An antidote to December’s chaos — a soft return to the sacred.

Slow+Sacred

A gentle rebellion against the December rush.

Slow + Sacred invites women to move through winter as nature intended—softly, intentionally, and cyclically. It’s a 21-day ritual series with crafts, journal prompts, recipes & activities that are guiding you home to your body’s rhythm, mirroring the quiet wisdom of the winter solstice. A refuge for those weary of capitalism’s constant motion, this offering nourishes nervous systems and honors the descent into darkness as sacred, regenerative, and full of quiet beauty.

In collaboration with Wild Rhythms, it becomes not just a ritual series, but a communal remembering: of how to rest, complete, and listen to the earth’s pace again.

The days leading to the winter solstice

The origin story

Born from Marisa’s own exhaustion with December’s chaos, Slow & Sacred, began as a course 5 years ago. It was a soft protest against the productivity culture that leaves us burnt out by year’s end. What started as a personal antidote became a shared ritual, a yearly gathering of souls reclaiming slowness, warmth, and meaning during the darkest time of the year. Meg was one of these soul’s who came to love and look forward to the ritual of Slow + Sacred that Marisa offered every December. It rooted her back into what matters and how she wanted her Decembers to feel.

Now, through Wild Rhythms, this tradition expands—rooted in the same seasonal wisdom but woven with nature-based rituals, herbal medicine support, and regenerative practices that echo the earth’s cycles, Meg & Marisa turn December into a magical time to savor.

If your body whispers,

“I need a different kind of December,”

this is for you.

This is for the women:

↠ who feel overstimulated by the holiday season

↠ who want slowness, softness, and sensory nourishment

↠ who feel the pull of winter as a descent into rest

↠ who feel tired of capitalist productivity culture

↠ who are yearning for meaning, ritual, and cyclical living

↠ who want to end the year not burnt out — but restored

Enter the Slow & Sacred Season

For 21 days, from December 1 to the Winter Solstice, you’ll receive:

↠ Daily ritual emails

Small, beautiful, grounding practices to guide your descent into winter.

↠ Nervous-system nourishment

Regulating practices rooted in polyvagal wisdom — gentle, achievable, calming.

↠ Seasonal recipes + nature-based rituals

Herbal support, nourishing winter recipes, seasonal lore, earth-grounding practices.

↠ Reflection prompts

A guided way to integrate the year — not through striving, but through softness.

↠ A Winter Solstice ritual

To mark the turning of the light with reverence and grounding.

We were never taught how to live with winter — to soften our pace as the light fades or honor what our bodies need when the world grows quiet. Modern life keeps us switched on with bright lights, full calendars, and constant productivity, even as something inside us quietly longs for a different rhythm.

But winter offers its own intelligence — the medicine of winter: rest, restoration, and a gentle return to ourselves. Nature knows how to do this instinctively. Trees conserve energy. Animals curl into warmth. The earth slows so it can rise strong again in spring.

Meanwhile, we push through December as if nothing has changed. But something has changed. And our bodies feel it. Winter isn’t a season to power through — it’s a season to exhale. To make things softer, slower, cozier. To rebuild the energy we’ve spent all year giving away.

Slow & Sacred is an invitation to honor that shift. To tend to your nervous system, restore your energy, and create the grounded foundation you want to carry into a new year. When you honor winter, you don’t fall behind — you root deeper.

What if these darkest days became your most nourishing ones?

Come home to yourself this winter.

On December 1st, we begin the 21 days leading up to the winter solstice — the descent into darkness before the light slowly returns. There is so much sacredness in that in-between space: the pause, the reflection, the quiet becoming.

And we want to invite you into that space with us — a winter cocoon to slow down, listen inward, and let this season soften you back into yourself.

This is your invitation to descend.

To soften.

To listen.

To move through winter the way your body craves.

MEET THE women behind Wild rhythms

We're Meg + Marisa

Wild Rhythms was born from two friends who kept finding our way back to the same truths: we feel better when we honor the seasons, when we slow down enough to hear ourselves, and when we root into rituals that bring us back home. After years of navigating burnout, rebirth, and the messy middle of becoming, we chose to create a space where slowness is strength, where nervous system care is foundational, and where living in rhythm with nature and our inner voices becomes a way of remembering ourselves. What we teach is what we practice — gentle, seasonal, embodied living. And we’re so grateful to welcome you into it.

WINTER MEDICINE

SEASONAL DEVOTION

ANCESTRAL REMEMBERING

RITUAL OVER RUSH

Wild Rhythms

RECLAIM YOUR DECEMBER

By the end of Slow & Sacred, you will have:

RECLAIMED REST AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE —

a rebellion against burnout, urgency, and constant output.

