We Are the
Weavers
Gathering
A women’s campout to reawaken the ancestral life ways of spinning, weaving, singing & storytelling
May 24th - May 30th, 2026
Near Twisp, Washington State, USA
Photo by Angel Quinones
In this time of great unraveling
when the world appears
to be coming undone at the seams,
we are called to join the reweaving
of a new and beautiful story on Earth.
Our Vision
Returning to the humble magic of these ancestral lifeways.
Join our weeklong women’s gathering exploring the ancient crafts of spinning, weaving, and natural dyeing, alongside the healing power of song and storytelling.
Whether you are approaching these life skills for the first time or have walked with them for many years, this gathering offers a space to reawaken our hands and our voices, creating beauty and magic together.
These crafts offer a rich invitation to slowness. Having the opportunity to gather and practice these old ways is a privilege we hold with gratitude. In remembering these skills, we discover a vast well of medicine for our modern lives — connection to ancestry, to our bodies, to the land, and to each other.
Together we deepen in this ever-unfolding apprenticeship to the path of beauty, generosity, and reciprocity.
This first year of the gathering is a humble beginning, and we feel guided to show up and grow ourselves as weavers of love in the midst of a world in need.
Photo by Annyea Healy
This Is For You If:
- You feel called to learn, or deepen into, the ancient arts of spinning and weaving, and want to explore their magical and healing potential.
- You’re drawn to group singing — whether you’re just beginning to explore your voice or are a seasoned singer
- You’re curious about the healing power of storytelling and the wisdom that emerges when we listen and share in circle.
- You’re up for a week of camping on the land with other women while practicing these life skills (a limited number of paid indoor spaces for elders are also available).
- You feel inspired to embrace slower, more earth-based ways of living and reconnect with your creativity in an intentional and nourishing way.
The Skills We'll Practice
From flock to fiber to finished product, midwifed by the sisters of story & song, we will practice the life skills of those who have woven before us to honor our lineages and these timeless, ancestral life ways.
During the week, you are welcome to sink into a multi-day project like weaving on the rigid heddle, or explore many shorter sessions. This gathering provides the opportunity to experience the entire journey from sheep (and/or silk!) to sacred cloth.
Shear & Process
Connecting with our cloven kin, we will hand-shear sheep and skirt, clean, and card fiber.
Spin
Using drop spindles and spinning wheels, with natural fibers, we will spin yarn.
Dye
Offering our fibers to the dye cauldron, we will color our world with fungi & flora.
Weave
On a handloom, rigid heddle loom, or with cards, we will weave beauty together.
Where We'll Gather
Skalitude Retreat is a rare place of beauty and refuge. A valley within a valley, nestled into the curvaceous hills of the traditional lands of the mətxʷú (Methow) people, who named themselves for the Arrowleaf Balsam that blooms the springtime hills golden. A 160 pollinator sanctuary and community surrounded by Okanogan National Forest in the Methow Valley of Washington State.
This land holds a magic that evokes reverence and inspires deep connection. By day, she sings in bird song and bee hum, by night the chorus is taken up by owls and wolves. The central gathering place is a wildflower meadow, bordered by aspen grove and pine forest.
Land Acknowledgement
In the spirit of Vanessa Andreotti’s poem “Landing with the Land Differently – An Invitation,” before acknowledging the history of the land where we will gather, we invite you orient to the following as part of the “awkward sacred mess of being in relation.”
This gathering takes place on the ancestral homeland of the mətxʷú (Methow) people, where they have lived for thousands of years and continue to live today. We recognize that the Methow people have been & continue to be systematically excluded from decisions about their own wellbeing, sovereignty and land. No land acknowledgement can erase this history.
Our intention for this gathering is to remember what it means to be in the land – to practice deep & humble listening as we both unravel a painful past & reweave a more harmonious future with our human and more-than-human relations of this place.
