Ancestral Skills
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Traditional Sud Italia Ancestral Skills
October 8-18, 2025
We invite you to join us for this totally unique and inspirational journey - we’ll be immersing ourselves in Old World Sud Italian skills and traditional ways. We're going to mix it up on this journey, spend most of our time right in our valley, on our sacred mountain and in our local hill top villages learning skills with the local people...such as making a variety of hand made pastas entirely by scratch, led by artisans who have been doing these things for generations. We're going to weave an artifact with natural materials gathered from our travels, do some painting, make plant medicine with herbs gathered on our mountain, experience and learn traditional songs and music and participate in a traditional Sud Italia healing ritual as well....We'll visit some incredible archaeological sites, spend a day exploring the Sassi in Matera, the oldest village in all of Italy constructed entirely of caves and inhabited for 10,000 years, pay homage to a few of our most powerful and magical thurmaturgic deities, visit Dream Temples and explore the first medicinal herb garden in all of Europe overlooking the bay of Salerno. You’ll be utterly amazed and deeply inspired by what you see and do!
Total Cost: $5,989
Fee includes: Your flight from Boston to Naples and back again, car pick up in Naples and return to the airport from our village, all transportation during the journey, your housing, breakfast and dinner.
Non-Refundable Deposit: $500
The remainder of $5,489 is due by July 31, 2025 and is best sent by check made out to Gail Faith Edwards. If you use a card or PayPal to submit your fee please to add an additional $150 to cover PayPal/credit card fees.
Tour cancellation policy: All deposits are non-refundable. If you cancel at any time after paying your tour fee in full, you will be charged a $100 cancellation fee. If you cancel within 60 days of the tour start date you will be refunded half your payment. If you cancel within 30 days of the tour start date you will forfeit your payment.
What our journey participants are saying:
"I had a most wonderful time and congratulate you, Rosa and Adam for your hard work, long hours, and dedication. Everything you did was aimed at our pleasure and you sure hit the mark...this trip was exactly right and I treasure every minute of it." J. Cohen
"The Earth & Spirit Journey was perfect for me! I registered with hopes of spending some contemplative time with Our Lady, feeling closer to my ancestors and ancestral ways, and being inspired to renew my journaling practice. Mission accomplished on all three fronts!" L. King
"Your obvious love and enthusiasm as well as your incredible wealth of knowledge of this area, its people, history, culture, ancestral ways and the Divine Feminine all combine to make you a most outstanding guide. So happy to have come along with you!" T. Fleiss
"It's nearly impossible to plan a trip that will please everyone. Yet, with a small group like ours, it was possible to remain flexible and responsive to each participant. You did that beautifully, effortlessly and I am very grateful. Thank you." P. Post
"We all agreed that the trip was the trip of a lifetime—no other way could we have stayed in the village without your family connections. To be so remote, without tourists around, and out in the hills and the very special Valley of Diana, was something none of us will ever forget. Also, we all agreed that you were the perfect guide to the sacred sites we visited—your enthusiasm, knowledge and delight were wonderful to be part of." D. Lightbody
"This has been a deeply soul nourishing, healing and life changing experience that I will carry in my heart for the rest of my life." L. Shaeffer
"Fantastic, amazing, fun time! Came home inspired, renewed and spiritually restored. Thank you so much!" R. Roveto
"Every day I thought to myself, 'this must be the highlight'...only to be repeated the very next day. The places we visited were classic. I feel I touched the spirit of my ancestors in ways I had not anticipated and more than that, found a part of myself I did not know was lost." K. Foster
"My daughter and I had the most wonderful, soul nourishing time. In fact, we both grew in ways we are still astonished about. Thank you for all the work you've done to provide such a magnificent container for ancestral connection and spiritual growth."
"The itinerary was perfect—I loved every place we visited, and the slow paced, nourishing rhythm of it all." M. Melina
"Rave reviews for the place we stayed…absolutely perfect! Rave reviews also for our chefs — though the portions were daunting, the food was exceptional in both preparation and the fact that it represented dishes traditionally used. Wouldn’t change one iota of this entire experience!" K. White
"You have a magnetic personality and a very calming presence. Your village and its people are absolutely amazing and inspiring. We all had a fabulous time." N. Lovelace
"I had the most incredible, magical, life-altering trip. Thank you!" C. Perry
Gail Faith Edwards is an internationally respected herbalist and author with deep ancestral roots in the Cilento. She leads journeys in Southern Italia twice a year.
What our journey participants are saying:
"I had a most wonderful time and congratulate you, Rosa and Adam for your hard work, long hours, and dedication. Everything you did was aimed at our pleasure and you sure hit the mark...this trip was exactly right and I treasure every minute of it." J. Cohen
"The Earth & Spirit Journey was perfect for me! I registered with hopes of spending some contemplative time with Our Lady, feeling closer to my ancestors and ancestral ways, and being inspired to renew my journaling practice. Mission accomplished on all three fronts!" L. King
"Your obvious love and enthusiasm as well as your incredible wealth of knowledge of this area, its people, history, culture, ancestral ways and the Divine Feminine all combine to make you a most outstanding guide. So happy to have come along with you!" T. Fleiss
"It's nearly impossible to plan a trip that will please everyone. Yet, with a small group like ours, it was possible to remain flexible and responsive to each participant. You did that beautifully, effortlessly and I am very grateful. Thank you." P. Post
"We all agreed that the trip was the trip of a lifetime—no other way could we have stayed in the village without your family connections. To be so remote, without tourists around, and out in the hills and the very special Valley of Diana, was something none of us will ever forget. Also, we all agreed that you were the perfect guide to the sacred sites we visited—your enthusiasm, knowledge and delight were wonderful to be part of." D. Lightbody
"This has been a deeply soul nourishing, healing and life changing experience that I will carry in my heart for the rest of my life." L. Shaeffer
"Fantastic, amazing, fun time! Came home inspired, renewed and spiritually restored. Thank you so much!" R. Roveto
"Every day I thought to myself, 'this must be the highlight'...only to be repeated the very next day. The places we visited were classic. I feel I touched the spirit of my ancestors in ways I had not anticipated and more than that, found a part of myself I did not know was lost." K. Foster
"My daughter and I had the most wonderful, soul nourishing time. In fact, we both grew in ways we are still astonished about. Thank you for all the work you've done to provide such a magnificent container for ancestral connection and spiritual growth."
"The itinerary was perfect—I loved every place we visited, and the slow paced, nourishing rhythm of it all." M. Melina
"Rave reviews for the place we stayed…absolutely perfect! Rave reviews also for our chefs — though the portions were daunting, the food was exceptional in both preparation and the fact that it represented dishes traditionally used. Wouldn’t change one iota of this entire experience!" K. White
"You have a magnetic personality and a very calming presence. Your village and its people are absolutely amazing and inspiring. We all had a fabulous time." N. Lovelace
"I had the most incredible, magical, life-altering trip. Thank you!" C. Perry
Gail Faith Edwards is an internationally respected herbalist and author with deep ancestral roots in the Cilento. She leads journeys in Southern Italia twice a year.