On the Horizon
Join an international, intergeneration group of weird and wonderful wild-hearted Women in our online Cave (which lives on an app)!
We meet weekly in Circles, Workshops, Practices to keep our wild spirits lit!
Upcoming Weekly Gatherings:
Join us for an hour-long New Moon Meditation Adventure on May 7th!
Online, from anywhere.
Using a dynamic meditation journey, we will tune into the New Moon, to your own Inner Guidance, synced up with wild-hearted women from around the world. This offering will include music, storytelling, meditation, journaling prompts & intention-setting.
Can’t make it live? No worries. All participants will receive a copy of the recording with 24 hours of the session.
We have Wild Woman Project-trained Circle facilitators is 26 countries, and 44 out of the 50 United States.
Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
Exploring the woods around me feels playful. I feel a childlike sense of wonder and curiosity when I’m there.
Having a dance party in my living room on a random week night feels like play. It helps me shake off the difficulty of my day. My husband joins me lately and we find ourselves laughing and playing in dance.
These are probably the biggest two that I engage in most often.
Sometimes I feel that my spirit is more playful and I use humor and have playful energy in the day during work and everyday life. Those days are the most fun!
I’ve had times in life where play was missing and I wasn’t happy. I try to remember to play and wake up that spirit of fun, curiousity, laughter and movement so that those dark moods are less intense and don’t overcome my being.
Love to hear this, Amber ♥️♥️♥️
I love this, Chris. I read somewhere that when children say “I’m bored,” they are really saying, “I need connection.” Thinking back to my childhood, this rings so true. Sometimes, after a long playing spell, I wanted my mother to tell me she was still there, and that my going off to play was acceptable. Sometimes my playing was so stimulating that I needed her to co-regulate me emotionally. Sometimes I felt lost and lonely and just needed her company. Sometimes I was feeling down on myself on some level I may not even have been aware of, and needed to be with someone who loved me to remind myself I was lovable. I think I was also seeking connection to my innermost self, through that connection with my mother.
I agree that playing is incredibly necessary to us. I think society looks down on it because it doesn’t like things that have no obvious, stated purpose. It doesn’t like mystery. Playing is a way into the mystery. I think we like and need the surprise element of playing. Such a great topic, Chris. Thank you.
Thanks for your thoughtful reflections on play and connection, Shelley ♥️
This post rings so true for me right now. My focus recently has been to stop trying to “teach” my 2yr old with any structure and just “play”. He’ll shout out nonsense words or a made up song and I’ll repeat or sing along. He’ll run, jump, crawl and I do my best to keep up. He is the happiest kid I know and I want to nurture that little flame.
We are raising him to be a wild woman! We have b/g twins now too so he needs to set the example. Thank you for your gentle reminders and guidance.
This brought a big smile to my face, Kayleigh. So glad you are encouraging your lil Wild guy to play – something that comes so naturally ♥️
I haven’t had a lot of personal play the past few months because of some unexpected responsibilities, but being around my three-year-old niece is really healing for my sense of play. Especially as she learns what it means to use her imagination and play pretend, it’s an invitation for me to be in the flow of creating playfulness with her, and the giggles are a wonderful reward 🙂
So glad you have your niece and she has you ♥️ enjoy the giggle music!
As a child I was always playing in the dirt. Today I felt like a child playing in the mud. I was actually using art clay copper for the first time today and it was sooo messy, yet so calming. I like to create things with metal, beads, and fire! This feels playful to me.
Cool, Desiree! Love to hear that ♥️