Sequoia Samanvaya: Coming into harmony with ancient living wisdom.
We are an international learning community founded by Sara Jolena Wolcott: unsettling colonial pasts and re-weaving ourselves with our more-than-human world in the midst of many fires.
We ask big questions, appropriate to the grandness of our times.
Can we create the reality we yearn for without engaging with our past?
This is not the first apocalypse.
Our current apocalypse brings new kinds of collective reflection.
It is not always a peaceful reflection. It is disturbing.
“Where did this come from?”
“How did we get here?”
“How do we become well?”
We begin with ReMembering.
May our first, middle and final remembrance be of Love. As part of that love, we:
ReMember our histories of colonization.
ReMember our connection with time and place.
ReMembering new Origin Stories.
In doing so, we take steps to ReEnchanting our world.
“Sequoia Samanvaya offers foundational, world changing courses. I consistently use what I learned during The ReMembering Course in my work at the United Nations. Amazing people gather in the spaces that Sara Jolena Wolcott creates. I have learned as much from the community in the courses as from Sara Jolena herself, whom I consider to be one a forerunner in social innovation. She carries to her teaching the depth of grounded wisdom we desperately need in this time.”
- Ken Kitani, Director, Forum 21
Our courses are like chrysalises: safe containers for unravelling. Powerful communities and beautiful creations naturally emerge.
New, much needed initiatives and tools are co-created in community. These include ecological family histories, circular calendars and our anticipatory courses. Poems, rituals, workshops, essays, new family stories, adventures, policies, programs, and life-giving initiatives arise.
People’s lives are beautifully transformed. So people like you keep coming back.
Come to learn. Stay to Grow.
The image on the left is a sketch by Hayley Hathaway during our Anticipatory Collective Call.
Ready to take the next step?
You are made for this moment.
What people are saying
The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast
with your hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott
A sacred learning podcast traveling into the past, the future, and the present.
Also available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Google podcast
Upcoming Offerings
ReMembering Course
Info Webinar
November 19, 2024, 1 pm ET
Learn about The ReMembering Course, and the somatic, ritual-infused historical journey into decoding the institutional and contemporary issues around the Doctrine of Discovery and the Great European Witch-hunts. The session is recorded and sent out to anyone who signs up for the information session. The information session is not required in order to register for The ReMembering Course. The next ReMembering Course starts in Winter/Spring.
Circular Time
Time is not linear. Time curves.
So why are you still using a linear calendar and pretending that you can chart your life in a straight line?
Wonder and Preparation
As the days shorten, join us to deepen gently into the lengthening nights and celebrate the return of the sun.
An “Advent” series for the Winter Solstice Season
4 online Sessions; Tuesdays, November 26, December 3, December 10, December 17 - 3:30 to 4:30 pm ET
Journey with us
We are here for the long journey.
Join our mailing list for ongoing ways of connecting the disconnected. These include inspiring and uplifting thought-pieces, resources for your journey, upcoming events, course offerings, including those with our partners such as Kristine Hill, new podcast episodes, and other opportunities to deepen your journey into ReMembering and ReEnchanting.
“I am the surviving daughter of refugees and runaways, and before that, mountain-forest peoples. Born with peripheral neuropathy I identify as differently-abled. There have not been many spaces where I could bring personal story and identities to the table and keep them, wholly.
Sequoia Samanvaya is the only place/community that I have found where I am able to do profound academic study and exploration while also acknowledging and integrating my identities, experiences, and family histories. I and many others have needed this expanse to move beyond Domain and/or Descriptive Knowledge into in-depth Situated Knowledges, Dispersed Knowledge, and Metaknowledge, which we need in this moment of global/collective unveiling.”
— Isabel Maria Mares
Artist, singer, project manager, queer, ritualist, theologian, administrator, writer, cis-female, Romanian, survivor, student of plants, sister, beloved
Want to explore Sara Jolenas’s other offerings?
Spiritual Direction/Coaching, Ceremonies (Eco-Spiritual Baby Blessings, Weddings, Menopause, Memorials, Ecological Grief Ceremonies) Legacy Advising, and Speaking
Enter the Sequoia Grove - the beautiful, quiet, ancient place for sharing wisdom, questions, and yearnings. In this multi-media online journal, we hope you can meet old and new friends, learn and teach, receive and give.
The Sequoia Grove Journal launched Winter Solstice 2020.
Our community brought together song and story, photography and paintings, poetry and prose to create something beautiful to offer the world.
Go ahead. Visit the Grove. Linger and engage with what participants in our courses and programs are singing about, dreaming, scheming, drawing, writing and birthing.
Be bathed in love.