Soul Quest Weekend

A Retreat of Renewal and Transformation

Are you ready to feel renewed, clarified, and aligned with your life journey?
Do you long to reconnect with the natural world in a deep, intimate way?
Are you brimming with potential transformation, just waiting to emerge?

Engaging deep personal inquiry and transformation can be challenging within the momentum of “normal life” and all its responsibilities and distraction. We can easily become fatigued, burnt out, and even feel like a stranger in our own bodies and lives. Consciously creating the space for yourself to reconnect to your deepest truth is a radical act of love that ripples through your entire community and beyond.

Dates + Details

When: August 11-13, 2017
Where: Esmeralda Basin, Cle Elum, WA.
Tuition: $350. Tuition includes all camping fees as well as lunch and dinner on Friday, dinner on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday. You will be invited to fast from sunrise to sunset on Saturday.
Note: Tuition is non-refundable.

Please join us for this unique opportunity to experience deep healing and transformation in a beautiful natural setting.

Join us for 3 days and walk away …

• Feeling like you’ve come back home to yourself
• Refreshed, awakened, nourished, and vitally alive
• Clear-headed and grounded as your next steps reveal themselves
• Confident, trusting, and relaxed amidst the unknown and discomfort of transformation
• Aligned with your greater purpose and service in life
• Embracing all of who you are
• Honoring your shadows and wounds as gifts to be shared
• Reconnected to your true nature, within and without

Experience all that’s possible when you reconnect to yourself, your community, and the healing power of the wilderness

What to expect:

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.

Day One: We’ll join as a group and set the stage, clarify our intentions, and answer questions. We’ll explore the powerful perspectives of the indigenous medicine wheel model and learn how it can clarify our journeys.
Day Two: We’ll wake at dawn and begin personal solo retreats. You’ll spend the day alone and return at dusk to rejoin the group. We’ll feast and share stories of how we were moved, what we sensed, and what revealed itself to us that day. Your guide, Dr. Deb, will mirror your journey back to you and offer inquiries to clarify and ground your experience.
Day Three: We’ll continue to deepen our insights and integrate all we’ve learned. We’ll examine the wisdom our quest offered us and prepare to return to our day-to-day realities.
Follow-up: This isn’t simply a weekend of peak experiences that fades: this experience will shift your path and continue working on you long after. One month after the program we’ll reconvene for a group conference call to support your integration and keep the transformation alive.

Relax — All the details are taken care of…

This program is designed to meet you wherever you are. Whether you’re in the middle of a transformation, just entering or coming out of one, or simply need a “time out” in your routine — simply show up as you are.

Bring your willingness (and the basic supplies on the packing list), and everything else is taken care of. No prior camping experience is necessary — this is not a backpacking trip!

You’ll be gently guided the entire time so you can stay within your own inquiry and healing.

Wholesome meals are lovingly prepared. Experiential exercises guide and deepen your process. You’ll deepen into your own inquiry during your solo retreat. And you’ll share your story, be witnessed, and enjoy the depth and clarity that can only come from community reflection.

This program is for you if you’re ready to …

• Revitalize your life
• Stretch a little beyond your comfort zone
• Dive deeply into your soul’s truth • Trust in a time-tested process
• Open into new ways of knowing
• Share openly and authentically in a supportive community setting
• Spend a few days in the beauty of nature, “unplugged” from technology and routine

Staff

Deborah Zucker is a Naturopathic Physician and founder of Vital Medicine, with whom Rites of Passage is partnering to present this program. Deb has guided wilderness journeys for many years and is continually astonished by nature’s power for reflecting and nurturing our vitality — as well as clarifying our purpose, awakening our truest selves, and encouraging deeply profound transformation. She has been a participant in the Rites of Passage guide training program.

Deb writes: My own medical and wilderness trainings make me a skilled guide through this rich, deep territory — yet what most qualifies me most is my own journey through chronic illness and personal transformation. I’ve come out the other side of a profound evolution with an intimate knowledge of the ups and downs of the healing path — as well as a deep devotion to serving others through transitions. I hold a gentle, supportive group space that both serves you as an individual and cultivates intimacy within the group. My approach cuts straight to the heart of things — in a loving, deeply nourishing way.