Wild Inside is a course and retreat that invites us to recognise our very roots, and to find our individual role in the world from that place. What is our essence, aside from roles, identities and responsibilities – and how does that essence connect and contribute to the wider and wilder web of life?

The course/retreat will be based on the teachings of Bill Plotkin (Animas Valley Institute) and Joanna Macy (The Work that Reconnects).

For years we've been learning about Forest Gardens but reading, watching videos, visiting places and even planting some bushes is not quite like creating a forest garden for real. So we decided to do a short intense course with Rakesh, tailoring it to practical, hands-on learning and an advanced level for those who already feel inspired about Forest Gardens and now want to make them happen. We don't bath in theory – except for regular dips into understanding specifics – we do real pilot elements of forest garden and work on real designs. In Rakesh' best tradition, we invite to learn how to make it simple, easy and affordable.

We hosted 16-days PDC in our first year on this land. We managed to make this course more affordable than many other PDCs, which went well with the camping in our forest and simple outdoor facilities.

We hosted Samhain community gathering in our home for 15 people. Watching the nature cycle coming to the end, welcoming the darker time of the year – the season of composting, release of seeds and arrival of quietness, and coming with them introspection and shedding off what did not serve this year. 

There was space for seasonal simple life: peeling chestnuts, leaching and grinding acrons, gathering mushrooms, planting berry bushes, baking and cooking in abundance... but more than that somatic, inter- and intra-personal exercises to connect to nature and oneself, remembering and honouring ancestors, hikes and forest, music and silence.

A memorable 4-days gathering around the Solstice, with a dozen of people as a stable group, and another dozen coming for different parts of the program.
We sensed into the cycle of a year and the qualities accompanying different seasons – particularly, in this time of the Sun's apogee, at so-called "masculine" side of the life force – goal-oriented action, persistant, upward and outward force. We greeted examples of that force in nature, humans of all genders, ourselves and our structures. Given how this force is distorted in the modern society, we see how much the healthy masculine qualities are needed in the face of possible socio-economic collapse(s).