SOUL CRAFT INTENSIVE

Animas Valley Institute’s popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were born to bring to the world, a world so much in need of the socially transforming contributions of initiated, actively engaged adults. To encounter the soul is to discover the mystical image you were born with, which reveals the path to your greatest personal fulfillment as well as the essence of your true service to society (the cross-cultural wisdom traditions say these are one and the same). Soulcraft practices spring from nature-based cultures, modern depth psychology, the poetic tradition, and wilderness rites of passage—to comprise a truly contemporary Western path to soul discovery and soul initiation. For a full discussion, see Bill Plotkin’s book Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche.

The Soulcraft Intensive is highly experiential and—well—intense. We alternate between practices utilized in group, practices explored in solitude in nature, and sharing and deepening those experiences in small groups (5 to 9 people each). There is a Soulcraft guide for each small group, providing you with a fully individualized experience. What you discover through one practice is carried into and amplified by what you learn in the next. By the end of the intensive, you will understand yourself and your place in the world from a more soul-oriented perspective, be clearer about the gifts you were born to bring to the world, and have new skills to enrich your life and to defend the health of the more-than-human world.

Soulcraft practices include:

• Soulcentric Dreamwork

• Deep Imagery Work with Animal Guides

• Talking Across the Species Boundaries

• The Way of Council

• Soul Tasks in Nature

• Self-Designed Ceremony

• Shadow Work

• Soul Poetry

• Sacred Wound Work

• Synchronicities: Working with Nature’s Signs and Omens

• Befriending the Dark

• Ecstatic Trance Drumming and Dancing

• many others!

Participants are also responsible for their own transportation to and from the program location.

Start/End Time: 1 pm / 1 pm

REGISTER through the Animas Valley Institute.

Participants are responsible for bringing personal breakfasts and lunches – all dinners are provided by Spirit Hollow. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from the program location.

WHAT TO BRING: This is an all-camping program. Participants are responsible for bringing their own personal camping equipment, and for personal transportation to and from the program.

MEALS : Participants are responsible for bringing their own breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. Dinners will be provided by our gourmet caterer.

PRICES:

• $1,050.00 to $1,300.00 – Sliding Scale Price: you are free to select any price within this range

• $1,300.00 – High End Program Price: choosing the high end amount contributes to the full cost of the program and allows us to offer a sliding scale option