Root and Bone — Spirit Hollow

A Nine-Month Journey for Peri-Menopausal through Post-Menopausal Women

The Wise Woman is the Visionary, the Seer, the Intuitive, the Matriarch, the Guardian, the Medicine Woman and Healer. And for most of us in the modern world, she is missing.

This nine-month journey is for women in the peri-menopause through post-menopause years who hear the undeniable call to finally and fully step into your fullness, truth, and medicine as a Wise Woman.

We meet one full weekend per month from September 2025 - May 2026 on the wild lands that are Spirit Hollow.

This immersive is a unique weaving of personal/group nature-based depth work, honing your midlife medicine and a communal rite of passage—a container to relinquish masks, old roles, harvest your life wisdom and fortify your soul gifts in the sacred and potent Wise Woman life cycles.

As we know, with the loss of the wild mature feminine and our rites of passage, the Wise Women are absent. This is inside-out work to repair, retrieve, and bring this vital medicine into our relationships, communities, and the collective.

The life stage of Wise Woman straddles Mother through Crone and often lies forgotten or buried or even actively suppressed by the dominant culture. Despite pervasive messaging that we diminish as we age, this is actually a time when a woman is at the height of her agency and power.

Our work in Root and Bone is about owning that we were MADE for these times of unraveling. We were born to authentically show up for our communities as wise women or true elders.

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Do you feel a strong YES to the following questions?

Are you in a time of deep transition, physically, emotionally, and soulfully?
Do you feel like your center of gravity is shifting or has shifted from taking care of personal/family needs to serving the greater world?
Are you feeling a need to CLAIM creative power arising within you, from your body and from the Earth?
Do you feel ready to finally shift patterns of hiding out or sidestepping your truest expression and sacred gifts as an older woman?
Are you hungry to shed the false stories or roles you’ve taken on to step fully into the wild, wise woman you’re being invited to embody/become?
Do you crave building community and collaboration with other women in these life cycles - to cultivate a web of wise women walking?
Do you have some unattended grief about aging and the shifts occurring in your body or your family structures?

We will explore together these, and other, questions together.

2025 -2026 DATES

Phase One: Re-membering and Sourcing — Weekends One - Three

September 12 - 14, 2025: Gathering the Bones; Remembering Wild

October 17 -19, 2025: Unlocking Buried Wisdom; Recovering the Mature Feminine

November 21 - 23, 2025: Belonging to Self, Belonging to Life; Sourcing the Depths of Our Power

Phase Two: Initiation and Reclamation — Weekends Four - Six

December 19 -21, 2025: Answering the Call; Uncovering Your Midlife Soul Gifts

January 16 -18, 2026: Stalking the Predator; Claiming Ourselves as Wise Women

February 13 -15, 2026:: Gaining Fluency: Anchoring and Expressing Your Wise Woman Medicine (Mythos)

Phase Three: Rooting, Honing and Offering — Weekends Seven - Nine

March 13 -15, 2026: Bringing Wisdom to Life; Honing the Art and Skill of Vision

April 10 -12, 2026: Harvest: Weaving and Co-Creating the Path Forward

May 22 -24, 2026: Crossing the Threshold; Return of the Wise Women

We’ll gather together on Fridays at 7 pm (arrive between 5:00–6:30 to get settled) and will wrap up on Sundays at 3 pm.

Please come having eaten supper (or bring your own supper).

We will end on Sunday afternoons between 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

The DeTaiLs

We welcome all women to apply– cis, trans or otherwise – and nonbinary individuals who find their homes in women – and femme-centric spaces.

