Wilderness Guides Council

United States

Arizona

Jim Mahoney & Elizabeth Fabry (Gathering Council 2005-06)
PO Box BH
Bisbee, Arizona 85603
james_mahoney@blm.gov

SACRED GROUND VISION QUESTS
Jonathan Massey
PO Box 6353
Mesa, Arizona 85216
jmassey@sacredgroundcenter.com
http://www.sacredgroundcenter.com

Mixed gender and age groups.
8-9 day experiences featuring preparatory meeting, sweat lodge, 4-day solo fast, and elder's council to interpret experience. Trained at School of Lost Borders in Big Pine, CA.

Carol L Parker
420 Carol Canyon Dr
Sedona, Arizona 86336
clparker@cybertrails.com
http://earthspiritawakenings.com

California

THE SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
PO BOX 796
Big Pine, California 93513
staff@schooloflostborders.com
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

The School of Lost Borders is committed to creating opportunities for people from all walks of life to express their individual natures within old and modern ceremonial practices. Solitude and silence in wild nature, the commitment to community, honoring of personal intent, and the acknowledgement and responsibility to bring forth one's gifts, are the foundation of our ceremonies and teachings.
The School was founded in 1981 by Steven Foster and Meredith Little and has made its home in the small desert town of Big Pine for over two decades. This "Land of Little Rain" continues to sustain the heart of our work even as we travel throughout the U.S. and Europe offering vision fast and trainings.
Current courses include month-long and two-week trainings, week-long field seminars, council-story telling intensives, the practice of living and dying seminars, vision fasts, youth fast and trainings for adults, German-speaking vision fasts, and courses taught by visiting experts in the field.

Faculty: Angelo LaZenka, Emerald North, Petsy Perluss, PhD, Virginia "Gigi" Coyle, Winslow Phelps, Silvia Talavera, Meredith Little, Scott Eberle, MD, John Davis, PhD, Jeffrey Duvall, Mary McHenry, Jack West, Ruth Wharton, Chris Kaiser, Roger Milliken, Nancy Jane, Haiko Nitschke, and Larry Hobbes. Visiting faculty: Bill Plotkin, PhD and Kerry Brady (Animas Valley Institute).

THE OJAI FOUNDATION
9739 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd.
Ojai, California 93023
ojaifnd@jetlink.net
http://www.ojaifoundation.org

Mixed gender and age groups
Youth
Rites of Passage: individual and group ceremonies and retreats for adults, youth, corporations, couples, families. 24 hour solo fasts as part of month long work retreat program. Many ways of life, honoring transitions, births, weddings, divorces, coming of age, death. Beautiful 40 acre ridgetop sanctuary in upper Ojai Valley. Simple rustic dwellings, community-village experience, alone and together. Nature, 4 directions, council, quest, stonepeople lodge--all key elements.

Paul Andrade (Advisory Council 2004-07)
2501 Russell St
Berkeley, California 94705
greenfire999@hotmail.com

Leading: 1 on 1, small group, mixed gender/age, men only. Trained with School of Lost Borders. Circle Guide with Toltec Center of Creative Intent, Leave No Trace trainer, member of Buringman Earth Guardians.
“Paul has been Thoroughly Threshed on the grinding stone of life. That which has survived is thoughtful, nurturing, spiritually motivated. He has a great deal of soul. And he deeply cares for the living organism that is the Earth, and recognizes his place in the web... In short, the man has experience.”
–– Steven Foster

WILDERNESS RITES, LLC
Skye Bailey
PO Box 3004
San Anselmo, California 94979
skye@littlearrows.info
http://www.wildernessrites.com

Skye Bailey is the founder of Little Arrows Schools (www.littlearrows.info), fine art and environmental education programs for people 0-6, focusing on sustainable living and self-expression in Marin County, California. Skye’s great love of the earth is deeply rooted in childhood experiences of growing up on her grandmother’s family farm in Montana. She shares her knowledge and love of the natural world with the children in her school, as well as participants she guides on medicine walks and vision quests. Skye has trained and worked with Wilderness Rites founder Anne Stine since 1999, participating in and providing base camp support for vision quests in the Inyo Mountains and Death Valley. She is an accomplished artist and is in the process of attaining a degree in Native American Studies at the College of Marin. Skye is a certified Wilderness First Responder and a member of the Wilderness Guides Council.

