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:
- Nature and the Human Soul
- Wild Mind Intensive
- Soulcraft Intensive
- Animas Quest
Soulcraft Intensive – Online, June 2022
June 22 - July 8, 2022
Online
With Laura Gunion and Kate Joyner
This is our popular six-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, 2022
June 29 - July 3, 2022
Bell Meadow Farm, Sedalia, CO
With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and John Lynch, M.A.
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 Mirror Training, July 2022 – England
July 11 - 15, 2022
Dartmoor National Park, England
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Bell Selkie Lovelock, Wild Mind Guide
When our story is compassionately reflected through the skilled mirroring of another, we feel fully heard and able to experience ourselves in a larger and more meaningful context.
Wild Mind Intensive – July 2022, Latvia
July 20 - 24, 2022
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland, Wild Mind Guide and SAIP Trainee
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring, August 2022 – England
July 21 - 25, 2022
Dartmoor National Park, England
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.
Soulcraft Intensive – Embercombe, July 2022
July 26 - 30, 2022
Embercome, UK
With Doug Van Houten and Kate Joyner
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, August 2022 – Italy
August 29 - September 2, 2022
Rifugio Dolada, Italy
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 2022
October 8 - 12, 2022
Harrod's Creek Sactuary, 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.
Introduction to Soulcraft, Online – October 2022
October 28 - 30, 2022
Pacifica Graduate Institute
With Doug Van Houten and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.