Classes
The task of becoming a woman is no small thing. Simply moving through cycles in a linear world is a challenge unto itself. Add huge life transitions, such as menarche, motherhood and menopause, and grace becomes elusive. The wisdom, once offered by elders and held inside the container of an entire community, is lost.
How do we find it again?
How do we translate old tools into modern lifestyles to support women’s health through each stage?
How do we recognize the seamless connections between mental/emotional/physical health and treat them simultaneously?
Women’s school offers new ways for navigating ancient terrain. We meet in circle 6 times a year not just to teach and learn, but to practice and embody wisdom teachings for whole health.
We integrate lessons from systems such as Ayurveda/yoga, Chinese Medicine/acupuncture, Plant Medicine/herbs, Shamanism, Movement, Meditation and food to come to understand how to move cyclically to restore health.
For women seeking to expand their practices, for women wanting to heal, for women craving community that unfolds with all of the elements of health they wish to embody (sisterhood, mutual support and understanding, sacred space for process, selective herbs, food and drink for nervous system regulation) this series of classes is for you.
Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner needing time inside the womb of Earth Medicine, or a young woman recovering from a childhood or education that wasn’t quite right for you, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re a mother in transition, or an elder wanting to feel rejuvenated and restored. Come, let us find our way home together.
Join us for a transformational afternoon of ritual, prayer and deep connection. Together, we’ll turn inward and touch delicately the places of ourselves that crave wholeness. Connection.
Using ancient tools and healing traditions, Merrill eloquently translates timeless concepts into modern language to lead the group towards greater intimacy with self, and with other. From here we find our own personal voice, and insight into just how we pray. Then, she’ll teach just how building an altar brings poignancy and pertinence to our prayers and intentions.
Drawing from her book, The Path of medicine Woman, Merrill Page demystifies ancient wisdom practice and offers tools to help ground you. Take home not just a sense of deeper connection and well-being, but also new tools for your own practice. Expect to leave with:
a deeper sense of well-being
tools for building your own altar at home
greater fluency in the “art of prayer”
community that inspires inner-dialogue and outer connection, simultaneously
reach out for date and time
For more information reach out directly: contact@intothewildway.com
Want to go even deeper? Bring a mother, a daughter, a friend... Come as a pair and and receive 10%! Cost of workshop includes her most recent book.
Each month offers a new opportunity for Grace. But how do we learn to receive it?
These meditations offer not only a gentle beckoning back to self and to Source, but also deeply cultivated insights into how we merge mind and body. Merrill brings lifetimes of learning and practice in multiple disciplines to offer simple, actionable techniques for your home practice.
Drawing on the lesson and discourse from Second Sunday Roots of Wellness class, Merrill serves up a practice based on the themes, movements and energetics of any given month. See details below.
Expect to leave the meditation: feeling grounded, enlightened, inspired and clearer about just where you are, and where you want to go. Recordings drop the Thursday following Second Sunday class into your email inbox.
It’s time for a new kind of supper club!! This time we come together not just in celebration of the feast, but in honor of all of the things that create the harmony of “a meal”.
How we feed, ourselves and others, is at the root of a full spectrum: from pleasure, passion, and health, to depression, chronic illness, and fatigue. Food, not just items, but alchemy, influences all aspects of the human experience- clarity of thought, resilience of emotions, strength and stamina of body. So knowing food, what you need, what you want, how it serves you or breaks you down, can transform your life. This is no small thing. And so, we call it ritual, and give it a place on a virtual altar in our monthly supper club.
Just 4 Saturdays over the course of 6 months you’ll learn:
how to design and craft a harmonic meal
adjusting your menus to support your cyclical needs
sauces, herbs, flavors palettes and why!?
healing influence of seasonal, local and indigenous ingredients
ideal food combinations for health mind/body/spirit
Gather. Enjoy. Eat. Experience. Learn, grow and connect around the table with life-time foodie, author, educator, practitioner and mother of four boys, Merrill Page. Merrill can show you how we translate Ayurveda and Eastern thought into your modern life. She’ll draw recipes and teachings from her two recent books to help you enhance everything from your sex life, to your inner peace. Together we’ll bring reverence and deeper awareness back to the kitchen, the table, and to your mind/body/soul.
It’s finally here. 4 days and 3 nights of home-style retreat. For women seeking rest and restoration, a reset and renewal, a reclaiming of time for self and self-care. With thoughtful, seasonal, safe and sumptuous meals daily, classes to bridge the mind-body divide and advanced bodywork sessions with professionals skilled in the art of re-setting your systems, we bring Spa-week home.
What is NOURISHMENT above and beyond what you eat?
How do we breathe new life into old habits and understand our relationships to what we take in, and what we let go?
How do we bridge the mind-body gap and bring new healthy, life-changing habits home?
