Offered by School of Lost Borders… www.schooloflostborders.org

One of a woman’s greatest longings is to be seen and known in her most wild and authentic self – a self that is intimately intertwined with the creative forces and cycles of nature. Like the waxing and waning of the moon, the feminine is reflected by the continual movement of light into dark, and back into the light. Birth death-and rebirth. She knows this in her own body as she makes the descent and reemerges anew, each time sourcing from an ancient wellspring of wisdom, passed down by a lineage of women who have traveled this path before.

No matter the circumstances, the gains and the losses, the wellspring never dries up. Perhaps, it gets forgotten, or dismissed, but eventually, the waters call a woman back to its source through the age-old, nature-based practice of a rite of passage. She is called to go out alone, with an empty belly and bare essentials, into the spacious desert, for four days and four nights where she will find herself in perfect solitude. Here she can clear away the distractions of her busy life and tune her ears to the voices of wild nature around her and to her own inner nature; the truth of her being, a daughter of Earth.

This ceremony involves several days of preparation, 4 days and nights of fasting alone in a wilderness place, and a few days of incorporation.