Retreats, Workshops & Classes for Women+ Only
Our classes for women and the female-identified are inclusive, noncompetitive, comprehensive, and they take a feminine approach to the subject matter. You’ll come away from them with real, practical skills to nourish your life, your community, and your sense of esteem as a woman.
Feeling capable is a human birthright. Living with confidence in our ability to care for and do things for ourselves is empowering and satisfying. For too long, women haven’t had opportunities to learn the tools for self-sufficient living or practice women’s primitive skills. Oftentimes, when we have had the chance to learn, it’s been on male terms and in male-dominated situations. We’re excited to make a change in our women’s classes!
Classes for women that put empowerment in your own two hands.
In-person Classes for Women
Women’s Basic Carpentry Classes
Rewilding Retreat for Women
The Nourishing Food Retreat
Women’s Advanced Carpentry
It’s time to learn on our terms. Classes for women aren’t just classes for men with female teachers.
We believe that women’s empowerment is as much about the specific skills we need as it is about reclaiming our natural way of doing things. Teaching women’s classes is rewarding and fun because we get to create the kind of gender equity and acceptance that we want to see in the world.
The reason that women don’t often feel confident with “hard skills” like carpentry and woodworking is not because we aren’t good at them. It’s also not because we’re not interested. Too often these skills are taught by men in a very linear, outcome-oriented, male sort of way. Our women’s woodworking classes serve to develop our unique strengths and build skills that we can take home to our communities.
Women’s classes highlight your unique strengths and abilities.
Our classes for women and the female-identified take into account a more feminine learning style. We put a focus on learning as we go and always encourage students to ask questions and ask for help. We work on group projects, along with individual ones, and we invite people to share meals together. This sense of togetherness and connection with the group helps everyone feel safe and welcome. We highlight different abilities and strengths, noticing that everyone’s contributions are needed and that they come in handy in different ways.
Why we love women’s classes: teaching the trades to women opens doors.
One of our most popular classes for women is Women’s Basic Carpentry. So many women want to know how to build things! And over the years, we’ve seen that they have really good ideas and designs. Many women are really good builders. Without our women’s woodworking classes, who knows if these students would have ever been able to realize their visions? Their projects could have stayed in their imaginations forever.
Our Advanced Women’s Carpentry teaches structural building, so women and the female-identified can put up their own sheds and gazebos and even build their own houses. Teaching these foundational skills allows women to follow their dreams. Some women dream of working in the trades, but just don’t know how to break into such a male-dominated world. Our humble hope is that our classes for women open the door for those women who want to be builders.
If you’re asking: Where can I find beginner carpentry classes near me?…
Know that it’s unusual to find carpentry classes designed specifically for women. We have students join us from all over the country…even from all over the world…to learn basic and advanced carpentry skills in a patient, welcoming, and woman-led atmosphere. Plus, taking a class with us is a true experience: our outdoor classrooms are gorgeous, our instructors are knowledgeable and highly skilled, and community is nurtured at every turn.
Rewilding & women’s primitive skills connect you with your roots.
The roots of our school go deep into the earth-based ancestral arts that inspired us so many years ago. Interacting with the natural environment and learning the women’s primitive skills and crafts of our ancestors has enriched our lives. Rewilding has grown our confidence and sense of place.
We know from personal experience that connecting with the undomesticated parts of ourselves is at the foundation of empowerment. We’re excited to offer a course in women’s primitive skills that covers such basic human tasks as making fire and foraging for medicinal plants. This rewilding retreat may also include basketry, broom making, and menstrual, moon, and menopause rituals. Of all our classes for women, this one dives deep into what it means to be a human woman and how we can embrace the feminine parts of ourselves in our everyday lives
Are you interested in women’s primitive skills? We offer apprenticeships for women who are ready to change their lives.
Every year we welcome a few motivated individuals to be our apprentices. It’s the best way to learn all that we teach and to experience life on a permaculture homestead. Natalie Bogwalker, our founder and Director, is the main instructor for the apprentices.
Our apprenticeships for women provide an opportunity to learn directly from this highly skilled and experienced woman in an intimate, small-group setting. The apprenticeship program is also open to men, and many other instructors guide and teach our apprentices. We create an inclusive environment throughout the apprenticeship season that fosters communication, honesty, vulnerability, personal growth, and individualized learning.
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