Testimonials: Vision Fasts & Training | School of Lost Borders

Suzie
It is difficult for me to express in words the impact this ceremony has had on all aspects of my life, it is easier to simply see the change in my actions.

I have been given a great gift. It is so great because I am able to share this gift with my community. In the eleven days I was training with the School of Lost Borders, my life changed. And now less than a year later, because of the opportunity I was given, up to 40 more young lives have the opportunity to be changed.

Ira
As a urban guy who grew up in NYC , this has been a wonderful adventure of learning to feel safe and connected in the natural world along with a very deep kind of homecoming. With your help, I have come to feel a profound sense of belonging and peace in both the wildness without and within.

Having you there as trusted and skillful guides helped me to let go and allowed nature do the rest.

I have never felt so listened to and so loved as in the mirroring upon my return from the Fast and in the extended workshop last summer. Words can not convey the sense of feeling so deeply known, of expanding what had already felt so spacious and joyous, and of bringing stunning clarity to a bunch of seemingly disconnected experiences.You were poets, magicians and shamans and through modeling, active guidance, and a clear structure, you taught me to wade into the same intuitive realm to begin to do the same for others.

The changes continue to work in my life and are benefiting my family and friends,my psychotherapy clients, and my students.

Lali

I never saw the likes of it---it was a beautifully intimate experience of authentic community.

It is truly impossible to distill the essence of the profound way in which I have been nourished, graced and forever altered by this experience.

I got a chance to look at myself and things that have happened in my life - which I thought I had dealt with but that were still sitting heavy with me.

Going to the Vision Quest training has made me stronger; made me realize that I can take this back to other people that are in the same situation as mine. I can use the Four Shields Teaching in helping them understand, and I can bring it to reality in the field of HIV/ AIDS and other programs of the organization.

Jonathan

On our return from the fast, we met in council to share our stories; the healings and the woundings each man described reached beyond just that one man; beyond just the empathy of the group; but rather connected to some great mysterious story that was desperately seeking to define itself through our shared commitment to explore the sacred masculine. It was hard to believe at times. In the moment of greatest personal doubt, when the energy of the group was it its peek. The blue sky turned grey. The winds became strong. The rain began to pour. I went back to the tent and I heard a baby crying. It was then, that I knew what we were participating in was an ancient way of knowing and learning. When every moment becomes a metaphor, a man stands in his true inheritance.

Deborah
The blessings sometimes come in the form of a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes but most of all the blessings come as a welcomed reminder of what is important in our lives. I am reminded that all of you at Lost Borders are doing much much needed valuable work. I feel a sense of relief that those who want to experience a modern vision fast have a place to go for refuge with some of the most creative, inspring, connected, and loving people I have ever met! You truly make a difference in this world.

That tender place in my heart and mind still bring me sanity when day to day “stuff” seems overwhelming. What you do at Lost Borders is a unique and indespensible experience like no other on earth.

Gary
Vision fasts have been life-saving and life-giving for me. I return to my work with a renewed sense of all our abilities to heal ourselves and each other.

Armin
The forces behind the Fasting are very mysterious, but very in their effects very clear. Everytime, the intention I went into the fast with, came into place piece by piece in the months and years after the fast.

Sandi
I am finding that taking my self back there is so expansive and moves me right back to gratitude and safety. How funny really, I was so afraid to go out, and now my place in the desert has become my safe place in my imagination. Thank you again for your brilliance and committment. My experience with you and the group and the desert has moved me into my future self with elegance, ease and beauty. I am so gratefull!

Anonymous
This was much more than I had hoped for. I felt I came home.

I came on this trip to get back in touch with nature. I did that and much more. I saw that it was about growing up. Now I’ve returned home as a man.

From this trip, I am taking my place as an elder. My grandmothers and great-grandmothers are behind me, and my daughters and granddaughters are out in front of me. And I am right here.

I didn’t know such deep healing was possible. I know it’s not over, but it has begun.

More gratitude than I can speak for giving me the support to have my own journey, for letting me struggle and being there for me.

Damn these mosquitoes!