How We Met

In July 2018, our paths synchronistically crossed in the wild mountains of Colorado. We were both taking bold steps in our lives and the Vision Quest called to each of us as a meaningful way to embark into a larger conversation with the world. Although we went to claim our authentic individuality, the experience wove our lives together in unexpected ways through falling in love and receiving a shared vision of a more beautiful world. This vision arises from a love of creation and an intention to shape our lives as though this love matters; this vision is a living prayer of humble participation within our planet’s evolutionary process toward a life-sustaining future. And so for the past five years, we have been in grounded service to stewarding this vision through growing the love between us while living in community and stewarding the lands where we have called home. The first iterations of this vision have looked like implementing regenerative farm systems, facilitating community design processes, guiding wilderness connection ceremonies, hosting seasonal gatherings and offering experiential place-based education. Over the past five years, we have cultivated our love through practicing intentional living, leaning into what matters to us, integrating limitations and fear, and supporting each other and other visionaries to have the courage to say an ever-deeper yes to the invitation to sow, cultivate, disseminate, and cross-pollinate seeds of a life-sustaining world.

The Wedding Ceremony

In July 2023, after spending two months apart, we reunited in Colorado and re-visited the land where we first met at the Vision Quest in 2018. Our intentional time apart this spring had only deepened our love and solidified our trust, and so we sensed this time on the land that first wove our lives together would be a deepening of our vows. We first ventured out to our solo sites where we had fasted alone for four days, in order to honor our past selves for having the courage and audacity to follow some invisible force that brought us there almost five years ago. We then walked down from our separate summits to meet one another in the wildflower meadow between our solitary solo sites. There, witnessed by the elementals, ancestors, animals, storm beings, mountains, hawk, coyote, and future ones, we self-facilitated a marriage ceremony to deepen our partnership agreements and mark our transition into sacred union. At the moment we exchanged vows, a hailstorm opened up above us and thunder echoed throughout the valley. Shortly after, as we exchanged rings, the sun broke through a crack in the storm clouds, gracing us with a golden glow of loving affirmation. We decided to enact this commitment ceremony in order to more fully and officially weave our lives together because over the past five years, it has become increasingly clear that through growing a safe, sacred, process-relational force of unifying love, we can together serve our sovereign and interconnected missions more fully here on earth.

Hayden Shaw

Hayden is an experienced circle-holder and ceremonial guide. He is trained as a nature-based soul guide and permaculturalist. He is self-taught in ontological design processes, philosophy, primal movement, and evolutionary astrology. Hayden integrates these versatile modalities into his work as an evolutionary catalyst, striving to help root visionary ideas into tangible forms in service to the wellbeing of life and consciousness now and into the future. He is currently preparing to pursue a Master’s degree in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College in the UK.