual practice into everyday life.
Connect with Karen: To join her course and community membership or for 1:1 sessions, mentorship, retreats, orgonite and other spiritual offerings.
Mail to: kcorsi@icloud.com; www.fireheartsoulalchemy.com; IG: @fireheartsoulalchemy