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Earth Embodied Journeys, Santa Cruz, CA (2025)

12/20/2024

❤️ Dearest community,

I’m taking a pause.

Many of you know that I have spent the last several years being a busy busy bee, offering dances, women’s programs, teen programs, ceremony, wilderness journeys, backpacking, etc.

It was a very fulfilling journey, and truly felt like my soul’s work.

However, in the past year or so, I have started to feel a call to pause. I ignored this call for a while. In some ways I did pause- I stopped DJing and offering dances. But in many other ways I didn’t pause.

At many times, the call to pause felt excruciatingly painful... “Why would I stop my soul’s work? Why would I stop offering nature-connection and embodiment journeys to my community? Why am I feeling this way?! The world needs this work!”

Despite my attempts to ignore the call, it has not gone away, and instead has only become more apparent.

In the past month or so, I have finally started surrendering to the call. I am no longer filling my schedule with offerings. Yes, I have my “survival dance” - backpack guiding, graduate school to become a therapist, part-time administrative work....the work I need to make money and survive, which thankfully is fulfilling work.
But I’m not offering my own creations.

And while I thought pausing my offerings would be the most painful thing, I now realize that ignoring the call was the source of my suffering.

In surrendering to the pause, I feel free, and recognize what my soul has been yearning for- quiet, mystery, emptiness.

I say all this partly because my lovely ego wants to explain to you all why I’m not offering any dances and programs right now. AND, I also want to honor my work and all of you who have created the magic with me. I am in awe of the co-facilitators and participants who have come together to love and listen to the Earth with me.

I love you all. I really have loved this work. But it’s time for me to listen to the mystery.

I’m not sure how long this pause will be- a month, several months, a year, years? Time does not matter to me. What does matter, is that I’m truly listening. And when I do offer you all my soul’s creations again, I’m doing so from a place of authenticity.

So I’m listening.

*Part of this pause is a pause from social media. I will be inactive on here for at least the month of January, maybe longer. I am considering deleting it all together. So please, if you want to connect with me, please call me, email me, or find me! You can also sign up for my newsletter through my website, which I’ll be sending occasional life updates*

Wishing you all deep listening to the magical mystery of life.

With love from me to you this Winter Solstice,
Deanna

P.S. this beautiful photo was created by Jason Abraham Photography with the redwoods at Henry Cowell 🥰

10/21/2024

🌈✨ WOW! This weekend was absolutely incredible - backpacking with 8th grade girls through “SheHikes” at Youth in Wilderness! These are the trips that feed my soul. I don’t always post these trips on social media, but these photos were too good to resist 🦋 So many silly, beautiful and deep moments together. I can’t wait for the next one!!! 💞

09/04/2024

✨ Come receive the magic of the redwoods with me this Sunday for our women's day-long nature connection retreat at Big Basin State Park!

🌱 There are a few spots left! Here are the details:

Sunday, September 8th
10am – 5pm
Big Basin SP
$110

You can learn more and sign-up through Mountain Parks Foundation (link in comments)

💞

03/13/2024

✨ Reminder that our Earth Women application closes in less than 2 weeks! If you want to join but haven’t applied, go to our website (link in bio) for the application. Last day to submit your application is March 25th 💞
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02/20/2024

💞 We are so excited to announce that Earth Women 2024 is officially a DONATION-BASED program!

This big decision has been guided by our intention to make Earth-based healing & connection accessible and attainable, and to co-create and build a web of diverse women to collectively explore the depths of our hearts and return to the Wild.

Applications are officially open NOW until March 25th.
You can apply on our Earth Women page through my website (link in bio).

We begin April 28th, and will meet for four retreats throughout our six month journey.

Please reach out with any questions or if you would like to join! We are more than happy to share with you all.

And please share with your friends & networks! We want to spread the word to as many women as possible!

With love from your Earth Women guides,
Deanna & Ari ( )

01/23/2024

This is where we will be holding our Women's Wilderness Ceremony in June.

❀ This is sacred land, home of the native Esselen and Salinan people, who tended and loved this land for tens of thousands upon thousands of years.

We are so blessed to have access to this land, now part of Los Padres National Forest, in eastern Big Sur.

♡ We feel so much gratitude for the indigenous people who have loved and taken care of this land with all of their body, heart, minds, souls and spirits.

♡ We feel deep grief for the indigenous people who were killed, forced to leave this land, and imprisoned in the nearby California mission.

This land holds life and beauty as well as death and sorrow.

This land is forever sacred.

The land and the people are one.

Forever thank you to the people, animals, plants and spirits who love this land.

❍

01/18/2024

Hello Beautiful World! Ari & Deanna here.

We are emerging out of a time of renewal and deep listening to what is ready to expand from our hearts.

We are excited to announce that we will be starting a second cohort of ♡ Earth Women ♡ beginning in April 2024.

We are SO excited to begin holding space for the transformation and awakening of the Women in our community.

