Winter Open House February 1st
Spring Open House May 17th & 24th, 2013

DATE: Fridays February 1, May 17, and May 24th
TIME: 9:30am - 3:30pm
WHO: For interested girls and teens ages 9-11 and 12-16

Girls join Feb 1st and May 17th
Girls and Families join May 24th

WHERE: Brook's Bend Farm, 119 Old Sunderland Rd, Montague, MA (families carpool from southern VT and western MA)

HOW? Call Dhyana for any questions and to register, 802-257-8570
NEW: Contact us for a few Spring 2013 Saturday dates and 1-2x Monthly Saturdays starting October 2013

Choose to join and enroll either Fridays or Saturdays starting soon.
Over half of the visiting girls to our Open House this past spring enrolled for the Fall!

Register for one or both Spring Open Houses by May 3rd, 2013.

Full Moon Girls Open House Registration Form - Word doc
Full Moon Girls Open House Registration Form - PDF

Full Moon Girls Fridays in Montague, MA

Coming soon - Saturdays too!!

Have you seen the beauty of a girl living her true nature?

Delve into the natural mysteries, seek out adventures, prepare herbal remedies engage in storytelling, play games that heighten awareness, laugh with friends, express yourself, build friction fires, harvest and cook delicious wild edibles, sing, shape stone and bone, carve and weave, follow your passions, learn and take lead, experience empowerment and full aliveness in meeting edges, with a group of girls guided by women mentors.

Enliven your sense of place together among girls! Immerse in this unique opportunity for girls to claim your own courage and grow your living relationship with nature.

DATES: Join us for 14 sessions, including an overnight. Winter/Spring runs February 1st - May 31st. See calendar below.

WHO: For interested girls and teens ages 9-11 and 12-16

Aurelia Moons: Fridays. 9:30a.m. - 3:30p.m. (Ages 12-16)
Naia Moons: Fridays. 9:30a.m. - 3:30p.m. (Ages 9-11)

WHERE: Brook's Bend Farm in Montague, MA.

Register by January 8th, 2013: To ensure this experience for your daughter, return completed registration form with full payment or minimum $200 deposit.

Full Moon Girls Spring 2013 Dates

February 1, 8, 15
--School Vacation--
March 8, 15, Snow Make Up Day March 22, Regular Day 3/29
April 5, 12 , -- Spring Vacation the 19th--, Snow Make up Day April 26
May 3, 10-11 Overnight, 17 Girls Open House, 24 New Families Open House
May 31 Wild Foods Family Potluck

Program Fee: Full Year: $1350-$1,950
Spring Session (14 Days incl Overnight): $750-$1,050

Program Cost is $875 Winter-Spring, sliding scale $750-$1050, Upper Range is for those who can! Your generosity gifts the future generations!!

Registration Packet:

Full Moon Girls Registration Forms - Word doc
Full Moon Girls Registration Forms - PDF

Meet your Mentors

Dhyana Miller - Lead Mentor, Founding Director

Dhyana Miller lives in gratitude for the Connecticut River Valley of Western MA, where she mentors teens and youth to stretch into their ever-emerging true nature and creates permaculture landscapes. As Founding Director of Full Moon Girls, she facilitates pre-teen and teen nature awareness immersion programs. She collaborates with Vermont Wilderness School, Institute for Natural Learning, Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness, and Art of Mentorings in VT, CA and Scotland. Following in the tracks of her self-designed B.A. in conservation biology and experiential education at Hampshire College, she cultivates place-based community resilience. Dhyana now collaborates with the Regenerative Design Group of Greenfield MA in design implementation. She thrives on wildcrafting, playing lilting fiddle tunes, storytelling, singing, contact improv dance, and co-creating ritual that feeds a renewal of creative culture, within nature, for a time beyond our own..

First Aid Certification: ARC Wilderness & Remote First Aid & AHA CPR

Louisa Pugh - Lead Mentor

Louisa shares nature with young people at Vermont Wilderness School and the Institute for Natural Learning. She is also a music instructor for young children each summer at the Maine Fiddle Camp. Louisa studied broadly at Marlboro College and graduated with a BA in Anthropology, Environmental Studies, and Education.

Louisa loves music, gardening, getting to know neighbors, telling stories, cooking, and homesteading skills. She makes her home in West Brattleboro with her husband and thirteen chickens.

First Aid Certification: ARC Wilderness First Aid & AHA CPR

Katie Koerten - Assistant Mentor

Katie Koerten is thrilled to be joining Full Moon Girls this fall. She has worked in diverse educational settings as a public school paraprofessional, a camp counselor at day and residential summer camps, and currently, as the coordinator of children and family programs at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst, MA. She earned a B.A. at Wesleyan University in 2007 in English. Her interest in wildlife recently brought her to the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, where she rehabilitated injured birds and educated the public about avian natural history. Katie loves finding new wildflowers, gazing at her garden and learning new words.

First Aid Certification: Wilderness First Aid & CPR