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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Treehouse Landing Cohousing
For the last three years a group of 7 people has been working towards a vision of building a new Cohousing Community in Boulder County. Click below to learn more about our project, and how to get involved! Welcome to Treehouse Landing Cohousing!
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Taproot Land Co-op
Taproot Land Co-op is my soul crafted vision for coming back home to relationship with land here in Colorado. It is a community of Colorado families stewarding land, listening deeply, building resilience, staying sane and celebrating life together in the alpine meadows above Boulder, CO.
These sub pages are for members of the co-op and password protected. Contact me via my contact form if you want to connect about Taproot.
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Venus Auditorium - Women's writing
Venus is a blog for women’s writing. We uplift the female voice and are commited to women’s stories and perspectives. This project is gestating in the darkness of her mothers’ wombs. When she is approaching the birth canal, the launch will be announced here!
Work with me
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Build your Website with Me!
Wild By Design offers web design services targeted at therapists, coaches, artists and sustainability professionals. Tell me your vision and I’ll tell you it is not only possible - it is necessary!
Let’s build this!
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Ceremony for Transitions
Ceremonies are great for acknowledging the past, listening to the present and birth a desired future. If you are in a transition right now, a ceremony tailered specifically to you can be very beneficial! My approach is playful, loving and creative and always oriented to you. No prior experience needed!
If you are interested in exploring this with me, reach out!
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Beyond Permission
This is a women’s retreat that I co-host with nature connected coach/psychedelic guide/yoga teacher Cynthia Allen and artist/herbalist Courtney Hughes. We play with movement, voice, yoga, connection, art, herbal medicine, healing foods and ceremony. We come together in community to reflect each outhers light so that we might see more of who we truly are and the medicine that is ours to embody in this lifetime.
This retreat is currently available on demand for groups. Reach out to me if you want to know more, or join my or Cynthia’s newsletter!
Upcoming Events
Venus Auditorium - Conception writing series
Venus Auditorium is a portal for women’s voices, published by women. It is a place where we remember that women’s perspectives and knowing are essential for the world to come home to itself. As we weave as a community towards launch on May 1st this year, this 3-part series offer our own authors and other interested female identifying persons a space to explore our voices and our own deep and uniqe understanding of what is happening in this world.
Following the season of the Northern Hemisphere, we meet first at the time of year when our ideas and intentions are still growing in our wombs, as the seeds are illuminated underground in February, onwards sprouting alongside nature and each other in March, to our season of early bloom in April. This offering is free, and offered online and in person, as an offering to our community. To stay tuned and get the details, sign up for my Wild By Design newsletter!
Times and dates wil be announced here soon!
Online + in person in Boulder, Colorado and Oakland, California.
April-MAY of 2025
Venus Auditorium LAUNCH - voices unleashed!
MAY 2025 - DAY TBD
6:30 pm in local venue in Boulder, CO, and Oakland, CA
Venus Auditorium is a portal for women’s voices, published by women. It is a place where we remember that women’s perspectives and knowing are essential for the world to come home to itself. This seed has been germinating underground for 8 years, and on May 1st of this year, she splits the concrete.
On launch day, the blog will launch with the first round of voices and events published. There will also be a writing workshop, open to in-person and online participants, with celebrations to follow in Boulder, Colorado. To stay tuned and get the details, sign up for my newsletter!
Take a peek (coming soon)
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!