Mary DeJong

Retreat Leader: Mary DeJong is a spiritual ecologist, eco-theologian, urban naturalist, and practitioner and guide of place-based pilgrimage. She specializes in the spiritual companionship of “rewilding.” Mary facilitates retreats and pilgrimages in the Pacific Northwest and in Iona, Scotland that strengthen the unique and mystical interconnection of participants, the sacred, and the natural world. She has studied and practiced within the Celtic Christian spiritual tradition, her own maternal line heritage, for over twenty years, and is influenced by the lives of Celtic saints, the post-Heroic Journey, and the emerging field of eco-psychology, eco-mythology, and, Christian animism.

A ceremonialist and ritualist, Mary is masterful at creating temenos circles, sacred clearings where one can expect to be met by enchantment and holy mystery. She has facilitated online retreats and webinars on subjects related to sacred rewilding, eco spirituality, eco theology, and more. She hosts workshops and retreats where she delights in bringing people into the round of the Wheel of the Year as a spiritual practice and soul formation journey.