EarthWays

Wild and Awake Series - Full With Wait List
2023-02-04 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Wild Love: The Heart Responds
Full With Wait List

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:00pm
Limited to 8

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

You may pay using the form below, name and email required, or you can mail a check to the address listed on the registration form. You may also RSVP using the form below without making a payment if you simply want more information.

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Open Desert, Open Mind
2022-10-29 - 2022-11-06 | Death Valley, CA
https://schooloflostborders.org/programs_courses/open-desert-open-mind/
This desert wilderness program for contemplatives is offered by the School of Lost Borders. It combines the usual elements of a desert rite of passage ceremony with the practice of meditation. All welcome, regardless of meditation experience.
Co-guided by Scott Eberle (guide at both EarthWays and the School of Lost Borders)

Wild and Awake Series - Full with Wait List
2022-10-15 09:00 - 17:30 | Sonoma Coast Beach, Sonoma County, CA
Expanding Our Identity

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Wild and Awake Series - Full with Wait List
2022-08-27 09:00 - 17:30 | Sonoma County, Location TBD, CA
Belonging: The Web of Life

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

You may pay using the form below, name and email required, or you can mail a check to the address listed on the registration form. You may also RSVP using the form below without making a payment if you simply want more information.

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Cultivating Resilience - Full with Wait List
2022-08-13 09:00 - 17:00 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
A Day Walk for these Times of Uncertainty

Sliding scale: $80-$120
Non-refundable deposit: $50
9am – 5pm
Limited to 8 participants

If resilience can be seen as our capacity to adapt well in the face of adversity, how can we look to the natural world for guidance and support during these uncertain times? Uncertainty of climate, the pandemic, the social and political milieu all contribute to the concerns and difficulties we are facing these days. We offer you an opportunity to spend meaningful time in a wild landscape that has been burned again and again, yet is clearly regenerating. Together, we will sit upon the earth and share with one another of the challenges, fears, and uncertainties in our lives that can throw any of us off balance. You will then have a few hours to walk upon the earth to listen for the stories the land has to share about resilience. Finally, we will share our wisdom with one another, seeing what we can learn collectively about the courage and fortitude to return to life again and again.
For more information or to register, contact:
cynthia@earthwaysllc.com or sahara@earthwaysllc.com

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Sitting with the Four Great Elements: Water
2022-06-25 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
https://www.m-yoga.org/workshops–series.html
Our inherent connection to all things becomes clear when sitting quietly in meditation. In present moment awareness, the illusion of separateness falls away. We are reminded that we embody water, earth, fire and air. In this four-part meditation series, each season we will focus on one element and consider how it is held and expressed in the body and mind.

Barebones of the Ceremony - Full with Wait List
2022-06-23 18:00 - 2022-06-26 12:00 | Pomo Canyon, Near the Sonoma Coast, CA
The Practice of Council, Carrying an Intention into Nature, Stories & Mirroring
Full with Wait List

Sliding scale fee $300-$450 – plus $25 camping fee
Deposit: $150 – non-refundable unless the program is cancelled
Size of group: 8 participants
Gathering time: 6pm the first evening
Finishing time: mid-afternoon of the last day

For listening to the stories of others . . .
is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation.
If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
– Mark Nepo
We call together a circle of people looking to deepen their relationship to “the ceremony”: a practice drawn from the tradition of the School of Lost Borders that EarthWays offers to our North Bay community. Together we will explore the basic elements of this ceremony – its “bare bones” – with two intentions in mind. Over the three days, we will call in self-healing for each person, and we also will explore how each of us might bring these different practices back into our daily lives.
The Practice of Council: Our starting place will be a day of sitting in council. There together, we will learn how to listen more deeply to the stories of others and, in so doing, how to listen more deeply to our ourselves. The last circle of this day will be an intention council in preparation for the following day.
Carrying an Intention into Nature: On the second day, soon after sunrise, people will be sent out onto the land to continue this practice of deep listening. This time we will invite people to carry a question, an intention, or some kind of inquiry, all while deeply listening for the mirroring wisdom of nature.
Stories & Mirroring: During the second evening and the morning of the third day, we’ll return to our circle for a storytelling council, sharing with each other the wisdom that nature has helped to reveal. We will also take turns mirroring back what we’ve heard from each other’s stories. Once again, this practice of mirroring – like council and time alone in nature – begins with deep listening.
For as Mark Nepo says:
If we listen closely enough,
we are soothed into remembering our common name.
For more information or to register contact:
Sahara Chaldean: sahara@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Dancing With Uncertainty
2022-06-11 09:00 - 17:00 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
Learning to Navigate a Life-Altering Illness
A Day Walk in Nature

