Event Details

Soulcraft Intensive in Colorado, Sponsored by Animas Valley Institute September 14 - 18

Guides: Bill Plotkin , Mary Marsden

Guide Fee:695

Location/Lodging Info: Highlands Retreat Center, Allenspark, Colorado - lodging and meals fee is $340 for 4 nights (September 14-17) and all meals from dinner on the 14th through lunch on the 18th.

Description: This is our 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 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 7 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.

The Soulcraft Intensives are held on the edge of wilderness at exceptional retreat centers throughout the United States and Europe.

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!
To register:

http://www.animas.org/register.asp?program_id=249&amount=695

For more information: soulcraft@animas.org