A 4 day pilgrimage back to wild mind, untamed imagination, and your creative spark.
You came here with a wild inheritance, a way of seeing, feeling, creating that the world slowly talked you out of. You learned to behave. To produce. To glow just enough to be acceptable.
This is a space where you’re invited to lay all that down.
The soul is shy.
It’s coaxed back through silence, ordeal, beauty, and honest contact with the world.
It returns when you turn off the noise, step past your comfort,
and let the wilderness rearrange you.
Re-Wilding Imagination is a four-day communal return into that older knowing.
The one beneath your public self, your successful self, your surviving self.
A creative threshold for those who are done pretending they need more clarity
and are ready to be re-introduced to their soul.
Not everyone wants this.
But if you feel something ancient tugging at you, you’re ready.
Remember the spark.
Remember the spark.
✧ Have you built a good life, yet still sense something wild in you hasn’t spoken in years?
✧ Do you miss the imagination you had before being practical, productive, and needing to perform took the wheel?
✧ Are you craving the wilderness as a doorway back to your real voice?
✧ Do you feel a pull of deeper creative roots, but keep postponing it for responsibilities that never end?
✧ Are you hungry for Beauty, Mystery, and truth; not motivation, self-improvement, or another belief system?
✧ Do you long for community with other like minded individuals who are re-discovering their own soul?
✧ Are you ready to be unmade a little, to shed the domestication, and return to the creative fire underneath your life?
✧ Do you long to make work that belongs only to you and your process?
The Threshold
Re-Wilding Imagination is a four-day creative threshold set in a picturesque desert canyon and retreat space, designed to bring you back to the original source of your artistry. These days are shaped by silence, land, and unhurried presence; conditions most of us never allow ourselves long enough to hear what the deeper imagination has been trying to say.
You’ll move between solitary and guided wanders, communal meals, group circles that open the shared field and moments of deep inspiration. Practices like authentic relating, generative creative prompts, threshold rituals, and guided creative inquiry help loosen the domesticated layers of your life so something truer can surface. The land itself becomes a partner in the work, a place where the inner world grows spacious again.
This retreat is for those who feel something calling beneath their achievements and relationships, a desire toward a wilder creativity that is theirs alone. You will leave with a steadier connection to your own voice, a renewed sense of presence, and a creative fire drawn from a deeper well than effort or inspiration alone.
What’s Included
Four days and nights at Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, held by desert silence, canyon walls, shared meals, and an intimate group field with an exclusive community of 15 other participants.
All meals prepared on-site by private chef; slow, nourishing, “refined-rustic” dinners, simple breakfasts, hearty lunches, with vegetarian and vegan options.
Daily creative practices led by Rainier Wylde. Canyon and land exploration with Emma Duke, wilderness and soul guide. Communal ritual, creative thresholds, council circles, guided inquiry, and morning/evening anchors that invite each participant into deeper presence and honest imagination.
A private post-retreat follow-up to help you integrate what opened, clarify what wants to be created next, and anchor the wild thread you found. Journals and creative materials are provided, along with space, indoors or out, for rest, reflection, and unhurried making.
Accommodations include shared indoor rooms or camping options on the land. No phones, no performance, no pressure. Just the wilderness, the work, the meals, and the wild imagination returning.
Your Guides
This is a time where the work is less about adding to or filling participants with new and unfamiliar information, and instead aims at helping them clear space, slow down, and listen for the creative intelligence already living inside them. We’re creating the conditions for something older and truer to rise, through presence, land, and honest expression, so they can meet their imagination without distraction or pressure.
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As a cultural pollinator, Emma works at the intersections of soil and soul. She is a wilderness guide, soul spark mentor, gardener, and lover of the wild and beautiful. She has trained extensively with Animas Valley Institute, and works as a social worker among indigenous people.
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Rainier is a creativity coach, a podcast host, author and founder of The Creators Collective, a resource dedicated to helping unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passions. He is a highly sought after speaker and facilitator.
The Investment
$2000 (airfare and transportation NOT included…1 hour outside of Tucson Arizona)
Early bird available now through December 25th $1500
Retreat begins Thursday, February 12th in the evening and concludes February 15th by early afternoon. Multiple housing options available.
Payment Plans:
Payment Plans Available
Pay in full and save $250
Sign up before Dec.31st and save $500
Inner Circle:
Receive two months of 1x1 support following the retreat.
Some images on this page were generously gifted by Miranda Guzman @yomiroyando