Forest Bathing Pilgrimage

For the penultimate walk in this year’s saltmarsh pilgrimage, as part of our River Dart Way, we were in collaboration with ‘forest bathing’ guide, Clare Coyne, as we journeyed from Ashprington to Totnes. Once again, we were blessed with lovely weather and enjoyed a peaceful ‘wander and wonder’ through woods and meadows along the river, … Read more

Stars in the Mud

We were blessed with glorious late summer sunshine for our third ‘Salmon and Saltmarsh’ pilgrimage on the first Sunday of September. This stage of our River Dart Way, between Cornworthy and Ashprington, is always particularly picturesque and yet today it seemed especially enchanting. This part of the route includes some battered but beautiful pockets of … Read more

Wild Lammas

For Lammas on August 1st, Wild Church took to the water for our much loved canoe pilgrimage. Pilgrims converged from around Devon, at the Malsters Arms on Bow Creek at Tuckenhay, which is just down the way from our previous pilgrimage end point at Ashprington. Here our wonderful guide, Hugh from Canoe Adventures, soon had … Read more

Wild Summer

The third stage of our Sacred Waters Way pilgrimage took us from Totnes to St David’s, Ashprington, and was beautifully led by forest bathing and nature connection guide, Emma Capper. We began in the lovely Leechwell Garden, within sight of last month’s destination at St Mary’s Church, as Emma gently guided us into a multi … Read more

The Sacred Arts of Peregrinatio & Lectio Divina

River Dart Wild Church – Core principles and practices After seven years of drawing upon and teaching these practices within River Dart Wild Church (and even longer within the other Wild Spirit groups), it seems time to articulate them in writing and share some written sources for those who wish to explore further… Peregrinatio – … Read more