Melissa Esha Lynn

Way of the Wolf

November 14, 2024December 18, 2024 Melissa Esha Lynn

Welcome to Way of the Wolf:
A mentorship in nature connection, ecology, and rewilding for women.

A Nalungiaq woman once explained:
In the very earliest of time
when both people and animals lived on earth
a person could become an animal if he wanted to
and an animal could become a human being.
Sometimes they were people
and sometimes animals
and there was no difference.
All spoke the same language.
That was the time when words were like magic.
The human mind had mysterious powers.
A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences.
It would suddenly come alive
and what people wanted to happen could happen
—all you had to do was say it.
Noboby can explain this.
Thats’ the way it was.

The ancient mythological worldview expressed in this Inuit teaching is echoed in indigenous stories across the globe. Sadly, this primal wisdom is now largely forgotten in contemporary cultures.
Join us at Way of the Wolf and remember our true nature through
educational and transformational experiences that foster interspecies well-being and ecoliteracy. Reserve your space for just one event or recieve 20% off when you register for more.

Meet Our Guide

Melissa Lynn Reed is the creator for Way of the Wolf, visionary for Women Rising Wild, and founder at Wild Heart Revival, LLC. She is a seasoned tracker, medicine weaver, yogini, and mystic with deep and intimate ties with nature. She holds a BA and MS in evolutionary, population, and organismic ecology. And she is presently pursuing her doctorate in psychology with a focus in consciousness and spiritual studies. Melissa has over 30 years experience as a wildlife biologist specializing in studies of rare and endangered mammals. She has worked therapeutically with clients alongside wolves for nearly 10 years. Before this, her research focussed largely on the behavioral ecology of bears, foxes, coyotes, and eagles. She has led over 300 nature-based workshops, science expeditions, and transformational wilderness retreats for more than 3000 adults and children. Melissa embodies a passionate gift for teaching and a love for her students on the journey to remembering the Way of the Wolf. Join us to discover what this means.

Winter 2024-2025 Events
Registration Closed

Colorado:

Winter Workshop 1
Black Friday Gone Wild!
Colorado Ecoregions and Biodiversity

November 22, 2024.
12-4pm.
Boulder, CO
$60 per person. Scholarships available.
Get to know Colorado’s Ecoregions and some of the state’s Biodiversity. Learn where animals live and how to identify them. This workshop will include study of skulls and physical adaptations. We will also discuss animal behavior. Our workshop concludes with an optional hike and community meal.

Winter Workshop 2
Scats and Tracks

December 7, 2024.
9am-3pm.
Boulder, CO
$120 per person. Scholarships available.
Learn to identify tracks and scats for Colorado’s charismatic wildlife species. Make a plaster cast of a footprint to take home. Head out onto the land in small groups to look for scats, tracks, and other wildlife sign. Stay for an optional potluck supper.

Women of the Wild Winter Day Retreat
Mountain Lion Tracking and New Year’s Celebration

January 4, 2025.
9am-3pm.
Lyons, CO
$250 per person. Scholarships available.
Get to know Colorado’s ultimate apex predator – the mountain lion. Learn how to stay safe in lion country as we uncover where they live, how they move, and when they hunt. Our day concludes with vegan/GF dinner provided and a New Year’s celebration and resolutions fire ceremony.

Winter Workshop 3
Wild Courtships

February 15, 2025.
9am-3pm.
Boulder, CO
$20 per person. Scholarships available.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day, hit the trail to learn the real truth about love, sex, babies, mating rituals, and bonding. There’s more to the birds and the bees than you know! Are there really transgender fish? Who has a 6 foot long bifurcated hemipenis? And what is cloacal kissing? This playful workshop about wild courtship will include a trailside rose cacao ceremony leaving you romantically turned on and inspired to protect everything wild.

Spring and summer event details coming soon!

Ready to join one of our Way of the Wolf events in Colorado?

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Women Rising Wild Summer 2024 Update

August 5, 2024November 11, 2024 Melissa Esha Lynn

Newsletter Subject: Enter to Win Up To $2700 Towards a Women Rising Wild Retreat, Retirement News, & Fundraiser Update

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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:

Women of the Wild
Women Rising Wild Reunion
October 4 – 6, 2024
This retreat is for returning women only

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.

