Past Programs – School of Lost Borders

Jun 20 - Jul 1, 2026 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Nick LaHaise, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Vision Fast

This Rite of Passage is a ceremonial and utterly real opportunity to define yourself and be thoroughly welcomed into adulthood for exactly who you are. You are our next generation of world leaders ...

Jun 17 - Jul 19, 2026 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Meredith Little, Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair, Angelo Joseph Lazenka 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 ...

Jun 13 - Jun 20, 2026 Inyo Mountains – Big Pine, CA Cynthia Morrow, Scott Eberle Living & Dying

For millennia, indigenous people of all our bloodlines have known "how to die”, with the natural world as our teacher from the beginning of time. Cycles of dying and rebirth are seen everywhere: ...

Jun 6 - Jun 20, 2026 Wild Mountain, Colorado Callum “Bear” Bobb, Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Timotéo(Téo) Ikoshy Montoya II Vision Fast

For over the last decade at the Queer Quest, groups of people from every part of the queer community have gathered on the land to celebrate our stories and step into the fullness of our queer ...

May 23 - May 30, 2026 Southwest Colorado Marlena deCarion, Ken Crocker Living the Practices

Direct and immediate contact with the wilder natural world is an ancient and profound doorway to inner awakening. It naturally invites an attitude of awareness, curiosity, belonging, and ...

May 18 - May 25, 2026 Coastal Hills North of San Francisco, California Scott Eberle, Paul Browde, Sam Balka, Michael Towne Living the Practices

Queer people don’t grow up as ourselves, we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimise humiliation & prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to ...

May 11 - May 22, 2026 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Kim Belair, Emerald North Vision Fast

An Invitation to Step Into Your Own Becoming At certain moments in a woman’s life, something deeper calls. A quiet but undeniable knowing begins to stir — a desire to step beyond the familiar ...

Apr 6 - Apr 17, 2026 Big Pine & Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Scot Deily Vision Fast

Life transitions, like entering adulthood, midlife or elderhood are DNA invitations to go out on the land. The need to shed and decompose what is no longer true so that we can become anew is ...

Mar 10 - Mar 21, 2026 Lemoigne Canyon, Death Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

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 ...

Mar 1 - Mar 7, 2026 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 ...

Feb 16 - Feb 27, 2026 Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Nick LaHaise Vision Fast

Deep within we know. No matter how much dissociation and trauma we may carry, we still know. We know in our bones when life has grown stale and the skin around us begins to itch and crack. ...

Nov 4 - Nov 15, 2025 Palm Canyon Campground, Anza Borrego, Ca Betsy Perluss, Cynthia Morrow, Bettina Straub Vision Fast

“I see the Feminine defined as a reconnection to the Self, a commitment to the wildness within our instincts, our capacityto create and destroy; our hunger for connection as well as sovereignty, ...

Oct 24 - Nov 4, 2025 Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach 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 ...

Oct 20 - Oct 26, 2025 Aravaipa Canyon Ranch and Retreat Center, Winkelman Arizona Silvia Talavera, Trebbe Johnson Living the Practices

“We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and scattered.” Kahlil Gibran This will be celebrating ...

Oct 20 - Oct 31, 2025 Lemoigne Canyon, Death Valley. CA Angelo Joseph Lazenka, Meredith Little Living & Dying

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 ...

Oct 19 - Jun 4, 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 ...

Oct 11 - Oct 19, 2025 Eureka Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

All is a circle within me.I have gone into the earth and out again.I have gone to the edge of the sky.Now all is at peace within me.Now all has a place to come home.—Nancy WoodThroughout time and ...

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2025 Catalina State Park - Tucson, Arizona Silvia Talavera, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Living & Dying

" If you would behold the spirit of death, Open your heart wide unto the body of life. For your life and death are one, Even as the river and sea are one." Kahlil Gibran Life is the ...

Sep 29 - Oct 12, 2025 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Bettina Straub Vision Fast

As the aspen leaves turn golden, we gather on the welcoming land we call Wild Mountain—beneath billions of stars and held by the rich community of beings who share this home. Rooting into the fall ...

