The 2021 Waymarkers

Iona Pilgrimage

June 27-July 4, 2021

Iona, Scotland

• $2100 for Early Bird Registration (before December 31, 2020)

• $2300 for Regular Registration (after December 31, 2021)

Deepen your sacred experience with creation by going on pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland in June 2021!

Considered to be the birth place and center of Celtic Christianity, Iona is a thin-place, a storied and sacred landscape that has called to pilgrims for hundreds of years. On this island one engages with the worshipping rhythms of the Iona Abbey, the wild and windswept moors, embodied yoga on the North Beach, and most importantly, the inner-soulscape. Make a transformative journey that will bring you through a process of soulful renewal into reconnected sense of your wild and precious life.

About the Guides…

Mary DeJong: Mary DeJong is a deep ecologist, ecotheologian, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of "rewilding.” She works in the wild realm of myth, journey, storied land, soul craft, and ceremony. Mary competently guides conversations and connections towards a renewed communion with the natural world. Influenced by the lives of Celtic saints, Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey and the nature-soul connection work of Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institue, Mary facilitates rewilding retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland, that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the more-than-human world. She has studied and practiced within the Celtic spiritual tradition for over twenty years, and is completing her studies with John Philip Newell’s School of Celtic Consciousness in 2020. Mary has led groups to Iona, Scotland since 2004, delighting in the pilgrimage process of recovering the sacred within, and throughout the cosmos and creation. Mary's book, Waymarkers (2011), is heralded by pilgrims globally who long to journey to Iona with intention and purpose.(more here: https://www.waymarkers.net/aboutmary)

Sarah Steinke: Sarah is a somatic psychotherapist and poet, a guide to the soul who uses the poetry of words and embodiment as way markers for one’s journey. She is a certified yoga instructor and will be leading daily yoga practices and meditations on Iona’s North Beach for our wild group! (more here: https://root-psychotherapy.com/sarah-steinke)