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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

Ceremonial Immersion (across 2 years 2025-2026)

Jun 3 - Oct 19, 2026 Various Locations Emerald North, Scot Deily, Colleen Bishop, tbird (Thompson) Bishop Training

Only a few last places remain... Hope is not a word in my vocabulary, I have to tell you. Faith is…There is beauty in erosion. And that has been evolving over time. So I think it takes us to our ...

CA Month-Long Training

Jun 18 - Jul 20, 2025 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Angelo Joseph Lazenka, Meredith Little, Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair 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 ...

BIPOC Mirroring Training: Reflecting BIPOC Stories through Nature and Belonging

Jul 5 - Jul 13, 2025 Wild Mountain, Colorado Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Praveen Mantena Training

This program is run by Wild Mountain Retreats and bookable direct on their website (please note- as of May 23rd the program is full) This program is open to all who identify as Black, Indigenous, ...

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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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