Next Council - 7 November 2024
Noordhoek, Cape Town
We offer a quarterly ‘Nature and Soul Council’, as a way for our community to remain connected and engaged with Soulcraft practices. Each gathering has a different host, a particular theme and comes with an invitation to wander prior to the meeting.
Timings: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Suggested
Next Council - 7 November 2024
Noordhoek, Cape Town
We offer a quarterly ‘Nature and Soul Council’, as a way for our community to remain connected and engaged with Soulcraft practices. Each gathering has a different host, a particular theme and comes with an invitation to wander prior to the meeting.
Timings: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Suggested donation - R100. However, the invitation is to donate within your budget and to attend regardless of whether you donate or not!
These offerings are open to those who have attended an Animas Valley Institute or SoulNature immersion programme in South Africa (in person or online).
We will issue an invitation to the Soulcraft Africa community via email prior to each meeting. You will then be able to RSVP. You will receive details including a theme for the meeting and an invitation to wander.
9 - 13 October 2024
Cederberg Mountains
with Brian Stafford MD MPH
JUST IN:
Thanks to the generous support of the Animas Foundation we are able to offer scholarship places to individuals from the BIPOC community in South Africa to join the WildMind Intensive. Sliding scale contribution according to your means, from R1500 to R9500 (full price
9 - 13 October 2024
Cederberg Mountains
with Brian Stafford MD MPH
JUST IN:
Thanks to the generous support of the Animas Foundation we are able to offer scholarship places to individuals from the BIPOC community in South Africa to join the WildMind Intensive. Sliding scale contribution according to your means, from R1500 to R9500 (full price). Note this is an all-camping programme in the Cederberg. You will need to bring your own tent and bedding. Transport to the Cederberg is not included (but there may be liftshare possibilities).
Apply by emailing rachael@soulnature.co.za with 1 – 3 paragraphs that express what draws you to participate in this programme.
Based on Bill Plotkin’s 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 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), mainstream psychology’s list of what can go wrong with people.
Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials and depths that we might not even know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and eventually integrate them into our everyday lives. In this intensive, we’ll access these depths and potentials — which we call the four facets of the Self, or the four dimensions of our innate human wholeness — and also the four sets of fragmented or wounded subpersonalities that form during childhood.
Rather than attempt to eliminate our subpersonalities (which is not possible) or to beat them into submission, we’ll cultivate the four facets of the Self and uncover the gifts of our subpersonalities. Our goal is to fully embody our multifaceted wild minds, commit ourselves to the largest, soul-infused story we’re capable of living, and serve the greater Earth community.
Discover:
We’ll explore the landscape of the psyche through a variety of practices, including creative expression, self-designed ceremony, solo exercises while wandering on the land, group work, movement, voice dialogue, journaling, and deep imagery work.
This is an all-camping programme and participants must bring their own camping gear.
Participants bring their own breakfasts and lunches, and evening meals are shared in cook teams.
Early-bird: Bookings by 13 August
SA and SADC residents: R8,250
Others: R12,500
Price:
SA and SADC residents: R9,500
Others: R14,500
If booked together with Vision Fast receive 10% off both programmes
Artwork by Doug van Houten
13-24 October 2024
Cederberg Mountains
with Brian Stafford MD MPH
This contemporary Western embodiment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for all who are seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest is a ceremonial descent to the underworld, in which
13-24 October 2024
Cederberg Mountains
with Brian Stafford MD MPH
This contemporary Western embodiment of the ancient, pan-cultural vision fast is a dynamic wilderness rite for all who are seeking greater depth and clarity about life purpose and meaning. As a rite of initiation, the quest is a ceremonial descent to the underworld, in which you die to your familiar way of belonging to the world, uncover the passion and wisdom of your soul, and retrieve the gift that is yours alone to bring to the world, enhancing personal fulfillment and genuine service.
Click here for a fuller description of the Quest.
This is an all-camping programme and participants must bring their own camping gear.
Participants bring their own breakfasts and lunches for the non-fasting days, and evening meals are shared in cook teams.
Open for bookings now to all those who have attended at least one previous Animas Valley Institute programme
Early-bird: Bookings by 13 August
SA and SADC residents: R14,500
Others: R22,500
Price:
SA and SADC residents: R16,000
Others: R25,000
If booked together with WildMind Intensive, receive 10% off both programmes
23 - 30 April 2025
Cederberg Mountains
Includes a 24 hour solo nature immersion
1- 5 May 2025
Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat
8- 12 October 2025
Cederberg Mountains
An advanced programme for those who have already attended AnimasValley programmes and are immersed in their soul journey
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