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 – October 2023
October 2 - 6, 2023
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky
With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.
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.
Exploring your Wild Mind: An Online Experience of the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche – October, 2023
October 22 - 27, 2023
Online
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Gunion
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 – November, 2023
November 5 - 9, 2023
Joshua Tree National Park, California
With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and Laura Blakeman, Ph.D.
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.
Soulcraft Intensive – November 2023
November 16 - 20, 2023
Dharma Treasure Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona
With Doug Van Houten and Kate Joyner
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.