Voices of the Turning Leaves:
An Autumn Gathering of Music, Movement & Belonging
September 19th 2026
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Bring-a-Friend Special: 2 advance tickets for $40
Voices of the Turning Leaves in Moffat, Colorado, on September 19, 2026 is an autumn gathering devoted to music, movement, belonging, and celebration. Through community singing, drumming, dance, seasonal ritual, sound healing, and connection with nature near the Autumn Equinox, we gather to honor the turning season and celebrate life in community. This intimate gathering is for those longing for authentic connection, joyful expression, and the freedom to be fully themselves. Learn more HERE.
3 to 8:30 pm
As summer gives way to autumn, we gather beneath the wide San Luis Valley sky to celebrate the beauty of the changing season through song, movement, community, and shared presence.
Wild Origins invites you to join us for an afternoon and evening of community singing, drumming, gentle movement, seasonal ritual, sound healing, connection, laughter, gratitude, and celebration. Together we will gather around the rhythms of the earth, share food and stories, offer prayers and blessings for the season ahead, and experience the joy that emerges when people come together in authentic expression.
Set on a beautiful creekside property near Moffat, this gathering welcomes adults of all backgrounds who long for meaningful connection, creativity, and community.
What to expect:
• Community singing and drumming
• Guided movement and circle dance
• Seasonal altar and gratitude practices
• Sound healing
• Potluck meal and community connection
• Creekside nature setting
• Fire gathering (if conditions permit)
• Opportunities for reflection, prayer, laughter, and celebration
Wear clothing inspired by autumn, nature, ancient cultures, or whatever helps you feel most fully yourself. Bring a POTLUCK DISH or beverage (non-alcoholic) that reflects the season of gratitude and harvest.
Tickets:
$25 at the door
Bring-a-Friend Special: 2 advance tickets for $40
Come as you are. Bring your voice, your curiosity, and your love of community.
Rayah Sunshine is a song carrier, community facilitator, and ceremonial artist devoted to creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, one another, and the natural world. For more than twenty years she has explored the transformative power of song, rhythm, movement, and earth-based traditions as pathways to joy, belonging, and authentic expression.
Through community singing, drumming, seasonal gatherings, and sound-based experiences, Rayah invites people of all backgrounds to discover the freedom, connection, and vitality that emerge when we gather in music, creativity, and shared celebration.
About your Retreat Artisans
Rayah Sunshine
Voices of the Turning Leaves was born from a lifelong love of song, ceremony, and the transformative power of women gathering in community.
For more than twenty years, I have studied and shared sacred songs from diverse traditions, witnessing how singing together can open the heart, awaken the spirit, and reconnect us to something ancient within ourselves. Again and again, I have watched women discover that the voice they long to reclaim is not just their singing voice—it is their truth, their creativity, their intuition, and their place within the greater song of life.
As the leaves begin to turn and autumn arrives in the mountains of Crestone, we gather for three days of shared song, ritual, nature, and sisterhood. Together we explore voice as a pathway to healing, self-expression, courage, and connection. No musical experience is necessary. This retreat is not about performance or perfection—it is about participation, presence, and discovering the joy of singing in community.
My own life has been shaped by the medicine of song. Through seasons of grief, transition, motherhood, loss, celebration, and renewal, singing has offered a way home to myself and a bridge to others.
Voices of the Turning Leaves is an invitation to remember the song that lives within you and to add your voice to a circle of women doing the same. Whether you come seeking healing, inspiration, belonging, or simply the joy of singing beneath the autumn sky, you are welcome here.
Rayah Sunshine is a song carrier, ceremonial artist, and guide devoted to helping people reclaim the power of their authentic voice. For more than two decades she has explored the transformative potential of song, rhythm, prayer, and earth-based practice as pathways to connection, healing, and belonging. Through community singing, drumming, and sound-based experiences, Rayah creates welcoming spaces where people can rediscover the joy, freedom, and medicine of their own voice. Learn more about Rayah
Tiana Rivera
Tiana will be our Sacred Food Artisan for this retreat. She is an earthy solo mama to two teens and has been passionate about whipping up magic in the kitchen since she was a young child. She has been a student of the wild wise woman ways for five years, which Rayah has been a supportive influence and guide. Whether she’s climbing mountains, navigating teenage attitudes, or crunching numbers at her day job; she weaves prayers into form to honor the sacredness that all our ancestors whisper for us to remember.