Date & Time Details: April 11-16, 2026 - Start Time 1pm End Time 12pm

Location: Cederberg Mountains, South Africa

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A Wild Awakening – April 2026, South Africa

April 11 - 16, 2026

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

Life is a wild adventure. And this programme is a great starter to rewild one’s life, move beyond domestication and to remember our primary place of belonging – the Earth community.

We will venture into wildish places leaving our previous identities behind. We will engage in conversation with each other, but in a sacred circle. We will engage in conversation with the wild ones (dragonfly, raven, river, klipspringer) whose ecosystem we are stepping into. We will engage in conversation with long-forgotten aspects of ourselves – our muse, our wild self, and our innocent child. We will converse with the sun, the moon, the stars, the rain, and the ancestors.

Various practices that open us up to our senses, our wild connection with Earth, and the imagination, will help us re-enter the magic of our lives. The culmination of this journey is a 24-36 hour wilderness solo where you might be welcomed homed by Earth, heal your rift from the wild, and be propelled into the joy of what it is to discover the sacredness of the Earth and the Self, and the grief of what is happening to Earth, her species, and our people.

This intensive is designed for those called to rewild their Self and the world, for the ones who are curious about what the Earth really is, and about who they really are. It is also a great step into the wild and, for those who have spent little time in nature, a great precursor to most of our deeper programs and the Animas Quest.

Guide

Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Brian Stafford is a guide to the wilderness of nature, wildness, and soul. Called out of academic medicine to serve as a guide to the depths and to serve as an agent of cultural awakening and transformation, he guides with humor, playfulness, fierceness, compassion, discernment, and a deep remembering of the fullness of what each human life can, should, and was meant to be. A native of Colorado and the former holder of an endowed chair and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, he is currently a guide, Board Member, and Training Director of the Wild Mind Training Program at Animas. He…
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