Teaching Rites of Passage for 35 Years

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 In this video clip, Meredith, who founded the School with her husband Steven, speaks to how the daily turning into life, with all of its sorrows and joys is the essence of Rites of Passage and the nature of our living and dying. 
 
 
 
 

CA Two Week Training

Date: 
Sep 26th, 2016 - Oct 9th, 2016
Location: 
Big Pine, CA- Baker Creek Campground
Guides: 
Ruth Wharton, Larry Hobbs

This training gives the student an immersion in the vision fast ceremony, including the skills involved in leading the vision fast and an understanding of how the principles of the vision fast can be applied to a profession, community, or client.

The Muse: Personal Creativity through the Four Shields

Date: 
Oct 24th, 2016 - Oct 28th, 2016
Location: 
Ghost Ranch
Guides: 
Emerald North, Scot Deily

 The muse is an unfathomable creative force that lives within and around us. The Muse is our inspiration for creation. Many of us have forgotten the physical sense and presence of our muse. We knew it as children and at moments of great transitions in our lives. We sense the deep importance of turning our attention to creativity for its own sake, not for profit or fame, but as an active and lively intercourse with our own personal nature as creative beings.

CA- Vision Fast for Women

Date: 
Nov 2nd, 2016 - Nov 13th, 2016
Location: 
Death Valley
Guides: 
Silvia Talavera, Betsy Perluss, PhD

“I see the Feminine defined as a reconnection to the Self, a commitment to the wildness within our instincts, our capacity to create and destroy; our hunger for connection as well as sovereignty, interdependence and independence, at once.”

 

– Terry Tempest Williams

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Resources

Fasting in the Wilderness - by Steven Foster, written in 1986
Psyche, Nature & Cosmos: Interview with Stanislav Grof and Betsy Perluss.
Meredith Little and Scott Eberle - Upaya lecture
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