Our why | In Rewilding Together

What we do and why

Away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world, lies a beautiful farm in Southern Oregon this is where we relearn what it means to be human. We relearn to connect, with each other, the land and ourselves. What happened to our nervous systems during Covid, the changes to our attention beacuse of devices, and our rapidly changing tech world demands that we pay attention to our souls and spirits and our ancestral rythums..

Many of us are loosing the ability to listen to our own truths. Our children dont know how to make friends, we are addicted to cell phones, unsubstantiated attention from strangers with dopamine hits that leave us empty and blank. The real meaning of being human is being lost. Come to a retreat and rediscover what under the loneliness, and lack of purpose that prevails around us.

Ishe's story

I didn’t start In Rewilding Together because life was easy for me.

I started it because I learned over many years what it takes to survive, and then what it takes to truly live.

For much of my life, I experienced the world intensely. I was deeply sensitive, affected by people and environments in ways others didn’t seem to be. Relationships were often confusing. Loss landed hard. I learned how to endure, adapt, and keep going but not why everything felt so amplified.

Alongside the struggle, there was always a steady pull toward certain ways of being. I built a small cob house by hand over ten summers. I lived for years on a ranch, raising cattle and spending long stretches of time alone with horses, goats, hawks, and the land itself. The horses became active teachers showing me micro climates on the land, water sources I didn’t know were there. Nature wasn’t a retreat from life; it was where I could function.

Then came a series of profound losses that went on for almost a decade and upheavals that culminated in the death of my son. Grief overtook me completely. For weeks, then months, then years, it moved through me uncontrollably. I didn’t try to manage it or suppress it. Years of study had taught me that grief, when resisted, becomes something far more dangerous. I trusted that if I allowed it, something would eventually shift.

Healing did not arrive as a single moment or method. It came as a continuum I had been building my whole life.

I was drawn again and again to practices that worked directly with the body and nervous system: Reiki, regular massage as preventative care, craniosacral work, tuning forks, acupressure and acupuncture. Movement in many forms: somatic practices like Continuum, ecstatic and traditional dance, hiking, walking, time in water. And nutrition, herbal remedies, and an increasing awareness of what my body needed to stay regulated.

When I was later diagnosed as autistic, everything came into focus. These weren’t preferences or spiritual interests—they were necessities. Autistic women often study what matters to them. Almost all autistic people live in a world filled with littel or big trauma’s just by nature of how we are designed and this world isn’t contrived to support us. Neuroscience, trauma, embodiment, and human–animal connection weren’t abstract interests for me; they were maps.

As the grief began lift slowley and the EMDR did it’s magic moving trauma from primitive brain into normalized memory, something cracked. A deeply connected, meeting, which hit like a ton of bricks with oxytocin off the charts! followed by a long courtship let light back in. The relationship itself didn’t last but the opening did.

What became clear is this: the things that had sustained me, nature immersion, rhythm, movement, creative work, meaningful relationship, and partnership with horses—are not just personally healing. They are biologically and neurologically regulating. They are ancestral. And they are largely missing from modern life.

In Rewilding Together grew from that remembering.

Our retreats offer a return to what our bodies already know: nervous-system safety, embodied presence, and real connection—with the land, with animals, and with one another. I don’t see myself as a healer who fixes people. I am a guide—walking alongside others as they remember how to inhabit themselves more fully.

This work is grounded in lived experience, neuroscience, and deep respect for the intelligence of the body and the natural world.

At a biological level, many of the practices woven into In Rewilding Together work because they engage well-studied regulatory systems. Time in nature is associated with reduced cortisol and increased parasympathetic activity. Rhythmic movement, walking, and dance support dopamine and endorphin release, improving motivation, mood, and embodied focus. Safe social connection increases oxytocin, which supports trust, bonding, and nervous-system settling. Horses, who are prey animals with highly attuned sensory systems provide feedback about presence, coherence, and intention, which can sharpen self-regulation and awareness. Together, these conditions support clarity, resilience, and a felt sense of connection. This work isn’t only for healing from trauma—it’s for people who are overextended, disconnected, isolated, or simply wanting to live with more presence, vitality, and meaning.

I built this because i realized these practices saved me, and my skills and expereinces are here guide others and keep these aciancenit rythums alive this is wellness.

And now, I offer it—so others can remember themselves too.