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Women are paying big money to scream, smash sticks in the woods. It's called a rage ritual.

Kimberly Helmus still gets chills thinking about her first rage ritual.

Two-and-a-half years ago after her divorce, the cybersecurity engineer embarked on a retreat to Scotland with Mia Banducci - an author and self-described "Spiritual Fairy Godmother," better known online as Mia Magik.

As part of the retreat, Banducci held a rage ritual: a ceremony in which participants scream and beat large sticks on the ground in the woods. Participants are encouraged to think of people and experiences that have wronged them and to scream and swing the sticks for at least 20 minutes, or until they can no longer move their arms.

Rage rituals have garnered attention on TikTok, where they've resonated, particularly with women. In comments, women describe how moving it is to see other women embody their anger - an emotion experts say society often discourages women from expressing.

"There's no place where you can see women be able to be angry like that and it not be condemned," Helmus says. " 'She's just hormonal. She's just unhinged. She's just crazy. She's just on her period. She's just, whatever.' This was a place where you were, probably for the first time in a really, really long time, if ever, able to scream out loud things about how you felt."

What is a rage ritual?

Banducci has led rage rituals for several years and began doing them first for herself, then for friends and, eventually, as part of her days-long retreats, which include other activities and can range in price from around $2,000 to $4,000. Her one-day version, she says, costs $222 per ticket.

The process of a rage ritual is pretty simple. First, Banducci says, participants gather large sticks while conjuring to mind "every person who's ever crossed you, who's ever hurt you, who's ever ignored your boundaries or taken advantage of you or abused you in any way." After some warm-up breaths, the screaming and swinging begin. The ritual is held in the woods so participants can make noise without fear of bothering people nearby.

Banducci isn't the only person who leads events dealing with rage. Secret Sanctuary will host a "Sacred Rage Ceremony" in Alberta, Canada in July, and Jessica Ricchetti - an author and self-proclaimed mystic - will host a "Sacred Rage" women's retreat in North Carolina in June.

Why do rage rituals resonate with women in particular?

Rage rituals seem to have struck a chord particularly among women, who write in social media comments how moving it is to see women let out their anger.

"Why did I have an immediate visceral reaction and start crying?" one woman wrote. "I literally cried seeing this… I NEED this," another wrote. "As a now middle aged woman with even more rage, I need this!!" wrote another.

Sarkis says this isn't surprising. After all, women have been historically discouraged from embracing their right to feel angry, she says.

Banducci says that, while men are taught to suppress sadness, women are taught to suppress rage.

"It's like, 'Don't be a bitch' or 'don't be angry' or 'don't be aggressive' or 'don't stand up for yourself.' 'Don't protect your integrity.' 'Don't tell anyone that they don't have consent to touch your body or speak to you in a certain way,' " she says. "There are particular emotions that are accepted in the gender binary that we each need to feel. Men need to cry - and it's so healthy for men to cry - and women need to be able to get angry."

By the end of her first rage ritual, Helmus says, participants were covered in dirt and mud with bruises and cuts on their hands. Sticks were broken everywhere.

She says she got a lot from the experience and has done it twice since: "It's really a place where you can be this feral, wild woman and not be looked at, other than with love and acceptance and care."

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Bat shit crazy.

They should rage about the prices for that shit.

I saw some shit where they go pay to smash cars with bats while wearing PPE and everything.

I think we may have found the source of the sasquatch calls and tree knocking

It's very possible that the reason for the "need" is due to them/her being the actual problem and finally realizing that nobody else really cares...*goes back to swinging a golf club at the local "rage shack"* best $10 I've spent in a very long time!!!! *swings at wall of plates*

Bring 'em on.  I'll set them up with hatchets and some firewood logs and they can de-rage all day long.  

OMG

Not guilty

I guess it's better than breaking all the dishes.

eta:  Good form.

Are they at all decent looking?  I only want to see it if they're halfway good looking.  Preferably naked.

This is the way!

I usually just beat my workbench with a hammer

Every swing of a stick is a swing to smash the patriarchy!

Id let her beat me

White women are the most pampered, protected, catered to species on the planet.

But they have to "rage" against the horrible, cruel, male dominated world.

Okay.........

 


 

I have a machete and will map out the trails and they can rage along through the woods all they want for $300 a day. You get a free machete to go home with as well.

They don't know you can do that for free?

Where's a "bear in the woods" when you really need one?

That’s awesome.
My wife has a “ rage ritual “ at least twice a week.
Seems to help.

Problem is that it usually takes place in my home so that’s not entirely ideal..

Yep, got 'dat good back swing goin' on.

$222 per ticket per day. Kaching!!!!

$2000- $4000 for a week?!?!?!

I'd even give them a participation trophy and a diploma with a ceremony.

Brilliant!!!

Fuck, I do that at least once a week with a heavy bag and gloves in the morning. Makes a great start to the day.

I think I'll be doing that tomorrow morning, actually.

I guess if we skipped teaching a generation of women self- control, at least there's money to be made off the problem

It's shared pain and anguish. expressed. Felt. Experiences shared. Bonding. Friends made along the way.

Excuse me, Sir. But that is Mentally Unstable to you.

They live notably longer than men, and there are more women than men.  What's their beef?  Don't try to explain crazy.

I own some woods. There are plenty of sticks. How do I get in on this bullshit

This has been done for years. Very old scam.

So they pay money to throw a tantrum in thr woods instead of at home...gotcha.

yes sir, give them gals a whoop ass stick, charge whatever you decide is a fee, a vacant lot to handle their rage, get outta da way and let em go to work. Nice profit !

Give them some fire wood to split.

Something in our society is really destroying mental states. I don't know if it's all of the SSRIs and birth control they're on now, but I swear something's making them crazier.

I own some woods, but I don't want it polluted with what these women bare, even at the price the market can bear.

That's an even scarier thought.
I would rather bump into a rabid sasquatch than a raging PMSing woman in the woods

Getting laid is cheaper

Sounds like witchcraft.

   Bears don't want any of that bullshit either.

Honestly that sounds kinda therapeutic. I wouldn't pay money to do it though.

Might bring a printer with me and beat it to death...

Perfect demonstration of why women should not be in positions of power where they hold authority over anything. They can not control their emotions.

Note to self:

Catering to the whims of suckers with more money than brains can be a lucrative endeavor.

Just look at all of the industries that have sprung up based on the business model of separating foolish leftists from their money.

To-date I have really missed the boat on this - but I strongly suspect that it's not too late to get in on the scam(s).

After all, there's one born every minute...

That is exactly what's destroying women's mental state. And almost every mass shooter ever has been on SSRI's.

I'd be willing to take it a step farther.

Buy a bunch of these and attach them to trees.



hang these off the bottom of them



go that extra mile for the total experience.

so after how many waves of feminism now?  not only are they still not happy, but they actually seem even less happy now.
lol

More retardery.

There are very good reasons that back in the day, children of both sexes were taught to control their emotions.

The fact that the last couple generations have NOT, is why you have so many fragile yowling "mentally ill" dipshits complaining and miserable all the time, that get offended and upset about EVERYTHING. They get stuck in a feedback loop they were never taught how to control and break out of, so molehills turn into mountains in a heartbeat.

Figures some stupid wanna-be magic idiot would encourage it for profit.

Those broads have hit the wall, are pissed at life and pay money to beat the ground.

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Primal scream redux. And bears... bears in them thar woods.

Toxic femininity