Wild Woman Pilgrimages
Long distance land wanders for women in midlife that transform seasons of transition into sacred rites of passage
A journey to honor and cross the threshold of midlife
We live in a culture that treats the great transitions of a woman's life as things to manage, push through, or quietly endure. But when I entered one of the biggest transitions of my life — midlife — I didn't want to ignore it. I wanted to live it. To celebrate it. To let it be my playground.
Pilgrimage is one of the oldest ways humans have marked a passage that matters. Mile by mile, the journey strips away the noise, the roles, and the habits that you've outgrown. The path asks questions that ordinary life rarely makes room for. The quiet allows you to actually hear the deeper callings within. The land takes you home to yourself.
This threshold is yours to cross. Let's walk it together.
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Connected
A small, intimate group of women travel this path together — before, during, and after the walk — witnessing each other through every step of the journey.
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Guided
Skilled, soulful guidance before, during, and after the walk so nothing you encounter on the path is faced alone.
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Supported
Comfortable lodging, nourishing dinners, optional pack transfer. Everything is taken care of so you can be completely present to the experience.
“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
STEP INTO THE BEAUTY OF MIDLIFE
Wild Woman Pilgrimages
Our journey together is far more than a mindful travel experience. It's a year-long pilgrimage within ourselves with the land as our guide.
START HERE
Express Your Interest
When you're ready
A brief, no-commitment conversation about where you are and where you're hoping to go. If the Pilgrimage feels like the right fit and the timing feels right for you, we'll share everything you need to join our next wander.
SET INTENTIONS
Pre-Walk Monthly Online Circles
Months 1-5
In the months before the walk, we gather monthly online to set intentions, clear the ground, and ready ourselves body, mind, and spirit for what lies ahead. These circles are our space to begin the inner work of the journey long before we take our first step on the trail.
PREPARE
Practical Support
Months 1-5
Between gatherings, you're supported with everything you need to show up ready for the trail with practical support for physical preparation, training plans, and gear guidance.
COME TOGETHER
Meet Your Fellow Travelers
From Day 1
From the very first gathering, you'll be supported by a small, intimate group of women who are each navigating their own awakening in midlife. You will witness each other, learn from each other, and grow together.
THE WALK
Embark & Explore
Month 6
Then we walk. This is the heart of the pilgrimage — our actual time together, boots on the land, showing up for whatever arises. Through this journey, layers will shed. You won't be a different person, but what remains is truer, more alive, more essentially you.
The walk itself is thoughtfully planned with a balanced rhythm of challenge and rest. This is not a rugged backpacking expedition, but a guided wander with room to restore. We'll be comfortably lodged each night, meals and transfers are taken care of, and the route, pacing, and logistics are all handled so your only job is to show up and step fully into the experience.
RETURN & INTEGRATE
Post-Walk Monthly Online Circles
Months 7-12
Coming home is its own rite of passage. In the months following the journey, we reconnect to examine and integrate what emerged, and to bring the pilgrim's wisdom into life on the other side.
With Guided Support Throughout
In many ways, the most important part of a rite of passage is how it is held before and after. You will have the support to make sense of what you're calling in ahead of the walk, what the journey revealed, and how to carry it forward into your life.
MEET YOUR GUIDE ZOE
A walk changed everything for me
A couple of years ago, I felt something shifting and stirring inside. I didn’t know exactly what was changing, only that it was time to pause and listen.
So, in the fall of 2023, I traveled alone to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago for 34 days. It was a profound pilgrimage — one that unfolded not only across landscapes, but also through my own inner terrain.
I had heartfelt conversations, connected with people who felt like kindred spirits, and came into contact with something quiet and true inside myself.
What came from that was a sense of clarity, and a deep pull to walk alongside other women as they navigate their own seasons of change, thresholds of opportunity, awakenings, and coming home to themselves. And that's how the Wild Woman Journeys Pilgrimages were born.
If you're standing at the edge of something new — whether known or still unfolding — I'm here to walk beside you.
COMING IN 2027
Join our next pilgrimage
Location and dates are taking shape.
Pilgrimage tends to call us at special moments: a life milestone, a significant ending, a season of life that feels different.
For many women, that moment is midlife. The threshold of perimenopause and menopause is one of the most profound rites of passage a woman will walk, yet it's often overlooked or avoided in our culture. This experience is designed to change that by honoring, nurturing, and celebrating this season.
If you feel called to explore what it means to truly mark this passage — on the ground, in your body, in community — we'd love to walk with you.
Express your interest to learn more about our next pilgrimage.
Frequently Asked Questions
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It may be. Are you feeling called to slow down and step out of ordinary life for a while? Are you are standing at a threshold (a birthday, a transition, a moment that feels like it deserves to be marked)? Do you have a sense that something in you is ready to be reflected on, released, or heard more clearly?
Pilgrimage has always been one of the ways humans have honored the moments that matter most. If something in you is already stirring as you read this, I'd love to have a conversation. Book a discovery calland we'll explore together whether this is the right journey for you, and if this is the right time. -
You don't need to be an experienced hiker to join us. This is a walking journey, not an intense backpacking expedition, and part of what we do together in the months before the walk is help you get physically ready. You'll receive guidance on how to gradually build up your daily mileage in the lead-up to our departure. Daily distances vary and can range from around 4 to 12 miles, but you'll have a full day to complete each stretch at your own pace. On days where the distance feels like too much, transport is often available too.
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We will be sleeping in pre-arranged lodging each night similar to an inn, bed and breakfast or hotel (no camping). This is a fully supported trip which means we'll travel light. You can carry what you need for the day in a daypack and the rest of your clothing and needs will be transported by a luggage transport service to our lodgings at the next destination.
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As a fully supported walk, nourishing ourselves together is part of the experience. Some days it can be nice to pack a lunch to carry with us as a picnic, but on most days there is always a place to grab food while we are walking. Our evenings will be spent in towns or cities with restaurants and grocery stores, and we often share dinner together as a group. Breakfast is typically included with lodging or easily purchased before we set off for the day.
Please note that the cost of food along the way is not included in the trip cost. -
The full cost of the Pilgrimage experience is $4,500 per person. This includes all preparation sessions and monthly gatherings in the months before and after the walk, luggage transfer, and pre-arranged lodging throughout the journey.
Please note: international and domestic airfare, travel insurance, most meals, and personal expenses are not included in this price. We are happy to share guidance on what to budget for these.
Have another question or need individualized guidance?
There are many paths to wholeness
Beyond Pilgrimages, these offerings take you further: onto the land, into community, and beyond the edges of your mind.
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Individual Therapy
JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS
Embodied and soul-honoring work that brings you back to yourself.
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The Life Review
& OTHER WOMEN'S CIRCLES
A powerful year-long journey into the story of your life and meaning.
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Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
PSYCHEDELIC GROWTH
Enter non-ordinary states of consciousness to open new insight, healing, and possibilities.
The wild path is calling.
Will you walk it?
Wild Woman Journeys takes women off the familiar path and into the deeper, wilder life that's been calling them. It won't always be an easy route, but the hardest part is deciding to begin. Everything else unfolds from there.