Elderflower Womenspirit Festival

Summer is heating up and so are the plans for the 2024 Festival!
July 15 is the last date to register at a reduced rate for this year! The workshop applications are closing on the same date. As usual, no new registrations after August 1. We need to know you're coming ahead of time.

All the info is in the July News - sent out on Friday! You can view it here https://mailchi.mp/7bb54eff8239/womenspirit-news-july-2024

Before you know it, we'll be enjoying standing in line waiting for those gourmet meals in the Redwoods!

Happy Earth Day! Elderflower Womenspirit Festival will have a booth at this festival in Marin. Come see us on Saturday 4-27 and Sunday 4-28!

This weekend, April 27 & 28, we will celebrate the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It's a time of fertility, growth, and renewal, where we welcome the warmth of the sun and the awakening of the earth. An opportunity to rejoice in the changing seasons and honor the natural world around us. Join us as we dance and sing of nature's beauty, and pledge to be stewards of our planet every day. Happy Earth Day and Blessed Beltane!

Finally!!! ...the Website is Live and 2024 Registrations are open!
https://bit.ly/EWF-march-2024-news
Festival Dates August 7-11 2024 in the Mendocino Woodlands!

Join the website to register online or use the posted printable forms to fill out and send to us.

Countdown to Elderflower 2023! ...in just two weeks ...
We can't wait to see you all!
We'll walk among the towering redwoods and listen to the crows and sounds of the creek flowing through camp.
Remember that we can do NO registrations at the gate. You must let us know you're coming by August 1.
Bring cash to make final payments at the gate.
We have almost 70 women registered so far!
Read all the deets in the Newsletter that was sent earlier this afternoon.

July Countdown to Elderflower Festival 2023

Happy Spring! We are Back!
Elderflower Festival 2023 in the Mendocino Woodlands
August 9-13, 2023

Here is a link to our latest Newsletter.
https://bit.ly/2023-Elderflower-March-News
If you didn't receive it, visit our website https://elderflower.org and click Contact Us to get signed up for our mailing list.

We also recently sent out a mailing to our current list. If you don't receive the envelope, contact us on our website with your current address.

March 2023 Elderflower Festival Registration News Dear Elderflower Sisters, Happy Spring! WE ARE BACK! It's been a long time since we've written to you. We are happy to announce that we will be having our 2023 festival in the Mendocino Woodlands on August 9-13th! Spread the Word! Tell your friends, your female family members and other women yo...

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‘Akhilanda represents the essence of the Phoenix; she’s the indestructible energy that embraces change. Her full name is Akhilandaishvari. Ishvari in Sanskrit means female power or goddess and Akhilanda means never not broken, so she is the goddess of never not broken. She can never be broken, because she always is. She is the embodiment of what we try to avoid–the dissolution of our ego’s identity. She radiates the potent light and joy that’s the goal of change, transformation, or pain. There is very little written about her; she is meant to be known through experience. She is an intimate, interior goddess that we meet when we are in the darkest moments of grief and heartbreak. She shows us where our energy is trapped; where we have been stifled in routines or other’s expectations of us. And she whispers the liberation we will experience once we let ourselves break open, and allow the new expression of our self to come blazing through. She reminds us that we always have the power to choose to see every event as yet another opportunity to become more light, to become more of the radiant soul we are here to be.

Many of us exert tremendous energy in the effort to not break or fall apart. We resist our grief. Our heartbreak. Or we deny the need to change until the choice no longer feels like it’s ours. Something side swipes us from our ordinary life and shatters who we think we are and how we identify ourselves. Here’s what Akhilanda reminds us: vulnerability is our greatest strength. If we are always broken, we can never break. Akhilanda is the most intimate, and personally powerful goddess because she meets us in those moments when we can feel most alone, most exposed, and most afraid. She models how to thrive in the midst of change; she uses pain to joyfully and purposefully transform. She sees everything as an opportunity to release what isn’t serving her. And she knows that being broken isn’t a failure, or something we should avoid, it’s actually the whole point. We are here to let our ideas of ourselves go up in flames, so that beneath the ashes, the soft core of who we truly are arises. And so that we remember that it’s not the heart that ever breaks; it’s the ego. The heart only ever expands. ‘

- Excerpted from “The Divine Feminine Oracle” by Meggan Watterson; Illustrated by Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman

“Akhilanda”
Mixed Media
2018

Getting in touch with your wild self is the most empowering thing you can do.

Annie Hamman is the artist😀

You still have time to meet us in the Mendocino Woodlands!
August 10 - 14
The last day to register is August 1st, so register soon. We need to know you are coming. That means no registrations at the gate.
We DO have some temporary policies in place to prevent spread of COVID among the attendees.
We've moved back to our original website address: https://elderflower.org
And we have a new email address. You can register online at our brand-spanking new site!

Elderflower Womenspirit Festival will be live this year!!
August 10-14
Registration is now available on the website at www.elderflower.org.
Not all content is up to date but we’re working on it.
See you in the redwoods!

Elderflower Womenspirit Festival

We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not become writers.. dancers.. musicians.. helpers.. peacemakers. We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.
We do not learn to love in this sense.
We came as Love. We are Love.
Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.

-Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes