Your Personal Evolution Starts Here.

Wild Path Institute is a transformative space where healing, self-discovery, and deep embodiment unfold. We support individuals in reclaiming their authenticity, finding freedom in their bodies, and cultivating resilience through nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and spiritual exploration.

Wild Path Institute is a community gathering space in Gainesville, Florida for workshops, retreats, trainings, and healing events.

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Our story began in those spaces in between.

Keri and Laurel first crossed paths in graduate school in 2013, finding kinship in an Ecopsychology course.

Conor and Ramon met in 2019, drawn to the same program by a desire to serve in a more mythopoetic, psychospiritual framework.

In 2020, Keri and Conor’s paths converged, and by 2023, the four of us—each carrying distinct roots and perspectives—came together ready to reimagine what healing and education could look like.

Together, we formed a collective that aims to honor both the scholar and the poet within.

Meet the Team

  • Keri brought her love of sparkle and her academic devotion to bridging science and soul.

  • Laurel, a lifelong Alachua County resident, grounded the vision in community and care.

  • Conor, entering the field midlife, carried wisdom from lived experience and a passion for creative expression and the mythopoetic landscape.

  • Ramon, originally from Miami, infused the vision with his grounded, gentle and caring presence.

Our Mission

Our mission is to cultivate a continuous path of learning that nurtures compassion and capability. Fluid and organic, our approach to healing supports nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and soul-level insight.

By integrating non-pathologizing, trauma-informed care with counseling, somatic practices, and relational experiences, we empower individuals to navigate life with authenticity and awareness. As an evolving collective, we adapt with curiosity and care, embodying radical inclusivity and emergent strategy to meet the evolving needs of our community.

Wild Path Institute is a living, breathing sanctuary for somatic education, trauma-informed care, mentorship, and community practice — a place where people come to remember their innate wholeness and walk their own wild path toward healing.

What we believe in

  • Depth

    We create rich, meaningful experiences that move beneath surface-level wellness into real inner work — making the unconscious conscious and cultivating true emotional and spiritual depth.

  • Belonging

    Wild Path Institute is designed to feel welcoming, inclusive, and human — a space where people feel seen, safe, and invited into community rather than perfection or performance.

  • Embodiment

    Our work is lived in the body, not just the mind. We weave somatic practices, nervous system education, and experiential learning to support awareness, presence, and integration beyond talk alone.

  • Integration of Science & Soul

    We bridge evidence-based psychology with ritual, spirituality, and mythopoetic practice — holding both rigor and intuition in a grounded container for deep, sustainable transformation.

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Wild Path Institute is your home for community gatherings and healing events like…

Trainings & Education

Host continuing-education workshops for therapists and coaches, trauma-informed or somatic certification weekends, facilitation and group-leadership trainings, and immersive psychedelic-integration intensives.

Creative & Expressive

Gather for poetry or writing retreats, expressive-arts and art-therapy workshops, and music or sound-healing immersions.

Wellness & Embodiment

Offer breathwork journeys, trauma-sensitive yoga or movement workshops, nervous-system regulation classes, and embodiment or voice-release sessions.

Community & Study

Lead Enneagram intensives, depth-psychology salons and lecture evenings, healing book-study circles, and conscious-leadership or practitioner meetups.

Retreats & Ritual

Create day or weekend mini-retreats, seasonal or grief rituals, women’s or men’s circles, and ancestral or mythopoetic ceremonial gatherings.

Integration & Support

Facilitate psychedelic-integration groups, peer supervision circles, and community-care gatherings for helping professionals.

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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

— Henry David Thoreau