Spirit Quests: Gifts of Wild Psyche
and Non-Ordinary Reality
What Is a Spirit Quest?
A spirit quest is the search for a deeper way to meet yourself and the world, discovering the guidance, love and abundance that can be found in contact with non-ordinary realms of being. In our spirit quest, the ancient tradition of fasting for a vision is combined with support that helps you release the old hurts and stories that constrict you, receive spiritual nurturance, and embody new possibilities.
A spirit quest is the search for a deeper way to meet yourself and the world, discovering the guidance, love and abundance that can be found in contact with non-ordinary realms of being. In our spirit quest, the ancient tradition of fasting for a vision is combined with support that helps you release the old hurts and stories that constrict you, receive spiritual nurturance, and embody new possibilities.
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Our Spirit Quest Process
We host a 4-day process in with 3 days and nights of fasting, and processes that help you move more deeply into yourself, connecting to guidance, wisdom and practical help that transcends ordinary awareness. We fast in the mountains on national forest land near North Fork, California. Leaving behind our familiar environment, routines and habits, we focus our need for spiritual nourishment. On our final day we break-fast, and move into integration work before our departure. In preparation, our work draws from the Native American medicine wheel. Orienting our inner lives to our place in the web of nature, its elements, powers, and wisdom, we help you clarify the focus of your quest. Arriving on the land where we fast, the Medicine Wheel we make structures our quest within the 4 seasons of life where we look at who we’ve become, what needs to die and what wants to be born in us. Our life experiences and beliefs may have rooted us in barren soil or may have us pot bound. During our quest we return to the wheel as needed, working in the ground of our being to find richer soil with new purpose and ways of being connected to that which is greater than ourselves. Guided processes help you contact your spirit helpers, opening to receive their gifts. As gifts often come while we are sleeping, dreamwork may be an important part of our quest together. In the wilderness, guided medicine walks expand our awareness of the many helping spirits in the natural world around us. Reiki treatments (energy-based body work) support and nurture your body while you fast and work with spirit. Through individual and personally meaningful ritual, we release old ideas and burdens, creating the space for wisdom and new vision to arise in response to the questions we bring. Before returning to the front-country, our work is to support the integration of what you have learned. In this way your homecoming is a gift to yourself and to those around you. |
Retreat Dates
Schedule a Spirit Quest at a time that works for you. Tuition
$195 per person or $295 for couples (call for rate for small groups). Scholarships available. Location National Forest land about 20 minutes from North Fork, California (above Whiskey Falls), about 1 hour from Fresno and from the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. |
To schedule or find out more contact:
Dennis at 559.614.0010 or email retreats@soulandearth.com
Dennis at 559.614.0010 or email retreats@soulandearth.com
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