Soul Sauntering Founder and Leader
Karla Woggon
I’m a retired Episcopal priest who has also always experienced wild places to be as holy as any sanctuary. For over three decades I served congregations within the Episcopal Church, and that tradition still shapes my life. But my life and work draws from a wider well: Celtic Christian spirituality, Jungian depth psychology, and wisdom traditions that have long recognized nature itself as a teacher and a threshold.
John Muir once said he disliked the word “hiking.” He preferred “saunter,” tracing it to medieval pilgrims walking “à la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, so that anyone who wandered with purpose and reverence became a “sainte-terrer.” That’s the pace I try to keep — not conquering trails, but walking them as holy ground.
I’ve led pilgrimages in Israel, France, along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales, the Camino de Santiago, Iona in Scotland, the Baja Peninsula in Mexico and in my beloved Appalachian mountains. I facilitate dream groups and wild spirituality gatherings, and offer spiritual direction to people making sense of their inner lives.
I don’t ask anyone to leave their tradition, or lack of one, at the door. All are welcome. You are welcome.
