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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. 2021 has been a potent year, and the pandemic underscored the importance of connecting with the land and each other during this time.  Although we offered as many programs as we could, we lost income due to Covid-19 which impacted our available scholarship funds.  Our dream is that all who wish to participate are able.

We humbly ask for you to consider making a donation to the School in order to help us meet the needs of the times ahead.

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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

CA Spring Vision Fast

Apr 3 - Apr 14, 2023 Big Pine & Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Scot Deily Vision Fast

Life transitions, like entering adulthood, midlife or elderhood are always "DNA invitations" to go out on the land. The need to become anew is planted deeply into our ancestral bones because it was ...

NM Women’s Vision Fast

May 10 - May 21, 2023 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Emerald North, Petra Lentz-Snow 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 ...

Becoming Human: The Four Shields Model of Nature-Based Therapeutics

May 15 - May 20, 2023 Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Katie Teague Training

The Four Shields model offers us a compass to help us find our way back to our origins on this living planet. This wheel of human nature was handed down to Steven and Meredith in the early days of ...

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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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