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SUMMARY:Boulder Mountain Mens Fast
DESCRIPTION:To belong to the way of Man is a matter of no small consequence. What does it mean to be a man in a world where we have almost no role models\, no mentors\, no helpful guides for a beautiful masculinity in service to Life? What does it mean to be a man in a world where men have done horrible\, horrible things to this planet and all her precious creatures for thousands of years? What does it mean to have come into this world with a tremendous capacity for creation and destruction\, and no guidance for what to do with this power? What does it mean to be a man in a world where even the concepts of masculinity and femininity are being scrutinized\, weighed\, tested\, and found wanting? \nThe Boulder Mountain Mens Fast is a space to open up some big questions around what it might mean to be a man in the world and begin to tend the deep wounds that lie therein. This is a ceremony open to anyone willing to take accountability for their experience of masculinity in a community of men. This is an initiation into a wild and beautiful masculinity\, one which has the courage to meet our inherited cultural poverty and shame with profound courage and compassion. \nNo prior experience with fasting or ceremony is necessary\, only a sincere desire to take accountability for belonging to the story of masculinity and a willingness to show up as the most courageous version of yourself. \nLayout of the 12-day ceremony\nWe will be gathering at a basecamp on Boulder Mountain for four days of preparation and working with intention\, transition to four days of ceremony in the tradition of the vision fast\, and a return to the basecamp for four days of working with the stories that have been born and learning how to integrate them into the fabric of Life. For those unfamiliar with the vision fast\, it is a pancultural model of initiation that has been remembered\, carefully tended\, and lovingly offered to our culture by the School of Lost Borders (https://schooloflostborders.org/) over the past forty years. The ceremony will consist of four days of solo time in the wilderness while fasting from food\, human companionship\, and most everything else you have been using to distract yourself from the deep longing that has been tugging at your chest – the wild call of your soul. \nWe will be following backcountry Covid protocols throughout the duration of the ceremony\, which unfortunately includes cooking meals individually or in pods of folks who are comfortable sharing physical space. \nDreamwork\nWorking with the dreamworld is integrated into all Oak and Bone School fasts. In addition to an invitation to begin tracking dreams during the time leading up to the fast\, there will be a dream tent available each morning for those who wish to engage in dreamwork. \nReciprocation\nThe Oak and Bone School operates on a gift economy. For more details on what this means\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/soul-of-gift\nor contact tamarix for more details. \nParticipation is limited to eight humans and one cat. Please RSVP by June 1st.\nFor questions\, details\, or to RSVP\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/apply-1\nor contact tamarix at\nthetamarixproject@gmail.com
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/boulder-mountain-mens-fast/
LOCATION:Boulder Mountain\, Utah\, Boulder\, UT\, 84716\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oak and Bone School":MAILTO:tamarix@theoakandboneschool.com
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SUMMARY:Beholding the Stories of the World: a ceremonial remembrance
DESCRIPTION:As bees are the reproductive organs of flowering plants\,\nmight humans be the song and story organs of the world\,\ncarrying the pollen grains of story around as we fall hopelessly in love\nwith the nectar of life\, moving from flower to flower? \n​We might. \nIn the long ago\, Humans were given the gift of language\, the gift of story\, so that we might behold the world in all its mystery and beauty and wonder. While most of us have forgotten this\, and have been using this gift for all manner of absurd and frightening purposes\, there are a few who have never forgotten – the poets and bards\, the song and story-carriers of the world. \nIn the long ago\, Humans were given the gift of story so that we might bear witness to the inexhaustible beauty of the world. With our throats and our hands and our brilliant minds\, we were asked to give this beauty back\, to sing the songs of Life back to itself\, to feed the soul of the world with poetry\, song\, dance\, with wild beauty. We were asked to tend the world with our eloquence\, our imagination\, our capacity for grief and praise. We were asked to Behold the elegance of the world with the fullest limits of our humanness. We were asked to be artists. \nThe power of language and story is our species’ unique way of being in the world\, and it is a powerful magic indeed. What if we were to take accountability for this gift\, for this power\, and use it for honoring and celebrating the world? What if we were to allow ourselves to truly see the beauty of the world\, and be seen in turn? What might happen? \nBeholding the Stories of the World is an eight day journey into a world of very real magic and wonder\, a world in which you are an integral part of the story of the world\, and what you do with your gifts – your art\, your magic – matters greatly to the entire fabric of Life. \nWho is this for?\nThis ceremony is for poets\, bards\, vagabonds and miscreants\, brush-and-pen-wielders\, pot-shapers\, spoon-carvers and basket-weavers\, song-keepers and myth-tellers\, minstrels and wastrels and artists of all breeds and persuasions. Throughout the ceremony\, you will be asked to take accountability for your role as a human and as an artist. You will be asked to witness the beauty of the world\, and be witnessed in turn. You will remember why your people were given these gifts so long ago\, and why you are carrying them now. \nWe are playing in the sandbox of what it might mean to live in an animate world – exploring the possibilities\, potentialities\, and limits of what is possible when a group of humans come together to open their ears\, eyes and hearts to the songs and dreams of the wild world. \nWhat will we be doing?