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SUMMARY:Earth Craft Gap Semester
DESCRIPTION:FALL 2024\nEarth Craft — a place-based semester program for 18-26 year-olds — is an initiatory program rooted in the living earth and dedicated to cultivating natural and soul-centric living\, focusing on practical life skills\, holistic health and authentic embodiment. This experiential learning immersion takes place in the Taconic Mountains in the southwest corner of Vermont and New York on the shared lands of Spirit Hollow and Pompanuck Farm. \nDuring our eight weeks together at Earth Craft\, we will collectively re-create culture and build a soulful\, place-based and eco-centric community in complete microcosm. We will actively be the change that we wish to see and that both earth and our ailing society are desperately calling for\, right here and now\, with the tools we have\, without waiting for ideal conditions or permission from any external authority. \nA community of 18-26 year-olds will live together in land-based community while being mentored by seasoned guides in permaculture\, soulcraft\, wholing and self-healing\, embodied arts\, natural living\, wilderness skills and more to nurture reciprocal relationships with themselves\, the human and more-than-human worlds. \nTogether\, we will reimagine and recreate a life-enhancing\, genuinely healthy culture: one in which youth are supported in eco-centric human development by initiated adults. Together\, through hands-on\, nature-based\, soul-centric work and experiments in ecological living\, participants will gain tools with which to live meaningfully in these unprecedented times. \nWe will focus on FOUR AREAS:\n1-INDIVIDUAL UNFOLDMENT\nWe cannot show up for our people\, the earth or our own deepest calling without learning how to tend to our own bodies and minds. Time will be spent on wholing and self healing (using Wild Mind Models)\, and we will venture out into the inner and outer wildlands listening both deeply to the dreaming of the earth and to the whispers of our own soul’s calling. We will enter the wild and listen to our dreams\, uncover and follow emerging threads of our soul images and numinous encounters.\n–>Individual Body/Mind Soul/Spirit (Meditation; Connected Movement Yoga/Qi Gong; Wild Mind Work/Tools of Emotional Resillience; Individual Reflection and Inquiry/The Journey of Self-Discovery; Nature-based Physical Activity) \n–>Soulcraft/Actualization/Life Purpose (Soul-centric Dreamwork; Soulcrafting –Animas Valley Institute style–; Solitude in Nature\, including a Vision Fast ceremony; Development of Personal Mythos/Storytelling; SoulCentric/EarthCentric Artistry: Expressive and Ritual Arts \n2-SOUL-CENTRIC COMMUNITY\nBy taking up the ways of respectful communication\, deep sharing\, working collaboratively\, resolving conflict and creating shared vision\, we will learn to share life together. We will need practical skills that keep the fabric of the village alive and well\, ensuring that our people are fed and healthy\, with proper shelter. Each of us will have the opportunity to follow our own calling and find our niche in how we particularly support the village.\n–>Practical Skills (cooking\, carpentry\, permaculture\, natural building\, herbalism) \n–>Community Living Tools (Sharing chores\, cleaning\, and house upkeep; Self-governance strategies–councils and check-ins\nPlanning\, shopping and cooking meals together-Collaboration/Co-visioning and Conscious Culture Creation; The Way of Council; Non-Violent Communication and Conflict Resolution) \n3-OTHER-THAN HUMAN COMMUNITY\nIn order to be in right relationship with the natural world\, we will need to know the wild lands around our village as well as we know our homes and hearths. We will spend much time on the land and take periodic excursions into the forest around us and become acquainted with the wild others who dwell there as well as our own natural capacities to be at home in the wild.. We will also learn to read the land\, know the plants and animals\, and hone survival and permaculture skills.\n–>Cultivating Relationships with the Animate World (-Meeting the Wild Others; Re-inhabiting Our Wild\, Animal Selves; Intentional Wanders in the Forest; Vision Fasting; Deep listening to the Earth) \n–>Wilderness Awareness and Survival Skills (-Friction Fire\, Shelter building\, Knife skills; Camp craft — Minimalist Camping; Map Reading/Orienteering; Backcountry Navigation; Animal and Plant Identification and Tracking; Wild Crafting for edibles and medicines) \n4- DEEP TIME\nNot only are we in service to how we were born for these very days\, but we also extend our awareness and dedicate our actions beyond our lifetimes–including all that has gone before and all that comes after. The present moment contains the past and the future within it. Where we find ourselves in any given moment includes all that has gone before–that has shaped us and our world–and a sense of how our actions now will shape the future.\n–>We Were Born for These Days (The Work that Reconnects; Exploration of What Lights You Up; Tracking Your Deepest Longings; Working with Your Dreams\, Imaginings and Numinous Experiences) \n–>Ancestors and Future Ones (-Connecting with Ancestors; Healing of Family Lineage; Soulcentric Activism and Collaborative Service Projects; Opportunities to learn from and engage with existing and historical movements for change; Planting perennial food forests) \nVisit the webpage for more information and APPLY.
