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
Foundations of Wild Mind, Online – August, 2026
August 1 - 22, 2026
Online
With Doug Van Houten and Dan Dolquist, M.Div, Th.M, D.Min, Wild Mind Guide
This Program is FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. Weaving the Map of the Psyche into our inner world, our daily life, and our relationship with the other than human community.
Wild Mind Intensive – August 2026, Sweden
August 8 - 12, 2026
Earthbound Ecovillage, Sweden
With Sara McFarland
Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.
Mycorrhizal Mystery School: Slow-Time Dreaming with Lichen and Stone, 2026-2027
September 21, 2026 - March 24, 2027
Online
With Sage Magdalene and Marta Gaunt, M.A.
Meet dreamers from all over the world, and find out what happens when we make art and music together, inviting mystery and mischief to play across the distance for six months of dreaming and listening in slow time.
Soulcraft Intensive – September, 2026
September 28 - October 2, 2026
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Wilding
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.
The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – October, 2026
October 4 - 8, 2026
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Palika Wilding
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 – October, 2026
October 19 - 23, 2026
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Christie Diamond, 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 Intensive – November, 2026
November 7 - 11, 2026
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Dan Dolquist, M.Div, Th.M, D.Min, 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.
Online Introduction to Soulcraft – November, 2026
November 20 - 22, 2026
Online
With Gene Dilworth, M.A. and Christie Diamond, 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.