BACK TO THE SOURCE
Miguel and Julie Batz
106 Marcela Dr.
Watsonville, California 95076
jmbatz@hotmail.com

TREE OF LIFE VISION QUESTS
Phil Baum
30638 Rolling Hills Drive
Valley Center, California 92082
lovetree@nethere.com

I lead traditional shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist-flavored vision quests in the high and low desert country of southern California which include, but are not limited to, internal and external Qigong practices, pranayama breath work, and Orisha-based Afro-Cuban and Afro-Haitian drumming evocations.
In 1998, I was trained by Steven Foster, Ph.D and Meredith Little of Lost Borders in traditional vision quest practices which complemented my study and practice of various and multiple indigenous, spiritually based traditions originating in Africa, Asia, South and North America and ancient Europe which I’ve been working with, in a variety of ways, since 1968.
Aside from my California state-issued college level credentials in counseling and teaching (Psychology, Counseling and high school English) all of which I’ve taught and practiced and since retired from, I’m a long-term student of advanced standing in various Buddhist disciplines and practices, in particular Tibetan Buddhism.
I’ve also taught hatha yoga and I currently teach basic, simple Qigong practices and meditation techniques derived, in part, from my work with Thich Nhat Hanh and other senior Buddhist teachers. My formal training in shamanic studies and practices goes back over twenty years and involves retreats with lineage shamans, chanters and road men from both North and South America.
By my own reckoning, I’ve participated in, sometimes led quests, of one sort or another, at least seventy-five times so I know the territory. I’m also an active grandpa, organic farmer and student of the arts - especially ceramics - who has, over the years, worked with folks from every walk of life.

Frank Beauduy
2465 Hall Canyon Rd
Ventura, California 93001
fxbe@chevrontexaco.com

BETH BEURKENS SEMINARS
Beth Beurkens
PO Box 840
Mt. Shasta, California 96067
beth@shamanicuniverse.com
http:www.shamanicuniverse.com

MEDICINE WALKS & SHAMANIC HEALING
ON MOUNT SHASTA
For those who are in transition, seeking transformation and personal healing
• Mid-life Passage
• Preparation for vision quest, walkabout, great ball court
• Grieving and loss
• Change of career, relationship
• Creating an ending, marking a beginning
• Seeking answer to a vital life question — earth oracles and mountain divination
Spend a day outside of time, walk on the mountain that is a sacred place of power to thousands.
Be guided and sung to by the cedars, the lake, the sacred springs, the bald eagles and wild flowers.
Get in touch with your deepest longing and the gifts of your soul. Recharge yourself, move into creative inspiration and your unfolding.
A day on the mountain includes:
• Ceremony and preparation before your walk
• Personalized Medicine Task
• Council and storytelling
Contact Beth Beurkens, M.A.
beth@shamanicuniverse.com
(530) 938 4777
www.shamanicuniverse.com
Beth Beurkens has been leading vision quests for twenty years in the Italian and Swiss Alps and in the Mojave Desert. Her Woman Quest and Apprenticeship groups, both beginning and advanced, were very well-attended in Santa Cruz, CA. Since moving to Mount Shasta, CA, she has deepened her shamanic healing practice and now teaches for the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

RITES OF PASSAGE
Mike Bodkin (Advisory Council 2003-2006)
PO Box 2061
Santa Rosa, California 95405
info@ritesofpassagevisionquest.org
http://www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org

Mixed gender, women's, men's, youth groups; training and apprenticeship. Rites of Passage, Inc., founded in 1977, is a non-profit organization offering Vision Quest and other programs that bring people into the wilderness for healing of Self and World. We provide guidance, support, teaching, and years of experience to provide a safe container for inner transformation. We follow a pan-cultural model of initiation that applies to any life stage or transition. See our website for more information about our work.
Staff:
Mike Bodkin, the Director, has been a Vision Quest guide since 1983 and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1978.
Linda Sartor has a doctorate in Transformative Learning from CIIS.
Other staff: Corinna Stoeffl, Scout Tomyris, Bob Palmer, Molly Young Brown, Sybil Meyer, Alison Hicks, Kent Pearce

UNFOLDINGS
Kerry Brady
California
kerry@unfoldings.com
http://www.unfoldings.com

Unfoldings: the risk to blossom
Unfoldings empoers people to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Through the integration of Integral Counseling , depth astrology, vision quests and wilderness based exploration, Unfoldings guides you to claim the life that calls you. When we listen to our deepest longings we are often asked to let go of the safe shores of the known so that a more vibrant and authentic self may emerge. Unfoldings helps to foster that longing.
Kerry is affiliated with and guides for the Animus Valley Institute. (See Colorado listings)

NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER
Thomas Carver
155 Granada St, Suite N
Camarillo, California 93010
thomascarver@sbcglobal.net

Part of the Condor Clan

SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Gigi Coyle
PO Box 513
Big Pine, California 93513
gigicoyle@earthlink.net
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

Mixed gender and age groups
Training Program
Nature of Council
Vision Quest Trainings
with Win Phelps

Annie Deichmann & Will Riggan
Sebastopol, California
annied@sonic.net

Mixed gender and age groups
Yearly spring wilderness quest down in the high desert of Joshua Tree. Pre-trip meetings the month before followed by a day-long elder council two weeks after the quest.

