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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

Mid-Winter Vision Fast

Feb 17 - Feb 28, 2025 Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Nick LaHaise Vision Fast

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,  we have come to our real work  and when we no longer know which way to go,  we have begun our real journey.  The mind that is not ...

Walking Into That Good Night: Exploring Our Relationship With Dying & Death

Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2025 Death Valley, CA Katie Teague, Betsy Perluss Living & Dying

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal, To hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it, And when the time comes to let it go, to ...

The Four Shields of Dreams and Dreamwork

Mar 10 - Mar 15, 2025 Death Valley, California Betsy Perluss, Kim Belair Living the Practices

Dreams do not happen in us as is thought of in Western psychology. Instead, we happen in the dream as the dream continues to dream us. This understanding infers that dreams are part of the sacred ...

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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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