SOITLÂ – The Bone Dreamer
Ninth Moon: BERYO KAMAWO – Carry The Sorrow
Tenth Moon: SNAD GWORO – Bind The Prayer
Eleventh Moon: YÎKKÂ MANTALO – Mend The Trail
Twelfth Moon: ERBYO ADSORO – Trust The Return
Thirteenth Moon: YÂLO WEGYÂ – Honour The Loom
THE JOURNEY BUNDLE
- Five sets of texts available as both online interactive moon journeys and as printable pdf files (around 200 pages in total)
- Journey tasks and five sets of painting images – online and printable pdf file
- Five roundhouse ceremonies recorded at night by firelight, including drumming and singing – pre-recorded films, one hour each
- Monthly live online kuro sessions with Carolyn – group zoom circles, 1.5 – 2 hours each, archived and available to view afterwards
- Monthly email newsletters – kansti which means the sharing of words
- Journey bundle – posted package of handmade and organic materials for sacred ceremony and craft work
- Ongoing access to the trail community through the Riverbank conversations (forum) including monthly Prayer Tree and seasonal Travellers’ Archive (library of shared work), Daweyo and Lagyâno Galleries (for sharing photos), Swanna Gallery (for sharing song recordings) & Sister Map. New access to the Soitlâ Gallery.
- Suggested minimum journey time each moon is 20 hours. It can take much longer as this third arc of the trail is intricate and intense. It is important not to feel rushed in your journey, so there is no limit to how long you travel with this journey.
- When you enter this journey you are also welcomed into the Soitlâ clan, an informal group facilitated by Carolyn to deepen the conversation and support the journeys of women who are on the third arc of the Weavers’ Trail. This includes an additional online zoom circle each month (recorded and available in our Soitlâ archive); a dedicated place on the Riverbank where clan sisters may share, honour and witness each other’s journeys with the Bone Dreamer; and an extra short monthly newsletter. There are more details about the Soitlâ clan in the Soitlâ journey introduction.
Open to trail travellers who have completed the LAGYÂNO Journey.
AT THE DOORWAY OF THE BONE DREAMER’S HOUSE
This arc of the trail is very different from the previous two; it can be challenging, intense, exposing and sometimes overwhelming. It is also profound, mystical and an opportunity for the traveller to explore a landscape of the soul that she has not stepped into before. The quiet support and whispered sisterhood of other women within the Bone Dreaming house is a very important aspect of the Soitlâ experience; mutual connection and support is actively encouraged as a significant ingredient in the traveller’s understanding of this work.
After the completion of the Lagyâno journey it is a good idea to sit quietly by the door of the Bone Dreamers’ house for a short while, take a breath, make a pause in your travels, wait until you feel rested and ready to step inside…
LONG-TIME SOITLÂ TRAVELLERS
By the time a traveller reaches the Soitlâ arc of the Weavers’ Trail, she will have a sense of the pace and momentum of her journey and the work that she is undertaking. Flexibility with pace and timing continue to be a crucial feature of her experience; this journey can require some unexpected turns of direction or time to sit in silent vigil and pause before meeting the next footstep. If you are still working with your Soitlâ footsteps 9 months after entering the journey, we ask you to add the extra Soitlâ Clan subscription to your journey. This small additional subscription helps to support the live and interactive ingredients of the journey. Whether you add the monthly or three-monthly symbolic subscription is your choice and depends on your resources. Full details about the Soitlâ Clan subscription may be found at the bottom of the page unlock a journey. Please note: the Heron Wing or Feather contribution no longer applies once you enter your Soitlâ journey and will be cancelled at that point.
If you wish to stay connected to the Weavers’ Trail and the shared experiences of the Soitlâ community after you have completed all your Soitlâ footsteps, you are very welcome to do so. Most Soitlâ travellers choose to stay connected to the trail and many spiral back into their journey, travelling through their footsteps again, deepening their work and exploring different perspectives. For travellers who wish to move into new terrain, there is a new journey opening in January 2026, the Granite Cloister. Full information on the Cloister journey page.
SOITLÂ INTRODUCTION
The final journey of the WEGJÊ KERDÂ spirals inward, reaching deep into the hidden heart of the trail. The journey around this arc of the trail can be intense; SOITLÂ work is profound, can be challenging and requires commitment and focus as the trail unfurls through five cycles of ritual. The Bone Dreamer is a primordial being, intangible and elusive; we must listen close to find her, we must travel hard to reach her. SOITLÂ carries five threads that wrap and tangle around our yearning, returning souls. She is a woman of smoke and bear, ice and wolf, blade and shroud and ancient night. She is witness to the darkest, most vulnerable places in our journey and she lays down wild berries to sustain us, scratches symbols on rocks to guide us, prods us onwards when we imagine our spirits, and even our bodies, are too weary to continue on the trail. When we encounter SOITLÂ we learn to travel with authenticity and integrity, carrying our deepest truth; we can do no less. In this way we circle back towards the place where we first stepped onto this trail, wearing the braid of DAWEYO, LAGYÂNO, SOITLÂ coiled around our hips, with drum and coat, vessel and fire, earth and waters, songs and spirits, sorrow and prayer, return and loom, all these threads gathered into our bundle: our sacred tools, our heart offerings, our cherished gifts. SOITLÂ leads us a long way out across the ancient dreamscape but then accompanies us back to the home hearth, one loop of the spiral, one turn of the trail. And the journey is not ended for the kerdâ unfurls in front of us, waiting quietly for our next step…