CONDOR CLAN
Randy Dolan
2765 Bayshore Ave
Ventura, California 95404
randydolan@aol.com

CONDOR CLAN
Randy Dolan
2765 Bayshore Ave
Ventura, California 93001
randydolan@aol.com
http://www.randydolan.com

Threshold Walk in Ventura County, or a flexible, taylor-made Vision Quest in Southern California.

THE PRACTICE OF LIVING AND DYING
Scott Eberle, MD
611 North Fair St
Petaluma, California 94952
seberle@sbcglobal.net
http://www.schooloflostborders.com/lb/inter/index.cfm

The Practice of Living & Dying offers lectures, seminars and outdoor training programs by Meredith Little and Dr. Scott Eberle through the School of Lost Borders, including Rites of Passage as Dying Practice for rites of passage guides.

ALL ONE JOURNEY
Lorindra Moonstar Frances (Gathering Council 2005-06)
PO Box 1544
Middletown, California 95461
lorindramoonstar@yahoo.com

Mixed gender and ages
Primarily one-on-one co-creating journey according to one's needs and rite of passage

THE CENTER FOR INTRINSIC LEADERSHIP
Jeanne Gunter
74 Taormina Lane
Ojai, California 93023
jeannie@intrinsicleadership.org
http://www.intrinsicleadership.org

Jeannie leads vision fasts and rites of passage for youth, adults, women and corporations. She specializes in women's initiation and bringing the spirit and heart of the vision fast to her work with corporations through what she calls The Four Directions of Leadership. She trained to guide with Steven Foster and Meredith Little at The School of Lost Borders. She is also a Council Trainer through the Center for Council Training. She has been leading experiential based trainings and retreats for over 15 years. Based out of California, I travel throughout the country leading corporate retreats and trainings and am available for executive and personal coaching by phone: (805) 798-2540.

WILDERNESS RITES, LLC
Susan Hagen
PO Box 5093
Galt, California 95632
hagen@womenatgroundzero.com
http://www.wildernessrites.com

For wilderness guide Susan Hagen, the vision quest has become an annual journey that clarifies and informs her life. Since 1999, she has trained and worked under the mentorship of Wilderness Rites founder Anne Stine and is proficient in earth-based healing practices and wilderness survival skills. In addition to leading vision quests and medicine walks for women, Susan is an award-winning nonfiction writer, writing teacher, and co-author of Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion. Susan's writing workshops and retreats are inspired by the vision quest, using a unique blend of guided imagery and nature-based practices designed to set aside the thinking mind and clear a path to the deeper inner life. (www.womenatgroundzero.com). Susan is a retired firefighter/emergency medical technician and a ten-year veteran of the Sonoma County Fire Service. She is a certified Wilderness First Responder and a member of the Wilderness Guides Council.

SACRED JOURNEYS
Carol Hannagan
4240 62nd St
Sacramento, California 95820
serenelake@sbcglobal.net
http://www.sacred-journeys.com/

Mixed gender and age groups
Survival Training Program
Shamanic Training
Hiking Tours
Come take a Sacred Journey to discover the gifts that Mother Earth has to share with you. In the tradition of Native American customs, we honor All of Our Relations with respect. Focusing on how to listen to Creator speaking to us, we incorporate the use of animals as messengers from Great Spirit. We believe that Creator created all therefore there is spirit in all and that Creator is speaking to us always, but we often do not know how to listen and interpret what Great Spirit is telling us. We offer small groups so we can attend to each person's needs through Heart Focus Training, Women's Sacred Circles, Vision Quests, Switzerland Hiking Tours, Sierra Nevada Hiking Tours, Backpack Tours, Living in Harmony Training, and Shamanic Training.

EARTHWAYS
Sara Harris
PO Box 1104
Sebastopol, California 95473
earthways@comcast.net
http://www.earthways.info

707-823-1319 or 707-824-8230
Mixed gender and age groups
We offer Day Quests, Vision Quests with varying solo lengths, Council and Four Shields Training, and Applied Ecopsychology in individual consulations.
Also see listing for Susan Kistin

WILDERNESS TRANSITIONS,INC.
John & Marilyn Hendee
70 Rodeo Ave
Sausalito, California 94965
2mhendee@earthlink.net

RETIRED
Marilyn Foster Hendee, formerly Marilyn Riley, is a former Netkeeper. She and John are retired from guiding although they remain active in wilderness work through the Wild Foundation. They attend the World Wilderness Congress annually.

