REWILDING: A DAY OF REMEMBERING – An Immersive Journey into Body, Belonging, and Ancestral Wisdom with Dr. Kristy Vanacore
Sat, Nov 21
$175 per person (lunch and dinner included)
Make it a weeekend!
Book overnight accommodations for Fri, Nov 20 – Sun, Nov 22.
Click Here to Reserve Your Stay
As autumn gives way to winter and the pace of the holiday season begins to quicken, we are invited into a different rhythm: inward, quieter, closer to what is essential.
ReWilding: A Day of Remembering is a full-day immersive experience created as a place to return; to the body, to the wisdom carried within us, to the living world, and to practices that have helped human beings find their way back to themselves for generations.
Grounded in the framework of Dr. Kristy Vanacore’s ReWilding Wellness, the day bridges modern psychology and somatic practice with ancient and ancestral traditions. Drawing respectfully from her years of study and practice within Indian and Yogic traditions, Southern Italian ancestral healing practices, and Andean medicine traditions, Dr. Kristy will guide participants through a rich tapestry of movement, sound, silence, storytelling, reflection, ritual, and embodied practice.
The morning and afternoon immersions will include Medicine Dance Fusion, Dr. Kristy’s signature weaving of Yoga, Qi Gong, mantra, mudra, therapeutic dance, trauma-informed somatic practice, and authentic movement; vocal and sound practices; guided reflection; nature-based ceremonial practices; and the Four Ancestral Healing Salves: Singing, Dancing, Storytelling, and Silence.
Participants will also experience a beautiful ritual of anointing with Dr. Kristy’s hand-curated botanical oils and explore simple aromatic and sensory practices that can become part of everyday tending at home.
There will be spaciousness, too. Time to share a meal. Walk the Ashram grounds. Sit quietly. Breathe. Reflect. Time to allow the body to integrate what the mind may not yet have words for.
The intention of this day is not to step outside of your life; it is to return to your life differently.
Throughout our time together, Dr. Kristy will help translate these practices beyond the retreat space into simple rituals and embodied ways of tending ourselves that can live within busy real-life mornings, relationships, homes, transitions, difficult seasons, and ordinary days. The ceremony is not the destination. The life you return to is.
Itinerary:
9:30 AM–12:00 PM: Morning Immersion with Dr. Kristy
12:30–1:30 PM: Ashram Lunch
2:00–5:00 PM: Afternoon Immersion with Dr. Kristy
5:30–6:30 PM: Ashram Dinner
7:00 PM: Ashram Fire Ceremony
8:00PM: Special Event*: Sant Vaani: The Songs of the Saints with Shweta Pandya
Participants are welcome to remain on the Ashram grounds throughout the day and join the evening fire ceremony. Discounted overnight accommodations are available for retreat participants.
*Evening concert admission is included with an overnight stay and available separately for retreat participants.
DR. KRISTY M. VANACORE, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist, holistic family wellness practitioner, author, somatic guide, and ceremonialist with nearly three decades of experience exploring what helps human beings and communities heal, reconnect, and thrive.
Founder of ReWilding Wellness®, her work lives at the intersection of modern psychology, somatic and embodied practice, ancient medicine, and ancestral wisdom. Her path has included decades of study and practice in Yoga, Qi Gong, therapeutic dance and movement and expressive arts, alongside deeper formation within Indian and Yogic traditions, her Southern Italian ancestral healing lineage, and Andean medicine traditions.
Dr. Kristy is the award-winning author of Rewilding: A Woman’s Quest to Remember Her Roots, Rekindle Her Instincts, and Reclaim Her Sovereignty and ReWilding Wellness: Reclaiming Ancient Medicine and Ancestral Wisdom to Revolutionize the Future of Health. She is co-author of the book Ancestors: Divine Remembrances of Lineage, Relations and Sacred Sites. She has also created an extensive library of practical wellness guides spanning whole-person health, parenting and family wellness, seasonal living, and embodied practices for everyday life.
Across her clinical work, writing, teaching, and ceremonial spaces, Dr. Kristy’s mission is ultimately about bringing the mysterious into the everyday; helping people of all ages carry ancient wisdom, embodied knowing, and sacred practice out of ceremonial spaces and into the way they live, love, parent, heal, and move through the world. At the heart of this work is an invitation to remember what modern life has taught us to forget: the intelligence of the body, our belonging to the living world, the wisdom carried by those who came before us, and the sacred woven through ordinary life. Rather than seeking healing somewhere outside of ourselves or escaping our lives in search of the sacred, she invites us to inhabit our lives more fully with greater presence, coherence, connection, and reverence.