Join Jenny Ann Holden and Freya Jane for 2 days of wild feminine erotic earth magic embodiment and photographic art creation on Samhain in the Scottish Highlands.
The greatest choice of creation we can make as women is to fully embrace ourselves—including our wild, untamed and messy parts.
Fear of our wildness is one of our greatest blocks as women. When we walk ourselves home to our innate wildness— we thrive, we create abundance, we generate transformation all around us—simply by being. We need only create a doorway for the wild feminine to enter and our lives are forever changed (for the better).
Our body is the doorway. Our expression is the invitation for Her to enter. Creatura, as an archetypal feminine force, is ever-present, but we need to step away from our mind and into another reality in order to engage her medicine. This is an invitation to participate in her sympathetic magic in service to your creative nature, authentic expression, and embodied power.
“These images capture so much depth and beauty, to be seen with other women in our wildness, tenderness and all that we are is such a gift. It is a prayer that all women have the freedom to express themselves fully and to know sisterhood. I will definitely be doing more photoshoots with Jenny, the way she holds the container and invites us to explore our edges and the land is profound. It was such a beautiful experience.” - Sah, Creatura Participant
IMAGINE THIS…
You step into a magical Scottish Highlands. You instantly realize you are entering a different dimension. A time outside of time.
This is the psychic territory of the Wild Woman. As you walk, something in you is waking up. Let us call her Creatura.
You have been sitting on the edge of a big transformation and are ready to move into the next threshold of your life. What is arising within you is your deepest soul truth, your essence, your wild, creative nature that is untouched by trauma or patriarchal culture.
Here is where you meet Her. Not in isolation, but in community with other women.
During our time together, you meet other women who become a clear mirror for you, and you them. Together, we will explore our relationship to our wild feminine nature through embodiment practice, nature connection, and photography ritual.
You will stand in your power and be fully seen as you strip back the layers, bare your soul, and offer your most authentic and un-masked expression.
Women are the creators of life—birthers, midwives, oracles, seers, healers, poets, artists, mystics. For many of us, we are the first in generations to remember and reclaim our wild feminine psyche.
An important phase of this reclamation work is to brave being seen bellow the persona’s, identities and masks Patriarchal culture has made us wear. Photography Ceremony is an intentional therapeutic space for exposing ourselves to who we truly are. It can also be for marking transitions, honouring what is sacred, and a container for transformation. Done with others, we move together outside ordinary time, establishing liminal space where self-judgement, comparison and fear is suspended. This group photography ceremony bridges the seen and unseen worlds. We are co-sensing, co-creating, and co-habitating with the primal feminine wisdom body—accessing something larger than ourselves. This might be your greatest edge but I also believe it is the path we are destined to walk together towards deeper belonging, authentic expression and aliveness.
“Working with Jenny feels like moving across the great river marking life from death, waking from dreaming, or what we hilariously think we know from what we know we don’t know. The embodied, in-mother-nature experience of approaching the river of mystery, entering, being enveloped, swimming, dwelling, deepening, wandering, lingering, all the while moving and crossing, then surfacing, fully emerging, and stepping onto and resting on the other shore. This dynamic in itself, this process, is the sacred stuff.”- Chantell Foss, 5 Rhythms Teacher
IS THIS CEREMONY RIGHT FOR YOU?
→ You feel rage and grief simultaneously but don’t know how to direct these big emotions. The world may be falling apart and you feel deeply impacted by what is happening and yet you know the raw emotions you feel are also the source of your power.
→ You feel creatively restricted. You are likely already a creative woman but as the world changes and become more challenging we are called to embody something deeper, to push through new creative edges. Perhaps there is a creative vision wanting to move through you, but you need more somatic range in order to meet it.
→ You're in a transition or threshold. Something is ending, something is beginning, but the ordinary language of your life can't hold what's actually taking place.
→ You've lost touch with your body as a source of wisdom. This is so normal, especially under the stressful conditions of these times. The depth of your embodiment is fluid. We need to have containers to cultivate depth as we continue to meet the world with our full presence.
→ You hunger for the sacred but need support (re)connecting to it. You ache for ritual, meaning, and a sense of being held by something larger and to be seen and held by other women, although it might be an edge. feels so right and necessary.
→ You create for everyone else but rarely for yourself. Your creative energy is the most important resource that you have. The more that goes toward work, family, productivity, the less you are resourced. It is hard to prioritize yourself, you know you need it.
→ You're ready to stop hiding and start authentically expressing. This ceremony will help heal your fear of being seen but it most definitely about celebrating you, not how you should look or be.
Hi, I am Jenny,
As an embodiment photographer and depth guide, I have an abiding devotion to the power of a woman’s authentic life and wild interiority. Through eco-somatic practice, ceremony, and embodiment photography— I help women’s deepest images come alive.
Not only has this work helped me to connect to and reclaim my wild and creative nature as a woman, but it has connected me with hundreds of other brave and brilliant wild women on a similar path.
Creating wild images with woman has been an incredible journey and I believe that we need to be coming together more to create art.
This offering is prayer for the pathways for cultural renewal and regeneration I believe women are creating through our embodiment, expression, and creativity.