Daian Hennington
Monterey, California
daian_hennington@sbcglobal.net

Patrick Heron
1330 Lincoln Ave, Ste #308
San Rafael, California 94901
heronlaw@sbcglobal.net

RITES OF PASSAGE
Alison Hicks
722 Trotter Ln
Napa, California 94558
moonraven323232@yahoo.com
http://www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org

Alison Hicks received her Master of Arts in Eco-psychology, a field of psychology that acknowledges one's relationship with nature as an integral component to well-being. During her studies she apprenticed with Anne Stine of Wilderness Rites and began leading quests in 2002. A native of Yosemite National Park, Alison has spent the past 14 years sharing with youth, adult and family groups the challenge, healing and joy evoked by the wilderness. She brings a passionate and joyous approach to wilderness rites of passage, weaving in diverse strands of her professional history in environmental education, communication, psychology, yoga and massage therapy. Alison is especially passionate in assisting teens and their families to succeed in healthy transitions to adulthood.

Jessica Ifshin (Bundle Council, Cafe 2005-06)
3364 4th Ave
San Diego, California 92103
thebellagirl@hotmail.com

Jonathan Kabat (Gathering Council 2006-07)
California
Jonathankabat@sbcglobal.net

SOUL-O-UNION
Keith and Annie Kilburn (Elder Council)
435 Skillman Lane
Petaluma, California 94952
howchi@comcast.net
http://www.howchi.net

Mixed gender and age groups
Men only
Women only
Youth only
The Solo Journey is an opportunity to spend four days and nights in communion with the seven directions including Spirit World, Nature, Ancestors and Inner Voice to heal and answer questions such as, "Who am I?" and "What is my purpose?" Fasting alone in the wilderness is an ancient cross-cultural rite of passage sanctioned by indigenous peoples to facilitate life transitions, bring healing and wisdom into the community, and provide initiation into adulthood and elderhood.

EARTHWAYS
Susan Kistin
PO Box 1104
Sebastopol, California 95473
earthways@comcast.net

707-823-1319 or 707-824-8230
Also see listing for Sara Harris

SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Angelo Lazenka (Elder Council)
PO Box 275
Big Pine, California 93513
angelo@schooloflostborders.com
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

Trained with the Bear Tribe and the School of Lost Borders and has led vision quests in America and Europe since 1986. In 1991 he founded Earth Passage, a program dedicated to the power of fasting in the wilderness and the telling of personal stories. No stranger to vision ceremonies, he carries with him a profound empathy for people in crisis, their stories, and the healing power of the wilderness.

OPEN SKY JOURNEYS
Petra Lentz-Snow (Advisory Council)
Menlo Park, California 94025
petra@openskyjourneys.com
http://www.openskyjourneys.com

Vision Quests, The Practice of Council, Women's Programs, Family Programs

LOST BORDERS PRESS
Meredith Litttle (Elder Council)
PO Box 55
Big Pine, California 93513
meredith@lostborderspress.com
http://www.lostborderspress.com

The Practice of Living & Dying offers lectures, seminars and outdoor training programs by Meredith Little and Dr. Scott Eberle through the School of Lost Borders, including Rites of Passage as Dying Practice for rites of passage guides.
Lost Borders Press publishes a number of books about vision quest and rites of passage. See the website.

NATURAL PATHFINDER
Catriona MacGregor
67 Rocca Dr
Fairfax, California 94930
catriona.macgregor@comcast.net
http://www.naturalpathfinder.com

If you have ever asked yourself, "What am I to do with my life? What is my life’s purpose?" You may want to Take a transformative guided inward journey to the wellspring of your being. Once you discover your true calling – and begin to walk the path with a heart, powerful forces will support you and take you further than you ever could alone.
Catriona offers Vision Quests combining unique modern methods based on the four primary elements in nature and practices used in indigenous traditions like the Native American Vision Quest.

Benefits

• Discover your life calling
• Find deep peace in nature
• Gain inner power and wisdom
• Overcome fears and self imposed limitations
• Step Into Courage
Catriona’s work has been called “remarkable, clear and profound”. She is a transformative vision quest leader, soul coach & guide to help you find your path with a heart.
Call toll free 1-877-399-3641

Catriona is the Co-author of Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and the Planet, along with Carolyn Myss, John Gray, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Masaru Emoto, Fritjof Capra, and Thich Nhat Hanh.
“ Catriona is truly a wise woman who weaves her many life experiences, spirituality and intuition into a tapestry of hope. She is gentle, honest and provides a safe space for your dreams to grow and emotions to bound forward. I thank her for helping me to rediscover my dreams and find clarity and peace. ”
E. G. San Francisco

CONDOR CLAN
Tom McGee
670 Thompson Blvd, Ste D
Ventura, California 93001
tommcgee@sbcglobal.net
http://www.naturehealsus.net.

