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School of Lost Borders

Over 40 years of bringing meaningful rites of passage into the modern world through vision fasts, trainings, and transformative nature-based programs. 

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Vision Fast

Cross into the natural world to mark and celebrate significant life transitions.

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Training

Learn how to guide rites of passage and support your community.

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Living & Dying

Remember the ancient wisdom of living and dying in connection with the natural world.

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Living the Practices

Integrate ceremony and nature-based practices into everyday life and work.

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Your generosity helps make our work accessible to all who are called to our programs. It also supports the ongoing legacy and sustainability of the School of Lost Borders. Please join with us to help sustain our commitment to continue to foster rites of passage work in the world.

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RITES OF PASSAGE

The renewal of meaningful, modern day rites of passage are essential for the health of ourselves, our communities, and our planet.

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

NM Women’s Vision Fast

May 12 - May 23, 2025 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Emerald North, Kim Belair Vision Fast

A woman's journey is both vigorous and introspective as she covers ground outwardly, so she ventures deep within herself. Stirred by nature's calling to be creative and complete, and beckoned by an ...

Diamond in the Rough: Wilderness and the Diamond Approach

May 17 - May 24, 2025 Windhorse Village, Colorado John Davis, Marlena deCarion, Ken Crocker Living the Practices

We know this: direct and intimate contact with the natural world is an open doorway to our core aliveness, our yet-to-be healed wounds, our evolutionary growth, and our mysterious depths. Our ...

CA Men’s Rite of Passage

May 27 - Jun 7, 2025 Big Pine, California Sam DeBoskey, Scott Davidson Vision Fast

The world is changing fast… and we must do our best to keep up. We now face unprecedented waves of transformation. The blossoming and decay of our modern ways is calling attention to fundamental ...

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OUR STORY

" We began way back when, in the days when revolution was in the air, when rock and roll was filled with protest and the young were sticking flowers in the gun barrels of National Guardsmen. Even then, the answer to the dilemma of culture was clear: True revolution would never come about until the children remembered the way to get to adulthood - and the adults to true elderhood - and the elders to honorable death..."

- STEVEN FOSTER

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