August 4-8, 2024 in Colton, OR
Remembering our belonging to this earth and each other by weaving Wisdom, Wellness and Wildness in Sacred Sisterhood.
This is for all who identify as Women and value the deep joy of reclaiming and embodying our humanity as medicine.
The Annual Gathering
The Temple of Belonging Bio-Regional Gathering is a transformative four-night, five-day celebration of women-powered culture, focused on building and tending to local community and connection here in the PNW.
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Dive deep into an intimate, nurturing environment where you can reconnect with your essence, forge meaningful bonds with others, and tap into the universal source that sustains us all. This all-inclusive experience centers women in a retreat format designed to echo the rhythms of our inherent wisdom, wellness and wildness.
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Over the course of four full & enriching days, immerse yourself in a soulful blend of activities at your own pace: participate in morning yoga and meditation, engage in heartfelt rituals and ceremonies, be inspired by the many wisdom shared, enjoy home-cooked meals, and explore the serene outdoors with hikes and camping under the majestic cedars. Our offerings also include a dedicated space for mothers and children, a healing arts spa, enchanting evening gatherings with songs by the fire, and a vibrant makers marketplace.
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This is a down-to-earth space to co-create belonging in ways that are organically born from our shared joy and diverse needs as women, mothers, daughters and sisters.
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Join us in the Pacific Northwest’s most cherished women's gathering—The Temple of Belonging.
Discover more and embrace this unique opportunity to transform and remember in the company of an inspiring, women-centered community.
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What you can expect:
Annual 4 1/2 day campout
Wisdom and Workshops
Craft and Skill Building
Home Cooked Meals
Movement and Meditation
Healing Arts Services
Maker's Market
Sacred time in Nature
The Temple of Belonging
The Temple of Belonging- from the witch tarot by Agni Sullins:
The Church of Fitting In is a tattered doctrine pedaling the snake oil of self-improvement
it sustains its dying creed from your contortions
of worthiness bending for approval
twisting for appreciation
bowing and scraping in hopes of sanction
through the blood-art of performance
prettiness and productivity its prophets of profit
believe you are less than and grow rich from the spoils
of your complicit agreement
when you believe their creed, you'll purchase the diet
conceal the flaws tweeze the unwanted
shave the unsatisfying girdle your nature deny your deep joy sacrifice your pleasure on the altar of pleasing others
and suffer the guilt of every stolen freedom
in the unholy name of fitting in
you'll reject all that doesn't grant you access
to their idea of perfection
and purchase all that does what they don't profit from
there are no riches in belonging
except for the woman who is willing to embody it
The Temple of Belonging is golden
its hallowed ground welcomes you
as both priestess and crone
and adorns your shoulders with the robes
of benefactress and beneficiary
enter the covenant of your sovereignty
become your own sanctuary
drink from the chalice of self-worth
take communion with the internal
divine swallow it down like the seasons
and seeds of Persephone's fruit
give voice to the old songs
the ones that wolf and moon and forest still sing to
dance out of Eden feet drumming the wayback
wonder and chant the holy stories
the truth older than myth
that women are the holy grail
conceiving, conjuring, and delivering
every single human being on the planet
worship at the altar of your soul's deep content
like the moon-drunk curve of lily
the garnet skin of pomegranate
the ink spill arc of raven's wing
glorious in its unfolding precisely as it is
wild, whole, free and perfect in relation only to itself
kiss your curves like a prayer
anoint your fingers with honey from your own jar
spread wings and legs and heart in flowered benediction
become a disciple of inner devotion
resurrect the silver salvation of self-respect
believe in your self and your wild holy heart
like it's a sovereign religion
it is and the world needs more missionaries.
