The Nature-Based Map of the Psyche serves as a guide to the healing and wholing work that is foundational to becoming fully human. Cultivating all four facets of our wholeness -- and coming to understand both the limitations and gifts of our wounded, fragmented, or shadowed parts -- are necessary steps toward living a soul-centered life.In this program, you'll explore the landscape of your individual psyche...
There's a big difference between getting old and being a true elder, between withdrawing from active contribution to the community and embracing the call to share one's wisdom and gifts. Aging can be a time of fading passion and purpose or an opportunity for new growth and beginnings. In a society where elderhood does not hold its historical place of honor, those called to this cultural and spiritual role must...
The Nature-Based Map of the Psyche serves as a guide to the healing and wholing work that is foundational to becoming fully human. Cultivating all four facets of our wholeness -- and coming to understand both the limitations and gifts of our wounded, fragmented, or shadowed parts -- are necessary steps toward living a soul-centered life.In this program, you'll explore the landscape of your individual psyche...
This contemporary Western embodiment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for men and women seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest is a ceremonial descent to the underworld, in which you die to your familiar way of belonging to the world, uncover the passion and wisdom of your soul, and retrieve the gift that is yours...
Description: The Underworld Journey is designed for those courageous and vulnerable individuals whose previous experience in nature-based soul work compels them deeper into the mystery -- even if the mystery journey risks shredding the fine robes of comfort, success and security. The Underworld Journey awaits those who already hear mystery whispering in their day and night dreams, in unusual occurrences and...
Integral Recovery® is a bold and totally new approach to the treatment of alcoholism and addiction. We say “totally new” not because it breaks with other approaches past or present, but because it unites—or integrates—them, preserving what is best of existing modalities, while negating their weaknesses.
When I was a young seeker, I was fortunate to have many opportunities to soak in the field. This taught me how to perceive personal as well as collective energies. This series of ceremonies is intended for those who are dedicated to soaking in the field of awareness.
The land around us (and within us) teaches with each passing season, and with each flood, drought, fire and storm, that out of change, crisis and a dying to what was, there appears a new story of form and adaptation. And that how we respond and integrate change into the fabric of our ongoing story colors the character of what comes next.
Telling one’s own story is an ancient art. Nowadays, we have forgotten how to listen and how to tell. Yet the very survival of our species depends on our ability to communicate with each other in such ways as to be mutually enriched by the telling and the listening. If we cannot tell with expression, our life is mute. If we cannot listen like a mirror, we cannot reflect back the wholeness of the four shields -- the...
A Wilderness Guide, Zen Buddhist Practitioner and mother of 3 children, Petra is dedicated to support meaningful Rites of Passage in the wilderness and in the urban jungle of our humaness. Truly taking one's place in the world has been (and continues to be) a life long inquiry and practice for her and is at the heart of her work.
Creacon Lodge was founded in November 2006 by internationally renowned transformational therapist and motivational coach, Derek O'Neill, and his late wife Linda O'Neill. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Derek O'Neill is an acclaimed psychotherapist, author and humanitarian, inspiring audiences around the world and changing countless lives for the better. Through his motivational workshops, remarkable humanitarian work, and...
Adrian Juric is a Canadian Certified Counsellor, teacher, and aspiring writer who has worked in the fields of education and psychology for the past seventeeen years.
A hiker and explorer at heart, Adrian spent thirteen years traveling and teaching his way across South America, Scandinavia, Asia, and the Middle East.
Men’s Trek
A journey of common purpose
Men desire a life of success. They also desire a life of adventure, integrity, authenticity and satisfaction; at what cost? They often lose themselves in their work, neglecting their physical and emotional health and compromising their relationships and dreams.
Men’s Trek
A journey of common purpose
Men desire a life of success. They also desire a life of adventure, integrity, authenticity and satisfaction; at what cost? They often lose themselves in their work, neglecting their physical and emotional health and compromising their relationships and dreams.
Men’s Trek
A journey of common purpose
Men desire a life of success. They also desire a life of adventure, integrity, authenticity and satisfaction; at what cost? They often lose themselves in their work, neglecting their physical and emotional health and compromising their relationships and dreams.
Women’s Treks
An empowering journey into self-discovery
Together in the sacredness of the wilderness, we will explore your soul’s longing for a more balanced connection with yourself and others. You will learn to live in an engaged and more deeply satisfying way as you discover your truth and how to live your life more fully. This trek is a healing and wellness journey to navigate your own landscape through...