Photo by Annyea Healy
At the Gathering
We wholeheartedly welcome you to join us for five days of classes, evenings around the fire to sing and tell stories, and time simply to be together on the land.
Classes
Guided by our 12+ teachers with a combined 80+ years of working with fiber – shepherdessing, shearing, fiber processing, spinning, dyeing & weaving.
Organized classes will take place from Monday to Thursday, with Friday being a dedicated day to finish your projects.
Most classes carry a modest materials fee to cover fiber, yarn, and dyestuffs, typically under $30. A few classes, like the rigid heddle weaving, require more materials and may have a fee of of $100 or more.
Morning & Evening Activities
At 7am each morning, optional practices – tea ritual or slow movement – will be offered to open your day with prayer & intention.
Each evening we will gather around the fire to craft, sing, and tell stories, before letting the night carry us off into dreamtime.
Quiet hours are expected from 10pm to 7am with the exception of Thursday evening, where drumming may wind down closer to midnight..
Sacred Space
For one week leading up to the Full Moon, we gather with an intention to hold sacred space together.
In this spirit, we are creating a substance and cellphone free event.
By substances we mean no alcohol, drugs, psychoactive substances, or sacred plant medicines, including cannabis and tobacco.
We ask that everyone refrain from cellphone and camera use in communal areas (the land kindly makes this easy, with little to no reception). Professional photography will be provided by Annyea Healy on designated days only.
Just as in the days of old, when women gathered to weave golden warp threads with yarn dyed in saffron to adorn the body of the goddess, we hold these ways as sacred. In co-creating this ritual space for one week, we open ourselves to discovering what else is true and spellbinding when the modern gods of commerce, performance, and convenience are laid to rest.
Inclusivity
We warmly welcome BIPOC women who feel called to this space, and are offering a reparative access ticket option.
The work of the Weaving Remembrance organization for the last several years has been centered on devotedly supporting those of European lineages to remember their ancestral heritage. Most of our teachers this year are of European descent, and we recognize that these practices are not just for socialized white women.
The ancestral lifeways of fiber, song, and storytelling are held within all cultures and peoples across the world.
We hold the intention of growing in diversity and representation as this gathering continues to evolve.
Kid's Camp
We are dreaming of creating a multigenerational village for one week! Little ones aged 3 and under are free. Children 4 to 7, as well as girls aged 8 to 15 will each need their own paid ticket. More info at registration.
Children ages 4 & up are warmly welcomed into our fully-staffed kid’s camp led by Mary North, with programming running alongside scheduled class sessions. While the maidens, mothers, and crones are weaving, the little ones will have a world of their own — making, roaming and singing. Outside of class times, children are in the care of their parents.
Maker's Market
On Friday, we will host a maker’s market, open to all who wish to offer their handmade goods. Bring your wares, cloths, adornments, or anything else made by your hands and offered with a story, to sell, trade, or barter.
Tea Nest
Backyard Harvest Tea Nest is a cozy space to ground, nourish, connect and sip in the essence of homegrown & wild-harvested earth medicines together. A space where folks can visit throughout the gathering to fill up their cups, take a breath, connect in with their hearts and wombs and receive.
Herbal elixirs, teas and frothy beverages based on the inspiration of the seasons, the abundance of the harvests and alchemy come together to spark that remembering from deep within of who we are throughout the gathering.
We are reweaving,
gathering the threads of soul,
singing over bones,
all fibers spun into the whole.
We are reweaving,
gathering the threads of soul,
singing over bones,
and coming into Life again.
– “La Loba” by Hanna Leigh
What’s Included
- 5 full days of practicing these skills together (30+ hours of learning!) taught by experienced teachers
- 6 nights of camping on the land – bring your own tent – or rent a bell tent for a fee (a limited number of paid indoor spaces for elders are also available)
- Nightly song circles, storytelling & crafting around the fire
- Guided optional morning practices
- Opening & closing prayerful rituals, collectively & inclusively held to orient and guide our gathering
- Beautifully catered meals – breakfasts & dinners provided (12 meals total of mostly organic food - meat & vegetarian options)
- Facilitated kids camp for little ones aged 4 & up
- A suprise welcome bundle
- Participants leave with their special hand made creations!