Sep 28 - Oct 3, 2025 Big Pine, CA Betsy Perluss, Kim Belair Training

Telling one’s own story is an ancient art. Nowadays, we have forgotten how to listen and how to tell. Yet the very survival of our species depends on our ability to communicate with each other in ...

Sep 15 - Sep 26, 2025 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Emerald North, Scot Deily Vision Fast

The land knows you, even when you are lost. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer In increasing times of unrest and uncertainty it can be a common human experience to gravitate towards more “certainty” ...

Sep 13 - Sep 20, 2025 Big Pine and Eureka Valley Petra Lentz-Snow, Taos Malaya, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Programs, Training

This program is currently full and now waitlist only. To be added to the waitlist, please use this link and fill out the application ...

Sep 6 - Sep 21, 2025 Wild Mountain, Colorado Angelo Joseph Lazenka, Kelly McClelland Training

In these times of change and uncertainty, it is crucial that we show up for our community in ways that truly serve. The world is calling us to listen in new and old ways to connect with the land and ...

Aug 20 - Aug 24, 2025 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Scot Deily Training

Who is this miracle speaking to me? And who is this miracle listening? What amazingness are we creating? Out of gray matter a star spark of thought leaps between synapses into the air, and ...

Aug 11 - Aug 23, 2025 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Vision Fast

The modern day vision quest is a border crossing practice, an opportunity to reclaim our true place in the natural world. When one steps across the threshold and into the unknown wilderness, ...

Jul 26 - Aug 9, 2025 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair Programs, Training

This program is currently full and now waitlist only. To be added to the waitlist, use this link and fill out the application form. We are excited to offer the Two Week Training Curriculum in a ...

Jul 21 - Aug 1, 2025 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Colleen Bishop, tbird (Thompson) Bishop Vision Fast

In increasing times of unrest and uncertainty it can be a common human experience to gravitate towards more “certainty” rather than less. Yet, in the Zen tradition “not knowing” is most ...

Jul 6 - Jul 15, 2025 Dragonback Springs near Saguache, CO Bettina Straub, Nancy Jane Vision Fast

- Remembering Ourselves Home - You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jun 15 - Jun 29, 2025 Wild Mountain, Colorado Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Callum “Bear” Bobb Vision Fast

The natural world reminds us that being Queer* is both beautiful and something to be celebrated! Showing up as who we are, and with our many gifts, is a celebration of nature’s diversity and honors ...

Jun 7 - Jun 14, 2025 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Collin Brown, Paul Browde Living the Practices

Queer people don’t grow up as ourselves, we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimise humiliation & prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to ...

May 27 - Jun 7, 2025 Big Pine, California Sam DeBoskey, Scott Davidson Vision Fast

The world is changing fast… and we must do our best to keep up. We now face unprecedented waves of transformation. The blossoming and decay of our modern ways is calling attention to fundamental ...

May 17 - May 24, 2025 Windhorse Village, Colorado John Davis, Marlena deCarion, Ken Crocker Living the Practices

We know this: direct and intimate contact with the natural world is an open doorway to our core aliveness, our yet-to-be healed wounds, our evolutionary growth, and our mysterious depths. Our ...

Apr 22 - May 3, 2025 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 ...

Apr 15 - Apr 26, 2025 Eureka Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

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 ...

Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2025 Catalina State Park - Tucson, Arizona Silvia Talavera, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Training

“Stories are a form of medicine that can operate at the deepest levels of self and soul.” Michael Meade Telling one’s own story is an ancient art. Nowadays, we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2024 Catalina State Park - Tucson, Arizona Silvia Talavera, Kelly McClelland Living the Practices

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot ...

Nov 5 - Nov 16, 2024 Death Valley, California Betsy Perluss, Cynthia Morrow Vision Fast

“I see the Feminine defined as a reconnection to the Self, a commitment to the wildness within our instincts, our capacityto create and destroy; our hunger for connection as well as sovereignty, ...

Oct 24 - Nov 4, 2024 Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach 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 ...

