When the Earth Remembers Through Us.
Where remembering begins
The challenges of our time are not only ecological or political. They are also crises of relationship, imagination, and belonging.
Here, we turn to stories, myth, literature, community, and the living Earth, not to escape the world, but to remember how to live within it.
Together we practice remembering what has been forgotten, belonging more deeply to the places and communities that sustain us, and reimagining the futures we hope to leave for those who come after us.
Welcome to the work.
What calls us forward
Wild Woman Rising is a literary and ecological community exploring how stories shape the ways we belong to ourselves, one another, and the living Earth.
We gather around books, myth, memory, poetry, conversation, and shared experience, trusting that stories are more than something we consume. They carry cultural memory, deepen our capacity for relationship, and help us imagine futures rooted in reciprocity, care, and hope.
Our work is guided by three enduring practices:
Remembering. Listening for the wisdom held in stories, ancestors, landscapes, and the quiet intelligence of the body.
Belonging. Cultivating relationships with one another, our communities, and the more-than-human world through presence, reciprocity, and care.
Reimagining. Nurturing the imagination needed to shape life-giving futures, beginning with the stories we tell and the lives we choose to live today.
The wild feminine lives within this work, not as an identity to attain, but as a way of meeting the world with curiosity, courage, compassion, and reverence for the cycles that sustain all life.
This is a space for women who believe that another way of living is possible, and who wish to remember, belong, and imagine it together.
"To walk the path of the wild woman is to learn the rhythms of living well: when to plant and when to harvest, when to grieve and when to celebrate, when to speak and when to listen. It is to meet the living world with curiosity, compassion, and a willingness to be changed by relationship.
In remembering our place within the wider web of life, we begin to imagine futures rooted not in domination or certainty, but in care, reciprocity, and belonging."
Nikki Lizares
Founder & Story-keeper
The ways we practice
Our work unfolds at the meeting place of story, ecology, and community.
Through books, circles, retreats, writing, and shared practice, we create spaces where remembering becomes belonging, and belonging becomes the seed of new possibilities.
Together, we explore:
Stories, myth, and literature as guides for living in changing times.
Ancestral remembering and cultural memory.
Ecological kinship and learning with the living world.
Grief as an expression of love and a doorway to deeper care.
Embodiment, symbolism, and the quiet wisdom of the body.
Community as a practice of reciprocity, listening, and shared imagination.
Creativity, reflection, and the work of imagining life-giving futures.
Each offering is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and participate more fully in the relationships that sustain life, because the work is not simply to return to ourselves- it is to remember how to belong to one another and to the living Earth;
and from that place, to imagine what we might become together.
Places to Begin
There is no single path into this work.
Some begin with a story.
Some with grief.
Some with the quiet wisdom of the body.
Some with the living Earth.
Each offering is a different doorway into the shared practice of remembering, belonging, and reimagining.
PATH OF THE WOLF WOMAN
A guided journey through Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Together we move slowly through this landmark work, exploring its stories, symbols, and archetypes as invitations into a deeper relationship with instinct, imagination, creativity, and the cycles of a woman's life.
More than a book study, this is a shared practice of reading, reflection, conversation, and integration. Each gathering offers space to engage the text with curiosity, allowing its wisdom to unfold through our own lived experience and the stories we carry.
For women navigating seasons of transition, longing to reclaim the wisdom of the wild feminine through literature, community, and shared inquiry.
HOMECOMING: A WOMEN’S RETREAT
Belonging through place
Held in some of the Philippines' most beautiful landscapes, Homecoming invites women to slow down and remember themselves as part of the living world.
Through story, shared ritual, rest, time in nature, and meaningful conversation, we learn with rivers, forests, coastlines, and mountains, allowing each place to shape the questions we ask and the pace at which we move.
These retreats are invitations to soften, to listen deeply, and to rediscover the quiet relationships that sustain us: with ourselves, one another, and the Earth.
For women longing for spaciousness, belonging, and renewal.
RETURN TO WILD BOOK CLUB
Imagining the future through literature.
More than a book club, this is a community of readers exploring how stories shape the ways we belong to ourselves, one another, and the living Earth.
Together we read across literature, myth, memoir, ecology, and philosophy, slowing down to notice the questions each book asks of us. Through thoughtful conversation and shared reflection, we uncover the patterns, relationships, and possibilities that help us imagine more life-giving ways of living.
For women who long to read deeply, think expansively, and gather in meaningful conversation.
1:1 Companionship
When you need witness, a guide, a companion
My 1:1 companionship offers a steady, spacious place to lay down what you’re carrying and listen for what’s rising. Whether you are tending grief, seeking clarity, honoring a rite of passage, or beginning a new chapter of your creative or spiritual life, we work gently with body, story, and earth-based practices to help you find your way back to center.
This is not therapy. Rather, it is shared tending- a grounded, relational partnership for your unfolding.
About Nikki Lizares
Writer, ecologist, myth-keeper, and companion in the thresholds of birth, death, and becoming
My work explores the meeting place of story, ecology, and cultural remembrance. I am interested in how stories shape the ways we belong to ourselves, one another, and the living Earth.
Across feminine mythology, ecological thought, grief work, and narrative practice, I create spaces where story is engaged not only as reflection, but as relationship and lived experience.
Through circles, retreats, and 1:1 depth work, I walk alongside women navigating transition and change, tending the questions of who we are becoming in a time of ecological and cultural transformation.
In all of it, I hold story as a living practice of attention, care, and imagination.
A note from Nikki
There are seasons in a woman’s life when the old stories no longer fit, and something quiet and unruly begins to stir beneath the surface.
Wild Woman Rising was born from my own thresholds: seasons of birth, grief, unraveling, remembering. Through myth, ecology, and the ancient feminine arts of listening and tending, I found my way back to a steadier, truer self.
I created this space for women like you — women who feel the pulse of something ancient calling them deeper into their own lives. Women who long to live with more presence, honesty, devotion, and wild grace.
Wherever you are on your path, may this be a place of refuge and return.
MOONLIT TIDES
A lyrical weaving of ecological remembrance, the inner seasons of the feminine, and the musings of a woman on the threshold from maidenhood to motherhood.
For travelers, seekers, and those on the long sojourn of finding and returning home.
Field notes from the Threshold
A slow correspondence for women walking the liminal spaces between what has ended and what is beginning.
Stories of care, kinship, wild feminine wisdom, and ecological remembering.
Conversations, interviews, and features