Photo by Annyea Healy
Our Schedule
Here is a general outline of our schedule for the week, which is subject to change. A full class schedule will be available at the gathering.
Sunday, May 24th
Participants are welcome to arrive anytime between 8:30am and 2:30pm.
3pm – Opening Ceremony & Orientation
5pm – Class Signups / Tools & Materials Fair
6pm – Dinner
7:30pm & Onward – Fireside Fun
Monday, May 25th – Friday, May 29th
Full class days!
7am – Optional Morning Movement & Tea Ritual
8am – Breakfast & Morning Circle
9am – Clan Meetings
9:30am – Morning Classes
12:30pm – 2:30pm – Lunch (not provided)
2:30pm – 5:30pm – Afternoon Classes
6pm – Dinner
7:30pm & Onward – Fireside Song, Story & Ritual
Thursday – Dance & drumming in the evening after 8pm.
Friday – Finishing projects, group photos, and Maker’s Market from 3pm -5pm.
Saturday, May 30th
8am – Breakfast
9am – 10:30am – Closing Ceremony
Participants must depart the land by 4pm.
Meet Our Guides
Each practice is shared with intention and respect by our guides.
Flow Withwater
Annyea Healy
Sylvia Linsteadt
Hanna Leigh
Hi! My name is Hanna Leigh, (IG: @hannaleighsong) and I am a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. I was raised in California (Chumash territory) though in recent years have spent extensive time residing on ancestral lands in the Celtic isles. My people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.
This organization, Weaving Remembrance, was birthed through my own passion to to reclaim ancestral wisdom and grow in intimate reciprocity with this miraculous earth that sustains us.
I feel passionate about inspiring folks to connect with ancestral crafts, particularly spinning & weaving. These practices have brought much magic & goodness into my life, and I feel they are important anchors for the turbulent times we are in. Come join us in the practical magic of reawakening to these old ways!
Laura Madeline
Laura Madeline is a Village Herbalist and creatrix of Backyard Harvest Herbal, who is passionate about food as medicine, herbs as allies and connection as guidance, which nourishes mind, body, soul, spirit and the Earth. Her offerings weave the traditions of Holistic Herbalism, Bioregional Ayurveda, Traditional Innate Postpartum Care and the wisdom of the plants.
Backyard Harvest creates herbal medicine and experiences based on the inspiration of the seasons, the abundance of the harvest, infused with intention.
Herbal elixirs, teas and frothy beverages, using local, organic, garden grown and/or respectfully wildcrafted herbs and alchemy come together to spark that remembering from deep within of who we are for the We are the Weavers Gathering.
Cailyn Brierley
Cailyn has been tending soil and seeds as a farmer and educator in various eco regions for 13 years. Most recently she has lived in the Methow watershed tending her farm and family, and growing fresh produce, seeds, animals, and babies of her own. Cailyn is a weaver of many mediums, beginning with willow and most recently deepening with spinning plant and animal fibers for ceremonial cloths. She has always been a lover of textiles and fiber, and has been slowly integrating these old ways of spinning and weaving through her hands, always with reverence for the ones who’ve come before and those yet to come.
About her class: Together we will explore new ways of creating wild looms, warping, and weaving with wild and cultivated materials. We will offer our prayers, songs, and sacred woven beings to the land. Whether you’ve never made a cloth, have been making them for decades, or anywhere in between, you are welcome to come and gather in reverent gratitude for the land that holds us, keeps us, and becomes us.
