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
Wild Mind Intensive – January, 2023
January 12 - 16, 2023
Taft Gardens, Ojai, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Gunion
THIS PROGRAM IS FULL. Please sign up for the waitlist. 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 – February, 2023
February 1 - 5, 2023
Taft Gardens, Ojai, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Palika Wilding
Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.
Prayers In The Dark – February, 2023
February 4 - 8, 2023
Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
The human species has entered a collective dark night. What visions might emerge from our prayers in the dark?
Soulcraft Intensive – March, 2023
March 5 - 9, 2023
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Pete Fonken
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, June 2023
June 2 - 6, 2023
Spirit Hollow, Vermont
With Doug Van Houten and Laura Blakeman
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 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.
Soulcraft Intensive – Canada, June 2023
June 22 - 26, 2023
Earthspring Sanctuary, British Columbia
With Doug Van Houten and Bruce Howlatt
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 – Latvia, July 2023
July 20 - 24, 2023
Stacija, Latvia
With Sage Magdalene 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.