Palika Wilding
Palika Wilding has been courting and centering the mysteries of the Underworld, the Moon and the miraculous blue green pearl for as long as she can remember. As threshold midwife she listens and tends the edges and holy cracks where a psyche the size of Earth, entangles with the human body and psyche, towards a discovery of the pearls and shadowed gems within that lead to one’s unique enchanted love affair, reciprocity, and response ability with the animate Earth & Mystery. An astute tracker of beauty, and the forgotten, forsaken, forbidden and feared, she sensitively and artfully serves to bring us closer to embody the fragrant poem and ecological niche which Earth has imagined as each of us, in service to the greater good of the precious Web of Life. Palika’s learning has encompassed somatics, deep ecology, eco feminisms, living systems and permaculture. She lives and loves on the edges of the mossy Redwood forests, witchy Live Oak coastal lands of the Awaswas peoples, and dark watery depths of the Monterey Bay. Here she paints ceremonial drums, praises, grieves and listens with seal, owl, snake, heron, towhee and coyote.
Events with Palika Wilding
Into the Dark Womb - An Animas Quest for Women - April, 2025April 9 - 20, 2025
Women, do you hear a great love call singing within your bones? A call from the earth, the cosmos and the ancestors, asking you to fully inhabit your true place within the earth community and protect the web of life? We invite you to join us in Washington for a contemporary Western enactment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast ceremony and wilderness rite. This is a unique ceremonial gathering designed specifically and intentionally for women-identified humans seeking greater connection, depth, and clarity about life purpose and meaning. This Quest is intended to serve as a portal through which women might…
Nature and the Human Soul: A Special Online Program for Parents & Educators - May, 2025May 22 - June 27, 2025
This program is offered to parents and educators only. Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, contemporary depth and archetypal psychologies, and twenty-five years of nature-based soul guiding, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation. It’s a blueprint showing how richly we can grow and mature when soul and nature are embraced as our wisest and most trustworthy guides. It includes an integrated set of developmental guidelines that can help every human mature into an adulthood of visionary leadership — precisely what we need in this century if we are to create a just,…
Wild Mind Intensive - June, 2025June 30 - July 4, 2025
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 5-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person, a “shadow” version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), mainstream psychology’s list of what can go wrong with people. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we…
Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive - August 2025August 20 - 24, 2025
The application deadline for this immersion is May 27, 2025. Please submit your application prior to that date. Our guides will review all submitted applications at that time and will reach out shortly afterward. Soulcentric Dreamwork: The Secret Alchemy of the Nightworld The soul yearns to dream itself into the world. Every dream emerges from the mystery of the soul and is an opportunity for our conscious self, our ego, to be further initiated into the secret stream of our deeper life. On this 5-day immersion, you’ll learn what it’s like to enter dreams as mysteries; to boldly and vulnerably…