Restore Rites of Passage in Contemporary Culture

In 2025 Lost Border’s granted $27,000 of Scholarships - 50% of which went to BIPOC participants. Our ability to to support people in coming to the land comes directly from your generous donations. Please support our year end appeal so we can continue to support access to ceremony for all who want to come join us. 

School of Lost Borders

Over 40 years of bringing meaningful rites of passage into the modern world through vision fasts, trainings, and transformative nature-based programs. 

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Cross into the natural world to mark and celebrate significant life transitions.

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Learn how to guide rites of passage and support your community.

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Remember the ancient wisdom of living and dying in connection with the natural world.

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Integrate ceremony and nature-based practices into everyday life and work.

Your generosity helps make our work accessible to all who are called to our programs. It also supports the ongoing legacy and sustainability of the School of Lost Borders. Please join with us to help sustain our commitment to continue to foster rites of passage work in the world.

The renewal of meaningful, modern day rites of passage are essential for the health of ourselves, our communities, and our planet.

Ceremonial Immersion (across 2 years 2025-2026)

Oct 19 - Oct 19, 2026 Various Locations Emerald North, Scot Deily, Colleen Bishop, tbird (Thompson) Bishop Training

Only a few last places remain... Hope is not a word in my vocabulary, I have to tell you. Faith is…There is beauty in erosion. And that has been evolving over time. So I think it takes us to our ...

CO June Queer Quest

For over the last decade at the Queer Quest, groups of people from every part of the queer community have gathered on the land to celebrate our stories and step into the fullness of our queer ...

Dying as a Rite of Passage

Jun 13 - Jun 20, 2026 Inyo Mountains – Big Pine, CA Cynthia Morrow, Scott Eberle Living & Dying

For millennia, indigenous people of all our bloodlines have known "how to die”, with the natural world as our teacher from the beginning of time. Cycles of dying and rebirth are seen everywhere: ...

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" We began way back when, in the days when revolution was in the air, when rock and roll was filled with protest and the young were sticking flowers in the gun barrels of National Guardsmen. Even then, the answer to the dilemma of culture was clear: True revolution would never come about until the children remembered the way to get to adulthood - and the adults to true elderhood - and the elders to honorable death..."

- STEVEN FOSTER