The Sacred Wild Origin Story

We all love a good origin story and The Sacred Wild doesn't disappoint!

There is a group of Women who gathered a couple of times a year that named themselves the Goddesses. This was a powerful group. This wasn't an organization or a business. This was a group of Powerful Women that all found their way to each other and just wanted to gather and enjoy being together. 

In this group of Women was a Woman named Jenn. The first time she came to this group she still felt like a child compared to these Women, though she was in her mid thirties. She flew to Idaho with her dear Soul Sister to meet with this group of Women at what was self proclaimed to be a Goddess Gathering. And that it was. 

Jenn was just learning to see the Power she had in her, to see her Self as a Woman, a Goddess. It felt to her like she was wearing a Halloween costume each time she called her Self a Goddess, but she did it anyway! She had just finished her certification in Psychedelic Integration and was excited to share all she had learned and the Goddesses were eager to witness her in her newfound, but yet to be claimed, role as Medicine Woman. 

After this Gathering, Jenn walked away a Woman. This once timid and shy little girl in a grownups body was now a Goddess of a Woman with a safe and happy inner child that guided her in this Life. 

Fast forward two years at a Goddess Gathering in Jenn's neck of the woods, Phoenix, Arizona. After a profound photo shoot in the desert, Jenn's offering to this Gathering is to facilitate a Mushroom Ceremony for these same Sisters that witnessed her as these seeds of manifestation were first being planted. 

In this Ceremony depths were reached for everyone, included Jenn. There was one Sister in particular that went to the depths of the ancients. And, as alignment would have it, her name was also Jen!

Now, for those of you who have worked with different Medicines in Ceremony, you know that anything is possible and everything is Holy and Sacred. Even the throne we currently call a toilet! 

Jenn, as the facilitator, made sure she stayed with everyone until their Journey's end. All the other Goddesses had come out of the Medicine and were gathered in the bedroom laughing and talking, but Jen was still deep in the Medicine and needed to use the restroom. So we were able to get her there and while the others stayed in the room to connect, Jenn stayed with Jen to make sure she was safe and supported. She never could have anticipated what happened next.

As Jen was sitting in the restroom, drinking her water, she began channeling Ancestors. Jenn's ancestors. She told Jenn that they were doing work inside her. Healing wounds that were there for generations. After the healing was done, they were activating ancient Wisdom that lived inside of her. And then, after that was all said and done, she told Jenn that they were ready to give her their blessing. In this tiny bathroom, Jenn bows down in child's pose while Jen, still channeling the Ancestors, does a ritual blessing Jenn for the work that lays ahead of her. 

One of the Sisters comes in to check on them, just to make sure they are okay and once she sees what's going on she yells out, "Oh, everything's good. The Jen(n)'s are just channeling the Ancestors!" and goes back to the fun in the other room. (This is the level of acceptance and raw authenticity that lives in these Gatherings! )

The next night, as Jenn (the facilitator) is laying on the couch, listening to the conversations going on around her, the Ancestors speak. Flooding into her mind is The Sacred Wild, the 9 Ways of Being and the Core Practices. She gets up, pulls out her phone and in an hour and half has the structure of The Sacred Wild written out. A month later, The Sacred Wild is a manifested Community.

It wasn't Jenn that created it, she would never say she did. She would tell you that she is the vessel that was willing to set aside all of her beliefs of what was real and what wasn't to be able to hear what is being told to all of us, and the one willing to give the time, attention, energy and money required to bring visions to reality.

And that is how The Sacred Wild came to be. The story continues to be just as Sacred and just as Wild as the Journey of The Sacred Wild continues. Times of expansion and times of retraction. Tears, fears, laughter and Love. Insecurities and Liberation. Confusion and clarity. In the end, we always come to the same place. It's all the same thing. Sometimes it has a different story, sometimes it has a different name and we all take different paths to get there, but it is always the same at it's core. Love.