Programs
Seasonal Wilderness Quest
Coming Up: Turning Toward the Light · Winter 2027
Programs
Coming Up: Turning Toward the Light · Winter 2027
Winter Quest 2027
Turning Toward the Light
When we step into the wilderness — within and around us — we are invited into a sacred dance with the mystery. We encounter Life in its raw form and formlessness. We enter The Holy Wilds…
Winter carries us toward the return of the light — a time of deep stillness, dreaming, and the quiet gestation of what is yet to come. This quest is offered as a ritual crossing — five days and four nights in the wilderness to mark what is ending and step into what is beginning.
Every wilderness quest moves through three distinct phases — a shape as old as initiation itself.
One full day and overnight together before the quest begins — working with the four cardinal directions to gather medicine, tend the village heart, and weave the bonds of community that will hold and nourish us in the wild.
Four days and three nights in the wilderness. Ritual, council, storytelling, ceremony, dreamwork, sharing meals and time around the fire, and a solo day fast to facilitate an encounter with the wildness of your soul.
Four weekly post-quest group sessions to weave the experiences, discoveries, insights, and transformative moments of your quest into something lasting.
During the preparation day, we work with each cardinal direction — gathering medicine for our time in the wild and tending the pulse of the emerging village heart.
Dawn. Innocence. The Fool & Sage. Invitation to step courageously into the unknown with wisdom and purpose.
Full Sun. Vitality. Authenticity & Sensuality. The Wild Child. Invitation to reconnect with one's animal nature and the living world.
Sunset. The Shadow & Threshold. Invitation to court your muse — what you love but are afraid to be.
Community. Softness. Regeneration & Nourishment. Invitation to care for oneself, others, and the living world.
The following practices are woven throughout the quest as ways of making contact — with the land, with the deeper self, and with what lies beyond ordinary awareness.
Tracking and working with dreams as living messages from the deeper self. We court the dreammaker before sleep and bring what arrives into the light of day.
Gathering around the fire to mark severance, to feed the holy, and to burn what is ready to be released. Fire as witness, as portal, as ancestor.
Moving through the wild without agenda — letting the land lead. Wanders open the senses and invite spontaneous encounter with the living world.
Speaking and listening from the heart in circle — a way of being witnessed and of witnessing others with full presence.
A day alone in nature — the primary vessel of threshold ritual. In the silence and the solitude, the ordinary self grows quiet, and something deeper stirs. The conditions are created for the flowering of the soul.
Giving shape to inner experience through narrative — using myth, personal story, and the stories the land itself carries to locate ourselves in the larger web of life.
Moving the body as a way of moving what is stuck. Dance, gesture, and expressive movement as gateways to what words cannot reach.
Returning again and again to a single place — building a relationship with a tree, stream, or stone as a way of deepening presence and belonging.
Bringing offerings to the land, to the directions, and to what we love — tending the reciprocity of life with intention.
Let these questions sit with you as you consider this journey…
If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out — financial accessibility matters and we are open to conversation.
Review preparation guidelines before your arrival.
The Seasonal Wilderness Quest is offered four times a year — each shaped by the particular medicine of its season. Dates and locations for future quests will be announced as they approach.
The season of letting go — when the world turns inward and the veil grows thin.
The season of stillness — deep rest, dreaming, and the quiet gestation of what is yet to come.
The season of emergence — new life stirring, the soul stretching toward the sun after long darkness.
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