Registration OPEN for 2026-2027
Dedications:
A Year and a Day
You are invited into our Year-and-a-Day-long magical container for connection, depth, and sacred transformation.
Opening with a weekend retreat in the Northwoods, you’ll spend two days with us at our own private getaway near the Brule river (just 15 minutes from Lake Superior).
Our intimate group will be no more than 11. At our opening retreat we will share food and practices together, and we will enter the Year and a Day Portal.
Within the Portal we journey around the Wheel of the Year, gathering and connecting virtually. During 7 evening workshops you’ll learn about the traditional pagan holiday connected to each season of the Year, and we will all share out our collective gathered wisdoms.
In November 2027 we will gather once again in person, closing out our time together with two final days in the Northwoods, holding space for each other to cross the Threshold once again.
Will you join us?
When is this happening?
What happens, more specifically?
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We ground this work in relationship and community. We open and close with in-person ritual, build real connections, and we share foundational ideas and practices that we can come back to throughout the cycle of the year.
Lodging is available each retreat weekend Friday evening through Monday morning. Please join us in time for dinner on Friday!
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We open with calling in the lineages we hold, that live within us, even when we do not have conscious access to them. At our retreat, we meet each other, and the ancestors we brought with us, in spirit. We use somatic and witchy exercises to move with trust into relationship building with our ancestors, in order to receive teachings and guidance.
We also welcome you into a year long practice of Dreamwork. After offering our framework at our weekend retreat, we’ll share our dreams with each other at our gatherings throughout the year.
At our retreat we will:
-Identify some of our lineages, and share what stories we have and do not have
-Enter into ritual and guided meditation to meet some ancestors
-Learn and share about Dreamwork
-Commit to an Ancestor practice and/or Dreamwork for the next few months
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What Land do you live on? What Lands do you and your people come from?
We will spend the year building relationship and connection with the Earth.
Much of this work also lives in your Body. We will intentionally make space for our Body in this cycle.
At our retreat we will:
-Share stories of the Lands we come from and live on
-Receive and share energy work
-Learn spiritual and somatic practices to plant and grow throughout the year
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We will ground our journey in the ancient practice of honoring the energies of the Earth’s seasons.
We will explore the 8 traditional pagan festivals: where do they come from, and what can they offer you?
Each virtual Zoom workshop will focus on the upcoming seasonal holiday, and offer ideas to help you mark it with your own practice.
How about some logistics now?
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The actual price of this year-long workshop series is $3,003 per person, and we are offering a deep sliding scale for accessibility with the lowest tier reserved for low-income people who identify as either trans*/gender-nonconforming OR Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
Retreat lodging costs are included in the price.
Due to the limited size of this retreat space, we cannot offer refunds. If a participant has an access need that facilitators are not able to meet, we will offer a partial refund based on the number of gatherings remaining
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This workshop series features 2 in-person retreats taking place over multiple days. Retreats are located in Brule, Wisconsin about 45 minutes outside of Duluth in the South Shore region of Lake Superior.
The retreat house features both private and shared bedrooms, and we will do our best to accommodate everyone’s needs and preferences. Our retreat house features communal dining space, and all your meals are included. Please contact Carolyn if you have questions or requests.
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While we spend much of our gathering time outside and on the screened porch, we will be sharing air inside. Our indoor meeting space uses both air filters and Far UVC sanitizing lights, but we do also require all participants to test for COVID on the day of the gathering.(We have tests and N95 masks available if needed.)
If you have additional COVID safety needs, please contact Linden to dialogue about navigating them.
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In-person events are hosted both inside at wheelchair accessible locations, and outside on moderately uneven terrain. There are three steps up onto the porch and otherwise the essential retreat spaces are wheelchair accessible.
One bedroom is located on the ground floor and will be prioritized for a low-mobility participant.
Videos and Zoom events include closed captioning.
All practices are trauma-informed and include options and choice.
We encourage participants to show up as they are – we all deserve to connect and learn!
As facilitators we will occasionally name the impact of white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, etc. but our focus will be on joyful connection to ancestral knowledge and practices.
We will ask you about any access needs you have after you register and pay, but feel free to be in touch with Linden at linden@thevenerations.com if you have questions or requests.
Meet our Team
Hi! We’re excited to welcome you to Dedications, our annual co-created magical offering. Emerging and evolving each Cycle, we look forward to opening this year’s magical container with you!
Our team consists of Linden and Carolyn — creators and co-facilitators — humans whose combined experience in somatic practice, witchcraft, justice organizing work, and love for the world call us to craft this course — we hope you’ll join us!
When you join Dedications: A Year and a Day you will get:
Opening + Closing in-person retreats in the Northwoods
7 virtual, evening workshops roughly every 6 weeks
Lessons and practices from Witchcraft and Somatic lineages
A magical community of folk to gather with on this journey
A Year-and-a-Day magical portal experience