For thousands of years, girls would play together with their feet on the earth, guided by their aunties, grandmothers, and teachings of old. At Wild Earth’s Dragonfly Sister Circle, Dyami Nason-Regan and Sarai Shapiro will call on the traditions of our foremothers to guide a small group of girls on an earth-based journey.

Informed by the gifts of each season, adventures on the land will include:

• Hands-on learning of native, earth-based crafts using natural materials and ancient techniques.
• Honing our awareness using games, tracking, silence, invisibility and journaling.
• Practicing skills that serve our basic human needs of fire, shelter, water and food.
• Curiosity led exploring and building knowledge of place.
• Opportunities for each girl’s self expression, as well as singing, storytelling, cooking, and enjoying together.

As we uncover the secrets of the natural world, our circle will provide support for each girl’s inner landscape of gifts and passions to be revealed. As each girl explores her inner and outer worlds, she becomes like the dragonfly, emerging from the water to take flight.

Program Information

For: Girls ages 7 to 10
Dates: Five Sundays: January 11, February 1, February 15, March 1, March 15
Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Camp Epworth (High Falls, NY)
Cost: $295 (sibling discounts, payment program available - see registration form)

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Additional Questions and Information

Please call Dyami Nason-Regan at 845-594-4518 with questions about the content of this program, or David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 with questions about registration.

As caretakers of our Mother Earth, we want to relate to her and become increasingly familiar with her gifts and ways. She gives us all of our basic essentials; shelter, water, fire and food. After meeting our basic needs, we begin to learn to foster our feminine gifts to reveal the complex web woven between ourselves and the earth and each other. A shelter turns from sticks and leaves into a home. A harvest of roots and leaves turns into a feast. A spark from a coal turns into a roaring fire, that reflects our light out into the world. And, the water becomes the link between our flow and the Earth’s. In relearning Earth-based skills, we unlock the door to our ancestors, become grounded in the present moment, and may even find the key to our future.

Informed by the gifts of each season, together, we will experience:

• Hands-on learning of native, earth-based crafts using natural materials and ancient techniques.
• Honing our awareness using games, tracking, silence, invisibility and journaling.
• Practicing skills that serve our basic human needs of fire, shelter, water and food.
• Curiosity led exploring and building knowledge of place.
• Opportunities for each girl’s self expression, as well as singing, storytelling, cooking, and enjoying together.

As we uncover the secrets of the natural world, our circle will create a web of support for each girl’s inner landscape of gifts and passions to be revealed.

For: Girls ages 11 to 14
Dates: Sundays: January 4, January 17-19 (Sat-Mon overnight), February 8, February 22, March 8
Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Camp Epworth (High Falls, NY)
Cost: $435 (payment program and sibling discounts apply – see registration form)

Click here to register.

Still have a question? Please call Dyami Nason-Regan at 845-594-4518 with questions about the content of this program, or David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 with questions about registration.

Children ages seven through twelve are invited to join together in uncovering the natural mysteries of the beautiful Shawangunk Ridge and its surrounding rivers and valleys.

For each child, the learning journey begins with a spark of curiosity and passion, which is gently held and fostered through our supportive community of peers and instructors.

Using traditional and modern mentoring techniques, our inspiring instructors, Chris Victor, Dyami Nason-Regan, Sarai Shapiro and Simon Abramson will endeavor to guide your children towards greater awareness and self-confidence.

While enjoying and exploring, singing and storytelling together, we will build deeper knowledge and awareness through:

• Practicing skills that serve our basic human needs of fire, shelter, water and food.

• Hands-on learning of native, earth-based crafts using natural materials and ancient techniques.

• Curiosity led exploring and building knowledge of place through full immersion in our local ecology, geology, geography and topography, and by identifying and understanding local plants and animals.

• Honing our awareness skills using games, tracking, silence, invisibility and journaling.

• Continuously encouraging gratitude and reverence for the earth, with a vision of community based on mutual respect and acknowledgment.

It is with gratitude for the songs, stories, and experience that guided our ancestors and the caretakers of this land, that we joyfully offer Wild Earth’s Cedar Heart Home School Program.

Program Information

For: Boys and Girls ages 7 (by 9/12/08) to 12
Dates: Ten Thursdays: January 8, January 15, January 22, January 29, February 5, February 12, February 26, March 5, March 12 and March 19.
Time: 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Camp Epworth (High Falls, NY)
Cost: $550 (sibling discounts apply see registration form)

Click here to register.

Additional Questions and Information

Please call Dyami Nason-Regan at 845-594-4518 with questions about the content of this program, or David Brownstein at 845-256-9830 with questions about registration.

(Ask yourself - Why should the kids have all the FUN?!)

Who for? All interested adults and teens.

Where? Camp Epworth, High Falls (click here for directions)

Subjects will include, firemaking and tending, tracking, coal burning.  More detailed information will be posted as finalized.

*may go longer than 12:30 though you don’t have to stay

Still have more questions? Please contact (info@wildearthprograms.org) info (at) wildearthprograms (dot) org

See you at Camp Epworth!