Palika Wilding
Palika Wilding has been courting and centering the mysteries of the Underworld, moon and the miraculous Blue Green Pearl for as long as she can remember. As Threshold Midwife she listens and tends the edges and holy cracks where the Earth body and psyche, and human body and psyche collide. With fierce love, she invites seekers towards psycho spiritual and ecological thresholds to recover pearls and shadowed gems within, that lead us to embody an enchanted, reciprocal response-ability with the Animate Earth & Mystery. Committed to the somatic, imaginal, creative entanglement and porosity between humans and the web of life; she humbly tends our innate, original design to mature into soul centric adults and Elders for our people and Earth. An astute tracker of the forgotten, forsaken, forbidden and feared, and artful tender to the hearth fire of beauty and death – Palika invites us closer to embodying the fragrant poem which Earth has imagined as each of us, in service to the greater good of the precious Web of Life. She lives on unceded Awaswas Territory, the fecund edge where Elder Redwoods, gnarly Live Oaks and Wild Salty Sea entangle in Santa Cruz. Painterly sunsets, owl, red shouldered hawk, towhees, bobcat, poppies and lilac capture her heart constantly.
Events with Palika Wilding
Into the Dark Womb - An Animas Quest for Women - April, 2026April 8 - 19, 2026
Women, do you hear a great love call singing within your bones? A call from the earth, the cosmos and the ancestors, asking you to fully inhabit your true place within the earth community and protect the web of life? We invite you to join us in Washington for a contemporary Western enactment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast ceremony and wilderness rite. This is a unique ceremonial gathering designed specifically and intentionally for women-identified humans seeking greater connection, depth, and clarity about life purpose and meaning. This Quest is intended to serve as a portal through which women might…
Soulcraft Intensive - July, 2026July 6 - 10, 2026
The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born to bring to the world, a world so much in need of the socially transforming contributions of initiated, actively engaged adults. To encounter the soul is to discover the mystical image you were born with, which reveals the path to your greatest personal fulfillment as…
Soulcraft Intensive - September, 2026September 28 - October 2, 2026
The Soulcraft Intensive is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born to bring to the world, a world so much in need of the socially transforming contributions of initiated, actively engaged adults. To encounter the soul is to discover the mystical image you were born with, which reveals the path to your greatest personal fulfillment as…
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring - October, 2026October 4 - 8, 2026
THE ART OF MIRRORING: There is an art to hearing a story as well as telling one. Mirroring is a collection of skills employed in receiving, embracing, and honoring each others’ stories. In mirroring, we neither project nor interpret but rather celebrate the magic of the story and the gifts of the One Who Bears the Tale. We help the storyteller glean-harvest-reap the jewels, the dark ones as well as those that sparkle. The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring are invaluable practices on the descent to soul. Although much of the descent is solitary, gathering with others…
Wild Portal to The Imaginal – November 2026, AustraliaNovember 4 - 8, 2026
There is a sacred portal, a mysterious door, a green gate, a dark space into certain realms of our consciousness, of our and the collective Psyche. These portals are both within and without. Many of us struggle to find enchantment in the world and a connection to our imagination. An important practice for intentionally accessing the sometimes-hidden realms of the Self, the Earth, and the Cosmos is through the practice of deep imagery. Around us we see the cleverness of the human ego creating artificial intelligence and striving for virtual reality when, in fact, what we most deeply long for…
Wild Mind Mirror Training – November 2026, AustraliaNovember 9 - 13, 2026
In the Wild Mind Mirroring Training, we practice detecting the greater story that pulses beneath the events of a person’s life. By immersing ourselves in the practice of deep listening and mirroring, we uncover the archetypal themes that might frame a person’s experience within the arc of their destiny. When our story is compassionately reflected through the skilled mirroring of another, we feel fully heard and able to experience ourselves in a larger and more meaningful context; we’re enabled to catch up to ourselves and perhaps leap into the next phase of our journey of individuation. An alchemical exchange occurs…
Wild Mind Training Program Residential – November 2026, AustraliaNovember 14 - 18, 2026
The Wild Mind Training Residential is the core of the WMTP steeped in the Nature Based Map of the Human Psyche. In this 5-day training, participants hone their skills in listening, tracking, deepening, mirroring, and creating invitations to help others cultivate their wholeness and heal their wounded and fragmented subpersonalities. We also practice the skills of council, dreamwork, and Shadow work, and further develop our understanding and use of the Nature Based Map of the Human Psyche. Included is an introduction to the use of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel. Designed for human development guides, the WMTP is a professional training…