Chapter 1 of My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild.
A journey of leaving the city and finding my soul.
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An Animas Valley Institute event
This 5-day intensive is a sacred invitation into embodied prayer — where movement becomes offering, dance becomes devotion, and grief becomes gateway. Through somatic practice, dreamwork, art, imagination, and communion with…
An Animas Valley Institute event
Based on Bill Plotkin’s third book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 5-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things…
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“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen”
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Gunaikurnai traditional owners on whose lands we gather. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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In this course we explore ancient technologies that rekindle enchantment, aliveness and intuition. Technologies that connect, rather than disconnect, us from the world around us. Each week we take a common smartphone app and learn an ancient practice to meet the same need. Over nine weeks, we will build slow connections with real beings, human and non-human. A whole life waits beyond your phone.