STAY WILD
A Sacred Arts School for Emerging Adults
This is a real Magic school.
Beings ages 15-19 are invited Into the Garden to explore their energetic nature and learn sacred practices that promote personal, relational and community healing.
Knowing how to use energy is a basic life skill.
Stay Wild is an in person, experiential and unique Sacred Arts program specifically designed for teens. Our primary intention is to support emerging adults in understanding their energy body and how our knowledge and skill in tending this power can profoundly enhance one’s life, relationships, and communities. This offering is rooted in ancient practices that expand the understanding of embodiment and inherent connection to the Great Mystery of the Universe.
This transformative journey takes shape as a weekly circle with a curriculum that builds over time. First, is a two month foundation in Sacred Sex Education where burgeoning adults are embolden to source awareness, trust, and confidence in their sovereign sexuality. Subsequent months continue with offerings that build on this inner knowing with healing practices that promote empowerment in the physical, intuitive, and mystical streams of Being.
Our mentors share a vision for nurturing and empowering youth with joyful agency, embodied ethics and an expanded heart as they enter adulthood and adult relationships.
Currently we are piloting groups in the binary, for cis-gendered young women and men as we source aligned instructors for Trans and Non-Binary youth. Our intention is to provide loving care to all Beings with qualified, experienced and ethical wisdom keepers.
New groups are being formed. Classes are held on Sunday either in the school dome, outdoor classroom or out hiking our beautiful coasts.
“The Why” behind Stay Wild
Liza, co-founder of Into The Garden, is a mom to twin teenagers who she has raised with the values of Into the Garden. As her kids entered the teens years the spiritual and emotional impacts of collective conditioning seemed untenable. She was guided to call in an “auntie and uncle” circle after several years of attending the Spirit Weaver Gathering and experiencing how inspirational circling together with other women was for her daughter and friends, especially having a place to ask questions and grow with closer aged mentors. There, sexuality, self care, esoteric and ancestral arts are embraced and celebrated through curiosity and friendship. Wanting a community her son could learn in and find support through also, STAY WILD was conceived. With the foundational wisdom of Alyssa Anaya and the excitement of the first wave of mentors, the program has had an easeful birth. Programming is enriched by the land that holds us: A biodynamic rose geranium farm on Pomo Territory tended by a community elder farmer. Stay Wild is held by a diversity of generations to create a new approach to mentorship, growth and esoteric education.
The Intention of Stay Wild is threefold:
To provide in person mentorship, community and education in the esoteric arts for youth age 15-19.
To be an incubator of developmentally focused curriculum in the sacred arts for educators.
To provide students opportunities to employ STAY WILD skills as peer mentors, bringing their wisdom and learning back to the community.
Weekly groups are held in Sebastopol, California.
If you or your teen want to learn more, host a new group in the Bay Area, or are interested in teaching, please contact Liza Fox directly.