Animas Valley Institute Animas Valley Institute Animas Valley Institute
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Welcome

At Animas, our focus is nature-based initiation, whose central goal is the descent to soul for the purpose of maturing the ego so that it becomes a vessel for a person’s deepest, world-transforming gifts. Rare in today’s world, our programs are not designed to transcend the ego, to solve everyday personal problems, or to help people better adjust to — or be happier in — the surface world of contemporary Western culture. Instead, our intent is a foundational shift that elicits each person’s most creative, soul-rooted response to our precious, critical moment in history.

What’s New at Animas

 


Animas Valley Institute Founder Bill Plotkin’s Books


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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness & Community in a Fragmented World

“With Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin once again works miracles. This vital book provides a road map to help us remember how to be human — which means how to be a human being in relationship to the natural world, to our home. We owe Bill Plotkin a deep debt of gratitude for this important work.”

Derrick Jensen author of A Language Older Than Words and As the World Burns


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Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche

“Here is an abundantly wise and carefully crafted survival guide for the wild soul currently dozing (or dying) at the heart of your civilized life.”

David Abram, author of TheSpell of the Sensuous