Jules Howatt

WE LIVE IN A PIVOTAL MOMENT ON EARTH, a time of immense challenge and profound uncertainty, in which this precious world, with its endangered creatures and imperiled ecosystems, hangs by a precariously thin thread. This is a time of both a great unraveling and a great turning, a time when humanity has entered a collective dark night — perhaps a necessary one. And yet, this moment is not only about collapse. It is a summons – a mythic invitation to return to the body as a sacred vessel of memory, movement, and metamorphosis. A call to embrace our full participation…

Based on Bill Plotkin’s third book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this 5-day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person, a ‘shadow’ version of mainstream psychology’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a list of what can go wrong with people. Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might…

The Animas Quest catalyses the encounter with soul by temporarily displacing everyday consciousness through five primary means: (1) solitude for three or four days and nights while (2) fasting (i.e., drinking water only), (3) being fully exposed to and enfolded within the forms and forces of nature, (4) enacting a series of ceremonies, and (5) employing a set of practices (Soulcraft) that support you in crossing into the mysteries of nature and psyche. The Quest takes place over a total of 12 days. Preceding your time of solitude are five full days of preparation activities that enhance your ability to benefit…

THE QUEER SOULCRAFT INTENSIVE PROVIDES A CONTAINER for the rainbow of diversity that is LGBTQIA+ for one to perhaps drop in deeper, to dance with your unique and wild animal selves, all your sacred emotions, your inspirations and visions, your gifts of seeing and imagining, dreaming and creating. The Soulcraft Intensive is our experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Your soul is your true self, those qualities that most deeply define and express who you are and the unique gift that you were…

Come join us in the red sands and wild gorges of Eastern Arrernte desert country, land shaped by the Caterpillar Dreaming, held by Eastern Arrernte Traditional Owners as a living current and Law. Here the ancient rocks speak in the language of deep time, the gnarled river gums beckon to the deep imagination, and the rumbling subterranean waters invite you to your sacred edge, calling for you to dive in…This is an opportunity to wander under the vast, open skies and to listen closely to the wild indigenous spirit of the land, where you may offer yourself up for psycho-spiritual…

Come join us in the red sands and wild gorges of Eastern Arrernte desert country, land shaped by the Caterpillar Dreaming, held by Eastern Arrernte Traditional Owners as a living current and Law. Here the ancient rocks speak in the language of deep time, the gnarled river gums beckon to the deep imagination, and the rumbling subterranean waters invite you to your sacred edge, calling for you to dive in…This is an opportunity to wander under the vast, open skies and to listen closely to the wild indigenous spirit of the land, where you may offer yourself up for psycho-spiritual…