In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: "Go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again."
WILD! Healing is a return to that ancient remembering. It is not simply a program. It is a pilgrimage — a medicine walk across time and continents, guided by healers, farmers, herbalists, and wisdom keepers who still remember how to call the body back to life. Across two days of virtual immersion, you travel a living landscape of ancestral healing, culminating in a third day on the land: a glorious feast and festival in the woods, where the community celebrates the miracle of healing and honors those who heal the healers.
Why now
A refusal to surrender our bodies
We have all been witness — to the poisoning of our food and water, to the slow violence of a world that forgot how sacred the body is, to the diseases awakened inside us.
And still, you are here. Still breathing. Still searching for a path back to life. WILD! Healing gathers international healers, farmers, herbalists, and physicians not to dominate illness, but to outnumber it with wisdom. It is an infrastructure of survival — a living sanctuary where healing is communal, sacred, and possible.
Meet Our Past Luminaries
Honoring the supporters and partners of Restore Forward and The Reconciliation Center, whose extraordinary work and enduring legacies enrich our lives.
For the ones who know the language of symptoms, who have heard the word diagnosis spoken aloud, who live with the quiet vigilance of survival — this letter is for you.
Choose how you'll join the circle — the two online days, the gathering on the land, or a patron seat that holds space for someone who couldn't otherwise be there.
Leave your email for occasional word on WILD! Healing — the program, the speakers, and the gathering on the land. No noise, only what matters.
The Invitation
A love letter to those who survived illness
Read it slowly. It was written for you.
Beloved,
This is a call to healing. Not the kind that comes only in sterile rooms or printed prescriptions. But the kind that rises from the earth itself. The kind that remembers what our ancestors knew before forgetting became policy. Before healing became industry. Before the language of medicine stopped listening to the wisdom of plants and soil and rivers.
There are ways we have forgotten.
Ways that knew how to cool inflammation with leaves.Ways that knew how to strengthen blood with roots.Ways that knew how to quiet the nervous system with the rhythm of drum and breath.Ways that taught the body how to return.
And now the whisper is rising again. From forests. From farms. From grandmothers who still remember the names of plants. From great-grandmothers whose prayers still hover over our bloodlines.
They whisper across time: You were never meant to heal alone.
This is an invitation. An invitation to step into an infrastructure of survival. A living sanctuary where we begin again. A place where healing is not rushed. Where bodies are listened to. Where symptoms are not dismissed but understood as messages.
A place where we walk with medicine. Where we learn the language of herbs again. Where food returns to its sacred role as nourishment, not harm. Where the soil teaches the body how to regenerate. Where international healers, farmers, herbalists, and physicians gather not to dominate illness, but to outnumber it with wisdom.
A place where we remember that healing is communal. And sacred. And possible.
We call it WILD! Healing.
Not wild in chaos. Wild in the way forests are wild — self-repairing, intelligent, abundant with remedies waiting to be discovered.
Here we resurrect knowledge buried beneath centuries of forgetting. Here we make room for miracles. Here we honor those who have survived illness and those who stand beside them. Here we sit at long tables beneath trees and eat foods that nourish the blood. Here drums echo through the woods and dancers carry the stories of resilience in their feet. Here the healers are honored. And the healers of healers are honored too.
And as the evening lanterns glow between the trees, something ancient happens again. A remembering. You begin to feel it in your chest. A softening. A breath that travels deeper than it has in years.
And perhaps, just perhaps, you hear them. The voices of your grandmothers. The voices of your great-grandmothers. Leaning close to your spirit. Whispering over your life the words that have always belonged to you:
Be well.
So we ask you now — gently, with reverence for everything you have endured:
Are you ready to be well?
If you are — come walk with us. Come walk with the medicines. Come walk toward the miracle of your own healing.
You enter through a digital gateway — an opening ritual that calls the spirit of the plants, the ancestors, and the land. A singing bowl rings. A drumbeat begins. The screen opens onto forests, gardens, and medicine fields from around the world. A voice says: "Welcome to the medicine walk."
Sep9
Day One · September 9 · Online
The Remembering
— the ancestral pharmacopeia of the earth
The day unfolds like walking through a forest of knowledge. Each plant is introduced like an elder — not as a commodity, but as a living teacher.
Opening invocation
A global circle of healers
Healers open the gathering with blessings from their traditions.