Tom McGee, L.C.S.W., offers vision fast experiences, weekend solos, day walks, and half-day nature encounters. In groups, retreats, and individually, Tom offers activities in nature that bring healing, restoration, improved self-esteem, and heightened spirituality. He is enthusiastic about helping others enter more deeply into their experience of nature, regardless of their current relationship to outdoors experience.

Tom’s interest in nature was born in the north woods of Minnesota when he was four years old. It has continued to grow since then and is blossoming into work as a wilderness guide and leader of nature-centered retreats and workshops. He is an ardent backpacker and spends as much time as possible at the beach and in the mountains.

Tom has worked as a psychotherapist for 30 years, focusing on emotional and spiritual growth. He employs dream work, contemplative nature practices, wilderness experience, trauma work, compassion and imagination in his work. He has facilitated men’s growth through workshops, retreats, and groups since 1993. He has been a trained spiritual director since 1999. His website is www.naturehealsus.net.

Sybil Meyer
Richmond, California
sybil@sybilmeyer.com
http://www.sybilmeyer.com

Sybil works individually with people who want to do a day quest with preparation and support from a guide. She apprenticed with Anne Stine of Wilderness Rites, and has guided quests with Rites of Passage

Cynthia Morrow
290 Val Vista Rd
Mill Valley, California 94941
natureofsoul@comcast.net

Jill Boulet Murray (Advisory Council 2005-06)
25224 Steinbeck Ave #A
Stevenson Ranch, California 91381
jillbmurray@yahoo.com

ADVENTURES WITH SPIRIT
Liz Oettinger (Bundle Council)
305 Lee St
Santa Cruz, California 95060
lizis@lycos.com

Mixed gender and age groups
Women only
Youth only
I also offer:
1) customized programs to fit your needs: 1,2,3,4 day personal ceremonies and rites of passage;
2) weekend "Reconnection and Nature Awareness ceremonial workshops using the Four Shields model;
3) Rites of Passage and Menarche/1st Blood ceremonies for girls.

CONDOR VISION
Kent & Farion Pearce (Elder Council, Ranger Council, former Netkeeper)
670 Cedar Place
Ventura, California 93001
farion@sbcglobal.net

Men only
Women only
Youth only
Condor Vision is a community service holding the sacred space in which fasters find their own way through the three traditional rites of passage stages. We charge no money, but request a $400 give-away in time or money to an organization of the faster's choice. Severance and Threshold are completed in groups of 4 to 6. Incorporation is supported by a yearly cycle of six free events. We serve Western Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Win Phelps
California
winphelps@earthlink.net
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

GARY PLEP, LCSW
Gary Plep
220 A Oakmeadow Dr
Los Gatos, California 95032
camensctr@aol.com
http://www.mensgroups.com

Men only, as well as
Mixed gender and age groups

OUTBACK OF BEYOND
Tom & Mary Quinton (Ranger Council)
PO Box 222044
Carmel, California 93922
tomquinton@earthlink.net

SERVING SPIRIT
Tony Robichaud
52630 Sylvan Way
Pine Cove, California 92549-2191
manyhorseslodge@hotmail.com

GLOBAL HEART SPIRIT IN NATURE MINISTRIES
Hannah Rothlin
PO Box 1873
Quincy, California
revhannah@ghspiritinnature.org
http://www.ghspiritinnature.org

Vision Quests and Nature-based custom retreats for women, co-ed and men. I completed a an apprentice program with Anne Stine, Wilderness Rites, and have been an outdoor guide for over 20 years.

RITES OF PASSAGE
Linda Sartor
7899 St Helena Rd
Santa Rosa, California 95404
lsartor@inreach.com
http://www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org

Susan Steele
Mill Valley, California
xerty-10@att.net

WILDERNESS REFLECTIONS
Dave Talamo
PO BOX 177
Woodacre, California 94973
dave@wildernessreflections.com
http://www.wildernessreflections.com

Mixed gender and age groups
Youth only
Men only
Corporate Teambuilding & Visioning
With over 20 years wilderness guiding experience, our mission is to turn people to nature to find the insight, renewal and healing they need in their lives. Through our DayQuests, longer Wilderness Quest trips and custom programs we have assisted hundreds of people: in marking major life transitions; finding deeper joy and meaning in their lives; and addressing difficult issues and decisions.
Our trips take place in beautiful wild settings and utilize contemporary adaptations of ancient traditional modes of healing and self-discovery. Our custom programs have served a wide variety of individuals, schools, corporations, families and other groups. In the summer we offer Youth Quests for those marking a passage into adulthood.

