Welcome to
Wild By
Design
Hi! I’m Almina! You probably found yourself here because you have come in contact with one of my projects or a piece of writing. Pleased to have you here! am currently re-organizing my entire site, so things might be a little messy around here, but do feel free to have a look around to see what I am working on right now.
with love, Almina M. Hodek
Current projects
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The Venus Auditorium - Women's writing collective
Venus is a facilitated container for women to write together, and a platform for voices from our community.
Are you curious about writing? Maybe you love writing but have a hard time making time for it? Are you interested in what a shared writing space can do for your writing?
Come join us on Tuesday nights online, or if you are local to Boulder, CO, join our summer series in person!
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Psychedelic Integration Circle
Together with my colleague Cynthia Allen I facilitate a monthly container for integration of psychedelic experiences.
Have you had an important and perhaps terapeutic expereince with psychedelics but lack the tools, gudance and community for integrating your experience into your life? This circle is for you!
Upcoming Events
Venus Auditorium - Women’s Summer Writing Series
THURSDAYS JULY / AUGUST
In person
At Courtney Hughes’s Art Studio in NoBo, Boulder, CO
6pm-7:30 MT
You can join as many sessions as you want.
Are you curious about writing? Do you want a fun and safe place to come explore your inner writer this summer? These sessions are as useful for beginners as for seasoned writers.
Join other women for a 90 minute guided creative writing session in NoBo this summer! No prior experience needed.
We will practice together in a format inspired by Natalie Goldbergs work (author of Writing Down the Bones), with timed warm up exercises and writing prompts, and optional sharing from the session.
Women and female identifying persons welcome. Limited space!
Welcome!
Venus Auditorium - Weekly community sessions
Once a week we meet online to write together for 60 minutes. We facilitate the container from start to finish, you just show up with pen & paper or your writing device and let us guide your journey. No prior experience needed. We see writing as an emerging mystery accessed through play and practice. All you need is a desire to see what is possible!
Online
5:30pm-6:30 PT / 6:60-7:30 MT
TUESDAYS
I also host women’s retreats!
Find out more here.
PAST Events
6-8pm
UCC Longmont Chapel, located at 1500 9th Ave, Longmont, CO
October 24th 2024
THIS IS MY BODY - LIVE RECORDED PODCAST AND POETRY EVENT
Join us for "This Is My Body," a powerful evening of poetry and conversation hosted by The Communion Podcast. The event will feature the podcast's hosts—Katerina Jeng, Mercedez Davis, and Pedro Senhorinha Silva—along with special guest poet Almina M. Hodek.
Through their poetry, they will explore themes of embodied spirituality, grounded in their lived experiences as Immigrant, Black, Asian, and People of Color, as well as their diverse gender identities and expressions. Following the readings, the hosts will engage in a live, recorded conversation on how these identities shape their spiritual journeys, offering profound reflections on living an embodied spiritual journey. This event will be live recorded for the Communion Podcast.
Meet Almina
Your medicine works best when it’s being used. Read more about my journey and passion for women’s power here!