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/earth-craft-gap-semester/
LOCATION:Spirit Hollow\, Vermont\, 2509 Shaftsbury Hollow Rd\, North Bennington\, VT\, 05257\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anima Terra: A Yearlong Journey of Descent and Soul Emergence for Women
DESCRIPTION:New Cohort Starting October 2023! \nGuides: Jonah Ruh Roberts and Tracey Forest \nAn·i·ma /ˈanəmə/noun 1. the soul; 2. the feminine principle \nTer·ra /ˈterə/ noun 1. land or territory; 2. the planet earth \nANIMA TERRA is a FEMININE version of the Journey of Soul Initiation—A Journey of Wild Descent and Soul Emergence for Women.\nThere is not a program like this anywhere else. It is a creation that grows out of our intensive\, years-long guide training with the Animas Valley Institute\, but also from our many years’ love of and experience with women’s work. While you can do lots of women’s programs and you can go on a journey of soul initiation\, no one out there is marrying them in the way that has emerged through our own mythos and guidance. \nThis journey is NOT for everyone. It IS for women who feel the call from Earth and Soul to dive more deeply than ever before\, to cross a one-way portal and fall back into the “source of everything\,” to dissolve and open to the Muse\, to Mystery\, to the mythopoetic underworld\, to finally gain access to their own ecological niche in Earth’s dream. \nAnima Terra is for women who are already engaged in worthwhile lives and work\, have achieved one or more successful\, functional roles in society and have cultivated a sense of responsibility to themselves and the world\, YET they hear an undeniable call to something more — to something beyond the edges of the known — something wild\, rich\, and even a little scary. Through murmurings and imaginings\, they have been urged to uncover why they are really here and to hear what their Soul is beckoning them to embody. \nThis transformational journey is one of descent and return. The descent is into the underworld of Earth and Psyche to let go of attachments to the roles and identities of a life that has become confining\, so you can encounter the pure voice and true expression of your wild feminine Soul. By courageously releasing the cultural and personal mindsets that have bound you\, you will cross many thresholds\, confront your shadows\, your fears\, and your wounds as well as your light\, and explore the edges of your grief and your longing. In relationship with the clear reflections of nature\, you can allow yourself to be radically reshaped by the elemental forces of wind and water\, moon and sun\, rocks and trees\, owl and coyote\, and return to your communities in wholeness\, with your mythical Soul now guiding your life. \nThis yearlong journey\, held at four different wild places in the Northeast\, USA\, unfolds over five sessions – four five-day sessions and one eight-day Vision Fast session – beginning in October 2023 and ending in November 2024. \nDATES \nOctober 19 – 23\, 2023 at Spirit Hollow in Shaftsbury\, Vermont \nFebruary 15 – 19\, 2024 location TBA \nJune 23 – 30\, 2024 at Spirit Hollow \nSeptember 5 – 9\, 2023 in Unity\, NH at Jonah’s place \nNovember 14 – 18\, 2024 location TBA \nWhat’s this journey like? See sisters in the current Anima Terra cohort describing their experiences:\n \n \nIf this sounds enticing\, please visit the webpage. If you get a full-bodied YES\, please contact us — either by email or for a phone call (and you can fill out the application). \nThere are only 12 spots\, and we are already 1/4 full\, so let us know if you’re interested as soon as you can.
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/anima-terra-a-yearlong-journey-of-descent-and-soul-emergence-for-women/
LOCATION:Spirit Hollow\, Vermont\, 2509 Shaftsbury Hollow Rd\, North Bennington\, VT\, 05257\, United States
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SUMMARY:ReEarthing: Coming Home to the Wild Soul
DESCRIPTION: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.\nRE-EARTHING will meet in person for five weekends October through April at Spirit Hollow in SW Vermont.\nRE-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. \nReEarthing 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. \nEach 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.\nGUIDES: Tracey Forest (KeyTurner) and Jonah Ruh Roberts (Raven) \nThis 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. \nOver 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. \nPractices Include: \nSoulcrafting™ – a cross-cultural set of practices developed by Bill Plotkin and guides of the Animas Valley Institute\n• soulcentric dreamwork\n• self-designed ceremonies\n• conversations across the species boundaries\n• embodiment exercises (ecstatic dancing\, authentic movement and coming into our animal bodies)\n• deep imagery journeys\n• creation of art and collage\n• soulful poetry and music and drumming\n• extended periods of time on the land\, praising\, lamenting\, listening\n• cultivating relationships with the other-than-human ones \nWild 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.\n• journaling\n• deep imagery to facets of wholeness and protective ones\n• dialogue work\n• four-directions circles\n• re-nesting for inner support and unconditional love\n• courting one’s inner beloved on the land\n• invoking and getting to know the Muse\n• shadow work \nThe Way of Council\nCircle process for speaking from the heart\, listening from the heart\, getting to the heart of the matter and being spontaneous\nGuides mirror\, reflect and offer invitations periodically to deepen participants’ journey \nThe Spiral of the Work that Reconnects from Joanna Macy.\n• Starting with Gratitude\n• Honoring our Pain for the World\n• Seeing with New Eyes\n• Work with Ancestors and Future Ones in Deep Time\n• Going Forth \nThis program is open to all genders and orientations\, cultures and backgrounds. And we are especially calling in men! \nYEAR ONE DATES: \nSeptember 30 – October 1 \nNovember 4 – 5 \nDecember 9 -10 \nJanuary 13 -14 2024 \nMarch 2 – 3\, 2024
URL:https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/program/reearthing-coming-home-to-the-wild-soul/2023-09-30/
LOCATION:Spirit Hollow\, Vermont\, 2509 Shaftsbury Hollow Rd\, North Bennington\, VT\, 05257\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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