African herbalistsIndigenous medicine keepersCaribbean bush doctorsRegenerative farmersIntegrative physicians & nutritionists
The Earth has never stopped trying to heal us. We simply forgot how to listen.
The virtual medicine walk
Through fields and forests
A guided digital walk through the Restore Forward land and partner healing gardens across the world. Cameras move slowly through:
fields of moringabeds of lemongrassforests of birch & hemlockrows of healing herbs & regenerative crops
how plants regulate inflammation
how herbs restore immune surveillance
how ancestral remedies resurrect metabolic health
how food becomes medicine again
What plant is calling you back to life?
Herbalism master classes
Immersive teachings from international herbalists
The Resurrection Pharmacopeia
How traditional medicine systems used herbs to restore vitality after illness and exhaustion.
Food as Medicine
Healing through:
anti-inflammatory foods
ancestral fermentation
metabolic repair
microbiome restoration
Participants cook alongside healers in real time. The kitchen becomes laboratory. Food becomes ceremony.
Healing journeys
The afternoon turns inward
Guided practices of cellular restoration:
nervous system resetbreathworkancestral meditationsound healing
Your body is not broken. It is waiting to resurrect itself.
Sep10
Day Two · September 10 · Online
The Resurrection
— the miracle of repair
Day two moves from knowledge to embodiment. You return to the medicine walk, but now you are asked to see yourself differently — not as a patient, not as a consumer, but as a steward of healing.
Farm immersion
The land heals us back
Travel virtually through the Restore Forward healing landscape and witness:
regenerative farming practicesmedicinal gardensforest medicine ecosystemshealing retreat spaces
Learn how soil health, microbial diversity, and plant medicine directly influence human immunity, mental health, and metabolic repair. When the land regenerates, people regenerate.
The Earth is not just where healing happens. The Earth is the healer.
International healing wisdom panels
Traditions that survived erasure
Healers from around the world share traditions that have survived colonization, industrialization, and medical erasure:
African plant medicineIndigenous nervous system healingCaribbean bush medicinefermentation & longevity dietsritual & movement medicine
Stories of miraculous recoveries. Bodies restored. Communities healed. People rising again.
Sep11
Day Three · September 11 · On the road
The Journey
— the day you set out for the land
Day three moves from embodiment to the road. This is the journey itself — you travel to the land, body settled for the trip, arriving where the gathering unfolds in person on September 12. Now you set out for the woods — settled, awake, and holding what you chose to bring.
A word for the road
Why the land is medicine
A truth carried down through Indigenous lineage, to hold as you travel: that the land is not a backdrop to healing, but the healer itself.
the land as ancestorthe spiritual side of healinggrief as medicinereciprocity with the earth
In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again. Day three is the day you begin to walk.
You do not travel to the land to be healed by it. You travel to remember you were never separate from it.
An offering of your own
A way to honor someone
After all you have received across Day One and Day Two, the journey opens a ritual that is yours alone. A seed or a tree to plant, or a small thing you hold dear — brought to the land in honor of a name:
a seed, for someone who didn't make ita tree, for someone healing right nowa keepsake, in honor of yourself
name the one it is for, and why
keep it close as you travel
let what you feel travel alongside it
plant it, or leave it, on the land
What will you bring, and whose name will you speak into the soil?
Preparing the body for the journey
Keep your nervous system regulated
A pilgrimage is asked of the body as much as the spirit. We know there's a flight to catch, a ride to arrange, a train to board. Before you close the screen and set out, you tend the nervous system so you travel settled, open, and awake:
grounding & breathworkancestral prayer for the roadsetting an intention for arrival
This day is a pilgrimage, a medicine walk across time and continents; you travel regulated, holding what you chose to bring, ready to arrive not as a guest but as one coming home.
The journey to the land is just as sacred as the land itself.
Getting there
How to reach the land
The gathering is on the land at Restore Forward, Ava, New York. However you travel, here's how to arrive:
By air
From your destination city, the nearest airport to listed lodging and the event site is Syracuse Hancock International Airport. From the airport, it's about an hour's drive to Restore Forward.
As dusk settles over the forest, lanterns glow between the trees. Tables are set beneath the canopy. Wildflowers and branches decorate the space. The air fills with the sound of drums. This is not a gala — this is a ceremony of gratitude.
The dinner is prepared entirely with healing foods. Each dish tells a story of land and lineage. Food becomes prayer.
