Founded by writer and myth-keeper Nikki Lizares, Wild Woman Rising offers online circles, nature-held retreats, and creative wanderings through story, memory, and the ancient rhythms that shape a woman’s life.
Here, we gather in the company of myth and moon, stone and seed, breath and body, to reclaim the parts of ourselves that know how to listen, feel, and belong. We honor the thresholds — the births, the endings, the griefs, the quiet metamorphoses — trusting that each carries its own kind of wisdom.
Ours is a path of gentle tending: to the earth, to one another, and to the ancestral knowing that roots us.
We believe in the healing power of presence, the wild intelligence of the body, and the way a story — held with care — can open a door back to wholeness.
At the Heart of this Work
WEAVING A MOVEMENT OF WILD, SOULFUL, AND TRUTH-SEEKING WOMEN TO RESHAPE THE WORLD.
FOUNDER BIO
Nikki Lizares is a Filipina writer, ecologist, yoga teacher, and myth-keeper whose work weaves together feminine mythology, somatic wisdom, ecological kinship, and the slow, devotional tending of women’s inner lives. She is the founder of Wild Woman Rising, a nature-rooted storytelling and community space for women remembering their instinct, lineage, and wild wisdom.
Her path spans over a decade in conservation and climate justice, years of study in depth psychology and archetypal storywork, and a grounded practice as a trauma-informed yoga teacher specializing in the female body, burnout recovery, and nervous system restoration. Nikki’s approach is rooted in the belief that the body and the earth speak in parallel rhythms — and that healing begins when we learn to listen.
As a birth–death–dream companion, she walks with women through thresholds of grief, transformation, and becoming, offering steady presence and symbolic, soul-centered guidance.
Across circles, retreats, and 1:1 companionship, Nikki’s work invites women to slow down, soften, and return to the deep intelligence already alive within them.
Training, Lineage & Certifications
Formal Roots
• M.Ed. in Education for Sustainability
• Graduate Certificate in Applied Mythology
• Yoga Medicine 500hr (in progress)
Lineage & Teachers
• Ongoing study with Maria Souza of Women & Mythology
• Influenced by scholars, folklorists, and animist storytellers devoted to mythic memory and Earth-based wisdom
• Grounded in decolonial practice, feminist ecological thought, and the ethics of care
Pathways of Practice
• Training in sustainability education, facilitation, narrative work, ritual craft
• Continual study in grief work, somatic inquiry, archetypal psychology, and ancestral ways of knowing
A letter to the women who find their way here…
Dear wildlings,
This space began as a quiet spark—a longing to gather, to remember, to return to what is innately wise within us. For years, I moved between many worlds: the scientific and the spiritual, the ecological and the mythic, the outer landscapes of forest and sea and the inner landscapes of story, intuition, and dreams. Everywhere, I sensed the same truth: women carry an ancient knowing that the world has taught us to forget.
Wild Woman Rising began simply, during a period of my life when I longed to heal in community. It started with a handful of us reading stories together, following the threads of myth and memory. But as we gathered, something in the collective stirred. Women arrived with their questions, their griefs and longings, their desire for a more rooted, cyclical, soul-honoring way of living. What emerged was a living ecosystem shaped by curiosity, care, and the quiet courage of coming home to ourselves.
My own path has been shaped by landscapes as much as by mentors. Some of my favorite memories include scrambling through the Amazon rainforest to translate scientific research into stories ordinary people could hold, and diving along broken reefs in rural Cambodia to help build the case for marine protected areas. These encounters with the more-than-human world continue to guide me, reminding me that wisdom has texture, rhythm, and breath.
These days, you’re more likely to find me in a semi-rural corner of the Philippines, trying to identify and keep track of the birds in my neighborhood, tending to the simplest of daily rituals alongside my husband, our infant daughter, and two adopted dogs. This quieter season has taught me that wildness is in everything around us, and that it can arrive as tenderness, slowness, or the choice to pay attention.
If you’re here, I trust it’s because something in you is ready to soften, to unravel, to re-WILD, to remember. I’m honored to walk alongside you, woman to woman, story to story, season to season, as we tend this luminous, necessary work together.
With warmth and wild grace,
Nikki