Oct 21 - Nov 1, 2024 Death Valley, California Meredith Little, Angelo Joseph Lazenka Living & Dying

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 ...

Oct 5 - Oct 13, 2024 Eureka Valley, California *ONE LAST SPOT LEFT* Scott Eberle, Silvia Talavera, Bettina Straub Living the Practices

The very transparent, unfixed, yet alive quality of consciousness is its nature, a bit like air around us. If you relax and allow this experience of unfixed knowing, you will discover what ...

Sep 29 - Oct 4, 2024 Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Training

“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 ...

Sep 28 - Oct 11, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Kelly McClelland Vision Fast

Fall is a potent season, the leaves change, the nights lengthen, and the composting of all that is overripe begins. It is a time of harvest and a time of shedding. We begin to draw inward, to ...

Sep 21 - Oct 5, 2024 Big Pine & Eureka Valley, California Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Angelo Joseph Lazenka Training

In these times of change and uncertainty, it is crucial that we show up for our community in ways that truly serve. The world is calling us to listen in new and old ways to connect with the land and ...

Sep 16 - Sep 27, 2024 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Emerald North, Scot Deily Vision Fast

The land knows you, even when you are lost. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer In increasing times of unrest and uncertainty it can be a common human experience to gravitate towards more “certainty” ...

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2024 Payahuunadü (Big Pine) and Eureka Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Yeshe Salz Living & Dying

We are living in a time of rapid change, disintegration and emergence on planet Earth - what many call apocalyptic times. From the compounding and inequitable crises of climate change and ...

Sep 8 - Sep 13, 2024 Big Pine, CA Betsy Perluss, Angelo Joseph Lazenka Training

Telling one’s own story is an ancient art. Nowadays, we have forgotten how to listen and how to tell. Yet the very survival of our species depends on our ability to communicate with each other in ...

Aug 19 - Aug 23, 2024 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Scot Deily Training

Who is this miracle speaking to me? And who is this miracle listening? What amazingness are we creating? Out of gray matter a star spark of thought leaps between synapses into the air, and ...

Aug 16 - Aug 25, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Nancy Jane, Bettina Straub Vision Fast

- Remembering Ourselves Home - You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of ...

Aug 6 - Aug 12, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Nancy Jane, Bettina Straub Living the Practices

When we heal our roots, we open up new possibilities for our future. --Thomas Hubl Ancestral Trauma Welcome to our investigation of ancestral trauma. We hold this as a sacred exploration of ...

Aug 5 - Aug 17, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Betsy Perluss Vision Fast

The modern day vision quest is a border crossing practice, an opportunity to reclaim our true place in the natural world. When one steps across the threshold and into the unknown wilderness, ...

Jul 27 - Aug 3, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Praveen Mantena Training

This program is run by Wild Mountain Retreats and bookable direct on their website This program is open to all who identify as Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC). Many of whom have ...

Jul 17 - Jul 28, 2024 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Colleen Bishop, tbird (Thompson) Bishop Vision Fast

In your bones you hear the singing of your sacred ancestors. You follow in their footsteps. You go alone, with an empty belly and a bare minimum of equipment, into the heart of the wilderness, for ...

Jul 9 - Jul 21, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Sam DeBoskey Vision Fast

Being a man can be easy, and not easy at all. How do people who identify as a man navigate both the immense privileges that come with maleness, and the weight of myths that come with being a man. ...

Jul 8 - Jul 19, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair Vision Fast

Since time immemorial Rites of Passage Ceremonies have facilitated change, offering a simple but indispensable container to transition from one life stage to another, to let go of (die to) the old ...

Jul 8 - Jul 13, 2024 Owens Valley, CA Meredith Little Living & Dying

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. —Nelson Mandela Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the ...

Jun 22 - Jun 29, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado John Davis, Marlena deCarion, Ken Crocker Living the Practices

Direct and intimate contact with the natural world is an ancient and profound doorway to being. Our ancestors knew this, and we are rediscovering it. Curiosity, experiential inquiry, mindfulness, ...