Regenerative vegetables from the land
Medicinal herbs introduced like elders
Ancestral grains that carry lineage
Fermented tonics for the microbiome
Restorative broths to nourish the blood
The Performance
The forest becomes a stage
Drummers begin. Dancers emerge from between the trees. Ancestral movement traditions unfold — African healing dances, Caribbean rhythm ceremonies, Indigenous drum invocations. The performance tells the story of humanity's relationship with the earth.
How we forgot. How we suffered. How we returned.
Honoring the Healers
At the height of the evening, the gathering pauses
Names are called. Those who heal the healers are honored — and each honoree receives a blessing. The crowd stands. Drums rise.
community herbalistsmidwivesfarmerscaregiversphysicianseldersactivists who refused to let their people disappear
Miracles are not accidents. They are what happens when we remember how to live.
The Closing Ritual
Around a communal fire
The lead elder speaks. The invitation is clear: this program is not the end of the journey — it is the beginning. A return to the sacred responsibility of healing ourselves, our communities, and the land.
"In the days of old, people could rise. Not because they were stronger, but because they remembered who they were."
On the land · self-guided
Walk the grounds at your own rhythm
Between the gatherings, the land holds quiet stations — practices to wander into whenever the spirit calls.
Forest bathing
Slow immersion among the trees — letting the woods reach the nervous system.
Fire & drum circle
Rhythm and flame after dark — the oldest medicine for the body and the chest.
Dedicate a tree
Plant and name a tree on the land — a living root left behind for those who come after.
The Mother Tree
Meditation and care at the oldest tree — supporting the one that supports the grove.
Self-guided harvesting
Planting, seeding, weeding — learning stations for hands in the soil.
Grounding station
Bare feet, breath, and earth — a place to remember the body belongs here.
Stargazing
As the lanterns dim, the sky opens — quiet wonder beneath the canopy's edge.
Breathwork & yoga
Self-guided movement and breath in the open air, at your own pace.
Learning stations
Short self-paced workshops scattered through the grounds — medicine walks and more.
Where we gather
Ava, New York
11518 Webster Hill Road Ava, NY 13309
The in-person gathering on Day Three unfolds on the Restore Forward land — in the forests and fields of upstate New York.
Tickets are open. Choose how you'll walk with us — join the two online days, come to the gathering on the land, or fund a seat for someone who needs one.
Leave your email and we'll keep you posted on the gathering — and nothing else.
Bringing a group, an elder, a healer to honor, or hoping to partner with us? Get in touch or write to info@restoreny.org, and tell us who you'd walk in with.
Contact
Reach the circle
Questions about the gathering, bringing a group, partnering with us, or a healer you'd like to honor — write below, or email us directly. A real person reads every note.
Send a message
Write to us
Tell us a little about why you're reaching out — we'll write back.
Prefer email?
Write to us directly
Email the team anytime. A real person reads every message and will write back — usually within a few days, and sooner as the gathering nears.
Dr. Jesse A. Stoff is an integrative physician and clinical immunologist who has spent more than three decades focused on the immune system and its role in healing. He earned his BA in biology, cum laude, from Adelphi University, and his MD from New York Medical College in 1981 — followed by postgraduate training that included a family-practice residency year and a fellowship in emergency medicine, and postdoctoral study in clinical medicine and homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital in London, England.
He is founder and Medical Director of Integrative Medicine of New York (formerly Linchitz Medical Wellness) on Long Island, where the work centers on immunotherapy for autoimmune disease, onco-immunology for cancer, and preventative medicine. His approach draws on clinical immunology and the principle of biochemical individuality, integrating conventional and holistic modalities to help restore immune function and the body’s own capacity to heal. He has taught integrative immunology within Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona and consulted for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
Beyond his practice, Dr. Stoff founded the Stoff Institute for Medical Research, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to public education, patient advocacy, and consultation on immune-system disorders and immune reconstitution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Longevity Medicine, an elected member of the Male Breast Cancer Coalition’s Clinical Advisory Board, and serves on the executive board of the New York Cancer Resource Alliance.
A prolific author, he is best known for the bestselling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic and The Prostate Miracle, and more recently the medical text Clinical Immunology, Volume 1: Integrative Onco-Immunology — reflecting a career-long emphasis on integrative, immune-centered care.
