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
Embodied Ethics in
The Age of AI
A five-part co-learning journey with storyteller Josh Schrei on the role of initiation, accountability, and ethical design in an era of great technological change. Starts April 18.
Monday, April 29, 12:30 to 2:00 pm ET
Bringing heart medicine into accounting: intertwining colonial histories, practical skills and spaciousness, and heart-centered circle practices. This pilot workshop focuses on your experience of the recent tax day and your Q1.
Saturday, May 18th, 2024
9:00 am – 7:00 pm ET
Join us for a day in nature centered around
transformation and healing.
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, Legacy Advising, 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.