Women’s Retreats
Connecting with your authentic self
Imagine yourself in an inspiring place surrounded by like-minded women who seek wholeness and balance. This personal growth retreat awakens and
cultivates your loving nature through reflection, expression and experiential activities. Join us to deepen your understanding of yourself as you create the change and transformation you need to enjoy your relationships...
Women’s Treks
An empowering journey into self-discovery
Together in the sacredness of the wilderness, we will explore your soul’s longing for a more balanced connection with yourself and others. You will learn to live in an engaged and more deeply satisfying way as you discover your truth and how to live your life more fully. This trek is a healing and wellness journey to navigate your own landscape through...
Women’s Treks
An empowering journey into self-discovery
Together in the sacredness of the wilderness, we will explore your soul’s longing for a more balanced connection with yourself and others. You will learn to live in an engaged and more deeply satisfying way as you discover your truth and how to live your life more fully. This trek is a healing and wellness journey to navigate your own landscape through...
Connecting with your authentic self
Imagine yourself in an inspiring place surrounded by like-minded women who seek wholeness and balance. This personal growth retreat awakens and cultivates your loving nature through reflection, expression and experiential activities. Join us to deepen your understanding of yourself as you create the change and transformation you need to enjoy your relationships and your lifemore...
Corey Folsom, CTE, has studied with a variety of highly regarded teachers of sacred sexuality and relationship technologies. As a relationship and sexuality coach who works with individuals and couples, he brings a depth of understanding and compassion to his students and clients from deep exploration and research into human intimate relating. His blog is www.tantracore.wordpress.com
In my own journey to Love, I've had my share of disappointments. Before I discovered the path to open-hearted relationship, all I wanted was to be deeply connected with someone who met me. But that kind of connection never seemed to come along. The more I longed for it, the more it seemed to evade me.
Southern Colorado-Dragonback Springs Ranch, NM, US
The shields of human nature turn with the experiences of life, from the smallest cell to the great seamless whole of the biosphere called earth. It begins with the body (summer), turns into psyche (fall), becomes activated form (winter), which dissolves into spirit (spring) -- which is born again in the body (summer).
The Gods are calling! The Sun is rising and illuminating a new and yet very ancient story about the value and worth of what it means to be a man. Joseph Campbell knew about this desire, this seeking. He knew that the life of a man was not only about meaning but also about “…the experience and rapture of being alive”. Each one of us must add to this re-membering by bringing our own story fully alive! We owe it to our...
The Preview Day is your day to experience a bit of the magic that rises when we come into full consciousness. Shamanism at its core is the practice of full consciousness, and consciousness evolves life. During the Preview Day you'll be introduced to the core principles of consciousness and experience for yourself what it feels like to wake up fully in the shaman's awareness. You'll learn that you're already '...
Spark of Life Retreats at Tanglewood Resort
Spark of Life Retreats are funded by private donations and are offered free of charge to those who have experienced loss.
Expect acceptance, understanding and hope. It is what you will find at a Spark of Life Retreat. Expect dynamic group interaction, a proven action plan for grief recovery that inspires hope, and time to reflect in solitude by resting, walking, praying...
Meredith Little and her husband, Steven Foster, co-founded Rites of Passage Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost Borders in 1981 – pioneering the methods and dynamics of modern pan-cultural passage rites in the wilderness, and “field eco-therapy”. The essence of their work is captured in articles, chapters, an award-winning documentary film, and books that include: The Book of the Vision Quest, The Roaring of the...
When Raccoon, the eco-therapist, reaches down into his or her bag of medicine, is the vision fast there? The therapeutic power of a four day and night fast (or a one day and night fast), should be at the fingertips of every teacher, professional, or guide who has personally experienced the therapeutic power inherent in the wilderness passage. The two-week vision fast training is an introduction to a classic modern...
This seven-day training will call together people who are leaders in their homes, their schools, their businesses and their lives. It is particularly appropriate for those already working with council in schools, quest work and therapeutic or spiritual communities, as well as those wanting to introduce council in new places .
We live in a world marked by borders. We have borders between continents, between people, even between our own hearts and minds. Perhaps one of the most pervasive borders is the one we have placed between ourselves and nature, and the ensuing belief that the natural world is both deaf and mute. Thus, we live as if we were no longer informed by the seasons of change, the ebb and flow of the river, the movement of...
