Newsletter Subject: Enter to Win Up To $2700 Towards a Women Rising Wild Retreat, Retirement News, & Fundraiser Update
Dear Wild Beloveds,
We have reached the end of an era.
Retirement Announcement
With gratitude, love, and deep emotional sentiment I share the news that Women Rising Wild will retire with our closing ceremony following our Summer Solstice retreat with wolves in Colorado on June 22, 2025. It is my hope to see every single women who has been with us before along with some new initiates at this final event and celebration.
A vision for our Women Rising Wild retreat with wolves was birthed in 2016. In 2017 I hosted our first event in collaboration with Mission: Wolf in Colorado. Our work has exponentially grown every year for the past 7 years. And we’ve hosted more than 20 retreats in this time.
It has been a most remarkable and life-affirming journey.
Our healing and our healing work will be a part of me forever and my forthcoming memoir about women, wolves, and wilderness.
I will have more words for all of this soon.
For now, to all of the women who have made this retreat a community, please know I love you with all that I am. I’m grateful beyond words for you and what we have shared. I look forward to this final year with you. For everyone else, visit our website to learn more about Women Rising Wild and join us for our final year of epic, life-changing experiences.
Message to our Community of Women
Promotions for Upcoming Women Rising Wild Retreats
♥ Promo $400 for New and Returning Women
The first four women to register for a Women Rising Wild retreat in the next four days will receive a voucher for $400 to use towards their balance. This offer ends Friday August 9, 2025.
♥ Promotions for Returning Women
We are collecting testimonials from women who have been on Women Rising Wild retreats with us before. To thank you for sharing about your experience with me I am gifting wild woman merch and a total of $2200 to use towards retreats with us this coming year. Each unique testimonial I receive is equal to one entry for this giveaway. Ten winners will be randomly drawn. Each woman will choose her gift in the order her name is drawn.
These promotional gifts are:
∇ $1000 to use for our women and wolves retreat in CO.
∇ $500, $400, and $300 vouchers that may be applied to any Women Rising Wild Retreat balance in 2024 or 2025.
∇ One-of-a-kind custom copper wolf pendant made by Ildanach Studios
∇ Handmade buffalo gourd rattle
∇ Women Rising Wild merch including hoodies, hats, and flannels
* Please share testimonials with me via email, dropbox, and/or social media and be sure to tag both Women_Rising_Wild and Melissa Lynn Reed. Each unique testimonial for Women Rising Wild counts as one entry for this giveaway. Video testimonial submissions get double points. If it has been a few years since you’ve been with us on retreat, please presence your attention with who you were then and who you are now and share reflections on the impact of our experience and our relationship on your journey. Lives have changed through our circles. I am moved and inspired by each of you.
♥ Omtrips & Women Rising Wild Collaboration Giveaway
Win $2000 towards any retreat(s) of your choice!
The Omtrips giveaway is in full swing! They are giving away $2000 USD to one winner to spend on any retreat(s) of your choice, plus more gifts to be won – see below. Go to the pinned post on Instagram @om_trips to enter! Entry period ends August 19th!
Follow these 3 steps to enter the Omtrips Giveaway:
1. Follow Omtrips on IG at @om_trips @feelingkooshoo @ereperezcosmetics @thenotabag
2. Tag 3 friends in the comments on the pinned Omtrips post
3. Like & share the Omtrips post to your story & tag @om_trips
*And for a chance to win an addittional $700 with the Omtrips Giveaway direct from Melissa to use with Women Rising Wild in 2025, tag @women_rising_wild when you post to your IG or FB story and write: “Join me on retreat with Women Rising Wild”
These two promotions combined can win you $2700 when you win and book a retreat with us.
Women Rising Wild Retreats:
Cowgirl Wild: All Ages
Autumn Retreat
Julian, California
October 11 – 13, 2024
Women Rising Wild
4 Day 3 Night
Orcas Island Retreat
November 1 – 4, 2024
Women’s Bear Lodge
5 Day 4 Night
Luxury Adventure Retreat
Moab, Utah
May 8 – 12, 2025
Women and Wolves Retreat
Westcliffe, Colorado
June 19 – 22, 2025
Fundraiser updates
This year at Women Rising Wild we purchased an AED to donate to Mission: Wolf. We are still requesting donations to cover the cost of this purchase. If you’d like to contribute, please reply to this email for instructions or view our social media announcement here.
We are also promoting a GoFundMe effort established to support Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch and the Heart-J Center located near Loveland, CO. During the Alexander Mountain fire evacuation two horses were injured and needed emergency surgery at Colorado State University. During the fire, Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch lost nearly 1000 acres to the fire. They can use all the help we can offer. Please consider supporting their GoFundMe here.
Farewell for Now
In closing this summer newsletter, I acknowledge that it has been my sweetest pleasure and privilege to work alongside staff and animals at Mission: Wolf, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch, High Hope Ranch, Ano Nuevo State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Natural Bridges State Park, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, to provide seven years of Women Rising Wild retreat experiences for an exceptional community of powerful, wise, wild, and beautiful women.
My spirited thanks also to Kelly Cooper, Margie McSweeney, Skye Hansen, and Colleen Crowley who have offered invaluable support to our weekends and our community from inception and as we grew. And to our 2018 cohort who made this retreat a sisterhood: Dani, Jules, Merry, Leah, and Sarah Jo – you showed me who and what Women Rising Wild is. We are the daughters of the fire, sisters of the wolf, and tenders of soul and healthy feminine power. To the many others who came in the years that followed: Priscilla, Mari, Chelsea, Jen, Karin, Christi, Angela, Macaley, Brianna, Liz, Stacey, and more – you have become family. Together, over these seven years, we’ve achieved many significant and life-promoting transformations and we created lasting memories to feed the heart. I will cherish them always.
I am honored to continue our work for one more year with new and returning women.
To everyone in our beloved Women Rising Wild community, please keep in touch. And I look forward to seeing the continued success and growth of each of you as medicine women.
Thank you for the opportunity you’ve given me. Wishing you all the best. Till soon….
In wild love,
Melissa Lynn Reed
Women Rising Wild Visionary
Transformational Guide and Soul Sister
P.S. I am getting texts, calls, and emails of love in response to this newsletter and I am receiving questions about retirement of Women Rising Wild. I am happy to respond to these notes. Public announcements about what’s next will come in time. But be assured that while this is an end to an era, there is more to come. This is a time and opportunity for celebration and deep integration of what we’ve learned. It is the time that precedes the birth of something new. La Loba has gathered all the bones. We have sung to them and danced our souls into life. We are women. We are wild. And we have risen.
Women Rising Wild 