in the Wild Becoming Sanctuary

A potent gathering place for deep, earth-honoring souls at the threshold of becoming more fully & wildly themselves.

Spring

Devoted to the Re-enchantment of Everyday Life ~ through the Art of Deepest Belonging.

we welcome you who~

Stands at the threshold of a wild call home, a rite of passage, a new way being born, a momentous ending, a quantum shift in identity.

Craves a deep, soul-level adventure with the mysteries, folklore
& earth-wisdom of Spring.

Feels deeply drawn to other ways of knowing ~ the intuitive arts, nature mysticism, otherworld journeys, divination, ancestral connection & more, as important pathways to the transformation of self and culture.

Seeks soul-centered, imaginative community carefully crafted for boldly & lovingly navigating these initiatory times together.

The Wild Becoming Sanctuary is a membership community for enhancing understanding of your soul’s identity, purpose and unique medicine. Through ancient shamanic practices and earth-based ways of knowing, we journey through the many thresholds of the year’s turning, learning from each season how to become more fully ourselves… and far less of all we’ve been conditioned to be.

This Spring in the sanctuary, we offer you the mythic soul-task of moving your body back out into the Land, inviting Mystery to play its proper role in your soul’s unfurling.

Our mythic healing task is to court devotion to what you most desire, in a culture that strives to keep you busy, pious and apathetic.

Our mythic threshold crossing will be to make & break vows consciously, in service to our soul’s current-most calling.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
― Rainer Maria Rilke

A Simple Membership with Jewels for the Soul…

The Wild Becoming Sanctuary invites you to do the simplest (and sometimes most difficult) thing: Set aside 90 minutes each week to go on a date with your Soul… court your own wildness and be willing to see where she’s leading you.

We believe becoming soul-led again is one of the vital-most tasks of this moment on Earth. When we’re in an on-going love affair with our soul— our deeper identity, our radical belonging, our life’s purpose— magic happens.

What your membership includes:

Weekly Soul Dates:
Self-led portals to your wild becoming

  • Soul Dates are self-led activities, Otherworld journeys, nature wanders and other simple yet powerful rituals specifically designed to help you discover & develop your deeper calling and identity. They will also aid the healing of wounds blocking your gifts and medicine. They follow the movement of the turning Wheel of the Year, helping you align your soul-scape with the Soul of the World’s seasonal wisdom.

    There are two new Soul Dates each month + dozens to explore in the ever-expanding library.

Live community gatherings:
Council of the Muse, Dream Circles & Cauldron Hours

  • Be supported in real time throughout the month:

    • LIVE MONTHLY COUNCIL OF THE MUSE. Seasonally-themed mini-course + sacred council. Share your experiences in a poetic, loving atmosphere that welcomes your truth.

    • MONTHLY OFFICE HOURS (Cauldron Hours) live w/Amanda to be guided in community, during our monthly integration week.

    • MONTHLY DREAMWORK CIRCLES for working with our nighttime visions, which are born of the soul’s wisdom.

Keys to the Garden:
A Course in Unlocking Your Soul Powers & Purpose

  • In this special course filled with myth & medicine for the soul, Amanda teaches the 5 core ideas & practices behind her weekly Soul Dates.

    She’ll illuminate how they can and will help you more fully understand and take up your sacred place in the world.

    This potent audio journey will help you get the most out of the material offered in the Wild Becoming Sanctuary and might just change the way you think about your life and soul-path forever!

  • The Wild Becoming Sanctuary feels at once like a patch of moss where I get to rest my body in the dense forest of life & a feast of the most nutrient-rich food for my Soul.

    — ALANA D.

  • I am very grateful to have found this sanctuary. It has been so supportive for me during a season of personal tumult and change. Anchoring into my soul's own knowing in community through earth-loving practices and ancestral wisdom has been truly nourishing. It is such a gift to feel held by fellow soul-seekers, dreamers, and creatives who are also living big questions and listening deeply to the song of the earth.

    — STELLA M.

