Circles of Becoming

Rites of Passage Groups for the Young Feminine Navigating Adolescence

“Women are reclaiming the initiatory rites and wisdom that they were not given. The time is Now that we offer this path of reclamation in service to our future generations, so they don’t have to unlearn and learn what we had to…so they can be women that know themselves and their soul’s destiny…so they have a lived experience of being held, guided, and seen by their village. It is up to us to create the world that we want to belong to, on behalf of our youth, our ancestors, and our Earth.” -Johannah Reimer, founder of Wakeful Nature Girls Groups
Do you have a daughter, a friend, a niece, a community member who is shifting from childhood into adolescence? Do you know a girl ages 12-13 who would benefit from the support of a council of peers led by Village Aunties?
This threshold time in a girl’s life is often forgotten by our mainstream culture, and girls are left to initiate themselves, often with unhealthy risk-taking and self-shaming behaviors, into the mysteries of the feminine. These are challenging and confusing years, and these girls need a safe, attuned, and creative space to explore who they are becoming.
This is where we come in. At Wild Rivers Collective we are a collective of Village Aunties who have a passion for supporting girls to live into their most embodied, confident, creative selves. Through nature connection, self-inquiry, the Art of Council, storytelling, hand crafts, song, and ceremony, we offer a sanctuary space for the wild waters of the young feminine to flow freely and joyfully.

Our Vision
We carry a shared vision that supports these young, vibrant, wild rivers on their path of becoming their more authentic selves.
We offer soulful and applicable guidance for youth navigating disconnected times.
We honor the tender threshold between who they have been and who they are becoming.
We remind young ones how to listen to the song of the earth and to the wisdom of the wild river within.
We weave a sense of responsibility to self, to land, to more than human kin and to one another.
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Themes and Skills We Weave Together
~The Way of Council (heart sharing)~
~Relational Skills~
(Nonviolent Communication + conflict resolution)
~Stress management & Tending the Self~ ~Ritual & Ceremony~
~Somatic/Body Awareness~
~Connecting with the Elements & Seasons~
~Role play & Self-Expression~
~Managing Digital Relationships~
~Herbs & Food as Medicine~
~Creative Play~
Circles of Becoming 2025:
Vasilisa the Brave
A Four Month Journey into Empowerment, Belonging,
and the Wise One Within
Part One: The Call to Adventure
Leaving childhood familiarity
Part Two: Finding the Doll of Intuition
Getting to Know One’s Inner Magic
Part Three: Encountering the Wild Witch
Exploring our Undomesticated Being
Part Four: Baba Yaga’s Impossible Tasks
The Trials and Challenges of Adolescence
Part Five: Receiving the Illuminated Skull
Standing in our Radiance
Part Six: Bringing the Gifts Home
Integrating the Magic into Everyday Life

The Old Stories invite us inside, where a deep, embodied magic lies waiting…
We will listen…we will whisper…
We will sing
And dance
And touch and taste and
HOWL
The bones of this tale into new life

February 2025 - June 2025
Silverton Council: Wednesdays 4-6pm
Wild Roots Medicine
Portland Council:
Thursdays 4-6pm
Jean’s Farm
We invite two new groups of girls ages 12-13 to journey with us for 4 months of exploration, community, and connection during this threshold time. There are 14, two-hour long weekly sessions and two day-long (5hr) sessions on the land. The closing of this precious passage will be honored and marked with a challenge on the land and a witnessing ceremony.
There will also be an (optional) parent orientation call as well as a parent meeting mid-way through.
Each Group is limited to 12 spots
Tier 1: $1350 (below base cost, for families needing extra support)
Tier 2: $1550 (covers base cost + rental fees + materials/ snacks/ enrichment)
Tier 3: $1650 (covers all listed above + extra for our blossoming scholarship fund)
* We are currently working to build a scholarship fund for BIPOC and other under-served youth, if you can pay in a higher tier, we would be so grateful
Who are we?
Your Council Facilitators and Village Aunties

Shea Bodine
Rites of Passage Guide
Nature-based Educator (Licensed K-12)
Trauma-Informed Youth Mentor
Ceremonialist
With a long time dream on my heart of weaving a safe haven for girls in their tender becoming, I am so grateful for this offering.
Over the past 11 years, I have worked with youth in a variety of settings as a classroom educator, outdoor educator, mentor and emotion coach. I have received training in non-violent communication, trauma-informed mentoring, somatic practices and youth mindfulness and yoga.
I completed a Rites of Passage Guide training in 2023 with EarthPath Education. I continue my study of earth's magical mysteries through herbalism and wildcrafting. I am a mama to two sons, whose wild rivers are always teaching me.
It is a deep desire of mine that young ones have a place of gentle and grounded guidance where they can experience a true sense of belonging and share their most authentic Self with the world.

Magnolia Medlin
Rites of Passage Guide
Somatic Parts-Work Therapist,
Ceremonialist
It feels so good to be walking the way of council with sisters.
I am a somatic parts-work therapist based in the Columbia River Gorge, and I weave together my training in Somatic Experiencing, Voice Dialogue Parts Work, and two years living and training at a Buddhist monastery to tend spaces of deep listening, creative emergence, and soul connection. I have trained with the School of Lost Borders and I lead women's wilderness rites of passage.
I continue to train in community resilience and trust-building with the Peace Research Center and healing biotope of Tamera in Portugal. My mission is to help midwife the force of life wherever it has become stuck, confused, or stagnant, and to help our young ones find freedom from the inner judge so they can discover their unique way of loving the world.

Hanna Love
Rites of Passage Guide, Ceremonialist, Certified Business Coach, Flower Farmer
I join from a mission to re-write cultural norms, to step into the world our hearts have yearned for.
As the founder of New Moon Blooms, I grows ceremonial grade flowers, builds altars for local gatherings, circle and rituals, and crafts heart opening elixirs for body and soul. I bring all these gifts to our rites of passage container. As student of initiation and transformation, in my work-life I am a holistic business coach and start-up mentor. I am also a mama of two.
Known in these circles as a cheerleader who believes deeply in all of our potential to follow our dreams and heart murmurings. Graduate of Vassar College, I am also certified as a holistic health coach and Reiki II with course work in trauma informed coaching, equity & inclusion, non-violent communication, peer group coaching, herbalism and womb wisdom.