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Beasts in the Garden Day Retreat

May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Beasts in the Garden
Half Day Retreat
Boulder, Colorado
Sunday June 9, 2024

Join Women Rising Wild on June 9 for this playful staycation we call Beasts in the Garden Half Day Retreat. Put on your fanciest sundress and bring along your mud boots for a day of nature connection, sisterhood, and delicious sensory delights. We will begin our time together with mindful movement, welcome activities, and meditation to open our hearts and bodies. Next, we will carpool and caravan from south Boulder to The Golden Hoof Farm for an educational tour and playshop with the animals. Here is where we will need our boots, sunhat, and appropriate outer layers for the weather. After our adventure on the farm we head to Dushanbe Teahouse for Ritual Tea Service. We will come full circle with sacred sister time and farewells at the park where we began our day. Continue reading for more information about The Golden Hoof and Dushanbe Teahouse.
Ready to join us? Have questions? To learn more about this event schedule a phone call or visit the registration page to confirm your reservation for Beasts in the Garden.
Investment: This all inclusive half-day retreat is $120.
The deposit is $25. Balance is due one week prior to our event. Registering with a girlfriend? Select Bring-A-Friend Discount when you reserve your space and you each save $10.

The Golden Hoof is a private, 2000 acre Regenerative Slow Food Farm headquartered in east Boulder, Colorado. Their aim is to provide healthy food for local consumption. The farm is holistically managed using methods inspired by nature’s self-sustaining ecosystems. The focus is creating the highest quality, most nutrient dense foods available while creating the healthiest, most resilient soils possible. Their goal is threefold. They seek to produce a Healthy Ecosystem, Happy Animals, and Healing Food. We will take part in an educational tour of the property and enjoy an animal meet and greet playshop with staff.

History of Afternoon Tea and Dushanbe Teahouse: The Dushanbe Teahouse located in downtown Boulder describes the custom of afternoon tea as “a wonderful way to spend time with a cherished friend while taking a respite from the hectic pace of today’s busy world.” The ritual of Afternoon Tea is credited to Anna, the Seventh Duchess of Bedford. As was customary during the later 1700′s and early 1800′s, people would eat a large breakfast in the morning, a petite lunch, and then conclude meals with a substantial dinner around 8:00pm. The Duchess, described a “sinking feeling” during the afternoon, and began to request tea and cakes to tide her over. Soon, she invited her friends to share the ritual with her, and it quickly became a fashionable, treasured custom. Accommodations for gluten free and dairy free guests are available upon request.

The Dushanbe Teahouse was gifted to Boulder from our sister city in Tajikistan. More than 40 artisans created the decorative elements of the teahouse, including its hand-carved and hand-painted ceiling, tables, stools, columns, and exterior ceramic panels. Often these skills are handed down from generation to generation within families and the brilliance of the crafts is evident in the beauty of the space.

Ready to Register? Click Here to join us for Beasts in the Garden Day Retreat. The deposit to hold your space is $25. Balance is due 7 days prior to our event.

Women Rising Wild Summer Solstice 2021

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

testimonial video blog

Women of the Forest

August 12, 2020May 17, 2021 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Women of the Forest
A Women Rising Wild Community Experience
in Collaboration with The River’s Path
June 26 – 27, 2021
Loveland, Colorado
postponed. new date TBD

Women of the Forest
Summer of Light Retreat
in Collaboration with the River’s Path

Date and Time:
~~9am Saturday, June 26, 2021 to~~
~~noon Sunday, June 27, 2021~~
Postponed. New Date TBD

Location: Private and forested, historic 800 acre working ranch west of Loveland, Colorado. Directions provided to registered participants.