\nWe will be gathering\, camping\, and cooking together at a basecamp on Boulder Mountain\, and venturing into the surrounding wilderness in a series of ceremonies designed to bring us into immediate contact with the nonhuman world. The week will be weaving back and forth from solo wilderness time and community story-telling\, art-creating\, and witnessing time. \nThis sounds a lot like Mirroring\nFor those unfamiliar with this term\, Mirroring is an essential part of a rite-of-passage ceremony\, a way of witnessing\, celebrating\, and midwifing stories into the world. Mirroring is an act of tending the rich soils of death and life – compassionately holding the hand of that which is dying in us\, as well as welcoming the beautiful story which is struggling to emerge into this strange and terrifying world. \nBeholding is a child in the lineage of Mirroring\, taken a few steps deeper into an animate world. Beholding is applying the magic of mirroring to the nonhuman world\, as humans are not the only beings whose stories need to be held\, witnessed\, and loved. \nDo I need prior experience with ceremony\, mirroring\, or poetry?\nThis is a more advanced version of our Beholding the Human Story ceremony\, and so prior experience with ceremony\, mirroring\, and beholding is helpful and indeed necessary to be able to fully engage with the particular magic that we are working with. \nWhat about reciprocity?\nThe Oak and Bone School operates on a gift economy. For more details on what this means\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/soul-of-gift\nor contact tamarix for more details. \nParticipation is limited to ten humans. Please RSVP by June 1st.\nFor questions\, details\, or to RSVP\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/apply-1\nor contact tamarix at\ntamarix@theoakiandboneschool.com
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/beholding-the-stories-of-the-world-a-ceremonial-remembrance/
LOCATION:Boulder Mountain\, Utah\, Boulder\, UT\, 84716\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guide Training Program
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SUMMARY:Beholding the Human Story: a mirroring training and ceremonial remembrance
DESCRIPTION:As a Ravens wing implies the expansiveness of an open sky\, a Trouts slippery skin implies a cold mountain creek\, and an Acorn implies an Oak tree\, so do the particular textures\, nuances\, and absurdities of the Human experience imply a world of sensual play\, profound mystery\, and ecstatic wonder.  \nWhat if there was a world in which the story of Human made sense? What if there was a world in which you – your body\, your wondrous senses\, your fears and joys\, your oddities and eccentricities\, the outer bounds and inner limits of your human experience – made sense? What a wondrous thing. And not only that\, but what if such a world was waiting for you to witness the stories of those whom you share this world with – to behold the beauty of the world – and be witnessed in turn? \nWe came into this world expecting to be met with deep connection and intimacy\, to fall in love with Life\, to be celebrated for our gifts\, our art\, and be asked to give our art back to the world. Beholding the Human Story is a ceremonial remembrance into a world where our stories belong to the world that birthed us and where our capacity to fall in love with and behold the beauty of other beings – Human and nonhuman alike – is radically important to our souls and to the Soul of the World.  \nWho is this for? \nThis ceremony is designed to be accessible to all varieties of Human. No prior experience with ceremony is necessary. We only ask for a willingness to show up with the most courageous and compassionate parts of yourself. All other parts of you are welcome as well. \nWhat will we be doing?\nWe will be gathering\, camping\, and cooking together at a basecamp on Boulder Mountain\, and venture into the surrounding wilderness for several ceremonial walks into the land. Upon return\, we will share our stories with our community\, as well as learning to trust our own ways of witnessing the stories of others. \nNature awareness/embodiment activities such as tracking\, bird language\, and night-walks will be integrated into the week.  \nHow is this different from a Mirroring Training? \nBeholding the Human Story is our way of inviting folks into the magical and wondrous terrain of ceremony and the particular way of holding stories known as “Mirroring” to folks coming from the Vision Fast lineage. Our offering differs from a Mirroring Training in a few ways – rather than rooting our teachings in the “Four Shields” cosmology which is traditional to this teaching\, we are working from the assumption that the magic of Mirroring/Beholding is innate to all humans\, and each human has their own way of tracking this intelligence – of bearing witness to and falling in love with the world. Our way of guiding others into this terrain is also inextricably somatic – we will be tracking\, dancing\, singing\, and embodying our way through the week.  \nFor those unfamiliar with this term\, Mirroring is an essential part of a rite-of-passage ceremony\, a way of witnessing\, celebrating\, and midwifing stories into the world. Mirroring is tending the rich soils of death and life – compassionately holding the hand of that which is dying\, as well as welcoming the impossibly beautiful creature which is struggling to emerge into this strange and terrifying world and tenderly weaving it into the fabric of Life. \nWhat about reciprocity?\nThe Oak and Bone School operates on a gift economy. For more details on what this means\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/soul-of-gift\nor contact tamarix for more details.  \nParticipation is limited to ten humans. Please apply by April 1st.\nFor questions\, details\, or to apply\, please follow this link: https://www.theoakandboneschool.com/apply-1\nor contact tamarix at\ntamarix@theoakandboneschool.com
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/beholding-the-human-story-a-mirroring-training-and-ceremonial-remembrance/
LOCATION:Boulder Mountain\, Utah\, Boulder\, UT\, 84716\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guide Training Program
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