Jun 13 - Jun 24, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Nick LaHaise, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Vision Fast

You are a young person in this world, with childhood behind you, no longer a teenager, you have aged into the phase of young adulthood. Are you an adult? How? When? Why? What does being an ...

Jun 13 - Jun 24, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Nick LaHaise, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Vision Fast

You are a young person in this world, with childhood behind you, no longer a teenager, you have aged into the phase of young adulthood. Are you an adult? How? When? Why? What does being an ...

Jun 12 - Jul 14, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Betsy Perluss, Angelo Joseph Lazenka, Petra Lentz-Snow, Meredith Little, Kim Belair Training

*Pre-requite for this program is having completed a guided 3 or 4-day/night vision fast. Need not have been with the School of Lost Borders. For forty years the School of Lost Borders has offered ...

Jun 8 - Jun 15, 2024 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Collin Brown, Paul Browde Living the Practices

Queer people don’t grow up as ourselves, we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimise humiliation & prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to ...

Jun 8 - Jun 21, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Callum “Bear” Bobb Vision Fast

The natural world reminds us that being Queer* is both beautiful and something to be celebrated! Showing up as who we are, and with our many gifts, is a celebration of nature's diversity and honors ...

Jun 6 - Jun 10, 2024 Four Springs Retreat Center, CA John Davis, Marlena deCarion Living the Practices

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Jun 3 - Jun 16, 2024 Wild Mountain, Colorado Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Meiko Xavier, Raei Bridges Vision Fast

The natural world reminds us that being Queer* is both beautiful and something to be celebrated! Showing up as who we are, and with our many gifts, is a celebration of nature's diversity and honors ...

May 18 - May 25, 2024 Wildlands in the San Francisco Bay Area Scott Eberle, Logan Falley Training

ONE SPOT REMAINING! Reclaiming the Divine Masculine A Program for Men in this Modern Age For the longest time, patriarchal beliefs and proscribed gender roles have discouraged men from ...

May 13 - May 24, 2024 Cochiti Lake and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Emerald North, Cori Wright 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 ...

May 3 - May 10, 2024 Big Pine, California Sam DeBoskey, Yamin Chehin Training

“There is a world behind the world we see that is the same world but more open, more transparent, without blocks. Like inside a big mind, the animals and humans all can talk, and those who pass ...

Apr 8 - Apr 19, 2024 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 ...

Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2024 Death Valley, CA Meredith Little Living & Dying

A place to stay untouched by death Does not exist. It does not exist in space, it does not exist in the ocean, Nor if you stay in the middle of a mountain. - The Buddha "Awareness of death is ...

Mar 12 - Mar 23, 2024 Death Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

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 ...

Mar 2 - Mar 9, 2024 Death Valley, California Betsy Perluss, Kim Belair Living the Practices

A dream comes from the same source as a tree or a wild pig—Nature itself. —Marie-Louise von Franz Dreams are like the mycelium of the psyche, birthed from an underground network of ancient ...

Feb 19 - Mar 1, 2024 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 ...

Nov 7 - Nov 19, 2023 Death Valley, California Betsy Perluss, Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Kelly McClelland Vision Fast

Like the waxing and waning of the moon, our inner essence is reflected in the creative forces of nature, in the continual movement of light and dark. Throughout the stages of our lives, we flow ...

Oct 24 - Nov 4, 2023 Death Valley, California Petra Lentz-Snow, Kim Belair 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 ...

Oct 23 - Nov 3, 2023 Death Valley, California Meredith Little, Angelo Joseph Lazenka Living & Dying

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 ...

Oct 8 - Oct 15, 2023 Aravaipa Canyon Ranch and Retreat Center - Winkelman, Arizona (extra cost for accommodations apply) Silvia Talavera, Cary Gaunt Living the Practices

“We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and scattered.” Kahlil Gibran Throughout the ages, elder women ...

Oct 7 - Oct 15, 2023 Eureka Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

All is a circle within me.I have gone into the earth and out again.I have gone to the edge of the sky.Now all is at peace within me.Now all has a place to come home.—Nancy WoodThroughout time and ...

