Welcome to the Women Walks Community: An online and offline space to gather
In this world of online-everything, I am committed to building an online community that meets off-line too. I am committed to creating a space of gathering, of mutual support and learning and that allows for people to thrive and flourish in this little thing we call life.
I want to create moments.
Moments that linger long in the mind when the Zoom app is closed and the hiking boots safely stowed away.
After spending over a decade of working out who I am and who I want to be, this community I am building is the culmination of everything I love and want to continue learning about:
- The stories of the landscape
- The techniques and associated gear of hiking
- The curiosities of place and path that urge me ever outwards and onwards
- The deep need for connection and companionship and to meet like-minded souls
- The spiritual whisperings I hear on the breeze, and stirring deep within my soul
- Reviving the old ways of story telling and of gathering together in circle, no one person above another.
A Woman Walks was born out of a love for hiking and the awe of being in the sacred landscapes I know and love. It was a heartfelt desire, a deep-seated pull, that compels me to share these stories and knowledge with the world.
The Journey of A Woman Who Walks
I became a filmmaker at university to pursue a career in conservation as a wildlife filmmaker. Then ended up becoming a marketing professional at a heritage site, a universe-driven change that has shown me the power of faith and the importance of faith-leaders in difficult times.
Life has a funny way of moving and placing us where we need to be.
Everything in me and around me has shaped who I am up to this moment.
And trust me when I say this is a special moment, as I begin this next decade of my life.
Throughout my twenties, I’ve known deep down that I wasn’t yet the person who could hold space for others and truly meet them where they are. I had neither experienced enough of the world, nor healed enough of my heartbreaks to be able to hold people as they deserve to be held.
A decade ago, I was a broken human, lost to the ways of the world, discovering first-hand what a dark night of the soul was. Since that point I have known that I do not want other women to feel so lost, alone and utterly numb to the world.
And here I stand today: ten years of love, loss, heartbreak and deep truths later. A decade of discovering the Wild Woman that lives within me and working to set her free.
I’ve travelled continents solo, far from home, with only myself to rely on in a land with people who spoke a foreign tongue.
I’ve danced with souls that have shaped me irrevocably as a person and as a woman – a salsa dancer in London, complete with the medals to prove it.
I’ve learnt to live alone, reliant on no one but myself and my wits, independent to a fault. (Another other eldest daughters here?)
I’ve returned to the roots of my childhood now, not the land of my birth but the land of my heart. Though I was born elsewhere in the south of England, my soul recognised the lands to the west as my spiritual home.
I’ve always been a wanderer, but here I am now putting down roots in my soul home.
I had to leave to return with fresh eyes and see this landscape for what it truly is, sacred. I don’t have to travel far to discover spiritual truths that belong to other cultures, when we have a rich spiritual heritage here at home.
I know who I am, more so now than ever before.
I am a woman driven by a profound curiosity of the world and the stories around me. Committed to learning the stories of our indigenous ancestors, the stewards of these lands long before us. I’m here to revive the ancient ways and old traditions, of gathering people together to share in this adventure that we call life.
I am here.
I am a woman who walks.
Jenni 👣