Program Branches

The School of Lost Borders offers the following experiencial programs that are designed to support our connection as humans with the natural world and each other.

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

Learn how to guide Rites of Passage and support your community.

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

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

CO June Queer Quest

For over the last decade at the Queer Quest, groups of people from every part of the queer community have gathered on the land to celebrate our stories and step into the fullness of our queer ...

Dying as a Rite of Passage

Jun 13 - Jun 20, 2026 Inyo Mountains – Big Pine, CA Cynthia Morrow, Scott Eberle Living & Dying

For millennia, indigenous people of all our bloodlines have known "how to die”, with the natural world as our teacher from the beginning of time. Cycles of dying and rebirth are seen everywhere: ...

CA Month-Long Training

Jun 17 - Jul 19, 2026 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Meredith Little, Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair, Angelo Joseph Lazenka Training

*Pre-requisite for this program is having completed a guided 3 or 4-day/night vision fast within the last five years. This need not have been with the School of Lost Borders.  Please submit an ...

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