Meet the Founder: Chris Maddox

 

There are few things more troubling than the chronic ache of a life out of alignment with one’s own true nature. 

Everything I offer here is in service to helping you craft a life that is a reflection of your true values.

All personal inner work is woven into the collective experience. Therefore, the challenging and dismantling of oppressive, hierarchal systems walks hand in hand with any individual inner work in service to liberation. 

We gather in Circle Leader Training, Monthly New Moon Meditation Adventures, Wild Woman Fest & once a weekish in your inbox.

Together we turn to the wild for guidance & wisdom. That is: The Wild Within (the inner voice of truth) & The Wild Without (the cycles, qualities & teachings of nature itself).

In our time together, I will ask you to go beyond who you’ve been told you “should” be & heed the call of your heart, as wild as she may be.

Reflections from women who've studied with Chris:

Meeting Chris Maddox and discovering The Wild Woman Project reactivated a part of me that was frozen in time, waiting to be reborn.
Emily Alvarez

Chris Maddox as our fearless and spirited leader . . . I don’t think I can say enough.  Chris embraced each of us from the start, and shared her amazing content and talents with love, humor and shined her beautiful light with each lesson.
Kerry Griffith

The workshop connected me to a group of spirited women and in the group space gave me time to look deeply inside myself and reconnect.
Chris is unapologetic in her quest to unleash the divine feminine on the world, and we (women) intuitively know that and long for that.
Stacey Ramsower

I would follow Chris into the darkness. She guided us with vulnerability, openness, humor, and honesty from the inside out. She is a courageous leader and a humble servant to The Wild Woman Project.
Maya Mortman

Chris is an amazing teacher and model of feminine leadership. She is warm, encouraging and knowledgeable.
Karla Hampton

Chris is such an honest, kind and insightful teacher.  She holds space and accepts all the chaos with joy, such a gift to behold!
Jennifer Hryciw

BIO

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.

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Notable Studies:
  • B.F.A Marymount Manhattan College in NYC with a Concentration in Acting 
  • 3 Year Apprenticeship with Fay Simpson, creator of the Lucid Body Technique 
  • Yoga Teacher Training with Nikki Estrada in San Francisco 
  • Yoga for Fertility with Brenda Strong 
  • Esoteric Healing with Martha McDonald
  • Suluk Academy, a 2 year course in Universal Sufism with the Inayati Order, mentored by Kainat Felicia Norton
  • Traditional Astrology with Adam Elenbass of Nightlight Astrology 
  • Practical Animism with Daniel Foor
Notable Experience:
  • 4 years as a Director/Actor/Organizer with the VDAY Movement
  • 7 years as a full time yoga teacher in NYC and Western Massachusetts 
  • 14 years of Facilitating Women’s Circles & workshops for Women 
  • 11 years of Crafting & Facilitating Circle Leader Training with hundreds of women around the world
  • 11 years as Founder/Director/Teacher here at The Wild Woman Project 
  • 6 years as Founder/Director/Facilitator of Wild Woman Fest 
  • Currently on the advisory board of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & InterSpirituality, with regular participation in their Interspiritual Dialogues.
  • Officiant of 5 weddings & 1 funeral, all for dear friends & local community members
A little about my personal history, values & orientation:
  1. Despite extensive spiritual study and seeking, I’m agnostic. Certainty about the great mysteries of life seems a little silly to me. A perpetual state of not knowing (for sure) keeps my mind open & curious which makes the ride a little more fun, and for me, honest. 

  2. I am an American citizen, born in 1984 on a military base in San Diego, CA to two Marines. 

  3. My ancestors are Mexican (matrilineal) and a mix of European (patrilineal).

  4. Where others may use the word “God”, I use Life, as I can conceive of nothing more Sacred.

  5. I’m critical of religious, spiritual, philosophical, political, economic systems which aim to control, which require submission, and which perpetuate inequality & abuse.

  6. I believe in spiritual autonomy, learning to love more skillfully, and egalitarian systems which are more circular than hierarchical.

  7. The last few thousand years (a tiny span) of our vast human history have been really bad for womankind, and the repercussions of the oppression and violence toward women has cost planet and all of its inhabitants an awful lot. My work here is aimed at healing the damage done & helping women to remember their innate spiritual gifts. 

  8. When it comes to teaching about the Inner Life and Spirituality, I look to nature’s teachings and modeling, the power of Ritual & rely heavily on direct experience with inner guidance (my own and that of the participants I am guiding).

  9. I choose to work primarily with women because I believe there is special healing and restoration work we need to do – together. 

  10. While I believe in tending the heart with the cultivation of joy, I am not overly concerned with being happy all the time. Instead aim love more skillfully and concern myself with the truth of every moment, as best I can understand it.

  11. I live intentionally simply & childless with my beloved farmer-partner-jester in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where we spend lots of time in nature, making mischief, enjoying music and food with our friends and family & generally living like hobbits.  

  12. I have many a mentor and teacher I’ve never met who are deeply important my development as a human and a teacher. Here are some favorites: Maya Angelou, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Mary Oliver, Nikki GiovanniNora Ephron, Rumi, George Carlin, Bill Hicks.

  13. Of all the titles I’ve ever held, my favorite is “President of the Drama Club”, democratically earned at the age of 17, holding true to this very moment. 😉

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