Come Wander with Us!
Over the course of 12 months, we’ll gather to support one another in the deepening of our ecological awareness and intimacy with the landscape. We’ll engage and experiment with a wide variety of practices and activities designed to help strengthen our relationships with our bodies, our human community, and the animate world of plants, fungi, animals and microbes that sustains us. Sessions will integrate material learning, sensory awakening, animate land connection, and each session will strive to mirror seasonal variations through both form and content. Although we may visit multiple sites, we’ll remain anchored in one primary location so that we can more deeply explore how relationship to place is nurtured through the seasons of a year.
While journeying through the seasons together is an important part of our intention, we welcome you to join us as often as you're able! Attendance to all sessions is not mandatory.
Topics and activities will vary each time we gather, but are likely to include some of the following, or something similar:
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Foraging
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Field Botany
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Somatic Meditation
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Playful Wandering
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Functional Movement
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Wildlife Tracking
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Conversations with Place
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Seasonal Awareness
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Medicinal Plant ID
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Writing and/or Drawing
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Ethical Wildcrafting
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Solo & Group Games
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Functional Movement
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Experiments in Land Reciprocity
As we come together each month, we'll strive to create the conditions to support one another in a shared journey of developing our ecological literacy and strengthen our ability to tune into our senses, take root in the landscape that helps form our home, and cultivate a vibrant and abiding sense of relationship and mutuality. We hope that participants will conclude the year feeling more resourced and available for connection in all areas of life, with a deepened enthusiasm to care for our shared home.
Where:
Our home-base for the year will be at Rockfish Valley Community Center in Nelson County. Some sessions may involve field trips to nearby areas (within a 15-minute drive around Nelson County), and carpooling will be an option.
For your planning purposes: days that include field trips will likely run 15 minutes over the listed 2-hour time block and will be announced ahead of time.
RVCC is located at:
190 Rockfish School Ln, Nellysford, VA 22920.
When:
~ Two Hour Sessions
~ Third Sunday of Each Month
~ Monthly attendance is not mandatory
May-Sept - 4:30-6:30
Oct-April - 10:30-12:30
2026
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May 17th
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Jun 21st
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Jul 19th
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Aug 16th
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Sep 20th
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Oct 18th
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Nov 15th
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Dec 20th
2027
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Jan 17th
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Feb 21st.
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Mar 21st
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Apr 18th
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Who Should Attend?
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Anybody, including youth who are able to participate in group activities.
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Participation at each meeting is not required, although it is invited/encouraged to create continuity.
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Note on accessibility- participants can expect some amount of walking/overland transport at every meeting; however, somatic explorations and play can be otherwise modified to personal needs. Please reach out if you have questions about any particular month’s meeting, field trip, or other details.
What to bring:
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A journal/sketchbook and something to write/draw with if desired
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Weather appropriate clothing and related gear for personal comfort (sessions held rain or shine, except during extreme weather)
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Snacks & water
Instructors
Soizic Ziegler
As a core member of the Stone River instructor cadre and as one of our wilderness guides, Soizic draws from a diverse background in ecological design, naturalist studies, integrative bodywork, Montessori education, wilderness skills, and the hearth-tending arts. As a practicing licensed massage therapist rooted in the energetic lineage of Chinese Medicine, she brings a much needed perspective to our team with regard to one of the central objectives of SRI – helping folks explore the inherent genius of our own animal bodies and how we relate to the animate earth. Outside of her work with SRI, her days are often filled with bodywork, riding and tending horses, gardening, wild harvesting, and spending lots of time with loved ones.
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Victoria Moyer
Victoria cross-pollinates the fields of ecology and embodiment through: growing plants/tending landscapes, facilitating somatic movement therapy and educational experiences, teaching nature connection through ecological literacy and kincentric* practice, making collaborative art, and practicing community herbalism. Before focusing more wholly on the eco-somatic and horticultural realm, they worked in fields such as holistic therapeutic/psychiatric/anti-psychiatric care and theater/dance, and these experiences had a formative impact. They are currently a part of Little Bluestem, a small organization and nursery in Afton who celebrates the lineage of plants and place through growing and sharing local genotype native plants and collaborating on land-based projects. Victoria also provides individual somatic support through Body Metta Spore (www.bodymettaspore.com). Details regarding training and lineage can also be found on their website.
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*a term first developed and used by Dennis Martinez and Enrique Salmón