Matriarchal Medicine

Retrieving the Wise Woman

February 28 - March 2, 2025

Spirit Hollow

Shaftsbury, VT

*Early Bird Price through 1/15/25

We are calling in the sacred Matriarchs!

The Matriarch is the Wise Woman, the Visionary, the Seer, the Intuitive, the Guardian, the Healer. 

And for most of us in the modern world, she is missing.

Between the Mother and late Crone stage lies the often forgotten or buried time of the Wise Woman/Matriarch ~ a time when a woman is at the height of her agency and personal power. 

This gathering is for women who are entering or in peri/menopause/postmenopause and are yearning to access or claim their power, their gifts, their innate wisdom, their community of aging women, and their deeper callings at this potent stage of life.

"Matriarchal societies can often be misrepresented as the mirror opposite of patriarchies, where women rule over men. However, the essence of true matriarchal or matristic systems lies not in domination but in balance. These societies, deeply rooted in the principles of motherhood, emphasize equity in every sphere, from governance to daily life. They are characterized by communal living, collaborative decision-making, and a social fabric woven through partnership, deeply connected to the Earth and its cycles."

~ Farmers Footprint Sympoiesis

Do you feel a strong YES to the following questions?

  • Are you in the changing time, physically, emotionally, and soulfully?

  • Is your center of gravity shifting from caretaking all your personal/family needs toward serving the greater world?

  • Do you find yourself somewhere between Mother and full Crone?

  • Are you being called to your deeper soul life of service - to create or offer your unique body of work?

  • Do you have some unattended grief or negative narratives/frameworks about aging that you feel called to tend to or shift? 

  • Are you feeling a need to CLAIM creative power arising within you, from your body, and from Earth? 

  • Do you crave sharing space and wisdom with other women in this life cycle?

  • Do you want to join with other sisters to be in solidarity, support, and celebration?

  • Do you feel your power increasing as you age but aren’t sure how to fully access or channel it?

  • Is there an unmistakable pull in you to uncover something deeper to step into?

  • Do you believe the older woman is vital to Life and want to reweave the wisdom we carry back into the personal and collective? 

    These are the questions we will explore together.

We are the Ones

Many of us who enter this season of life know we’re called to a threshold – a time to honor or release what’s no longer needed for the Way ahead, to give rise to the woman we have become, and lean into what we are being called to step into and create (what’s still in the Mystery).

We carry both a yearning and a commitment to remember the power in this life passage. We know that the older woman is vital to Life, full of the wisdom that comes from years of experiences, full of capacity to tend to the greater Earth Community.

Yet few of us have the containers we need in the Wise Woman/Matriarch life passage - to retrieve the profoundly personal and essential wisdom this passage brings.

Even though the dominant culture speaks endlessly of loss, degeneration, and diminishing value in the aging woman, we know this is a potent time of transformation and possibility, of huge reservoirs of creative life-force energy and desire to serve all of Life.

We know that damage has been done to all stages of the feminine experience over millennia, just as Earth herself has been degraded.  We know that the fabric has been torn and twisted.  

But this weekend is about beginning to repair and reweave us both personally and collectively into a new tapestry of strong, inner-connected, Earth-sourced, multi-faceted Matriarchs who are resilient, empowered, resourced, and ready to bring our gifts to the world with new intensity and direction.

This weekend is designed for those hungry to step more fully into their soul wisdom, and the gifts only they can bring to a world hungry for Matriarchal Medicine.

Come spend a weekend immersed in ceremony, sharing stories and wisdoms, council, solo time wandering on the land, deep imagery journeys and visioning.


Through tapping into the heart of Gaia and reclaiming our elemental power in wholeness, a deeper well of our unique medicine, gifts, and capacity for love and service reveals itself. We remember ourselves as the sacred Guardians of Life, and this Life becomes the very elixir we offer as a healing for the world.


Invocation of the Grandmothers and Future Ones

Council shares

Four Facets of Wholeness

Solo wanders on the land

Group and personal ceremonies

Authentic morning movement

Deep imagery/Art of Vision

Sharing ceremonial foods

Cost $350 — *Early Bird Price $295 through 1/15/25

Spaces Limited
Registration, lodging info and more at the link below!