Accommodations: Tent Camping

Investment:
♥ Full Registration $360
♥ Early Bird Registration thru May 15 $300
♥ Partial scholarships and payment plans may be available upon request. Submit your partial work-trade scholarship request inquiry here

Saturday Activities:
♥ Arrive 9am
♥ Half-day guided canoe experience
* Weather permitting
* All levels and beginners welcome
♥ Fire and light ceremony on the water
♥ Forest bathing
♥ Community dinner
♥ Dance and moving meditation
♥ Singing, chanting, drumming
♥ Fire circle and Women of the Forest council ceremony
♥ End of Day 1 activities 9pm
♥ Camping on site – optional
Sunday Activities:
♥ Wake up and morning arrival 8am
♥ Morning meditation and cleansing sound journey
♥ Breakfast
♥ Group hike or other solo activity
♥ Break camp, pack up
♥ Final farewells at noon

What’s included:
♥ Half-day guided canoe experience on Saturday with The River’s Path
♥ All materials, instruction, and expert facilitation required for activities
♥ 1 night of camping – optional
♥ Organic, gourmet meals
* These include dinner on Day 1 and breakfast on Day 2
* Gluten-free and vegan options available

What’s not included:
♥ Lunch on Day 1
♥ Camping equipment
*Rental equipment available upon request
♥ View our packing lists

Inclusivity Statement:
♥ This event is for anyone who seeks to nourish the feminine soul. We recognize that gender is fluid. And we welcome anyone who identifies as woman or nonbinary. Individuals with mobility limitations are invited to contact us directly to discuss accessibility at the retreat location. No previous camping experience required. Read more

Statement on Substance Use:
♥ Wild Heart Revival events are substance free. Use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and mind altering substances is prohibited. We welcome you just as you are, unaltered, and in your true nature while on retreat with us.

Register:
♥ Review our Registration Agreement and COVID-19 safety guidelines
♥ Sumbit your registration request and $100 deposit for our Women of the Forest – June – retreat and pay any remaining balance three weeks prior to our event via Cash App, PayPal, or Venmo

Meet our Facilitators:
♥ Melissa Lynn Reed
♥ Lauren Bond
♥ Margie McSweeney

Testimonials:
♥ View Howls from the Field: Testimonials for Women Rising Wild events
♥ And visit The River’s Path for more information about Lauren Bond and her offerings and to read first hand encounters from her clients on the river.

More about
Women Of The Forest
Root Δ Reach ∇ Rise
Creating Wholeness in the Company of Trees

We are pleased to announce a series of new events with Wild Heart Revival and Women Rising Wild. Our Women of the Forest one and two-day weekend retreats are designed and facilitated by and for women with busy lives so that we may break away from the day-to-day grind to recenter and reconnect with ourselves and one another while boosting our resilience for turbulent times. Together we root, reach, and rise; restoring wholeness and vitality in ourselves and our community in the company of trees.

At Women of the Forest, we recognize that during these complex times we need space and opportunity for self-care and for community to sustain and optimize our health. We are creating the space and you are the community. Join us for enriching and motivational experiences outdoors to both reset and nourish your mind-body-spirit for whole being wellness. Welcome to the forest. Welcome to rest. Welcome to root, reach, and rise with Women of the Forest.

As the trees breath out, you breath in.
As the tress breath in, you breath out.
Together we breath and we become one.

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Connect – Heal – Thrive

April 8, 2020April 21, 2020 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Find your pack with
Women Rising Wild
Wednesday evenings 7pm MTN
a gathering for women via Zoom to
Connect – Heal – Thrive

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

On Wednesday evening for the next 6 weeks (and possibly longer), we will gather in the old way, around a fire, with modern technology from the safety of our homes to connect, heal, and thrive. We will practice the sacred act of council and find stillness together through meaningful connection, movement, and grounding mediation. We call forth Wild Woman into community to tend the fires of compassion, intuition, grounding, and embodied vitality.

Dates and Times:
4/01 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST

4/08 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST
4/15 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST
4/22 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST
4/29 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST
5/06 7pm MST / 6pm PST / 9pm EST

What to bring:
♥ Candle and lighter or match
♥ A hot beverage
♥ Journal and writing implement
♥ A comfy place to rest in a seated posture during our time
♥ Optional: Alter items or objects symbolic of sources of love and protection that support a calm center. Place these items in the nest space you make for our time together or simply carry awareness of these calming resources in your heart.
♥ Courage to be seen, loved, and cherished

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Meeting ID: 665 436 8546
Password: Thrive

Price: Free
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For more information about Women Rising Wild experiences
email wildheartrevival@gmail.com or call 303.886.1764

Women Rising Wild Summer Solstice

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Melissa and Kelly are very excited to announce that we have decided to offer another weekend for Women Rising Wild, 2019!!!!!

