Gaia Gathering 2025

The Gaia Gathering is a beloved annual event that connects women* from around Central Virginia and beyond. We circle for healing, wisdom sharing, creative expression, and celebration. We gather to build community, deepen relationships, and nourish our collective power as healers and change makers.

This outdoor weekend event includes camping, workshops, group ceremony, plant walks, sharing circles, swimming in the river, singing around the fire, and plenty of time to play, rest, and reconnect.

Now in its 14th year, the Gaia Gathering continues to evolve and change! Our intention is to maintain key elements of the event while experimenting with ways to make Gaia even more community-driven and collectively-created, financially accessible for participants, and energetically sustainable for the volunteer organizers.

Some key changes for this year were inspired by the success of last year's "Wild Gaia Reunion", and include:

• COST: offering a sliding scale ticket price significantly lower than previous years
• FOOD: attendees provide own meals or participate in meal-sharing pods
• VOLUNTEERS: shifting away from a dedicated group of work-trade volunteers to encouraging collaborative support from all participants

Registration Details:

Please register all participants, including children and teens, as well as anyone participating by day and staying offsite.

Children:

Children and teens are an important part of the Gaia community, and are welcome with the supervision of a responsible adult. While no childcare is provided, there will be an area designated as a children’s playspace - all participants are invited to bring costumes, toys, musical instruments, and art supplies to share with the kids.

A teen space will also be available for teens to decorate and make it their own realm.

Please note that the camping and event area includes access to a river and the woods.

*Gaia is created by and for women. We intend an inclusive definition of woman as anyone for whom woman is a meaningful identifier or lived experience. Boys age 5 and under are welcome, as well.

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