Sliding Scale: $80-$120
Deposit: $50 non-refundable. No one turned away for lack of funds
Limited to 8 participants

“When we are confronted with difficult times in our lives and feel as if things are breaking apart, we only produce more suffering when we attempt to put the pieces back together. Instead, when we bravely choose to rest in uncertainty and meet suffering without running away, awakening occurs”
Pema Chodron
When faced with a life-threatening illness our known way of being can be deeply challenged. Our mind, body, psyche and spirit are cracked open to uncertainty. How do we learn to live and dance with untold aspects of uncertainty while still choosing healing and life? How can we find anchors, resilience, strength, and courage- even joy?
Join us for a day on the land to explore your own Dance with Uncertainty. There will be time to share personal stories in council and then solo time in the wild landscape for reflection and healing. We will gather again in council to hear stories from the land and mirror the wisdom shared.

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Letters to the Earth - Full with Wait List
2022-05-21 09:00 - 16:00 | West County, Sonoma County, CA
A Day Walk, including Contemplation, Prayer, Ceremony and Writing
Full with Wait List

Fee: $25
Deposit: $25
Size of Group: 8 max
Gathering Time: 9am
Finishing Time: 4pm

We need to find a way to express from our hearts while the Earth is in crisis. This program is inspired by “Letters to The Earth,” a campaign which invites people to write a letter to or from the Earth, future or past generations, those who hold positions of power and influence, or other species. https://www.letterstotheearth.com
This will be an opportunity to express our hopes, fears, regrets and most importantly our devotion for our relationship with the earth. At the end of the day, you will leave with a heart cracked open and love letter like no other. We will invite you to share your experience with finding your expression and there will be time to share our letters with each other out loud.
We may even create a collective performance of our letters, put to music, to share with the larger community.
Will you join us for this challenge?
From The Story of My Heart, Michael Pyle: “In order to set the world aright…we need all the math we can marshal for our case, which is the case of the earth and its living things, including ourselves. And we also need all the song, dance, poetry, and emotion we can muster…”

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Wild and Awake Series - May 7th - Full with Wait List
2022-05-07 09:00 - 17:30 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
Waking Up – Full with Wait List

Sliding scale $60-$120
Non-refundable deposit $50
9am – 5:30pm
Limited to 10

What do we need to do to save our world?
The answer from Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.
It is an astonishing time to be alive on planet earth. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, ecological destruction, and widespread injustices, it is all too tempting to retreat from life as a way to find safety. To “hear within us the sound of the earth crying” calls for a subtle yet profound shift in consciousness. By sharing and witnessing our pain for this world in a safe and intimate circle of people, we can also open to the natural beauty, joy, love, and miracle of this existence. There is no better time to awaken to a vaster view of our inter-connectedness, as creative expressions of this living, breathing earth. Our world needs our willingness to go beyond our seemingly separate selves, in order to find our way forward as a collective that honors and respects all of life.
In this Wild and Awake series, we will experientially explore this territory in various wild landscapes in Sonoma County. Each season will address a different theme. We invite your participation in one, more, or all gatherings. With intentional time on the land, meditation and reflective practices, group sharing and group ritual, this is an opportunity to authentically explore awakening—together—to the truth of our inter-existence with all of life.
For more information or to register, contact:
Cynthia Morrow: cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

To register for this program, please print and fill out the registration form located here and pay the deposit amount listed above.