  • The sanctuary provides a nurturing space in which I can listen deeply and receive insights and wisdom from my ancient teachers and guides. With each invitation I am gently nudged from my day to day and able to slip easily into the pool of alignment with my soul self. It is spellwork! Amanda has a way of casting a story that draws one in to a place that one never wishes to leave...it's pure magic.

    — KATY R.

  • I just cannot begin to say what Amanda's writing, truth-telling and artistic language do for me. Her words are crafted with wisdom from her bones, medicine from the ancestors, and magic that only she holds. And little by little, I feel my own courage rising up, to share what is in me too.

    LYNN T.

  • The sanctuary is a treasure trove, and I love all the various riches that reside in it. The live calls with Amanda are especially powerful, and I really appreciate the audio recordings of the soul dates. Most of all I love the classroom-like structure to explore the wildness of my soul… It’s something I’ve been looking for for a very long time. I would recommend the sanctuary to anyone on a spiritual journey of reclaiming of the power of the divine feminine. I am so grateful.

    — GRACE M.

  • The Hearth (the sanctuary's main hub) is just that: a warm, welcoming room full of magic and wonder. A place to lose yourself and find your way.

    — JENN P.

  • The sanctuary has supported me in moving more deeply towards my own soul scape and connecting me to my own wild belonging. Amanda’s reflections, invitations, questions and insights are nourishing, wise and powerful, and always delivered with gentleness and humility. Her dedication and passion for this work is evident in every offering which has the mark of love. This sanctuary brings much needed encouragement and guidance in courting one’s soul and joyfully participating in the great web of being.

    — JENNIFER P.

Join us monthly, for a season, or for the full Wheel of the Year.

Pause or cancel anytime.
A 7-day free trial is included.

$44 / month

$33 / month

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The Spring Journey

March 29-June 1

Courting Devotion to the Wilder-ness.

March 29-31: Keys to the Garden

A Virtual Weekend Retreat for the Soul’s Becoming.
featuring 5 essential, earth-based practices for unlocking your soul’s power, purpose & peace.

Live course taught over 3 days, through 5, 90-minute sessions, with ample time for practicing the invitations offered before, between or after live sessions. Replay + shorter, audio version of this course available indefinitely to sanctuary members.

April: Muse in the Forest

Reconnecting with the Land, the Waters, the Sky & the Wild Wood through ancient fertility & oracular practices. Becoming lighter and warmer, fertile for the wild love that longs to flourish in the Land of our Destiny.

Council of the Muse Live Monthly Gathering to establish our theme & share in community, 2 supporting, self-led Soul Dates + MONTHLY CAULDRON HOURS & DREAMWORK CIRCLE

May: The Inner Beloved

A powerful, month-long journey with the Inner Beloved, the Spirit Spouse, the Wild Forest God & archetypal Lover courting us at the edges where all we’ve yet to know about ourselves awaits.

Council of the Muse Live Monthly Gathering to establish our theme & share in community, 2 supporting, self-led Soul Dates + MONTHLY CAULDRON HOURS & DREAMWORK CIRCLE

Join us monthly, for a season, or for the full Wheel of the Year.

Pause or cancel anytime.
A 7-day free trial is included.

$44 / month

$33 / month

  • Despite the immense challenges of the pandemic, many of us also encountered something holy awakening within us… a longing, a pacing that’s much slower, a healing crisis, a vision for what we want to be, do, or create. We don’t want any of us to lose what was gained during that intense passage. The Wild Becoming Sanctuary offers you a place where you can keep coming back to that vision— whether it’s a need for consistent self-tending, creative well-being or a committed exploration and acceptance of your true power and purpose.

  • From sacred time spent in nature, to journaling rituals, seasonal ceremonies, spells & charms, poetry, divination & sacred council— together we’re remembering other ways of knowing that foster wisdom & connection beyond what the thinking mind is designed for or even capable of. These ancient, highly sense-oriented practices, when wisely shaped to assist the modern soul, are essential in helping us heal, evolve and create life-affirming culture together. We believe these practices require no special talent outside of being a soul-seeking human. You may be wishing to deepen established skills or discover them for the first time. Either way, Wild Becoming welcomes those who are inspired & called to hone such skills.

