TheHoly Wilds

What is a Threshold?

A threshold sits at the precipice of the great mystery — a middle realm — where an old way of being ends and a new way is just dawning.

It arrives in many forms: the loss of a loved one, the end of a career, a relationship dissolving, the dawn of a fresh chapter in your life. Sometimes it arrives as a volcanic eruption, other times it is soft and subtle, whispering to you that who you believe yourself to be is no longer aligned with what life is asking of you.

These moments ask something real of us. Left unmarked, they pass half-lived — absorbed into the noise of ordinary days. Marked with intention, they become genuine turning points. The question is not whether the threshold will be crossed, but whether we will cross it consciously.

While often harrowing or even painful, we are actually being gifted a chance to be broken down and remembered into nature's wholeness — into our native state: a being of heart who uniquely participates with and gives generously to the world.

The Holy Wilds is an offering for those moments.

Meet Your Guide

Sam Sohmer

For me, nature's wildness has been profoundly humbling and enlivening — awakening a deep remembrance of my own essence and gift to the world: to provide spaces of clarity and truth to those ready to experience genuine encounters with life and reality.

I hold this work as a living container, shaped by the land, the people, and the particular threshold being crossed. My own crossings brought me here — and to a conviction that the wilderness, within and around us, is our original teacher, and that threshold moments, however painful, are invitations into greater wholeness.

I am formally trained in The Hakomi Method, Cranial Sacral Therapy, The Tamura Method, and sacred medicine ceremonial practices — steeped in Earth-based wisdom traditions, depth psychology, sound and music, dreamwork, ritual offering, and prayer. Based in the Sierra Foothills of Nevada County, California.