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Veteran Rites: Rite of Return
2022-04-21 - 2022-05-02 | Central Washington, WA
https://www.veteranrites.org/projects
Women and Men Veterans, primarily of Iraq and Afghanistan, enact a true Rite of Return through Ceremony and Solo time on the land. This non-profit provides numerous other programs, councils, classes and a heartfelt, living community to vets.
Sara Harris, guest Elder Woman guide

Living Earth Book Club - A Year Long Program
2022-01-20 17:00 - 19:30 | Various Locations, Sonoma County, CA
Listening to the Land as We Read and Walk Together

Beginning January 20, 2022
In House Circle
Thursday, 5:00pm – 7:30pm
Every other month
Day Walk, 1x every other month
Fee: See description below

We will gather once every other month to discuss books by environmental writers we love who are deeply connected to the earth. These passionate writers, as well as time on the land, have a way of opening the edges of our aliveness. Then, in the months in between, we will meet for a day-long out on the land. In this way, we drink in inspiration from others, as well as take the time to listen to the land speak directly to us.
We want to support cultivating our courageous hearts on behalf of all life. In the process, we will have fun, be challenged, confused, disagree, feel everything, and take time to be quiet. Practices inspired by the book we have been reading will be encouraged.
How will these authors, in concert with voices of the earth, inspire us to live more passionately and authentically in service to life?
Here are the books. It doesn’t matter if you have read them, as they can be read again and again. We will suggest certain chapters to be read in case you do not have time to read the whole book in any given month. Only get Radical Joy for starters, as we will begin with that book.
Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Facilitators/Guides: Sara Harris and Sahara Chaldean
sara@earthwaysllc.com /sahara@earthwaysllc.com
January, March, May, July, September, November Book Gatherings to meet one Thursday a month from 5:00-7:30 PM in downtown Forestville at the home of Sara Harris. The 1st meeting will be January 20th.
The other dates will be: Mar.24, May 26, July 21, Sept. 22, and Nov.17.
Tea and a simple snack will be provided.
February, April, June, August, October, and December DayWalks will be at various Sonoma County outdoor locations one Friday each month from approx. 9-4.
Those dates will be: Feb. 25, April 22, June 17, Aug. 26, Oct. 21, and Dec. 16.
As we get into the year, there is a slight chance one or two dates may change, so a bit of flexibility will be necessary, but we will make every effort to keep to these dates. Any changes will be announced far in advance.
The fee will amount to $60 a month (land fees/parking fees not included). We ask that you commit to the entire year. This comes to $720 for the year. There will be no refunds for missed sessions.  A non-refundable deposit of $60 is required to hold a place for you until the first meeting, and will apply to the full amount. There are 3 payment options:
Pay in full in January: $660
Pay $330 in January and again in June
Pay $220 in January, May, and September
Email Sara at sara@earthwaysllc.com or Sahara at sahara@earthwaysllc.com to indicate your interest. We anticipate this group will fill quickly and we will begin a wait list if needed. A letter with more information will be sent upon registering.
Proof of vaccination is a prerequisite, since we will be meeting in a small space, and we ask that this either be included with your deposit payment, or sent as a scan to one of us.  At our first meeting we will discuss group guidelines about safety, i.e. discussing certain situations in which home antigen testing might be necessary before returning to the in-house meeting.

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Women's Vision Fast
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-20 | Death Valley, CA
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.

Let Go into the Mystery
2021-10-02 - 2021-10-10 | Eureka Valley, Big Pine, CA
Offered by the School of Lost Borders, www.schooloflostborders.org
“Let Go into the Mystery” draws upon the wilderness-based tradition of the School of Lost Borders and EarthWays and also the spiritual practice of sitting meditation to create a unique program for desert contemplatives. This is neither a typical SOLB program nor a typical meditation retreat, but a blend of the two. This 9-day program, in the vast and ancient landscape of Eureka Valley, is a ceremony in the East Shield of the School’s Practice of Living and Dying. This is an invitation to explore and honor the individual stories of our spiritual unfolding through life, and to let go into the Great Mystery that holds us beyond birth and death.
Though we will be camping out for the entire week, activities undertaken will be non-strenuous and our emphasis will always be “safety first.” We will provide a list of personal equipment that each participant should bring, and we will also provide some group equipment for our base-camp.

The Elder's Journey
2021-09-25 - 2021-10-01 | Baker Creek Campground, Big Pine, CA
Four Shields of Eldering for Women
Offered by the School of Lost Borders… www.schooloflostborders.org
After a wildly successful launch of this program in 2015, Lost Borders is once again offering a specifically-designed experience to open the dialogue for women in various stages of Elderhood. Camping will be in Baker Creek campground, or there are local motel accommodations as well. The program will include daily missions into nature, a 24-hr. period of silence and contemplation that will also include a journey up to the Ancient Bristlecones, and daily councils to look deeply into opening into a conscious approach to growing older.

