Betsy 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. Betsy aspires to live a life informed by the wisdom of the land, the mystery of initiatory rites, and the symbolic landscape of dreams. She is an accepting, down-to-earth guide who brings a mix of sacred and profane, gravity and playfulness to her work.
Betsy is a psychotherapist and certified Jungian Analyst. She splits her time between Grass Valley on the Sierra Nevada’s western slopes and the Owens Valley’s eastside, traditionally known as Payahuunadü, the “land of flowing water.”
Email: [email protected]
For more about Betsy and her writing, please visit her website at betsyperluss.com or her blog at www.psycheandnature.com
GUIDE'S UPCOMING PROGRAMS
CA Month-Long 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 application to Betsy before enrolling or paying a deposit. You should email Betsy at…
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Becoming Human: The Four Shields Model of Nature-Based Therapeutics
“If there were a measure of ‘mental health’, it would involve the ability of individuals to grow into the fullness of each season – that is, the ability to fully become, or enact, the contents of each shield.” – Steven Foster and Meredith Little All…
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The Great Ballcourt Initiation – Fall Fast
Death is the ultimate agent of transformation—be it a physical death or “the little deaths” encountered throughout life. Indigenous cultures developed rituals to aid and guide people through these stages of change and renewal, utilizing the power of death to enhance and intensify these experiences….
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CA Women’s Vision Fast
Perhaps you are one of the many women called to this ceremony. Maybe it is time to move deeper into the questions: What is asked of me? How do you source myself? How do I recognize the ancient myths guiding my life? What is drawing...
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Becoming Human: The Four Shields Model of Nature-Based Therapeutics
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 Lost Borders and has become essential...
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Walking Into That Good Night: Exploring Our Relationship With Dying & Death
Physical death is the ultimate rite of passage that we are preparing for on some level throughout our life. Sometimes this “preparing” looks like denial; sometimes sudden illness or life-threats surprise us into looking squarely at the inevitable truth. The more consciously we can turn...
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CA Month-Long 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 application to Betsy before enrolling or paying a deposit. You should email Betsy at…
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Dark Nature: The Initiatory Descent into the West
Dark Nature is a seven-day initiatory immersion into the West—the season of descent, endings, and inward turning. Together we explore how life initiates us through loss, disruption, and change, and how meeting these passages consciously shapes our character and capacity to love. Through daily council,...
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The Great Ballcourt Initiation – Fall Fast
Death is the ultimate agent of transformation—be it a physical death or “the little deaths” encountered throughout life. Indigenous cultures developed rituals to aid and guide people through these stages of change and renewal, utilizing the power of death to enhance and intensify these experiences.
Read More...
CA Women’s Vision Fast
Perhaps you are one of the many women called to this ceremony. Maybe it is time to move deeper into the questions: What is asked of me? How do you source myself? How do I recognize the ancient myths guiding my life? What is drawing...
Read More...