Come back to Earth! Leave behind the confines of the culture of consumerism and find your own wild and authentic self, your place of belonging in community and your purest connection to Gaia.
RE-EARTHING will meet in person for five weekends October through April at Spirit Hollow in SW Vermont.
RE-EARTHING is an six-month journey of connecting to our pure and beautiful humanness, re-wholing fragmented parts deep in our subconscious, being part of a soulful community, and falling in love with Earth, each other and the challenges and opportunities of these times.
ReEarthing is a place where you are welcomed in your raw vulnerability, a place where all emotions are embraced, where self-love is amplified, and perspective and play are celebrated, where you will cross thresholds into the forest and into the depths of your own soul, where inspiration is re-ignited and revered.
Each session will include teachings, deep imagery journeys, council, small group practices, and experiential invitations out on the land and in the forest. We will be offering you many invitations to deepen the work between sessions.
GUIDES: Tracey Forest (KeyTurner) and Jonah Ruh Roberts (Raven)
This program is inspired by Tracey’s and Jonah’s own life-long journeys of healing and re-wholing into passionate love for Earth and Mystery and our human place within it, as well as their intensive guide training with Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute, the teachings of Joanna Macy, and the poets, writers, thinkers and dreamers that collectively inspire a vision of the evolution of humanity.
Over the course of the journey, your nervous system will settle into a deep sense of belonging in yourself and within a supportive and safe community, you will gain access to energy, creativity and passion that may have been locked away since childhood, you will feel more space, self love and joy in your body, mind and spirit, and you will feel the deep possibility of being an active part of maturing our culture into integrity, beauty, wisdom and regeneration.
Practices Include:
Soulcrafting™ – a cross-cultural set of practices developed by Bill Plotkin and guides of the Animas Valley Institute
• soulcentric dreamwork
• self-designed ceremonies
• conversations across the species boundaries
• embodiment exercises (ecstatic dancing, authentic movement and coming into our animal bodies)
• deep imagery journeys
• creation of art and collage
• soulful poetry and music and drumming
• extended periods of time on the land, praising, lamenting, listening
• cultivating relationships with the other-than-human ones
Wild Mind practices (Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche) to learn how to access the Four Facets of Wholeness and work with our sub-personalities or “protective parts” to learn to do self-healing.
• journaling
• deep imagery to facets of wholeness and protective ones
• dialogue work
• four-directions circles
• re-nesting for inner support and unconditional love
• courting one’s inner beloved on the land
• invoking and getting to know the Muse
• shadow work
The Way of Council
Circle process for speaking from the heart, listening from the heart, getting to the heart of the matter and being spontaneous
Guides mirror, reflect and offer invitations periodically to deepen participants’ journey
The Spiral of the Work that Reconnects from Joanna Macy.
• Starting with Gratitude
• Honoring our Pain for the World
• Seeing with New Eyes
• Work with Ancestors and Future Ones in Deep Time
• Going Forth
This program is open to all genders and orientations, cultures and backgrounds. And we are especially calling in men!
YEAR ONE DATES:
September 30 – October 1
November 4 – 5
December 9 -10
January 13 -14 2024
March 2 – 3, 2024