MD, New York Medical College (1981); BA in biology, Adelphi University
Postdoctoral study in homeopathy, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital
Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP)
Fellow, American College of Longevity Medicine
Founder & Medical Director, Integrative Medicine of New York
Founder, Stoff Institute for Medical Research (501c3)
Focus: clinical immunology, integrative onco-immunology, autoimmune & preventative medicine
Selected booksChronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic · The Prostate Miracle · Clinical Immunology, Vol. 1: Integrative Onco-Immunology
Tickets are open. Join the speakers at WILD! Healing — September 9–12, 2026.
Dr. Dieudonné Jean-Baptiste is a Haitian physician and the founder and lead physician of La Clinique PHI — Priorité Santé Internationale — a functional, integrative and longevity medicine practice in Pétion-Ville, in metropolitan Port-au-Prince. He holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science in Public Health from the Université de Montréal, and is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP).
His clinical philosophy is rooted in what he calls la médecine des causes — the medicine of root causes. Rather than treating disease by name, PHI seeks to understand why the body has lost its capacity to repair itself, and to help it recover that capacity. Conventional medicine, as he frames it, excels at managing crises and relieving symptoms; but for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and persistent fatigue, his work asks why the problem appeared in the first place — with an emphasis on the foundations of health: sleep, stress, movement and nutrition.
At La Clinique PHI, care follows a structured method of evaluation, treatment, reassessment and follow-up, guided by three stated values: scientific excellence, transparency and education, and integrity and empathy. The clinic frames its mission as transforming health through the medicine of causes, under the tagline “La médecine, autrement !” — “Medicine, differently.”
Dr. Jean-Baptiste is an active public voice for functional medicine in Haiti, featured by the Haitian outlet Juno7 and interviewed on LE POINT, the current-affairs program of Métropole Télé, on his root-cause approach to chronic disease and healthy longevity. He also writes for the clinic’s blog, teaching on topics from detoxification to metabolic health.
Founder & lead physician, La Clinique PHI (Priorité Santé Internationale), Pétion-Ville, Haiti
MD · MSc, Public Health, Université de Montréal
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP)
Practices functional / integrative / longevity (“root-cause”) medicine
Public advocate for functional medicine in Haitian media (Juno7; LE POINT / Métropole Télé)
Tickets are open. Join the speakers at WILD! Healing — September 9–12, 2026.
The WILD! Healing gathers on the land at Restore Forward, Ava, New York. However you travel, here's how to arrive.
By air
From your destination city, the nearest airport to listed lodging and the event site is Syracuse Hancock International Airport. From the airport, it's about an hour's drive to Restore Forward.
The nearest Amtrak station is Utica — about a 35-minute drive from the land at Restore Forward.
43.4136° N · 75.3993° W
WILD! Stays
Lodges, hotels, treehouses, and grottos
Located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, the location boasts more than 2,000 miles of hiking trails, over 3,000 lakes and ponds and 1,200 miles of rivers. Restore Forward's land features pavilions and hammocks, meditation yurts, an open meadow, and a 12,000 square foot event space. If you walk to the edge of the forest you will find a peaceful point. We are a preservation space for the natural world, including wetlands and Monarch butterflies. The land lends guests to hours of sun and forest bathing. The Gala will take place in the Woods at Restore Forward.
Nearby hotels, lodges & rentals — approximate drive times from Boonville, NY
Join us for an unforgettable evening in the woods, and help us make WILD! Healing, a Harvest of Medicine, a success! This unique Feast and Festival will feature a Dinner and Theater performance by our artists and youth in residence.
Volunteer Opportunities: We are looking for 100 WILD! Volunteers to help with various tasks to ensure the event runs smoothly on-site.
Roles include
Event Setup and Breakdown
Registration and Guest Services
Food and Beverage Service
Parking and Transportation Assistance
Performance Support
General Support
Logistics Coordinators
Technical Support
Hospitality Hosts
Environmental Stewards
Medical and Safety Support
Runners
Social Media and Photography
Why volunteer?
Be part of a meaningful initiative that promotes mental health through arts and nature.
Gain experience in event management and hospitality.
Network with professionals and community leaders.
Enjoy the beautiful setting of The Clearing at Restore Forward.
Honoring the supporters and partners of Restore Forward and The Reconciliation Center, whose extraordinary work and enduring legacies enrich our lives.
