Great Places To Start
The Animas offerings listed on this page, while some of our most profound experiential immersions, are also the most popular “entry points” for those with no prior experience with Soulcraft™ practices or the work of Animas Valley Institute.
Great Places To Start offerings include:
- Soulcraft Intensive
- Wild Mind Intensive
- The Way of Council & the Art of Mirroring
- Nature and the Human Soul
- Animas Quest
Soulcraft Intensive – April 2023, Australia
April 12 - 16, 2023
Hundred Tents Camp, Tweed Valley and Northern Rivers
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Soulcraft Intensive, April 2023
April 25 - 29, 2023
La Ventana Wilderness, behind Big Sur, Los Padres National Forest
With Palika Rewilding and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Soulcraft Intensive – April 2023, New Zealand
April 28 - May 2, 2023
Centre for The Great Turning, The Motueka Valley
With Doug Van Houten
This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – May, 2023
May 19 - 21, 2023
Online
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Gene Dilworth, M.A.
Join our nature-based guides in an online experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Soulcraft Intensive, June 2023
June 2 - 6, 2023
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Doug Van Houten and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Soulcraft Intensive for Earth Activists – June, 2023
June 13 - 17, 2023
Bell Meadow Farm, Sedalia, CO
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Erica Rhinehart
This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Soulcraft Intensive – June 2023, Canada
June 22 - 26, 2023
Wave Hill Farm, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
With Doug Van Houten and Bruce Howlatt
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Wild Mind Intensive – June 2023, Cymru (Wales)
June 29 - July 3, 2023
Spirit Horse, Cymru, Wales
With Sara McFarland, Wild Mind Guide and Bell Selkie Lovelock, Wild Mind Guide
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Wild Mind Intensive – July 2023, Latvia
July 20 - 24, 2023
Stacija, Latvia
With Sara McFarland, Wild Mind Guide and Bell Selkie Lovelock, Wild Mind Guide
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Wild Mind Intensive, August 2023
August 7 - 11, 2023
Ben Lomond Quaker Center, California
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Rewilding
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Wild Mind Intensive, September 2023
September 14 - 18, 2023
White Ash Learning Cooperative, Wabanaki Territory, Swanville, Maine
With Doug Van Houten and Sara McFarland, Wild Mind Guide
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Queer Soulcraft Intensive, September 2023
September 20 - 24, 2023
Wild Geese Collective, Wabanaki Territory, Swanville, Maine
With Doug Van Houten
This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Soulcraft Intensive, October 2023
October 2 - 6, 2023
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.