HEARD THE QUIET VOICE WITHIN YOU

the one beneath the noise of the outside world, the one that actually knows what you desire.

LEARNED TO FEEL LESS AFRAID OF THE DARK —

inside and out — and feel what it’s like to be held by the dark instead of overwhelmed by it.

RECONNECTED WITH THE WISDOM OF THE ANCESTORS,

who knew how to create nourishment from the land around them.

HAVE MADE YOUR OWN WINTER MEDICINE TOOLKIT —

like fire cider, golden milk, and rosehip syrup — and know how to tend to your body with what nature offers. Remembering that the simplest ingredients can become nourishment and protection.

LEARNED TO TEND TO YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM BEFORE STRESS TAKES OVER

and feel the power of reclaiming your energy from urgency culture.

CONNECTED WITH EXCITEMENT ABOUT YOUR DREAMS AGAIN

because you’ve given them the darkness they need to germinate.

FELT HELD IN RITUAL, RHYTHM, & SEASONALITY,

and carry practices you’ll want to return to every December.

ROOT into winter

WITH LOVE

This isn’t just another email challenge. It’s a season-long exhale, a remembering, a return to the part of you that’s been craving slowness and sacredness for years.

Reclaim your december

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Think of it as an investment in your energy, your sanity, your softness, and your inner voice — the things that actually carry you into the new year with clarity instead of collapse.

21 daily Slow & Sacred emails that include:

Simple rituals + sensory practices

Winter medicine recipes + crafts

Nervous system grounding

Seasonal reflections + journal prompts

A few extra gifts & surprises along the way!

Choose the ritual that stays with you long after December ends.

Let this be the year you move through winter differently.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much time will this take each day?

The practices are intentionally simple and accessible. Most emails and rituals take 10-15 minutes, with optional deeper practices for when you have more spaciousness.

Do I need special tools or ingredients?

No — you won’t need anything fancy. Some of the optional rituals use simple ingredients (like citrus, herbs, or pantry staples), and you may already have a few of them at home. If not, that’s totally okay. Everything we share can be adapted or swapped based on what’s available to you.

This isn’t meant to send you on errands or add more decisions to your plate. Think of it more like gentle invitations: use what you have, skip what you don’t, and trust that the ritual still works.

We’ll also include a calm, not-at-all-urgent “nice-to-have” list in your welcome email—purely for ease, not obligation. Nothing in Slow & Sacred is required or meant to create pressure. It’s all designed to feel simple, doable, and supportive in a season that already asks so much.

What if I fall behind?

You can’t fall behind. Slow & Sacred is cyclical, not linear. You can move at your own pace, skip days, or return to the practices later. This is meant to be nourishing, not another “to-do.”

Is this religious or spiritual?

Slow & Sacred weaves together nature-based, seasonal, and ancestral rhythms. It is not tied to any religious framework. You can adapt the rituals to your personal beliefs or spiritual practice.

Can I join if December is already chaotic for me?

Absolutely. That’s exactly who this was created for. These practices are meant to bring grounding into the chaos — not require you to escape it.

Will I get access to everything at once?

No, you’ll receive daily emails delivered gently to your inbox.

What if I join after December 1st (or even after the Solstice?)

You’re still right on time. When you join, the emails will begin as a gentle daily drip so you can move through the journey at your own pace — no urgency, no catching up required.

And if you’re finding this offering after the Solstice or once the holiday swirl has passed, it’s still such a beautiful time to be here. You’ll gain clarity on how December unfolded for you, insight into what felt nourishing (or not), and a clearer sense of how you want your future winters to feel.

This work is timeless.

Winter wisdom lands whenever you’re ready for it.

SLOW + SACRED

WHAT women ARE SAYING.

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Slow + Sacred is near and dear to my heart. I love that you’re offering it again.

— PAST PARTICIPANT

Yeah! I cannot wait incorporate slow + sacred into my daily practice to feel even more grounded and nourished. Things are aligning so beautifully lately... this included. I want to capture, remember, and make this feeling my default as much as possible. What a beautiful way to help with that. Thank you, as always for your beautiful works and offerings. They always flow in at just the right moment. Sending you love.

— past participant

Mmmm I'd love to be a part of Slow & Sacred again this year. Funny, I marked it in my journal as something I wanted to carry through each December because it was so powerful.

— Past Participant

Wow, the slow + sacred journey has been so healing. So much has come up for me, so much to both let go of and look forward to creating in 2022.

— Past Participant

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join Slow & Sacred

There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she decides:

I won’t abandon myself this season. This is that moment. Say yes to the ritual. Yes to your inner winter. Yes to the version of you who trusts her own rhythm.

Join us and step into the kind of December that stays with you — the kind that becomes a yearly devotion.