Walk Through the Fire
2021-07-23 - 2021-07-24 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
A Ceremonial Circle near the Start of Fire Season
THIS PROGRAM IS CURRENTLY FULL WITH A WAIT LIST
Please contact the enrolling guide by filling out the RSVP form below to be added to the wait list.

Sliding scale $100-$160
Non-refundable deposit $50
Fee to be adjusted if program is shortened to daylong
No one turned away for lack of funds
Starting 6 p.m. on Friday, ending Saturday around 5 p.m.

Check out this song, “Walk through the Fire”, by Mary Gauthier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yPzBgnHRA&list=RD52yPzBgnHRA&start_radio=1
This wonderful singer/songwriter uses fire as a metaphor for surviving a troubled relationship. We invite you to listen and turn this around: consider instead that the troubled relationship is a metaphor for walking through fire season.
Sonoma County has arrived at a “new normal”. Instead of the surprise of the occasional wildfire, we now have a “fire season” every fall. Or even worse, we had a fire season this past year that lasted from August to December.
With each fire season comes real fear. Fear of destruction. Fear of evacuation. Fear of loss of home. Fear of death. How to live with that much fear, that much uncertainty? For some, the answer is simple: move away. For those of us who choose to stay, what kind of clarity of mind, fortitude of spirit, and practical preparation are needed as we prepare to enter yet another fire season?
This ceremonial circle will be held in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, where all of the park has been burned in recent years, either by the Nuns fire in 2017 or the Glass Fire in 2020. Even worse, half of it was burned by both fires. We’ll start the day in circle, inviting people to hear each other’s personal “fire story” in prep for a day on the land. During the solo time, we’ll invite everyone to go out alone in search of tree wisdom. We’ll encourage you to have two separate conversations: one with a living tree and one with a dead tree. What do trees have to teach us about living through fires? We’ll come back together in the afternoon to hear everyone’s story from this day of walking on a land that’s healing and growing.
For more information or questions, please contact Scott Eberle at scott@earthwaysllc.com

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Breaking and Mending
2021-07-08 - 2021-07-11 | Riddell Preserve, Healdsburg, CA
Where Grief, Gratitude and Beauty Coexist
A Self-Generated Ceremony on the Land

Sliding scale available – please ask your guides!
Non-refundable deposit $100
Begins Thursday, July 8 at 2pm
Ends Sunday, July 11 at 2pm
Limited to 8, due to Covid restrictions
Cost of $450 includes land use fees and all art supplies

There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
Come join us on the wild land for this unique retreat and ceremony where we will use and honor the art of Kintsugi and SoulCollage® as metaphors to explore the brokenness that lives in ourselves and our Mother Earth, to acknowledge and honor our grief and find the beauty and gratitude that resides there. As we begin to emerge from the liminal space of The Great Pause, we will say goodbye to what was and set our hopes and prayers on what will be.
Kintsugi (golden joinery) is an ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. As a philosophy, Kintsugi treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. It encompasses a philosophy of living, finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycles of growth and decay.
Soul Collage ® is a process of using visual imagery to consult our deepest knowing, calling upon energies within and outside of ourselves for wisdom and strength.
Many of us are living with broken hearts, especially after the unprecedented tragedies that have occurred over the last year. We accumulate grief and carry it with us, often unseen and unexpressed. But grief can be a storehouse of power, a way to reconnect with how we love and honor what came before. Grief can help us find the beauty in our brokenness, while opening us to loving more and being of service in the world
​For more information contact deborah@earthwaysllc.com

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Clear Desert Mirror
2021-06-07 - 2021-06-13 | Mojave National Preserve, CA
A Contemplative Retreat in the Wild

Sliding scale available – please ask your guides!
Non-refundable deposit $200
Gathering time of 10am on June 7th, ends June 13th around noon

