Posts by Lost Borders
How to Prepare for Your Vision Fast Ceremony
Most likely you are reading this because you have signed up for a vision fast. Or maybe you are just flirting with the idea, wondering if this crazy business of fasting for four days and nights, alone in nature, is the right thing for you. “What” you may ask, “is the point of putting oneself…
Read MoreSummer 2020 – Solidarity
In this time when a health pandemic sits as the backdrop to a mighty upsurge of action and awareness around the centuries of violent oppression of Black, Brown, Indigenous and other People of Color — our hearts and minds are with the grief and anger for the ongoing suffering of marginalized and oppressed people. The…
Read MorePodcast: Nature and The ‘Me’ Problem with Larry Hobbs
Whether you are digging in the soil or digging in your past, pointing a finger at the moon or contemplating your future, we and the universe are inseparable.
Read MorePaying Homage to the Dark
In other words, while it may be the dark that contains the unexpected, unwanted, and incomprehensible, it is also that which illuminates and grants us the ability to see what is hidden there.
Read MoreMeredith Little
Meredith Little (she/her) and her husband Steven Foster co-founded Rites of Passage Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost Borders in 1981, pioneering new methods and dynamics of modern pan-cultural passage rites in the wilderness and creating innovative practices of “field eco-therapy.” She has dedicated her life to returning meaningful and culturally appropriate rites…
Read MoreBetsy Perluss
Betsy Perluss is a lover of landscape, story, and myth, grew up on Catalina Island, where she was ignited with a passion for wild and unbounded places. She stumbled upon the School of Lost Borders in 1998 and since has been involved as a trainer, board member, and member of the elder’s and guiding councils.…
Read MoreEmerald North
Emerald North, visionary, painter, sculptor, gardener and poet, brings years of vital and vibrant experience to the School of Lost Borders. She teaches from the depth of a full and rich life with humor, vision, and love. Emerald values the personal relationships that are forged through ceremony and aspires to create what a recent participant…
Read MoreJohn Davis
John Davis (he/him) has been leading nature-based rites of passage and related programs since 1984. Over the years, his work in this area has taken various forms, including vision fasts for youth and adults, designing and directing a graduate program in ecopsychology that included wilderness intensives, writing both popular and academic articles and book chapters, and…
Read MoreAngelo Joseph Lazenka
Angelo Joseph Lazenka (he/him) began guiding vision fast in 1984 and often says that the work grew him up and now he is asking it to grow him down into the rich territory of elderhood. He began working as a guide with the School in 1993 and from 2003 through 2018 held a variety of titles…
Read MoreNancy Jane
Nancy Jane (she/her) is an educator, wilderness guide, and councilfacilitator. She began her study of wilderness rites of passage in 1981 andhas been following this calling ever since. Nancy leads youth and adultvision fasts, has pioneered wilderness rites of passage in school settings,and currently also guides quests for Naropa University. Nancy has beenstudying the rich, though…
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