Colin Taylor & Linda Liker (Kitchen 2007)
432 S San Marcos Rd
Santa Barbara, California 93111
dancingmagpie@cox.net
http://www.condorclan.org

see Condor Vision (Kent & Farion Pearce)

RITES OF PASSAGE
Scout Tomyris (Netkeeper)
527 Howard St
Santa Rosa, California 95404
scout@becomingsage.com
http://www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org

Staff guide for Rites of Passage, Inc.
Leads vision quest trips for women and mixed groups into the Inyo Mountains, Death Valley and beyond. Medicine Wheel Workshop leader.
Netkeeper for the WGC 2005-2008.
AKA Kathy Tomyris

SACRED QUEST
Nancy Wiens
San Rafael, California 94901
nsw333@gmail.com

Quests for college students and adults of both genders. Open to all faith backgrounds and spiritual practices, including Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and non-tradition based spirituality. Nancy is a spiritul director and minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Guiding quests since 1996. Trained at the School of Lost Borders in wilderness rites and ecopsychology.

THE SACRED MOUNTAIN
Jennifer Yamamoto
Venice, California
jennifer@thesacredmountain.com
http://www.thesacredmountain.com

See website for schedule of vision fasts, medicine walks and workshops.

Kap Young
1511 Oneida Pl
Oxnard, California 93030
wakawaka@adelphia.net

Colorado

ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE
PO Box 1020
Durango, Colorado 81302
soulcraft@animas.org
http://www.animas.org/

Animas Valley Institute's mission is to help individuals re-align their everyday lives with the rhythms and cycles of nature and with their own most deeply-rooted dreams and passions, those found in their souls. We believe that living in alignment with nature and soul leads to the greatest personal fulfillment and the most useful contributions to the world, and, ultimately, creates a sustainable, balanced, and soul-centered society.
Since 1980, we have offered nature-based programs supporting the recovery and embodiment of the life of the soul, the unique truth, passion, and gifts we each were born with.
Our 40-plus programs include 12-day wilderness vision quests, 5-day retreat-center-based soulcraft intensives, and advanced intensives on soulcentric dreamwork, shadow work, deep imagery journeys, and other soulcraft practices. Our Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) is an advanced training curriculum designed for educators, psychotherapists, health professionals, and wilderness guides

HEART OF THE EARTH RITES OF PASSAGE
Joyce Banaka & Joanne Chambers
PO Box 222
Mancos, Colorado 81328
earthsky4@yahoo.com

We have been guiding coed quests for 12 years in Iowa and the Southwest. Trained with The School of Lost Borders as well as with Sun Bear and other Native spiritual teachers for many years. Group or individual fasts. 10 day programs with 3/4 day solo fasts and shorter programs. Elder's council and ceremonies, Four Shields teachings, Medicine Wheel, Medicine Walks, shield building.
We work in the mountains of southwest Colorado and the Four Corners area.

Linda Clark (EARTH-SPACE)
PO Box 38
Westcliffe, Colorado 81252
earth_space@mac.com
http://web.mac.com/earth_space

Earth-Space Inc.
Center for Healing Through Oneness with Nature
Here in the beautiful Wet Mountains of south central Colorado, overlooking the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains, you have the opportunity to re-vision and heal yourself through re-connecting with the natural world.
At our remote 75 acres bordering the San Isabel National Forest, you will experience the thrill of the wild howl of the wolves at the nearby wolf sanctuary,the peace of sleeping next to a bubbling creek, the wonder of the dark sky full of stars, the mystery of the deep forest, the expansivenss of the open rolling meadows and the open-hearted community of like-minded people.
We offer 11 day Vision Quest/Fast programs
Nature Reatreats
Day long and weekend workshops

SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS and NAROPA UNIVERSITY
John Davis
3743 Nelson Road
Longmont, Colorado 80503
jdavis@naropa.edu
http://www.johnvdavis.com

SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Nancy Jane
1835 Cambridge Dr
Longmont, Colorado 80503
nancyjane1@earthlink.net
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

Nancy Jane; School of Lost Borders staff; Naropa University; Colorado & Wyoming. Guiding wilderness rites of passage and retreats for adults and youth (Waldorf schools) for the past 15 years. Available to guide individual ceremonial walks in nature. Contact: nancyjane1@earthlink.net

Mary McHenry & Jeffrey Duvall
PO Box 813
Nederland, Colorado 80466
mmc@peakpeak.com

NORTHLIGHT FAMILY SERVICES
Rob Meltzer
8771 Wolff Ct, Suite 215
Westminister, Colorado 80031
rob@schoolsthatfit.com
http://www.schoolsthatfit.com

ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE
Ron Pevny (Elder Council)
2420 Delwood Ave
Durango, Colorado 81301
ronp@frontier.net
http://www.animas.org/

Christi Strickland (Advisory Council 2005-07)
1170 Jay St
Boulder, Colorado 80302
christi@thestonepile.com

WOMEN'S WILDERNESS QUESTS
Linda Weber
525 Jack Pine Ct
Boulder, Colorado 80304
womenswildquest@earthlink.net
http://www.womenswildernessquests.org

When making an inquiry, please put QUEST in the subject line.
Please go to my web site for more information. You may reach me by email or call 303-442-1394. A paper brochure is also available.