Spirit Hollow is at the end of the road on 100 forested acres and enveloped by thousands of acres of National Forest Land on the slopes of Grass Mountain in Shaftsbury Hollow, VT.
Our sessions will be held in our 30’ yurt and out on the sacred land. Tracey Forest lives with her family and animals in the geodesic dome on-site. Along with organic vegetable and medicinal gardens, Spirit Hollow has begun the process of building a food forest, to leave a food legacy for those yet-to-come.
We are committed to your evolution; likewise, we expect a full commitment from you in return. This journey is NOT for those who are currently unstable, in a healing crisis or in active trauma.
We expect you to attend all in-person sessions, as it is important to the integrity of the container.
Pricing: EARLY BIRD $3200 JULY 10
$3700 full tuition
$4000 includes three one-on-one mentoring session with either Tish or Tracey
Payment plans are available. After making a $500 deposit, you can make quarterly payments*. Reach out with any specific requests.
BIWOC optional discount: We offer two half-tuition slots for BIWOC; please reach out for more information.
Group Info: We will be an intimate group of 10-16 women. We are devoted to holding a container that supports a rich experience for each woman and us as a group.
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*We prefer four equal payments of the balance after deposit throughout the year on the following schedule:
September (first weekend)
November (third weekend)
February (sixth weekend)
April (eighth weekend)
Use this link to make those payments.
1. Please fill out the below registration form.
2. Make a non-refundable $500 deposit to hold your place. You will also be asked to fill out a Health Form and Liability Waiver. Then a preparation packet will be sent to you so you can begin your journey!
REGISTRATION FORM
Spirit Hollow is a rustic retreat. Your options for lodging are sleeping in one of our two yurts (slumber-party style) or personal tents. We have hot outdoor showers (not available in winter months), an outdoor kitchen, and four outhouses for your use.
Food: You will be responsible for your own lunches and breakfasts. We will be form meal teams for our meals on Saturday nights with dietary needs (allergies, intolerances) taken into consideration. Coffee and tea (creamers, sweeteners) will be provided all weekend long. Come having eaten on Friday evenings.
You will have access to a guest refrigerator and our outdoor kitchen in the warm months and our house kitchen in the cold months. We ask that all you bring simple foods for breakfasts and lunches (ones that don’t need to be heated) as we will not have time for cooking anything too elaborate. Potluck dishes should already be prepared (we will not have time for chopping and cooking—other than reheating). Please make healthy, organic choices for our group meals wherever possible, and keep in mind many are GF or vegan. A detailed welcome and preparation letter will be sent upon registration.
After filling out the registration form, please pay a $500 non-refundable deposit is required (goes toward your tuition).
Make a deposit here.

TESTIMONIALS

This Root and Bone journey has been a deeply profound, magical, and life-changing experience. KeyTurner and MotherBone have expertly guided us through rites of passage, ceremonies, council and celebrations with thorough support and safety. There was joy, abundant laughter, gentle invitations and deep healing. The guides helped us to discover our Wise Woman medicines and our paths to becoming the women we are meant to be in our next years of life. I have been left in awe by their skills, commitment and love. And if the above was not awesome enough, we also built a committed community of women that I am so honored to be a part of. I have been inspired by my sisters’ bravery, tenderness, creativity and love. If you feel called, I very highly recommend this nine-month journey.

Bobby Jean, “Edge Tender”
As I entered menopause, I was feeling somewhat alone and adrift, even as I felt life and love pulling me to reflect on where I’ve been and where I’m called to share my energies in the next phase of my life. The circle of wisdom that our group of Root & Bone 2024/25 women created has become a model for me of how to reclaim ancient power and share it with one another and then the world. Exploring what it means to be a wise woman emerging, how the earth holds us, what embodiments we need for healing and wholing and how to honour this sacred, turning time in our lives CAN be done in community! I’m moving beyond this year feeling so resourced and aligned, supported and grateful, in love with my life and in love with Life herself.

Juleta
“Don’t walk, but run, if you feel the need to figure out how to stand in your power in the in-between places between motherhood and crone. Somehow Motherbone and Keyturner climbed into my heart and my bones and heard the essence of what I needed and then gave it to me in ceremony, in meditation, and in an extremely well thought out and executed weekend to get to the heart of the matter. I’ve been walking in these spaces of personal growth and ceremony for many years and this pair does it better than most. If you feel called, listen, and you will not be disappointed. “ - ET

~ Erica T.