We feel the immense power of sisterhood and the need of many to have a space to express the Wildness, Raw, Primal, Painful & Beautiful parts of being alive at this time.

❍ More than ever, we need to return to the warmth of the EARTH, to hold us, as we hold each other, to transform and to remember what it feels like to come alive again.

WE WANT TO INVITE YOU to join Earth Women, a 6-month container with 4 retreats and 4- Zoom councils between each Retreat:

»» Opening Day-Long Ceremony in Santa Cruz (Saturday April 27th)

»» Four Day Backpacking Trip in Big Sur (Friday 5/24 - Monday 5/27)

»» Five Day Retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains w/ a 24-hour Solo Nature-Immersion (Thursday 8/29 - Monday 9/2)

»» Closing Day Long Ceremony in Santa Cruz (Saturday November 2nd)

We are offering an Early Bird Special until the END of January.

♡ Learn more through the link in bio under "Earth Women"♡

01/12/2024

♡ Some of my most cherished moments in life have been welcoming people back from ceremonial solo time in the wilderness.

There’s nothing like it…

People who come back from a solo wilderness ceremony are so deeply connected to spirit.

They have just been through a life changing journey — you can see it in their eyes, feel it in their spirit, taste it in the air — and welcoming them back home to community, to their new life, feels like such an honor.

And if they have been fasting from food, grounding them back into their body through nourishing foods feels incredibly nourishing for my soul as well.

This may be my favorite part of the solo ceremony.

This is a photo taken in our last Earth Women program with , welcoming them home from their 24-hr solo.

♡

01/08/2024

HUMBLING facilitator story:
(I imagine we all get one of these at some point)

I had been planning a Women's Backpacking Retreat for months with my co-guide, and as we were 1-month out, we both found ourselves in serious back injuries.

We tried to heal our bodies…we really tried…acupuncture, chiropractors, craniosacral, massage, energy work, fasting, saunas, cold plunges, sleep, you name it.

But one-week before the trip, it was clear we weren't going to be able to carry weight on our backs.

So we decided to course correct, postpone the trip, and instead hold a women's retreat at home, in Santa Cruz- a "low impact" experience.

However, I woke up on Day 2 of this retreat to a completely STIFF neck and back!!!

I was in excruciating pain. I rushed at 9am to the walk-in acupuncture clinic, in full tears, right at the exact moment a solar eclipse was happening...it was very dramatic.

The practitioner was like, "did you know an eclipse is happening right now?" but I was in too much pain to even care.

I had planned to guide a dance journey that day, but I literally couldn't move. I probably would've chosen to stay in bed, but the dance was planned to be held at the studio in my home…

so I couldn’t hide.

One of our amazing participants set me up in a full-on bed in the studio. I laid in there, mostly in tears, as my co-guides led the journey for the day.

I had to completely surrender to our participants seeing me in an extremely vulnerable and painful state.

I had to surrender to being loved and held by the group.

(continued in comments)

01/04/2024

❍ Here is our "threshold"–a circle of branches, sticks, leaves, bones, flowers, and rocks–that we created for our 24-hr solo wilderness ceremony in our last Earth Women program.

Each woman stepped into-and-out-of this threshold to mark the beginning and ending of their 24 hour solo- to mark the beginning and ending of an experience that would change their lives forever.

Each woman crossed this threshold for a different reason, marking and honoring various significant transitions in their lives.

☽ Some came due to career changes, some came to honor death.

☽ Some came to face their inner demons, and some came to face their inner love.

☽ Some came to listen to their wombs, some came to listen to their ancestors, and some come to simply be with and listen to the Earth.

»»» We will be crossing more thresholds like this in our upcoming Earth Women 24-hr wilderness solo, as well as our Women's Wilderness Ceremony 4-day, 4-night solo.

These solo wilderness ceremonies are powerful containers for healing, transformation, honoring major life change, and igniting vision.

If you feel called and would like to learn more, visit my website link in bio under "Group Programs".

♡

01/02/2024

I have a dream...once we dance and embody the trees, animals, sky, and all spirits of the Earth, like fully EMBODY these beings, only then will we CONNECT all that needs connection and HEAL all that needs healing.

In my dream, that is all we need. As simple as that.

This is my inner child's dream.

Which makes me cherish it, and take a little more seriously, since I truly believe that children are connected to a deeper wisdom than most adults.

What is your inner child's dream?

♡

Beautiful photo by Jason Abraham Photography

12/11/2023

I am so excited to announce open registration for our Women's Wilderness Ceremony this upcoming June 1-9th. Wilderness Soul Guide, Angela Vincent, and I will be collaborating to bring this beautiful offering to you.

This is a 9-day journey in the wilderness of Big Sur, four of which are held in a 3-day, 3-night solo wilderness ceremony.

This is a time to be held by the land, listen deeply, and receive healing and transformation, all within a strong container of women.

Learn More through the link in my bio under "Women's Wilderness Ceremony" or feel free to message me! I'm happy to share more.

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