Minnie GarrowForest of Herbs and Botanicals
Abigail DisneyLegacy Theater
Tarana BurkeCenters for Recy Taylor
Ariel JacobsonChildren's Natural Playscape
Dara CooperFood Sovereignty Farm
Robert BurgdorfLegacy Library
Iakowi:he'ne' OakesPeople of the Flint / Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Lisa LatochaPeople of the Standing Stone / Onyota'a:ka
Monica DennisPeace and Meditation Garden
Imara JonesSacred Haven
Adeline AzrackDreamer's Meeting Point
Luz Marquez BenbowHolistic Medicine Grove
Dorothy Pitman HughesLegacy Forest East
Ntozake ShangeLegacy Forest South
Carolyn NussbaumWomen’s Freedom Lounge
Stephen FantuzzoFountain of Equality
Nan StolzenburgPeaceful Edge
Rebecca MinasUniversal Design Lab
Cheyenna WeberCooperative Trails
Jim JohnsonCooperative Trails
Greg LesniakGuardians of Hidden Waters
Robinson LynnClearing of Infinite Pathways
Women of the NBFJASeed and Food Ceremonial Space
KalliopeiaThe Kalliopeia Foundation Pond
H.O.L.L.ARadical Healing and Resistance Camp
Restore ForwardFounding Cooperative Board
Restore Forward Board
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Meet Our Past Luminaries
Honoring the supporters and partners of Restore Forward and The Reconciliation Center, whose extraordinary work and enduring legacies enrich our lives.
Robert BurgdorfLegacy Library
Carolyn NussbaumWomen’s Freedom Lounge
Stephen FantuzzoFountain of Equality
Nan StolzenburgPeaceful Edge
Minnie GarrowForest of Herbs and Botanicals
Rebecca MinasUniversal Design Lab
Cheyenna WeberCooperative Trails
Jim JohnsonCooperative Trails
Greg LesniakGuardians of Hidden Waters
Robinson LynnClearing of Infinite Pathways
Women of the NBFJASeed and Food Ceremonial Space
KalliopeiaThe Kalliopeia Foundation Pond
H.O.L.L.ARadical Healing and Resistance Camp
Restore ForwardFounding Cooperative Board
Restore Forward Board
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The Invitation
A love letter to those who survived illness
Read it slowly. It was written for you.
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Plan your visit · Sept 12 · On the land
Info
Everything you need for your visit — how to reach the land, and where to stay.
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In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: "Go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again."
WILD! Healing is a return to that ancient remembering. It is not simply a program. It is a pilgrimage — a medicine walk across time and continents, guided by healers, farmers, herbalists, and wisdom keepers who still remember how to call the body back to life. Across two days of virtual immersion, you travel a living landscape of ancestral healing, culminating in a third day on the land: a glorious feast and festival in the woods, where the community celebrates the miracle of healing and honors those who heal the healers.
Archived · The Journey (Day Three) — pre-revision snapshot (2026-07-05)
Sep11
Day Three · September 11 · On the road
The Journey
— the threshold between the screen and the soil
Day three moves from embodiment to passage. This is the journey itself — you travel to the land, body settled for the road, arriving where the gathering unfolds in person on September 12. You have remembered; you have begun to resurrect. Now you set out for the woods — settled, awake, and holding what you chose to bring.
A word for the road
Why the land is medicine
A truth carried down through Indigenous lineage, to hold as you travel: that the land is not a backdrop to healing, but the healer itself.
the land as ancestorthe spiritual side of healinggrief as medicinereciprocity with the earth
In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again. Day three is the day you begin to walk.
You do not travel to the land to be healed by it. You travel to remember you were never separate from it.
The bring-something-to-plant ceremony
Choose what you will bring
After all you have received across Day One and Day Two, the journey offers you a ritual of your own. A seed or a tree to plant, or a small thing you hold dear — brought to the land in honor of a name:
a seed, for someone who didn't make ita tree, for someone healing right nowa planting, in honor of yourself
name the one you carry, and why
hold the seed or root as you make the passage
let the grief and the gratitude travel with you
plant it on the land — a living root left behind
What will you plant, and whose name will you speak into the soil?
Preparing the body for the passage
Keep your nervous system regulated
A pilgrimage is asked of the body as much as the spirit. Before you close the screen and set out, you tend the nervous system so you travel settled, open, and awake:
grounding & breathworknervous system regulationancestral prayer for the roadsetting an intention for arrival
This is not simply a program. It is a pilgrimage — a medicine walk across time and continents. You leave the screen regulated, carrying your seed, ready to arrive not as a guest but as one coming home.