Oct 7 - Oct 19, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Kelly McClelland Vision Fast

As the leaves change, a different way of life is tugging at your heart. A new story is begging to be told. And your gifts are longing to be shared with the world. Marking life passages allows you ...

Sep 25 - Sep 30, 2023 Big Pine, CA Betsy Perluss, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach Training

Telling one's own story is an ancient art. Nowadays, we have forgotten how to listen and how to tell. Yet the very survival of our species depends on our ability to communicate with each other in ...

Sep 17 - Sep 23, 2023 Big Pine and Eureka Valley Petra Lentz-Snow, Gretchen (Grae) Gerlach, Kim Belair Training

Patrilinear hierarchical systems have pushed life on earth to the raw edge of social and ecological sustainability. Many of us feel the global crisis reverberating acutely in our own bodies, in the ...

Sep 2 - Sep 17, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado Ruth “Roo” Wharton, Pedro McMillan Training

This training gives students an immersion in a rite of passage ceremony, including the skills involved in leading the vision fast and an understanding of how the principles of rites of passage can ...

Aug 23 - Aug 29, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado Nancy Jane, Bettina Straub Living the Practices

When we heal our roots, we open up new possibilities for our future. --Thomas Hubl Ancestral Trauma The stories in our lineage are part of who we are today, but much of their influence remains ...

Aug 23 - Aug 27, 2023 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Scot Deily Training

Who is this miracle speaking to me? And who is this miracle listening? What amazingness are we creating? Out of gray matter a star spark of thought leaps between synapses into the air, and ...

Aug 10 - Aug 19, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado Nancy Jane, Bettina Straub Vision Fast

Intergenerational Women’s Vision Fast - Remembering Ourselves Home - To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than ...

Jul 31 - Aug 12, 2023 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Silvia Talavera Vision Fast

The modern day vision quest is a border crossing practice, an opportunity to reclaim our true place in the natural world. When one steps across the threshold and into the unknown wilderness, ...

Jul 26 - Aug 6, 2023 Dragonback Springs Ranch, Colorado Emerald North, Colleen Bishop, tbird (Thompson) Bishop Vision Fast

In your bones you hear the singing of your sacred ancestors. You follow in their footsteps. You go alone, with an empty belly and a bare minimum of equipment, into the heart of the wilderness, for ...

Jun 24 - Jul 1, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado John Davis, Marlena deCarion Living the Practices

Direct and intimate contact with the natural world is an ancient and profound doorway to being. Our ancestors knew this, and we are rediscovering it. Curiosity, experiential inquiry, mindfulness, ...

Jun 6 - Jun 18, 2023 Wild Mountain, Colorado Pedro McMillan, Ruth “Roo” Wharton Vision Fast

The natural world reminds us that being Queer* is both beautiful and something to be celebrated! Showing up as who we are, and with our many gifts, is a celebration of nature’s diversity and honors ...

Jun 3 - Jun 10, 2023 Inyo Mountains - Big Pine, California Scott Eberle, Collin Brown, Paul Browde Living the Practices

Queer people don’t grow up as ourselves, we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimise humiliation & prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to ...

May 20 - Jun 1, 2023 Big Pine, California Sam DeBoskey, Scott Davidson Vision Fast

The world is changing fast… and we must do our best to keep up. We now face unprecedented waves of transformation. The blossoming and decay of our modern ways is calling attention to fundamental ...

May 17 - May 21, 2023 CA John Davis, Marlena deCarion Vision Fast

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mar 13 - Mar 18, 2023 Mesquite Springs campground, Death Valley Meredith Little Living & Dying

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. —Nelson Mandela Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the ...

Mar 7 - Mar 18, 2023 Death Valley, California Scott Eberle, Cynthia Morrow Living & Dying

Please note: The Ballcourt ceremony is considered an “advanced program” in the Practice of Living & Dying (PLD) curriculum and is the only one in the series that has a prerequisite. Read ...

Feb 13 - Feb 24, 2023 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 ...

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