I guess you could call it a pilgrimage. I feel lost anywhere I go, though it’s true the way is always clearly marked: earth cairn, sky cairn, fire cairn, water cairn.
-David Hinton
We invite you to join us in June 2021 for a seven-day retreat in a remote high desert canyon—a uniquely beautiful jewel of the Mojave National Preserve. We will establish our camp amidst the family of Pinon, Juniper, Oak, rabbit, deer, hummingbird and snake. Seekers across time and tradition have sought refuge in wild places, where great joy and suffering can bring us to our deepest truths.
During this program you will be guided and supported to quiet the mind and cultivate a sense of stillness and spaciousness. Together, we will drop into deep relationship to our most authentic selves, one another, and the wild landscape around us and within us. Unplugged from the demands of routine and familiar surroundings, Clear Desert Mirror will support restorative contemplation and inspire transformation, for the benefit of all beings.
Each day will include several periods of silent meditation, teachings to help us open to our innate wisdom and compassion, time on the land, and time to share in council. There will be a 24 hour solo with optional fasting. Camping experience is useful, but not a prerequisite. This program is open to all people of all spiritual and religious traditions.
For more information or to register contact
roy@earthwaysllc.com or cynthia@earthwaysllc.com

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Cascadia Quest
2021-06-01 - 2021-06-09 | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Wenatchee, WA
Offered by Peerspirit… www.peerspirit.com
For the eleventh year, Peerspirit is delighted to offer this wilderness quest for both men and women. If you are seeking to listen to your deepest nature, mark a transition in your life, to reconnect with your inner wisdom or to clarify a life situation, we invite you to join us in the beautiful forested land of the Eastern Cascade Mountains. Using Skalitude’s off-the-grid retreat center as a base camp, your guides will prepare you for a 3 day solo in the wilderness by learning orientation, physical safety, wilderness ethics and the traditional quest practices of council, four shields teaching, wilderness solitude, fasting, and self generated ceremony. Upon return your stories will be shared, mirrored and confirmed in a council of elders by your guides and there will be time devoted to beginning incorporation.
Participants will provide their own equipment (list provided) for the solo time. All food will be provided. No prior camping experience is required. Hiking and other movement at this 3000ft elevation will not be strenuous.

What Matters Most
2021-05-01 | Pomo Canyon, Near the Sonoma Coast, CA
A Day Walk With Inquiry of Forgiveness, Apology, Love and Goodbye

Sliding scale available – please ask your guides!
Non-refundable deposit $50
Gathering time, Saturday 8am – 5pm
Limit 8 due to covid restrictions

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
This is the last day walk in a series of 4 seasonal day walks we began last year. It is open to anyone who is interested in joining us, whether or not you participated last year.
What Matters Most emphasized four inquiries that matter. We believe all of our relationships with the Earth and each other can be tended, mended, and nurtured. What if we take time on the land to contemplate what we need to forgive, what we are grateful for, what it is we love, and what it means to say goodbye? Please join us for time on the land, deep listening and storytelling.
You will have a full day to be out on the land to use as you feel called. You may need to rest. Or hike. Maybe called to journal or do art. At the end of the day walk, we will hold story council and offer you a deep listening and reflection for your life.
For more information or to register contact:
deborah@earthwaysllc.com

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Sheltering in Nature
2021-04-23 - 2021-04-24 | Pomo Canyon, Near the Sonoma Coast, CA
A Day Walk with Inquiry
Start: Friday, April 23, 2021 @ 6pm
End: Saturday, April 24, 2021 @ 5pm
This will include overnight camping, with an evening Intention Council on Friday night. (Rangers tell us the campsite will open in time for this overnight, but if it hasn’t, we will revise the program to be a day walk only for Saturday, April 24, 9am-5pm.)
After a long winter lockdown, we finally have emerged from sheltering in place to the great possibility of sheltering in nature. Please join us as we dedicate this Friday night and Saturday to reflecting on this last year and all the ways we have learned to be alone. This experience of isolation is especially strong for those who truly do live alone, and yet most all of us have felt some kind of separation from others, some kind of aloneness.
We will sit and walk with these questions:

What does it mean to be alone and live fully with our aloneness?
How will we allow the uncomfortable lessons of sheltering in place, inform our lives going forward into 2021?

At the end of the day, we will come together in council to share our stories and offer each other some precious mirroring.

Limit 8 (due to current physical distancing requirements)
Cost: Sliding scale $100 – $160
No one turned away for lack of funds
Fee to be adjusted if program is shortened to daylong

For more information or questions, please contact Sahara Chaldean at Sahara@earthwaysllc.com

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