  • For most of us, there is often immense tension between the inner realms where our spiritual practice, art, and deeper callings live and the day-to-day obligations of work, family and community. We’ve been well-trained in “self-improvement,” often turning away from the most tender parts of ourselves or discounted our belief in the magic of life. But life’s pain, enchantments and shadows are all holy ground.

    In this work, your everyday life is the raw material for your Soul Dates so that, overtime, there is increasing harmony between your inner life and your outer, lived life. We invite you to look upon everything and everyone, including and beyond the human world, as The Sacred Other.

  • We have so much medicine for each other. When we create an atmosphere of dignity and magic, we naturally mirror for each other the power, Beauty and untended pain we struggle to recognize in ourselves. Our path is ours alone to walk, but when we make time to meander close to others’ paths for a while, we are so deeply fed. Then, we continue on fortified by community. The Wild Becoming Sanctuary is not concerned with “what you do” or the usual “niceties.” Here, we side-step chitchat and welcome the deeper story of who you are to emerge. We invite you to witness yourself and others trying on their own truth, adorning ourselves with authentic expression and re-membering who we truly are.

  • Enchantment lay at the center of our prayers for this space. We feel it is one of the key, overarching medicines needed at this time on the planet. Nothing excites us more than being a guide to those seeking to fall deeply in love— with their lives, the Earth and each other. We welcome all the rule-breaking, tenderness, spontaneous expression, dissolution and radical honesty that come with rewilding ourselves and our culture.

A PRAYER
for What May Be Gained

Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent.

— JOHN O’DONAHUE

Who Am I?

Hello, Beloved!

My name is Amanda, affectionately called “Love Story” by the Soul of the World. I’m an initiated medicine woman in my ancestral Celtic tradition, a certified shamanic practitioner, a rites of passage guide, poet-mystic and a seeker, like you. But more importantly, I am the one re-membering a Great Love Story back into the broken heart of the world, and I am the one who Sings Flesh on the Bones of Magnificence.

Who are you, a chara (dear friend)?

Despite an adventurous, spiritual life, when my son was born 9 years ago he brought into sharp focus the truth that I didn’t really know who I was or how I belonged. Once I named my deepest longing, the world began to open to me in the most enchanting and deeply moving ways. This gave me the courage to seek deep, ongoing healing for my wounds and highest expression for my gifts.

The quest continues, and it’s not one to undertake alone. Out of the fertile ground of my own initiation, in partnership with my guides, the Earth and the teachings of many wise humans come before me, I developed the Wild Becoming Way— a deeply feminine, earth-based, and radical-practical pathway for coming home to ourselves while healing from patriarchal wounds to our creative well-being.

Led by the mythic wisdom of the Wheel of the Year and the callings of your own soul, the Wild Becoming Sanctuary offers a guided journey devoted to helping you become more of who you truly are… and far less of all you’ve been conditioned to be.

I created this space because I love & long to be in community around the magical, healing art of Who Am I? Why did I come? What holy longing will I next pursue?

I long to see our individual and collective medicine bloom like thunder across a world thirsty for our full participation.

FAQ

  • The Wild Becoming Sanctuary is open to all gender expressions, backgrounds and cultural heritages who deeply resonate with this space and its purpose. That said, we are deeply involved in the re-membering of the sacred arts of the wild feminine, in other ways of knowing and with dis-membering the patriarchy. You will want to be not just open to that, but deeply craving it.

  • There is a 7-day free trial. There are no refunds beyond that, but you can pause or cancel your membership anytime.

  • No. Although I will predominantly share Celtic myths & stories, and often speak through the lens of Celtic pre-christian spirituality because it is my lineage, I encourage everyone to tune deeply into & explore their unique path and heritage. I’m devoted to speaking strictly from what I know while extending deepest hospitality to all. Take what you like & leave the rest!

  • The WB Sanctuary is a Mighty Network. This means it is a completely private space.

  • Very witchy, very woo… AND very grounded in the practical magic of what works best to bring us fully alive to our gifts & power. This is a secular-paganistic space which seeks to upend industrial-patriarchal & oppressive religious conditioning.

Seek not the answers, but a belonging in the mystery.

— UNKNOWN