Katie Rose
TBA
Maeyoka Brightheart
Maeyoka Brightheart is a mama, witch, medicinal beekeeper, herbalist and student of apitherapy. Human hands, heart and voice devoted to the honeybee and to the Life Force of the Earth that the bees serve. Looking to their living example of embodied reciprocity, she weaves beauty, community and elemental magic into all that she does. She works in partnership with the hive as a living force of radiance and healing, creating many medicines with the bounty of the bees and plants and giving voice to the lessons and inspiration imparted through this relationship. She and her beloved co-founded Skalitude Pollinator Sanctuary, where they live with their family and community, tending vital habitat for pollinators and humans to thrive together.
Bees have been creating flourishing Matriarchal civilizations, temple cities made of and in service to the fertility of the Earth for 100 million years. They devote their lives to gathering the ephemeral raw elements of nature, spinning them into form and weaving medicine to sustain Life, bringing beauty and abundance to all that they touch in the process. Commune with the singing golden ladies of nectar and venom who tend Skalitude. Taste their medicines, learn of their life and mythos, join in their song and let yourself be woven into their spell.
Yaeli Moonrise
Yaeli Moonrise and her partner have a small yet magical farm in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington, where they steward 5 acres of land and lovingly tend to a herd of six alpaca, cats, dogs and ducks. They sell their yarn locally, as well as handwoven pieces off the floor loom. The daily rhythms of farm life is the foundation from which she approaches these crafts, and learning to spin and weave the fiber of her animals has brought a sense of purpose and profundity beyond what she could have ever imagined. Yaeli is delighted to share the art of spinning with you during this incredible weeklong immersion. You can find more
information about her farm, Woven Home Farm, and her engagement in this lifeway at: www.wovenhomefarm.com
Bryn Darmody
Bryn (@echoflockandfiber) has been a farmer and steward to animals for 10 years now. She has worked at a number of different farms throughout the years, learning different methods from all of them. Typically they were biodynamic farms or farms that integrated livestock. In 2018 Bryn worked at her first large sheep ranch for a lambing season, an operation of 4,000 ewes. All grass fed and pasture raised on the Oregon coast. After this experience she decided to get sheep of her own to help clear land and make compost. What started as a 2 ewe flock is now a fluctuating number of 15-30. Through the years she became more interested in utilizing the wool. If there was a need to shear, you may as well use the wool. What started as a desire to utilize what comes from the animals, started her on a path of devotion to the fiber, all the animal offers and the many ways to use it. She now processed all her own wool, spins and weaves with it. She also learned to process her animals herself, learned to butcher and tan the hides. Being a shepherdess has deepened her connection not only to food, but to clothing, shelter and place. This has become her calling, to reconnect to slow ways of making and honoring the animals.
Tess Barlow
Geraldine Sundstrom
Devon Leigh
Devon Smith finds her inspiration from folk art, tide pools, desert rocks and woolen herds. She first began weaving in 2020 learning tablet weaving, and experienced an immediate remembering and passion for all things woven. She has learned a lot from her talented sisters and since studied with Annyea Healy. Devon currently finds home in the Methow Valley, WA.
Janessa Fortes Bautista
Janessa Fortes Bautista is a plant dyer, designer, and plant dye gardener living in the Columbia River Gorge. For 25 years, she has been exploring and playing with the vibrant pigments of plants. Janessa is the creator of Rainbow and Yarrow—a product line where she designs and dyes every piece using plants grown in her own garden.
A devoted plant ally and advocate for sustainability, Janessa believes in repairing and modifying garments rather than buying new ones, encouraging a mindful approach to fashion and textiles. Although she considers herself a lifelong student of nature, she has spent many years teaching natural dyeing, sharing her expertise in this accessible and essential skill.
Mary North
I was raised barefoot and wild in the forests of Minnesota, where moss, rivers, animals and trees were my first teachers of how to listen and be in true relationship. Now I reside beneath the endless skies of the desert Southwest where I raised my daughters off-grid, learning with them the quiet rhythms of candlelit evenings and a life shaped by the seasons. My path has always been oriented to connection with Nature and community and I am always finding new and more beautiful ways to express that love in the world.
