Online Introduction to Soulcraft - 2025
Online
Online Introduction to Soulcraft - 2025
Up to 24 in group
March 28 - 30, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- A border crossing into mystery, Soulcraft is rooted in depth psychology, wilderness experience, and the poetic tradition. It is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from the landscapes of the American wilderness, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity.
About this Retreat
Rebecca is the author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth and has offered Wild Yoga™ programs since 2007. She guides people to listen to the mysteries within nature and their bodies and dreams so they can belong to and serve the Earth community. She has been a wilderness and soul guide for decades and has spent most of her adult life in wild places. Rebecca has extensive somatic therapy and dreamwork training and loves to tune in to the mythic stories of humans and the animate world. An Earth lover, activist, feminist, and writer, she fiercely supports radical social and cultural change. Rebecca often guides alongside her canine muse-beloved, Xander, who is guide to love, joy, presence, and play.
Kent Dobson is a defender of the ancient and hidden ways of relating to the ordinary mysteries of being alive. He's committed to helping others listen to the poetry of their own way of being and the potentialities latent in the contours of the heart. He's fascinated by the ways myth and symbol arise spontaneously from the psyche in wildly personal ways and in recognizable patterns that cross time and culture. He's a student of the evolving conversation around the sacred masculine and the sacred feminine. He was lucky enough to grow up in the woods of Virginia, among the hills and streams, as the son of Irish immigrants. He studied English in college and went to graduate school in Jerusalem, where he still leads pilgrimages. He's a former minister and musician, an author and podcaster, dream tender and companion-guide for individuals, and a trouble-maker for his own group wilderness intensives. Based in Michigan for many years, he's now settling into his new home in rural Georgia with his wife and kids, among pines and ferns and extended family.
Details of this retreat
There is a great longing in each one of us — a longing to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey quite distinct from the transcendence aspired to in many eastern spiritual disciplines. In the contemporary Western world, we live as if the spiritual descent is no longer necessary or with no awareness that such a journey is meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology.
Soulcraft is a modern handbook for the journey of descent: what it is, why it is necessary, how to recognize the call to descend, the necessary prelude and preparation to the descent, what the process of descending looks and feels like, and a set of nature-based practices to initiate and quicken the descent and to maximize its soul-making benefits.
A border crossing into mystery, Soulcraft is rooted in depth psychology, wilderness experience, and the poetic tradition. It is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from the landscapes of the American wilderness, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.
Come join us for an online introduction to these practices. This program is great for individuals who have never done an Animas program.
Between our online sessions, you will be invited to engage in Soulcraft practices in the vicinity of the place you inhabit – either nearby wild lands, urban parks and open space, your own backyard, or a sunny balcony or patio – wherever you may encounter the natural world. Please note these wanders are the central experiential elements that will create richness, enchantment, transformation, consciousness shifting, and empowerment in your embodiment of the Soulcraft practices. Please be sure to allow for plenty of time in your schedule to tend to them. After your wanders, we will gather again to share and deepen our experiences on the land. You will leave the program with additional practices to continue personally delving into the wild depths of soul.
We will gather on Zoom on the following days:
Friday, March 28th: 11am - 1pm MT
Saturday, March 29th: 11am - 2pm MT
Sunday, March 30th: 11am - 2pm MT
NOTE: sessions are not recorded - please plan to be present for all sessions - thank you.
Soulcraft is a modern handbook for the journey of descent: what it is, why it is necessary, how to recognize the call to descend, the necessary prelude and preparation to the descent, what the process of descending looks and feels like, and a set of nature-based practices to initiate and quicken the descent and to maximize its soul-making benefits.
A border crossing into mystery, Soulcraft is rooted in depth psychology, wilderness experience, and the poetic tradition. It is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from the landscapes of the American wilderness, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.
Come join us for an online introduction to these practices. This program is great for individuals who have never done an Animas program.
Between our online sessions, you will be invited to engage in Soulcraft practices in the vicinity of the place you inhabit – either nearby wild lands, urban parks and open space, your own backyard, or a sunny balcony or patio – wherever you may encounter the natural world. Please note these wanders are the central experiential elements that will create richness, enchantment, transformation, consciousness shifting, and empowerment in your embodiment of the Soulcraft practices. Please be sure to allow for plenty of time in your schedule to tend to them. After your wanders, we will gather again to share and deepen our experiences on the land. You will leave the program with additional practices to continue personally delving into the wild depths of soul.
We will gather on Zoom on the following days:
Friday, March 28th: 11am - 1pm MT
Saturday, March 29th: 11am - 2pm MT
Sunday, March 30th: 11am - 2pm MT
NOTE: sessions are not recorded - please plan to be present for all sessions - thank you.
Schedule
Between our online sessions, you will be invited to engage in Soulcraft practices in the vicinity of the place you inhabit – either nearby wild lands, urban parks and open space, your own backyard, or a sunny balcony or patio – wherever you may encounter the natural world.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
What's Included
- This is an online program
What's Not Included
- This is an online program
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