Florida

GRANDFATHER DRUMS
Mike Beck
PO BOX 6235
Navarre, Florida 32566
mike@gfdrums.com

Rebecca Blanco
16120 N. Florida Ave
Lutz, Florida 33549
woods421@aol.com

Ann C DeBaldo
11502 Louvre Pl
Tampa, Florida 33617
adebaldo@runbox.com

ONTOS: A CENTER FOR BEING
Michael DeMaria
512 E. Zaragoza St
Pensacola, Florida 32502
mdemaria@ontos.org
http://www.ontos.org

ONTOS is a center dedicated to helping the whole person on their life journey. ONTOS is the Greek word for Being - and being refers to the wholeness we already are in the center of our hearts.
Journeys and trainings for adults.

Idaho

Mark Lazich
PO Box 484
Victor, Idaho 83455
mklazich@ida.net

Mark Lazich, M.S.: As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and educator, Mark was drawn to the 4-H Rite of Passage program through his personal passion for the natural world and his professional work with adolescents and their families. His journey as a wilderness guide stems from a background in wilderness therapy, experiential education, and cognitive based mindfulness therapy. Understanding the limitations of talk-therapy, he is dedicated to helping youth explore themselves through their relationship with the natural world. Mark is gratefully walking the new path of fatherhood, being led by his daughter, Sophia.

Paula Pintar
2925 Val Vista Ct
Meridian, Idaho 83642
ratnipsbox@yahoo.com

SECOND JOURNEY
Ken Pyburn
1811 N 13th St
Boise, Idaho 83702-2735
kenpyburn@yahoo.com
http://www.secondjourney.org

Supporter. Not a guide.

Massachusetts

Anna and Jay Coffman
Massachusetts
annabiz1@gmail.com
http://www.womenswell.org

Anna guides women's quests in Massachusetts. You can also reach her at 978-760-0910.

Maine

HAVEN FOUND
Hannah Maris
Kennebunk, Maine 04043
info@havenfound.com
http://www.havenfound.com

Registered Maine Guide and licensed clinical counselor working as a team for 16 years leading vision quests in the wilds of Maine and beyond.

Margot & Roger Milliken
70 Blanchard Rd
Cumberland, Maine 04021
rogermu@aol.com

Missouri

INWARD BOUND
David Hinchman
5905 Locust St
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
david.hinchman@cbre.com

Primary focus on young men of all ages, 16-80 and potentially expandins into co-ed quests.

North Carolina

Patti Rieser
1509 Blount St
Durham, North Carolina 27707
prieser@aol.com

Nature-based life coaching (by phone and email), wilderness rites of passage, programs for people with life-altering or life-threatening illness, day walks, talking staff councils, workshops and classes, mostly in North Carolina.
prieser@aol.com for general inquiries or
facingthemystery@aol.com for programs directed at those with health impairments.

Carol Wilburn (Gathering Council 2006-07)
125 Viburnum Way
Carrboro, North Carolina 27510
cswilburnca@yahoo.com

New Mexico

Pamela Bagot-Beasley
61 County Rd 3235
Aztec, New Mexico
lady_hawk@onebox.com

Wilderness Guide, Vision Quest leader since 2001. In Canyon de Chelly, Death Valley, Gila Wilderness and San Mateo Mtns in New Mexico, and San Gabriel Wilderness area in California.
I work with groups and individuals, men, women and youth. As a leader I also draw upon my experiences as a pipe carrier for the Apache tradition since 1994 and even my training as a teacher of transcendental meditation for over 30 years.
My heart is in and of the earth and my calling as a steward invites me to offer ceremony on the earth so that those called may step into their own sacred space to reveal their soul's journey.
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SCHOOL OF LOST BORDERS
Emerald North (Elder Council)
6595 Sachu Ln
Cochiti Lake, New Mexico 87083
emnorth@gmail.com
http://www.schooloflostborders.com

Is a visionary artist and natural ceremonialist, studied with Native American teachers for eight years and trained as apprenticed staff for five years at the School of Lost Borders. For several years she was sweat lodge chief at the Ojai Foundation (Ojai, CA) where she supervised the organic garden and counseled apprentices and staff. For the past three years she has taught at the School.

