• Collective spell work

• 5 Winter Tea Blend Recipes 

• Winter Cave Tool Kit ( yoga nidra practices, music playlists, bedtime stories, meditations, altar-building) 

• Gentle movement

• 4 Rituals ( solstice, manifestation, grieving, self-love)

• 8 Wednesday night meditation and ritual practice sessions

• 1 Class on Blood and Bone nourishment in Winter

• Dream work

• Community support in slowing down over the winter

Ritual Dates

Dec 17th, 31st • Jan 13th, 28th • Feb 11th

Time: 1pm cst- 4pm cst

Deep listening sessions happen every Wed night 5:30-7pm cst throughout the cave. All rituals and deep listening sessions are recorded and available for replay.

Where

Online via zoom

Group settings, some packages include 1 on 1’s with facilitators

Cost

payment plans available

Afterpay available, group rates please email us

Rose Package

$600 (value $4050)

Afterpay available

Butterfly Package

$1000 (value $4550)

Afterpay available, sliding scale please email us

Wolf Cave Package

$2000 (value $5810)

Afterpay available, sliding scale please email us

You are probably here because you are being called to slow down. You are probably an intuitive person who is connected, or desires to be more connected to the rhythms of nature. You can feel the winter coming and your are thinking cozy, soup, stillness, humidifiers, saying no to as much as you can, rest and warmth. Winter Cave is a collective space you join to support and nourish your hibernation.

I think we have to personally reclaim our connection to nature and take major steps to commit to what other mammals do during the darkest days of the year. If it is freezing cold outside, 8 feet of snow, cars sliding off roads, 50 layers of clothes just to walk to the corner, shoveling snow for 45 minutes just to get to work than maybe we should consider that we should be doing less. Maybe the best action is to cultivate inner fires with reflective practices and companionship. Possibly the focus could be on eating nourishing foods to warm our bodies and support our nervous system and connecting with the energy of darkness and stillness. 

Joining Winter Cave is a commitment to slowing down in the winter season for the purposes of

• resting deeply

• nourishment of our bodies in the coldest season

• internal reflection 

• refinement of you personal values

• tending your relationship with your spirit guides, ancestors and nature 

• spell work

• and root work 

Join me for 8 weeks of intentional winter nourishment.

Hello, I’m Sojourner, Lead Faciliator… Let’s Connect

SOJOURNER ZENOBIA

LEaD RITUAL FACILITATOR

Sojourner Zenobia (they/them), Sojourner has completed decades of somatic performance training at Marymount Manhattan, Pearl Ubungen’s BFA at Naropa University, The School at Steppenwolf and Pantheatre’s Roy Hart school in Paris. They have trained in connecting with ancestors, nature and the spirit world and healing facilitation at Life Force Arts in Chicago, they trained in circle keeping with Circles and Ciphers and Kay Pranis, and in 2021 they completed Tracee Stanley and Chanti Tacoronte-Perez’s yoga nidra Training. 

Sojourner found spirituality through the practice of presence as a performer. This portal of presence opened up the Buddhist path to them and the Buddhist practice opened the healing of connecting with the earth. They became the spider that they were terrified of as a child and began to weave together everything that gave them feelings of trust, hope and freedom. They are now an embodied sacred space facilitator, installation artist, experimental vocalist, body mover and earth steward. 

For the past 10 years Sojourner has held a meditation and ritual space called “Stillness,” where they have guided hundreds of BIPOC queer folks in deepening their connection with ancestors, nature and personal spiritual gifts. Sojourner is currently exploring stillness by trusting the wisdom that emerges in their body at quiet moments and by trusting the relationships in their life.

PEREGRINE BERMAS

HERBALIST FOR WINTER CAVER TONICS

I’m a queer pinxy artist and capricornucopia living in so-called chicago; descended from mountains, ocean and raspberries, and humans whose creative inclinations led them to be teachers, entrepreneurs, caregivers, land tenders, excellent cooks and medicine makers.

I am a graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago, Moksha Yoga Center (200 CYT), Street Yoga, Heart-Stone Center for Earth Essentials, Violet Heart Wellness (Reiki) and Sacred Vibes Apothecary. I have over a decade of experience as a yoga practitioner that greatly informs how I approach facilitation, and I continue self-study and guided learning in liberatory somatics and plant medicine.

As an artist, my creative practice takes many forms; all stimulating the intersections of land-based relationships and collective care. In 2023-2024 I am illustrating the second in a series of educational coloring zines about “weeds”.

As a community herbalist, I am passionate about sharing local and kitchen-accessible plant medicine, and uplifting queer, trans and Indigenous and Melanated soil stewards and wisdom teachers.

I am founder and co-steward of Freedom Fighter Herbs, a care network and food sovereignty project, which emerged to serve chicago amidst pandemic uprising in 2020.

YOLI MAYA YEH

YOGA NIDRA

Yoli Maya Yeh is a Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist (AOBTA, VYASA, Yoga for the Special Child) and an Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies (MA Comparative Religious Ethics).  Yoli works at the intersection of Indigenous Preservation, Healing Arts and Social Justice and is co-founder of DEIcipher Group. 

Raised in her family's Native American spiritual teachings, Yoli spent twelve years of her young adulthood studying language, yoga, tantra, healing arts and meditation in India and continues to travel and teach around the globe. 

Yoli holds transformative healing space for especially hard to treat, autoimmune, chronic conditions, unexplainable, undiagnosable, compound situations.  She is devoted to healing for women and birthing bodies and offers supportive space for grief, loss, birth loss, traumatic birth expereinces and the spiritual dimension. 

Asia Dorsey

Root Worker: Bones and Blood Class

Asia Dorsey is a bioregional, rootworker raised by a collective of aunties and grandmothers in Historic Five Points Community in Denver.  She has apprenticed with elders in, India, Ghana, New Zealand, New York and more to discern a practice of a People’s Medicine, grounded in the movement for reparations, healing justice, and her ancestral earth-based practices.

Asia is the owner of Bones Bugs and Botany an organization committed to creating pathways towards embodied liberation though food and herbal medicine education.  She teaches ecological design with the Regenerative Education Collective of Denver and uses her talent of pattern recognition to decipher and reintegrate the sacred instructions of plants and ecosystems into people systems with Regenerate Change.

Find her on the Petty Herbalist Podcast helping her people to rise together in the power that is their birthright and  at www.bonesbugsandbotany.com.

Charmaine Bee

Winter Dream Immersion

Charmaine uses mediums such as video, movement, sculpture, writing, sound and textile and makes work about Gullah heritage and the histories and manifestations of African diaspora spirituality. Charmaine works with materials harvested in the Sea Islands of the United States during the era of slavery, such as rice and indigo.

Charmaine also makes work about medical bias as well as healing and wellness through plant medicine and how these histories are activated through portals of geographic sites, time and spaces we can’t see but can feel.

Before receiving an mfa Charmaine formally studied herbalism and makes herbal medicine and teaches workshops on herbs for dreaming.