The journey to the land is just as sacred as the land itself.
Getting there
How to reach the land
The gathering is on the land at Restore Forward, Ava, New York. However you travel, here's how to arrive:
By air
From your destination city, the nearest airport to listed lodging and the event site is Syracuse Hancock International Airport. From the airport, it's about an hour's drive to Restore Forward.
Choose how you'll join the circle — the two online days, the gathering on the land, or a patron seat that holds space for someone who couldn't otherwise be there.
OnlineSummit PassBoth online days — Sept 17 & 18. Join the virtual summit from anywhere.
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Robert BurgdorfIn their honorThe Legacy Library
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Plan your visit · Sept 12 · On the land
Info
Everything you need for your visit — how to reach the land, and where to stay.
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RSVP now open · Sept 9–12, 2026WILD! Healing 2026 — a harvest of medicine
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You’re invited
WILD! Healing 2026
A four-day medicine walk across cultures and landscapes — three days of virtual immersion, then a gathering on the land. Led by healers, farmers, and wisdom keepers, it’s a return to ancestral plant medicine and the work of calling the body back to life. September 9–12 · Ava, New York & Online.
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You’re invited
WILD! Healing 2026
A four-day medicine walk across cultures and landscapes — three days of virtual immersion, then a gathering on the land. Led by healers, farmers, and wisdom keepers, it’s a return to ancestral plant medicine and the work of calling the body back to life. September 9–12 · Ava, New York & Online.
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You’re invited · Sept 9–12, 2026
WILD! Healing 2026
A harvest of medicine.
WILD! Healing is a four-day medicine walk across cultures and landscapes — three days of virtual immersion, then a gathering on the land. Healers, farmers, herbalists, and wisdom keepers guide a return to ancestral plant medicine, culminating in a lantern-lit feast in the woods of Ava, New York.
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You’re invited · Sept 9–12, 2026
WILD! Healing 2026
A four-day medicine walk — three days of virtual immersion, then a gathering on the land at Ava, New York. A refusal to surrender our bodies, and an invitation to walk back and get what was lost.
Day three moves from embodiment to the road. This is the journey itself — you travel to the land, body settled for the trip, arriving where the gathering unfolds in person on September 12. Now you set out for the woods — settled, awake, and holding what you chose to bring.
A word for the road
Why the land is medicine
A truth carried down through Indigenous lineage, to hold as you travel: that the land is not a backdrop to healing, but the healer itself.
the land as ancestorthe spiritual side of healinggrief as medicinereciprocity with the earth
In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again. Day three is the day you begin to walk.
You do not travel to the land to be healed by it. You travel to remember you were never separate from it.
An offering of your own
A way to honor someone
After all you have received across Day One and Day Two, the journey opens a ritual that is yours alone. A seed or a tree to plant, or a small thing you hold dear — brought to the land in honor of a name:
a seed, for someone who didn't make ita tree, for someone healing right nowa keepsake, in honor of yourself
name the one it is for, and why
keep it close as you travel
let what you feel travel alongside it
plant it, or leave it, on the land
What will you bring, and whose name will you speak into the soil?
Preparing the body for the journey
Keep your nervous system regulated
A pilgrimage is asked of the body as much as the spirit. We know there's a flight to catch, a ride to arrange, a train to board. Before you close the screen and set out, you tend the nervous system so you travel settled, open, and awake:
grounding & breathworkancestral prayer for the roadsetting an intention for arrival
This day is a pilgrimage, a medicine walk across time and continents; you travel regulated, holding what you chose to bring, ready to arrive not as a guest but as one coming home.
The journey to the land is just as sacred as the land itself.
Draft · Home hero — all text in a left column (tablet), clear of the dancer
In the days of old, when a person lost their way, the elders would say: "Go back to the forest. Walk with the medicines. Listen again."
WILD! Healing is a return to that ancient remembering. It is not simply a program. It is a pilgrimage — a medicine walk across time and continents, guided by healers, farmers, herbalists, and wisdom keepers who still remember how to call the body back to life. Across two days of virtual immersion, you travel a living landscape of ancestral healing, culminating in a third day on the land: a glorious feast and festival in the woods, where the community celebrates the miracle of healing and honors those who heal the healers.
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