Merrill Page, expert in Mindbody Medicine, author of EARTH MEDICINE: A FIELD GUIDE, healing in seasons and cycles, founder of EARTH MEDICINE INSTITUTE TAOS, invites you to join her and her team of curated practitioners in 4 days of deep embrace and discovery. Her lifetime experience as a medicine woman and mother transforms your idea of get-away and girl time to something sacred and essential. Gather a group, Invite and friend and reach out to set dates and locations for a game-changing experience in womanhood, friendship and well-being.
Sacred, Cyclical Self-care
Founder Merrill Page invites you to touch into the wellspring of your deepest resource and wellbeing in just 2 short hours. Using poetry, insight, ritual and teaching she shows us the ways to harness health in daily life, and in community.
Leave feeling replenished, inspired, and curious to know more.
Class includes:
Recipes/food for slowing down
Self-care techniques for seasonal wellness
Hands-on tools in a circle of sisterhood
Meditations
How do we stay well? How do we get well after we fall ill?
Inspired by the book, Earth Medicine: A Field Guide, healing in seasons and cycles, these workshops offer you a fresh take on self-care. We merge ancient systems of Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Indigenous wisdom with modern concepts of functional medicine to help you understand cyclical health and how to adapt old knowledge to modern lifestyles for lastin immunity and health.
Including insights into food, supplements, bodywork, movement practices and daily lifestyle choices that shape your entire reality.
How can we use intentional movement and focused attention to support healing, resilience, and overall well-being?
How do we revision exercise and mental focus to understand its profound implications for mind-body health?
Movement + Meditation for Nervous System Balance
This gentle movement and meditation class invites you to experience exercise and mental focus in a new way, as practical tools for nervous system regulation, recovery, and long-term health.
This class emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and precision. Movements are accessible, intentional, and supported by breath and awareness. Practices are drawn from yoga, qigong, dance-informed movement, and somatic education to help you downshift out of stress and into a more balanced physiological state.
Each session is designed to help the body and mind move out of chronic tension patterns and into greater ease, focus, and stability.
Over time, participants often notice improvements in:
Physical ease and mobility
Mental clarity and concentration
Emotional regulation and steadiness
A deeper sense of grounding and internal safety
Guided by Merrill Page and Shana Walt’s combined decades of experience, this class frames movement as a form of applied nervous system care. Practical, accessible, and sustainable.
What You’ll Explore in Class
How stress patterns show up in the body and how to unwind them through movement
The relationship between breath, attention, and nervous system regulation
Gentle, structured movement sequences designed for clarity and balance
How seasonal and cyclical patterns can inform energy, recovery, and focus
Simple tools you can use daily to support physical and mental well-being
Foundations of the Practice
This class is informed by both modern nervous system science and traditional wellness systems such as Ayurveda and Chinese medicine. These frameworks help us understand how stress, environment, and lifestyle influence the body’s internal balance.
The focus is not on complexity, but on consistency, awareness, and intelligently applied movement that supports real-life functioning.
The Intention
This practice is designed to meet you where you are, whether you are highly active, highly analytical, or simply looking for a more sustainable way to care for your body.
The goal is not to push harder, but to help you move and think in ways that support lasting regulation, resilience, and ease.
Schedule:
In-Person at Metta Yoga Studios in Corte Madera 11:30 - 12:45: Every second Sunday of the month. 2/8 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14, 7/12, 8/9, 9/13, 10/11, 11/8, 12/13,
Meditation will be sent out after each class.
Class format:
Movement: 15 minutes circle, introductions, orientation and teachings to themes of class. Includes a handout and diagrams re: energetic and structure of the month. 60 minutes somatic movement with instruction. This gentle and fluid movement practice blends teachings from diverse schools including qigong, yoga, dance, authentic movement, polarity therapy and touch for health. At the end of class there will be a short savasana with subtle and supportive hands-on contact to help you integrate and embody what you have learned in class. A meditation will be sent out after each class.
Movement class every Second Sunday 11:30 am Metta Studio Corte Madera. Register here, on the Metta site events page.
Meditation sent as a follow up audio recording 2-3 days following the in-person class.
Research is conclusive. Women need women. Not just as a source of company and conversation, but as an energetic reboot and reset. We nourish each other in ways I am continuing to discover.
And so, drumroll, I am offering a Mother’s Day mini-retreat.
Please join me Sunday May 10th at 11:30 am Metta Yoga Corte Madera for a 75 minute class that includes:
poetry
prayer
movement
meditation
hands-on
to support yourself, your mother, your daughter, your sister or dear friend along the magical journey of self-care and motherhood.
To register click here for the link to sign up at mettayogastudio.com.
Please note we are no longer taking sign ups through this site.
This class will be a special event in place of our Monthly Metta Event: Roots of Wellness: a structural energetics practice. Please join us next month, on the second Sunday at 11:30 am.