Everything Wild Passage is grew from Taryn Meeks' own passage through the hardest and most alive years of her life.

I didn't find this work. It found me.

A marriage that had quietly ended long before it was over. A version of myself I'd built carefully, competently, and completely — that stopped fitting almost overnight. I did what most of us do. I kept going. I held it together. I told myself I was fine until the word stopped meaning anything.

What broke me open wasn't a single moment. It was a slow accumulation of all the things I hadn't let myself feel. Grief I'd filed away. Anger I'd made polite. A longing I couldn't name because naming it would have required changing everything.

There was a season, not so long ago, when I didn't recognize my own life.

Something in me crossed a threshold that night, not dramatically, not all at once, but in the way that certain passages happen. Quietly. Permanently. Without the possibility of going back.

That experience sent me into six years of deep study — somatic work, women's ceremony, the architecture of rites of passage. Not as a career pivot. As an act of devotion to the work that had saved me — and to the women I knew were standing at the same edge.

The turning point came on a piece of land in the mountains. Alone, a fire, and nowhere left to hide. 

What I believe
about this work

Most of us have been taught to think our way through difficulty. To analyze, to optimize, to come up with a plan. But grief doesn't respond to plans. Neither does identity. The body holds what the mind can't process — and somatic work is how we listen to it.


The body knows before the mind

We've lost the cultural containers that used to hold life's biggest passages. There are no rituals for divorce, for the end of a career, for the slow grief of becoming someone new. Wild Passage creates those containers — because thresholds crossed without ceremony tend to haunt us.


Transitions deserve ceremony

The most powerful thing that happens in circle isn't what gets said — it's what gets heard. Being truly witnessed, without advice or fixing or silver linings, is one of the rarest and most healing experiences available to us. That's what circle is for.


You need witness, not advice

Nature doesn't perform. It doesn't manage its emotions or hold itself together. Spending time in genuinely wild places — not manicured gardens, not resort pools — has a way of returning us to our own nature. That's why every Wild Passage retreat is held on land with teeth.


The wild is a teacher

The Values That Guide Us

Support Emotional Release

Improve Focus

Decrease Anxiety

Regulate the Nervous System

Reduce Depression

Support Emotional Release

The experts who care

Depending on the retreat, I'm joined by practitioners whose work I trust deeply — each bringing a specific craft to the container.

Calla has spent a decade creating conditions for women to tell the truth — in circle, in session, and in the spaces between. Trained in Internal Family Systems and rooted in the tradition of women's circle work, she brings a quality of presence that makes even the most defended woman feel safe enough to speak. 

Calla Brennan

Trained in the Francis Weller lineage of grief work, Dahlia has facilitated grief circles and threshold ceremonies for over a decade. Her work is rooted in the belief that grief, fully felt, is one of the most liberating forces available to us. She leads the ceremonial elements across select Wild Passage retreats.



Dahlia Reyes

Simone has spent fifteen years working at the intersection of trauma, the body, and healing. She brings a rare combination of clinical grounding and ceremonial presence to her work — and a way of holding space that makes the most guarded woman feel safe to open. She joins Wild Passage retreats as lead somatic facilitator.



Simone Avery

Women's Circle Facilitator

Breathwork facilitator

Rites of passage facilitator

Yuki weaves together conscious movement, yoga, and somatic awareness into sessions that meet the body exactly where it is. She doesn't teach fitness — she teaches presence. Her morning practices at Wild Passage are where many women first feel the retreat begin to work.



Yuki Tanaka

Yoga & somatic awareness

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