I am a natural builder, death doula, micaceous potter and a weaver of fibers, brooms, baskets and reality. I was the founder of a forest school and nature-connection nonprofit devoted youth and I now teach a variety of ancestral skills to all ages from young shoots to old roots.
My joy lives where craft meets earth, song, story, and ritual—where hands and hearts remember ancient rhythms, and every creation carries a whisper of the land and those who came before.
Ruthie Praskins
Ruthie Praskins runs The Healing Hearth, a botanically-forward and gluten-free friendly, farm-to-table private chef service on ancestral Huichin Ohlone lands known as the san francisco bay area. She wears many a hat within her communities, including; village chef, community herbalist, functional nutritionist, grief doula and lifelong student of the nature of being human.
Ruthie orients towards food as medicine, ritual and daily opportunity to court deeper intimacy with the living ecosystems we belong to. She is passionate about Nourishment as an integral pathway in supporting the human capacity to show up resourced and embodied in these times of Great Turning. Ruthie finds great joy in alchemizing local ingredients and medicinal herbs into edible art and creating experiences where local flora & fauna may whisper stories of ancestral remembrance into the bellies and bones of those who nourish with them.
Ruthie walks with eastern european jewish ancestry and weaves extensive knowledge from training and deep study in vitalist herbalism, functional nutrition, comparative indigenous cosmologies, earth based jewish renewal practice, wilderness rites of passage frameworks, zen hospice care, community grief ritual and somatic trauma resolution, into all that she offers.
When not tending The Healing Hearth, Ruthie may be found wildcrafting medicinal herbs, supporting community grief rituals, walking through the redwoods, gathering with her beloved earth based jewish community, sharing food with dear ones or resting deeply…
Katie Corning
Katie was raised amongst Creosote, Ocotillo, & Saguaro and now makes home by the Salish Sea.
As one frequently guided to the holding and tending of the edge, she works where modern and ancestral worlds bridge together in her role of weaving the digital ecosystem of Weaving Remembrance.
She enjoys knitting, spinning on her wheel, dyeing with fungi & flora and weaving. She recently felted her first hat and is building a warp weighted loom!
Sara Joy
TBA
Ivy Stovall
Ivy Stovall (she/her) is a maker, mother and writer who delights in the abundance, patterns, and chaos of the natural world and of humanity. She is dedicated to a life flow of learning, doing and teaching through handwork, landwork, song, story and circle-holding. Ivy offers land-based fiber arts and youth programming for Rewild Portland out of her urban permaculture homestead The MudHut and the Green Anchors community garden and maker space, where she grows fiber and dye plants for her classes and craft. She is apprentice to the Silkworm, cultivating and spinning mulberry silk as a foundation of her seasonal rhythms, learning the art of transformation from the cocoon spinners themselves. Among her many other passions and practices are fresh indigo vatting, botanical printing, weaving with wetland plants, natural building, plant medicine, songwriting, sailing and nurturing healthy intergenerational communities connected to and through the earth.
Frequently Asked Questions
No, we welcome spinners and weavers of all levels of experience to join!
We envision this gathering as a space where everyone is learning from one another, gaining wisdom from each other’s life experiences.
We are welcoming around 100 total adults (including staff) and as many children and teens that want to attend!
You’ll need to bring your camping gear, including a tent, sleeping bag, and sleeping pad. Lunches are not provided, so you will either need to bring your own lunch food and cooking setup or bring cash to purchase optional lunches from a local chef sister who will be offering meals during the week.
Please also bring cash for materials fees (there is no service on the land for Venmo or PayPal), along with your personal toiletries and any crafting tools or projects you’d like to work on.
In the coming month, we’ll send a full packing list to everyone who registers. Come ready to get your hands in fiber and your feet on the earth!
We love our four-legged companions, but out of respect for the sheep, pollinators, and other land animals at Skalitude — as well as our fellow participants — dogs are not permitted at this gathering. We appreciate your understanding.
