A Light in the Dark – Forgiveness and Apology in a Wounded World
This program invites us to meet the trials of our times with courage and
honesty. In an era of upheaval and fear, we ask: How do we source our own light in the dark? To do so, we must tend to the personal wounds that shape our relationships and the world around us. Through the Death Lodge practice, we reflect on what remains unfinished in our lives. Guided by the wisdom of the modern hospice movement and the Four Shields, we gather in councils, teachings, nature walks, and a 24-hour solo, exploring the grace of forgiveness and apology.
CA Spring Vision Fast
The twelve day ceremony involves four days of preparation, four days and nights of fasting alone, and four days of incorporation. The prep and post fast portions of the program will be held in the Owen’s Valley (Payahüünadü), at Baker Creek Campground, and the solo threshold phase of the ceremony will take place in Death Valley National Park (Tüpippüh Valley).
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CO Women’s Fast – Remembering Ourselves Home
What is waiting to be known and honored in your life? Together, we remember a more intuitive, embodied way of being—one that honors the transitions we face and the wisdom they bring. As we step into the threshold of change, we release what we have outgrown and attune to what is emerging within us. By pausing, listening, and surrendering to the rhythms of the Earth, we reconnect with our inner knowing, restore what has been forgotten, and return with a gift back to our communities.
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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 intimate. The natural world reminds us of this intimacy and offers us refuge. There is something waiting to find us but in order to be found…we sometimes must first admit we are “lost”…
Read MoreMid-Winter 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. We know when our restless desire to break free, to open, to come out, to wake up no…
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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, boundaries begin to dissolve and our vision begins to expand. The threshold place is a dreamscape, where we can hear, again, the voices…
Read MoreYoung Adults Nature Based Rite of Passage
You are our next generation of world leaders and stewards, our next generation of teachers and care-givers, of artists and scientists, of land tenders and culture curators. You will inherit a planet in immense and immediate need for your unique brilliance.
How are you being supported, right now, to explore your authenticity, to discover your purpose, to cultivate your gifts, to realize your belonging, to be prepared to inherit your future and to be recognized as an adult?
Read MoreCA 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 me toward the threshold? A descent, incubation, or an emergence? Is this a time of letting go or a time to reclaim? What do I offer in service to the greater?
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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 adult mean to you? Who are you at your core? What are your gifts, your callings, your contributions to…
Read MoreMid-Winter 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 baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ~ Wendell Berry…
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