OUR ETHOS
F*ck normal.
We’re here for magic.
Humans don't need another thing to consume. We simply need space to hear ourselves again, unfiltered, uninhibited and unprojected. But life is loud, louder than it's ever been.
Notifications have replaced the birdsong that used to underscore our existence. Schedules replaced the seasons. And it all drowned out the fact that we humans belong to something much older than the walls around us.
So we started gathering people in wild places. Places that remind us what matters without saying a word.
Our experiences are built around presence. Long walks. Slow meals. Salt on your skin. Dirt under your nails. And conversations that happen when nobody is in a hurry.
The land and the differences we notice first do most of the teaching. We just happen to know a few places that make listening easier.
Every family has a wild child. I always thought it was a superpower.
When boarding school was offered at thirteen, I said yes.
For four years, I lived alongside brothers and sisters from different countries, cultures, and ways of seeing the world. It reshaped me. I fell in love with the differences between us. With the feeling of stretching beyond the edges of what I thought was possible.
I didn't realize how much that experience had changed me until I found myself at one of the most conservative colleges in the country. It was the wrong fit in every possible way.
Instead of walking at graduation, I moved to London to study art and design. I traveled through Europe, and somewhere between Iceland and Thailand, my soul started to shine through in a way I'd never felt before.
I left my PhD program, returned to Detroit, and at 29 found myself rebuilding nearly every part of my life and identity.
My lifelines through it all? Nature, always. Travel whenever I could. And yoga, meditation, and visualization through everything else.
I started practicing at thirteen. In every city I've lived, finding a class has been one of the first things I do. Through some of the thickest parts of my life– heartbreak, redirection, and ultimately expansion– the practice kept bringing me back to myself.
The more I traveled, the more I realized something essential about myself: I need difference around me. New landscapes. New conversations. New ways of being.
Without it, I stop growing.
Not long after I started teaching, I attended my first retreat. A friend asked if I'd ever host one. "Maybe in ten years," I said. But it didn't feel true. I'd always wanted to show people another way of being in the world.
So in 2024, I hosted my first retreat in Costa Rica, then another, and another. Somewhere between Mexico and Morocco, Humans of the Wild was born.
Because no matter how much life changes us, the wild child is still in there.
put humans back in the wild
We work with humans who are masters of their craft and anchored in embodied practice
Meet the ones walking beside you…
Wren Miller
Founder & Lead Facilitator, Humans of the Wild
Wren has spent most of her life chasing the feeling that comes from standing somewhere she'd never been, or doing something she'd never done. She loves it so much, she made it her whole purpose: to bring people into new territory, both externally and internally, helping them meet their own edges and discover new ways of being. Along the way, she cultivates a damn good time, heaps of green things, and genuine human connection.
As a holistic coach, E-RYT 500 yoga and Pilates instructor, retreat facilitator, and lifelong student of what it means to be human, her work brings together years of training with a bold curiosity about the world. She blends movement, holistic health, nervous system regulation, and a life shaped by travel to create immersions that reconnect people with what actually heals: ourselves, each other, and the natural world. Through these practices and shared experiences, she creates the conditions for people to remember who the f*ck they are.
She's less interested in perfect yoga poses than she is in watching someone surprise themselves. (Talking about yourself in third person is weird. Believing in people isn't.)
Find her roaming the west coast in her van, Moss, seeking surf, stillness and other cool humans: @wild_wren
Dr. Samantha Buchanan
Founder + Lead Practitioner, Pointe Acupuncture
Sam is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine with more than 8,000 hours of clinical training, advanced study in the hospitals of Eastern China, and a doctorate from Pacific College. She has an uncanny ability to hear what your body has been trying to say long before you find the words for it.
Through community acupuncture, she helps restore flow where stress, illness, or life have gotten in the way.
Dr. Sam lives and breathes Traditional Chinese Medicine. She shares her knowledge generously, walks her talk, and somehow manages to make ancient medicine feel both entirely practical and wildly relevant.
Find her being a rad mom, tending to Detroit's most magical TCM practice, and reminding people that healing has never gone out of style: @drsambuchanan
the manifesto we didn’t mean to write
...The word "retreat" implies that life is a battle you need to step back from. We don't think life is a battle. We think it's the thing your body was built for, and the only reason you feel like you need to retreat from it is because you've tapped out of your own human experience.
A week with us isn't a retreat. It's a return. To breath. To body. To the land. To the you that existed before half your world became digitized...”