May 2016
Women’s Workshop, Four Shields Medicine Wheel ‘South’
This is one of four planned Women's Medicine Shield Workshops for 2016, focusing on the South or Summer Shield. The Medicine Wheel teachings provide a deep and powerful foundation for understanding ourselves as co-participants in Creation with the entire natural world. During these weekends, we explore each direction through discussion, sharing, movement, art, time spent with assignments in nature, telling the story of these encounters, and mirroring of the stories by staff and participants. Special emphasis is placed on the Four…
Find out more »June 2016
Medicine Wheel Retreat with Horses
Rites of Passage and Eponicity in Costa Rica are collaborating to create a ground-breaking and unique experience that combines the ancient teachings of the Medicine Wheel and the gentle, reflective nature of horses for a profound and embodied journey towards wholeness.
Find out more »July 2016
Women’s Workshop, Four Shields Medicine Wheel ‘West’
This is one of four planned Women's Medicine Shield Workshops for 2016, focusing on the West or Fall Shield. The Medicine Wheel teachings provide a deep and powerful foundation for understanding ourselves as co-participants in Creation with the entire natural world. During these weekends, we explore each direction through discussion, sharing, movement, art, time spent with assignments in nature, telling the story of these encounters, and mirroring of the stories by staff and participants. Special emphasis is placed on the Four…
Find out more »August 2016
Soul Quest Weekend
We’ll gather together for 3 days in a beautiful creekside mountain camp in the Esmeralda Basin of Eastern Washington. We’ll take a deep breath in our lives. We’ll reconnect with the natural world and experience how it reflects our vitality and innate wisdom. We’ll open to new ways of perceiving and listening. We’ll deepen our presence with ourselves, the wild nature that holds us, and our little community.
Find out more »Youth Soul Quest Weekend
We’ll gather together for 3 days in a beautiful creekside mountain camp in the Esmeralda Basin of Eastern Washington. We’ll take a deep breath in our lives. We’ll reconnect with the natural world and experience how it reflects our vitality and innate wisdom. We’ll open to new ways of perceiving and listening. We’ll deepen our presence with ourselves, the wild nature that holds us, and our little community.
Find out more »July 2017
Canada Vision Quest
This nine-day program will be take place on First Nations land and at Cabine Soleil, a retreat center near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This is a classic Vision Quest program welcomes both men and women and is in the tradition we have followed for over 35 years. We offer a range of modern and ancient tools to participants, with a focus on learning about oneself and one’s gifts in the context of the natural world.
Find out more »August 2017
Soul Quest Weekend
We’ll gather together for 3 days in a beautiful creekside mountain camp in the Esmeralda Basin of Eastern Washington. We’ll take a deep breath in our lives. We’ll reconnect with the natural world and experience how it reflects our vitality and innate wisdom. We’ll open to new ways of perceiving and listening. We’ll deepen our presence with ourselves, the wild nature that holds us, and our little community.
Find out more »Men’s Vision Quest Ireland
This nine-day Men's Vision Quest will be held on the western coast of Ireland, ancient and magical land of connection to earth and spirit. Rites of Passage has been guiding Men's Vision Quests for over 30 years. These deep transformational journeys into the heart of nature and the hearts of men have had an enormous impact on the men who found the courage to say "yes" to the inner call.
Find out more »May 2018
The Art of Mirroring
Mirroring is a practice that involves listening deeply to another person, then giving feedback that heightens insight, self-recognition and the sense of being recognized and validated. It is especially useful when listening to stories of people who have gone into nature to enact a rite of passage. This workshop will present information and experiential learning about the art of mirroring that is central to the Rites of Passage program.
Find out more »October 2018
Solo Walk
A day's journey on Mother Earth, structured in the same way as all significant rites of passage: preparation (Severance), time on the land (Threshold), and return (Incorporation).
This program can serve as an excellent introduction to our work, and can be a gift to oneself--time out of your regular life to reflect, go within, and just be in nature. The Solo Walk contains elements distilled from the 9-day Wilderness Quest journey: safety orientation, a day fast, clarification of intent, crossing a threshold, sacred time on the land, return to a feast, and storytelling with mirroring by program staff.
Find out more »January 2019
Youth Wilderness Quest for Sonoma Academy Students
This nine-day Youth Vision Quest will take place in Death Valley National Park. It is being offered to students at Sonoma Academy, a high school that Rites of Passage has partnered with for the past 10 years.
Find out more »April 2019
Youth Wilderness Quest for Sonoma Academy Students
This nine-day Youth Vision Quest will take place in Death Valley National Park. It is being offered to students at Sonoma Academy, a high school that Rites of Passage has partnered with for the past 10 years.
Find out more »May 2019
Spring Wilderness Quest
A pan-cultural enactment of the vision quest ceremony for our times. This program, open to both men and women, will be held in the high desert Inyo Mountains--"the dwelling place of the Great Spirit." Offered in the tradition of Rites of Passage , which has been guiding these programs for 40 years. We offer a range of modern and ancient tools to participants, with a focus on learning about oneself and one’s gifts in the context of the natural world.
Find out more »Four Directions Workshop
The Four Directions teachings, first presented to Rites of Passage as the Medicine Wheel by Hyemeyohsts Storm over 40 years ago, provide a deep and powerful foundation for understanding ourselves as co-participants in Creation with the entire natural world. In this workshop, we explore each direction through discussion, sharing, time spent with assignments in nature, telling the story of these encounters, and mirroring of the stories by staff and participants.
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