“Going to Sicily is better than going to the moon.”
- Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez
Are you being called to pilgrimage and explore Sicily?
Are you uninterested in typical, cookie-cutter tours?
Do crave extraordinary experiences that connects and rejuvenates you?
How about expansive space and time to share slow food,
slow culture, deep roots and ancestral wisdom taught by locals?
Are you ready to be immersed in one of the most spectacular,
delicious and passionate cultures that exists? From the inside out?
Radici Siciliane explores many hidden parts of the island, but keeps a homebase for our gatherings in the Madonie Mountains.
These mountains hold ancient villages scattered along hillsides that have kept the wisdom and ways of traditional living.
Perched high on the island with breathtaking views, it can be said that modernity has not tainted this area— and yet it’s one of the more open minded and progessive places on the island. It’s centrally based and yet situated close to the sea.
These are immersive gatherings where we get the unique opportunity to be woven into community— both with our fellow pilgrims, and also with the local community members who welcome us with open arms and hearts.
There will be sitting with plants and learning about our ancestral plant ways. There will be hands on cooking, ancestral art making and tending to ourselves and the land. We’ll dance and eat long meals together. Well laugh and drink around fires. There will be rites of passage, rhythm, dance, singing. We’ll about protection magic. We’ll visit and explore ancient sites and temples. We’ll get sweaty and dusty and rinse in salt water. We’ll remember parts of ourselves that have felt forgotten. We’ll learn and unlearn and experience collective healing. We’ll awaken the magic within us. These gatherings are curated for those who want to travel differently and find greater meaning in being alive, together. These gatherings have been created so we can once again experience the radically togetherness our ancestors once embraced.
We come to Sicily with an open heart, with respect for the culture, with a willingness to be swept away with passion, humor, delicious food, and togetherness - this is the Sicilian way.
We honor and cherish the history of this island and their people. We walk as guests with integrity and gratitude. We integrate with village and those around us. We open up for what ancestors want to come through.
“It’s not a vacation. It is a pilgrimage and a right of passage and a week-long ritual. I am transformed, connected. I found belonging and even greater longing. Prose doesn’t really suffice.”
You don’t need to be of Sicilian descent or have Mediterranean roots to come to Sicily with us. But if you do, we assure you, this will change your life. If you don’t have Sicilian blood, we assure you, this will change your life.
You just need to be a human — longing to belong, wanting to explore, seeking more meaning in this fast paced, information saturated world. Just bring you desire to truly live your life, learn about food and culture, connect with others… and most of all… heal and experience joy.
We’ll be doing this 100% Sicilian style, which means some things might feel different than what we’re used to, but this is where we get to grow and expand. This is where we can root down, open the heart, and sing the songs to our own ancestors down into our cells, into our nervous systems, the place in us that remembers a more wild way of being.
In our times together we’ll have to opportunities to:
visit an ancient basketmaker and his family
work with a Shepard and cheesemaker whose farm is completely off grid
learn about ancient wheat and bake bread
journey to multiple ancient worship sites
gather and make wild plant essence
be part of a village holy procession and/or festival
visit pre-christian archeological sites
spend time on a manna farm
learn the ancient dance of tarantella - which involves singing and drumming as well.
visit an island off of Sicily for ancient fishing traditions and sea enjoyment
ground and heal ancestral energy in your body
eat, eat, and eat some more. Wine, amaro and grappa will also be involved!
and so much more….
We also some schedule downtime because integration and rest is essential.
Join us for an ancestral pilgrimage to the magical, mysterious, radically beautiful island of Sicily.
