Tracey Forest
Biographical Info
For almost 25 years, Tracey Forest (KeyTurner), has been living in sacred communion with the lands that were once Mahican, and now are called Spirit Hollow in SW Vermont's Taconic mountains. This 5,000-acre wilderness area is an ancient, mixed hardwood forest rooted in white quartz is home to barred owls, black bears, porcupines and fisher cats, moose and coyotes, to name a few.
KeyTurner is passionate about helping others step through the doorway into the mystical and the mythical, the sacred and the sublime, the earthy and the erotic, the dark depths and high heights. She is a fearless and compassionate facilitator who has “been to the mountain” and descended into the abyss to lament for the earth, to celebrate the beauty and pain and who knows the rich gifts that lie in the dark to be mined. She stands in the portal, holding a lantern, singing ancient songs, dangling a key, inviting you to step through into the vast landscape of your Soul.
KeyTurner is particularly called to help women and young adults to move from the outworn worlds, across thresholds into yet-too-be-revealed worlds that are coming. She is a deep listener of Earth's dreaming, of the "in-betweens," and a devotee of the underworld, the soul stream, the mythological realms, to deep time, and in particular to the future ones, in service to that which is the holiest of holies, the deepest Source beneath all identities, all spiritualities and all beings.
Co-founding Director of Spirit Hollow, Tracey is a shamanic healer and teacher, yoga teacher and singer of soul-stirring songs. With 32 years of experience guiding others, she is a Certified Level 1 Wild Mind Nature-Based Underworld Guide with the Animas Valley Institute (Wild Mind), and she is currently in final phases of the multi-year Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) with Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute learning the nuances of Soul Initiation Guiding and cultivating more tools to assist in the Wholing and Healing of this broken, beautiful world.
Tracey has been guiding vision fasts for the last 20 years, has done four fasts herself, and knows the incredible power that this ceremony holds to dissolve, rearrange, and shapeshift us into who Earth has dreamed us to be.
At Spirit Hollow, KeyTurner guides a variety of juicy programs for adults, kids, teens and young adults.
Her passion projects are:
Anima Terra: A Yearlong Journey of Descent and Soul Emergence for Women (new group starting October 2024) www.spirithollow.org/offerings/p/anima-terra
Wild Woman Vision Fast
https://www.spirithollow.org/offerings/p/wild-woman-vision-fast
ReEarthing: Coming Home to the Wild Soul
www.spirithollow.org/offerings/p/re-earthing
and Earth Craft Gap Semester for Young Adults
www.spirithollow.org/earth-craft-gap-semester
Email Address [email protected]
City: North Bennington
State VT