Contemporary wilderness rites of passage for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.
This time gives us the gift of restoring our fundamental relationship with stillness, the animate world and the nature of being.
In this time together we create a sacred community to be seen and heard, inspired and supported in the inquiry of our unique soul's evolution. As we listen to each other's experience in community counsel, we grow as a human family, finding strength and conviction to be with the discomforts, as we stretch and grow into ever changing expressions of what it is to be adult human being. Learning that nature, other's and ourselves can hold these vulnerable, unmet places and stay present to their reveling and healing. A time of deep communion that nourishes us beyond anything we have know.
Together we can learn how to "live" as an evolving human and to integrate these discoveries into your daily life. Find the courage to bring your voice and heart out into a world that needs your unique gifts.
Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask it permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
— DAVID WAGONER, “LOST”
Ways to Retreat with Me
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Personal Vision Fast
This is sacred time for one-on-one guidance into your soul's calling for time in nature.
This personalized journey can be 3 to 7 Days depending on your desire, and will include a 1 -4 Day Solo Sit.
Private land is available for this time (in Sonoma County, CA or Louisville, KY) . We create the vision fast together to fit your needs.
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Community Vision Fast
We gather together for 9 Days to share a time of vulnerability and courage to listen and look deeply within to discover our soul's calling and touch our deepest heart's desire as a family and unique individual. Enjoying simple time together hiking, making meals and dreaming together the sacred dream of a more beautiful world we know is possible.
Our time begins with three days of preparation at basecamp, cultivating ability to be present, deepening intentions, being with feelings, sharing healthy group meals and locating your “place” for solo time. Journeying out for your 4 Day sit and fast on the land. Completing with two days of integrating what has been experienced and learned and how to “live” this new vision into your daily life.
"We are here to see through the delusion of separation."
Thich Nhat Hahn