At this time, we are not offering day passes.
This gathering is designed as a full week-long ritual immersion, and registration is for the entire event (May 24–30). We encourage you to clear your calendar and give yourself the full gift of it!
Meals will be lovingly prepared by our holistic chef, Ruthie Praskins of The Healing Hearth, along with her kitchen team.
Breakfast and dinner are included each full day (12 meals total), made with organic and local ingredients where possible, and dairy-free and gluten-free friendly.
With the exception of one collective vegetarian meal, all other dinners will have a locally-sourced meat & a vegetarian protein option.
Lunches are not provided, so you will either need to bring your own lunch food and cooking setup or bring cash to purchase optional lunches from a local chef sister who will be offering meals during the week.
At registration, you will have the opportunity to provide a list of any food allergens as well as intolerances/sensitivities. We will do our best to accommodate sensitivities, but we cannot promise that all meals will be free of any foods for which you have a sensitivity (beyond dairy or gluten).
Skalitude Retreat is a 160-acre pollinator sanctuary (bustling with beautiful bee activity) nestled in the Methow Valley near Twisp, WA, surrounded by Okanogan National Forest.
The central gathering space is a wildflower meadow bordered by aspen grove and pine forest. The terrain is generally gentle, though it is an outdoor, rural setting with uneven natural ground outside of the main meadow. If you have specific mobility or accessibility needs, please reach out to us before registering so we can discuss how best to support you.
We have a limited number of private bedrooms reserved for elders. To inquire about availability and fees, please email us at gathering@weavingremembrance.org
Please note that there will not be showers available at the land, so prepare to bring a solar shower bag or to drive down to the nearby river (15 min drive) if you’d like to get refreshed.
We have 8 beds within a shared indoor space for an additional fee of $250 each, which we are reserving for elders at this time.
If you identify as an elder and are interested in this space, please reach out to us at gathering@weavingremembrance.org
This gathering is open to all who identify as women, across backgrounds, beliefs, ages, and stages of life.
If you have further questions, feel free to reach out to us at: gathering@weavingremembrance.org
Due to the nature of this event — with teachers, chefs, venue, and materials all confirmed well in advance — all sales are final.
You are financially responsible for your purchase and there are no refunds.
However, if your circumstances change, you can take it upon yourself to sell your ticket through a private sale and notify us of the new participant’s name so that we can transfer registration to them.
Register Here
Adults 16 & Up: Sliding Scale
Supporter: $1150
General: $850
Supported: $650
BIPOC Supported: $350
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Children
Girls 8 – 15: $250
Kids 4-7: $75
Kids 3 & Under: Free
This is a private event hosted by “Weaver’s Circle,” our Private Member Association. To register for the gathering, you’ll first need to become a member of the “Weaver’s Circle” by submitting a short form & a one-time $5 lifetime fee. Read our bylaws here.
Upon becoming a member, you’ll immediately receive an email with a link to purchase your tickets for the gathering!
A Note on Pricing
This first year of the gathering is a humble beginning, and we have thoughtfully and thoroughly sat with the budget. We feel inspired to transparently share that as the main organizers, Katie is budgeted to make $3000, and Hanna Leigh is budgeted to make $2500, for four months (and beyond) of organizing and admin work. This gathering is a labor of love that we ourselves are excited to attend! Other costs include venue fees, travel stipends for our teachers, paying our cheffing team well, sourcing organic & local meal ingredients, plus handmade crafting items.
Worktrade
Worktrade is available for those who need support with the full registration fee, or who simply want to contribute their energy to the village in this way. In exchange for 18 hours of service, worktraders can purchase a reduced ticket of $400.
Roles include: kitchen prep, post-meal cleanup, event setup & breakdown, kid’s camp instruction, and welcome/registration. Applicants must be 18 or older.
We are currently accepting worktrade applications.