Words from women who’ve attended Matriarchal Medicine

  • "I listened to the call to participate in the weekend with Mother Bone (Tish) and Key Turner (Tracey), and it ended up being profound. The container of the weekend was held with such strong and tender grace. These women are gifted in the ways of holding space, facilitating, and being present while dropping in. This is a rare art form in the world today. The weekend was a rite of passage for me that reminded me of who I am and the medicine I am bringing through to the world -and the healing I came here to do for my family, both backward and forward. The weekend was infused with ritual, connection, fun, introspection, and deep celebration. If you get the opportunity to work with either of these women-or the true magic of both together—I highly encourage you to take it!" - AL

  • "Don't walk, but run, if you feel the need to figure out how to stand in your power in the in-between places between motherhood and crone. Somehow Motherbone and Keyturner climbed into my heart and my bones and heard the essence of what I needed and then gave it to me in ceremony, in meditation, and in an extremely well thought out and executed weekend to get to the heart of the matter. I've been walking in these spaces of personal growth and ceremony for many years and this pair does it better than most. If you feel called, listen, and you will not be disappointed! "- ET

  • "Having come to a crossroads in aspects of my personal and professional life, I joined the weekend circle of Matriarchal Medicine at Spirit Hollow. This small gathering of incredible women was supportive and empowering - full of laughter as well as tears. The program was guided by two gifted women, Tracey (Key Turner) and Tish (Mother Bone), who brought their warmth, wisdom, and empathy - providing an insightful structure with enough flexibility to move with the deep energies flowing around this unique circle. I am so grateful for each one of you - my beautiful sisters of this circle." - CM

  • "I've come to recognize how powerful it can be come together with other women in ways that allow us to show up authentically and be witnessed in community. Key Turner and Mother Bone co-created just such a space during the Matriarchal Medicine retreat at Spirit Hollow. This intimate gathering was thoughtfully designed and offered space for each person to be seen and heard while honoring the full range of emotions and needs that surfaced during our time together. I appreciate the care and skill that went into holding space for deep connection and sharing, as well as the unique gifts each facilitator contributed. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and warmth, and for creating such a supportive and empowering container." —EW

Guides Tracey Forest & Tish Linstrom

Tracey (KeyTurner) is passionate about helping others step through the doorway into the mystical and the mythical, the sacred and the sublime, the earthy and the erotic, the dark depths and high heights. She is a fearless and compassionate facilitator who has “been to the mountain” and descended into the abyss to lament for the earth, to celebrate the beauty and pain and who knows the rich gifts that lie in the dark to be mined. She stands in the portal, holding a lantern, singing ancient songs, dangling a key, inviting you to step through into the vast landscape of your Soul.

KeyTurner is particularly called to help women and young adults to move from the outworn worlds, across thresholds into yet-too-be-revealed worlds that are coming. She is a deep listener of Earth's dreaming, of the "in-betweens," in communion with the sacred land that is Spirit Hollow and a devotee of the underworld, the soul stream, the mythological realms in service to that which is the holiest of holies, the deepest Source beneath all identities, all spiritualities and all beings.

Co-founding Director of Spirit Hollow, Tracey is a shamanic healer and teacher, yoga teacher, and singer of soul-stirring songs. With 30 years of experience guiding others, she is currently in final phases of the multi-year Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) with Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute learning the nuances of Soul Initiation Guiding and cultivating more tools to assist in the Wholing and Healing of this broken, beautiful world.

Tish (MotherBone) is deeply passionate about reweaving rites of passage, the wild mature feminine, and soul-based journeys for women to access and reclaim their wholeness, vitality, true fluency, and creative force. She is devoted to Earth/the Great Web of Life and the remembrance of who we are and our sacred aim - to embrace and act from our roots and ancient spirit as intimately connected people to each other and the animate world.

Her unique body of work is a rich tapestry of 30 years of lived experience and guiding - her personal soul journey in the past several years funded an understanding and fierce commitment to the essential reweaving of our relational fabric and wisdom (art and skill) as women, including the vital reclamation of the Wise Woman/Matriarch.

Tish crafts and guides spaces for women in this life stage to claim the deep bone-knowing wisdom they carry and are being called to act on and in service to - spaces for women to step fully into their soul gifts, their medicine, their creative bodies of work and right leadership or eldership. In service to Beauty, Possibility, and Thriving Life.

We are the Ones.

Questions?

Reach out - we’d love to connect tish@wisewomanroots.com

“The old knowing is long overdue.”

~Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes