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
Online Introduction to The Soulcentric Developmental Wheel – December, 2023
December 8 - 10, 2023
Online
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and John Lynch, Art.D.
Join our nature-based guides in an online experiential exploration of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel, a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
Soulcraft Intensive – January 2024, Australia
January 17 - 21, 2024
Arcoora Arts and Ecology Training Ground, Northern NSW
With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt
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 – February, 2024
February 26 - March 1, 2024
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
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 – March, 2024
March 2 - 6, 2024
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Pete Fonken
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Nature and the Human Soul: An Experiential Exploration of the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel – March 2024
March 25 - 29, 2024
Taft Gardens, Ojai, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Gene Dilworth, M.A.
Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
Queer Wild Mind Intensive – May 2024, Canada
May 3 - 7, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia
With Sara McFarland and Jules Howatt
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, June 2024
June 5 - 9, 2024
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt
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.