Our Labor Day Weekend event is SOLD OUT but you can now register to join us on Summer Solstice Weekend in June. This event is certain to fill quickly so reach out via voice or messaging with any questions and ensure your space in our sacred circle by completing your registration here: https://womenrisingwild.wordpress.com/register/

Early Bird pricing for this event ends April 28.

In wild love,
Melissa and Kelly
Your Rewilding Guides in 2019

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Meet our Guides

February 10, 2018February 3, 2020 Melissa Esha Lynn2 Comments

We are excited to officially introduce our guides for Women Rising Wild, 2018! Our Facilitators have more than 30 combined years of experience in wilderness guiding and they collectively embody a diverse array of wisdom and skills in nature-based therapies; ecology and applied conservation; wilderness survival; yoga, dance, and meditation; subtle body dynamics; wildlife tracking; tantra; rewilding ritual, and wild listening.

The visionary for Women Rising Wild is Melissa Lynn Reed. Melissa is a fourth generation healer and transformational wilderness guide with deep and intimate ties to nature. She is the founder of Wild Heart Revival and she has lived closely with wild canids since childhood. Her guiding and nature therapy work with clients and groups draw upon her 20 years of experience as a wildlife biologist specializing in studies of rare and endangered species. Through the lens of evolutionary behavioral ecology and place-based awareness she provokes attention to connection and our nondual reality. Her offerings blend wild wisdom, ritual, nature-immersion, and mystical sciences for grounded and embodied shifts in consciousness leading to elevated states of wellbeing within individuals and communities. Melissa is a seasoned tracker, medicine weaver, and mystic.

Melissa will be joined again in 2018 by Kelly Cooper. Kelly is a vibrant and grounded woman rich with nature’s wisdom. She holds a MA in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University and she has facilitated more than 70 wilderness or nature-based events in the past 10 years. Kelly has lived outdoors for a full year in New Zealand, spent three years studying and teaching yoga at Kripalu, and recently spent 21 days on a solo backpacking trip. When Kelly is not traveling the world or working with individuals and groups in adventure therapy or wilderness immersion experience she is spending time with her new, adorable, golden doodle puppy. Kelly also is a wilderness first responder and survival skills instructor.

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Darkest Night Wild Woman Hike

December 11, 2017December 12, 2017 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Free Event
Darkest Night Wild Woman Hike
December 17, 2017 4-6pm
Boulder, CO

This Sunday is our darkest, longest night of the year. We will gather in the evening to observe the sun and dark moon set together in the west then walk into the north for a gentle 2.7 mile hike among coyotes, mice, and owls and watch the stars come alive to our senses. In the safety of our group container and facilitation on this auspicious night we will provoke experience and awareness of a greater depth of being and universal consciousness on the plains. Meet at Boulder Valley Ranch Trailhead. Please dress warmly!

This hike is led by Melissa Reed, wilderness guide and mentor at Wild Heart Revival and visionary at Women Rising Wild.

On this Wild Woman hike we welcome people of all genders with special care and attention to the feminine aspects within us all.

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Walk in the Spirit of Wolves

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 Melissa Esha LynnLeave a comment

Free Outreach Events
Saturday, December 9, 2017 &
Saturday, January 6, 2018
10:30-12:30pm
Chautauqua Park, Boulder, Colorado
*Registration Required

Feel into our fundamental nature and evolutionary kinship with wild bushytails as we walk Kohler and Enchanted Mesas and explore both myth and ecology of wolf and other wild canid species found in Colorado.

Meet at the Chautauqua Ranger Cottage. Map and directions here: https://bouldercolorado.gov/osmp/chautauqua-trailhead

These free hikes are offered by Melissa Reed, wildlife ecologist and wilderness guide with Wild Heart Revival. Melissa has more than 20 years experience as a wildlife ecologist and has lived closely with wild canids since childhood. This past Labor Day Melissa hosted a transformational rewilding retreat for women with wolves at Mission: Wolf wolf sanctuary in southcentral Colorado. Registration for Women Rising Wild, 2018, is now open. View the photo gallery from the 2017 event here.

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