Advanced Offerings

Our Advanced offerings are designed for those who are prepared for the encounter with soul and want to work in greater depth with one or two specific soulcraft practices (like dreamwork, talking across the species boundaries, shadow work, deep imagery, or the way of council) or want to take their next step toward soul after an Animas Quest (or a vision fast with another organization). These offerings are also popular with educators, health professionals, psychotherapists, and wilderness guides. An application is often required for our advanced offerings.

Advanced offerings include:

  • Advanced Soulcraft Intensive
  • Coming Home to an Animate World
  • Deep Imagination
  • Soulcentric Dreamwork
  • Soulcraft Journey
  • Sweet Darkness
  • Underworld Journey
  • Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion

Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche: The Advanced Soulcraft Intensive – June, 2024

June 6 - 10, 2024
Temple of the Holy Earth, North Cascade Mountains, Washington

With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Laura Gunion

An advanced version of the Soulcraft Intensive for people prepared for a radical immersion in the enigmatic dark waters of soul.

The Spiral Journey: An Advanced Animas Fast in the Latvian Forest – June, 2024, Latvia

June 25 - July 5, 2024
Stacija, Latvia

With Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland

This contemporary enactment of the pancultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for those seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning.

Wild Mind Deep Imagination Training – July 2024, Canada

July 15 - 20, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Mary Marsden

During the Deep Imagination Training, we will apprentice ourselves to the mystery and wild otherness of images that arise from the unconscious.

Sweet Darkness – October, 2024

October 14 - 19, 2024
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Palika Rewilding

Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.

Sweet Darkness – November 2024, New Zealand

November 13 - 17, 2024
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley

With Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. and Laura Gunion

Sweet Darkness is one of our most challenging programs, a truly intense intensive, a 6-day experiential immersion into nature-based Shadow work.