Origin Stories

Winter Course Infowebinar

February 26, 2026 - 5:30 pm ET to 6:45 pm ET

March 3, 2026 - 1:00 pm ET to 2:15 pm ET

The session is recorded and sent out for anyone who signs up for the infowebinar.

Re-narrating Our Beginnings: An Invitation to Explore Your Origin Stories

  • Finding Your Focus: This webinar is an invitation to identify an origin story you want to re-narrate, whether during our upcoming course or in your own personal work.

  • The Universality of Origins: Nearly all significant structures—from families and nations to start-ups, faith communities, and the universe itself—are built upon origin stories.

  • Identity and Relationship: Origin stories define where we come from and clarify our relationships with one another.

  • What stories are "up" for you to retell this year?

    • The origins of the United States as we approach the 250-year anniversary.

    • The roots of your faith community or your specific field/vocation.

    • For Teachers: How you share the lineage of practices like Yoga with your students.

    • For Investors: How you position the history of capital within our broader ecological and family histories.

  • Participatory Mini-Workshop: Sara Jolena will guide you through questions designed to open "mystical doorways" within your imagination and sense of self.

  • Sensing into the Times: Explore which specific narratives you want to work with to meet the needs of our current moment.

  • Reflective Practice: Following introductory remarks, you will be invited into a series of questions to "dwell in"—please bring your preferred note-taking tools to capture stories of inter-being.

Will this help you understand Origin Stories better? Yes! 

Might it help you better understand some familial and social dynamics? Maybe! 

Will it be rich and interesting? Yes! 

Will it be recorded so you can listen later? Yes! 

Is this geared towards a Christian audience? Nope! But we are going to be talking about some histories around Christmas, which entails thinking about Christianity. 

Previous participants highly recommend This Course.

About your Guide

This course arises from the study, experimentation, somatic training, experiential journey, and lineage carried by Sara Jolena Wolcott, M.Div. Wolcott is a descendent of some of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. She tends to the soil of the soul and the spring waters of the spirit through select individual spiritual direction and teaching on ReMembering and ReEnchanting. An ecotheologian and unconventional minister, she is the founder of Sequoia Samanvaya, a healer, a ceremonialist, and a Legacy Advisor.

Sequoia Samanvaya emerged from Sara Jolena Wolcott's global odyssey to better understand both the causes of our current intersecting personal, social, and ecological crises and the truths and practices that can carry us through a climate-changed future. She has worked at the intersections of climate change, religion and spirituality in nine countries, including Kenya, India, Indonesia, England, and Canada, and is a much-appreciated speaker. Her formal education includes: Masters of Divinity in Worship and the Arts from Union Theological Seminary; MA in Science, Society and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, England; BA in Anthropology from Haverford College, PA. Her initial training as a healer was at the McKinnon Institute of Massage Therapy, where at 18, she was one of the youngest to graduate from their program. She lives with her partner in the Hudson Valley, alongside the Mohicanatuck, the River That Runs Both Ways, aka the Hudson River, and is involved in local efforts to support the return of the Mohican peoples to their traditional homeland.