Embodied Earth
Embodied Soul
Women in
Soulful Engagement with World

Guided by Jade Sherer
An ongoing deepening of the feminine
in and around the columbia River Gorge

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman Whitman

It is time. . .
to gather our community of amazing women locally and move towards the world.  Are you ready?
Are you remembering your essential connection to earth and to body as primary sources for your feminine wisdom? We are living in apocalyptic times and we are needed as wise council for sustainability, peace, vast perspectives and deep soulful listening.
We women living in profound connection with our earth bodies have so much to give.  We have got to lead the way with grounded intuition and instinctual knowledge….not from old worn and tattered patterned ways of diminishment. It is clear that to be a species led by intellect alone, does not offer a rich or sustainable future…perhaps no future at all.

Now more than ever it is time to come alive in relationship with the world...the human and non-human world. When we are present in our bodies, engaging in truly intimate relationships, the heart opens, our wildness germinates, respect blossoms and stewardship can truly begin.

"When I am consciously embodied, I cannot deny that the River of Life that enlivens is calling out to me from every conceivable direction in the environment."~Paula Reeves

What you might experience:

-time wandering in nature...with specific intent
- authentic embodied movement
-talking heart council
-ceremony
-silence
-dance
-dreamtime..diving in
-heartstorming for effective activism for Earth
-artful expression
-journaling
-breathing space
-Your voice heard
-circling support
-your chance to lead

Details:
Meeting Times and Places:
(this is all still being negotiated and could shift slightly)
First Meeting: March 8, 9 ~ Forest Park, Portland, OR
Second Meeting: May 3, 4~Ekone Ranch...(www.ekone.org) This is Jade's home turf.
Third Meeting: July 12, 13~ River Song Sanctuary, Hood River, OR
Fourth Meeting: August 30, 31 ~mountain campground
Fifth and Final Meeting: October 2-5 ~ ocean beach campground...yurts available.
* Only one gathering may be missed...but you won't want to miss any! *

Tuition: $700 ~ 4 weekend gatherings and one 4 day gathering.
Mentoring: between sesssions, individual mentoring calls with Jade are an option on a sliding scale of $50 and up per hour.
Facilities: Each weekend will differ slightly in cost for camping/facility. Each will pay for their own camping option and if there is a facility fee, it will be divided among participants.
Food: Each particpant wil be responsible for bringing wonderful healthy nourishing food to nurture everyone with. Usually we will make dinners and lunches potluck for ease and each can bring their own breakfasts. We will organize it so that there is plenty and varied food for all.

Deposit: $125 non-refundable deposit due to reserve your space: full refund will be given if program is cancelled. Balance is due February 8, 2008 unless other agreements have been made.

This is an intensive for any and all women who are ready to be their greatness
. . . absolutely no prior dance experience necessary! One wonderful invitation inside of this intensive
is that each woman will have the opportunty to be a facilitator one time for a period of hours
to practice your creative leadership skills!

Deposit: please send a non-refunable deposit of $125 to Jade Sherer at :
401 Ekone Rd.
Goldendale, WA 98620

Registration: please contact
Jade by email at earthecho@gorge.net or phone at 509-773-4239

*A short application questionairre will be sent to any woman interested. *

"There is no defense against an open heart and a supple body in dialogue with wildness."
~Terry Tempest Williams

Jade Sherer has been rewilding herself for years, diving deeply into herself and Nature as a wilderness guide, teacher, artist, and bodyworker. She has led vision quests and wilderness journeys in California, Hawaii, Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Ohio and the American Southwest. She supports inner transformation through respectful interaction, conscious reciprocity and deep communion with nature. Exploring and guiding in the wilderness for 29 years, Jade has been allured over and over by the ways nature serves as a mirror for the wild feminine mysteries. Her work as a guide is rooted in her communication with, and deep love and respect for the Earth and her creatures. She loves creating wide and beautiful containers in which people can courageously open their hearts and expand.

In the last several years Jade began taking special interest in women who were working to change the world. She began to notice that it seemed that there was almost an epidemic of exhausted, depleted and unsupported women doing extremely important work in the world. At that time the gestation began in Jade for an idea that eventually was birthed as Nature Moving Women. Jade's hope is that NMW offers a venue of support for women who are actively engaged in caring for the world AND for those who want to be in a deeper relationship with the world through their own earth/body wisdom. NMW will one day be a non-profit organization, and able to offer scholarships for these retreats, as well as services on it's upcoming website for uniting and inspiring women around the globe in service and activism. Look for the upcoming: www.naturemovingwomen.com

We will hold our circle small and intimate with a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 women.
There are just a few spaces left.

For more info on these and other events please see:www.naturemovingwomen.com, and www.earthsecho.com

"May my body be a prayerstick for the world." -Joan Halifax