CIRCLE OF HEARTS
Corinna Stoeffl
PO Box 1314
Abiquiu, New Mexico 87510
corinna_st@yahoo.com

Guiding adult, women, youth, one on one or small groups

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New York

DOMINICAN SISTERS, AMITYVILLE, NY
Margaret Galiardi
555 Albany Ave
Amityville, New York

Five day wilderness retreat (mini-quest). Some programs for adults; some for youth; New York, Long Island area. Studied with and mentored by Anne Stine, Wilderness Rites.

Ohio

Jack Meagher
2501 Adirondack Tr
Dayton, Ohio 45409
jmmeagher@att.net

Oregon

Ian Bruce
1745 SE Sherrett St
Portland, Oregon 97202
planetarybalance@riseup.net

WING ROCK JOURNEYS
Jay Fields
PO Box 14385
Portland, Oregon 97293
jay@wingrockjourneys.com
http://wingrockjourneys.com

Wing Rock Journeys empowers people to live more fully through a unique blend of nature-based ceremonies and body-centered experiences that cultivate a deep connection with nature, spirit and self.
Offerings:
* Nature-based and body-centered mentoring
* Individual and group Medicine Walks (women's only and co-ed)
* Council Circles
* Private and public yoga instruction

COYOTE MADONNA
Munro Sickafoose & Susanna Maida (Advisory Council 2006-8, Gathering Council 2006-7)
24001 NE Ellis Lane
Newberg, Oregon 97132
munrosickafoose@yahoo.com
http://www.coyotemadonna.com

Individual or small group vision fasts.
Old school. Red road.
Bring tobacco and we'll talk.
Munro is the WebKeeper for WGC.

WILDERNESS RITES
Anne Stine (Elder Council, Advisory Council Elder)
480 Herbert St
Ashland, Oregon 97520
astine@wildernessrites.com
http://www.wildernessrites.com

Wilderness Rites was founded in 1989 by Anne Stine, MA, MFT. A variety of initiatory earth-based rites and practices have been offered over the years, locally and in other states, universities and venues. These include vision fasts, apprenticeship programs, mirroring and council seminars, wilderness ecopsychology at graduate psychology programs, medicine walks, and mentoring. In 2006 Wilderness Rites became an LLC with Susan Hagen of Women at Ground Zero (www.Womenatgroundzero.com) and Skye Bailey of Little Arrows School (www.littlearrows.info). We are currently offering elderquests for women entering their elder years, vision quests and medicine walks for women, seminars in the Four Shields of Human Nature and mentoring for wilderness guides.
Faculty: Anne Stine, MA, MFT, Susan Hagen, Skye Bailey and Ann Linnea (PeerSpirit.com).

THE SEVENTH QUEST
Robert Wagner
301 Wimer Street
Ashland, Oregon 97520
robert@theseventhquest.com
http://www.theseventhquest.com

The Seventh Quest offers you a unique opportunity to reignite the fire fueling your life. We invite you on a vision quest, a rites of passage ceremony allowing you to dive deeply into your own “story” to rediscover the gifts you have to offer. Through an intimate encounter with nature, our vision quest realigns you with your distinctive purpose in life, and empowers you to return to your life more connected to yourself and your “people.”
Our vision quest is a spiritual journey, a window for transformation – a chance to reclaim and bring forth the power and joy of your authentic self.
The Seventh Quest is dedicated to offering 9-day rites of passage ceremonies for all who hear the call for personal transformation. Based in beautiful Ashland, Oregon, The Seventh Quest provides spiritual journeys into the expansive Oregon and California wilderness.

Pennsylvania

VISION ARROW
Trebbe Johnson & Andy Gardner
PO Box 148
Thompson, Pennsylvania 18465
trebbe@visionarrow.com
http://www.visionarrow.com

Vision Arrow: Treasure Hunts for the Soul
Vision Arrow, founded in 1996, combines adventure travel, personal transformation, and pilgrimage to sacred sites. Centered in rural Thompson, Pennsylvania, we offer workshops and vision quests around the world, including the Utah Canyonlands, Celtic Wales, the Sahara Desert, and the woodlands of northeastern Pennsylvania.
People who come to Vision Arrow are seekers. They’ve done a lot of inner work, but still they search for that missing Something Else that will make them feel fully alive and true to themselves in the way they know they were meant to be. Here’s what you will discover when you take a Vision Arrow program:
* Within you is a force that calls you forth and another force that holds you back, and you make the choice many times a day to follow one or the other.
* Your life is a great heroic journey. Everything that happens to you is part of the adventure.
* Many different inner personalities and conflicting voices influence the decisions you make. All are worthy of respect and exploration. Coming to know them, you transform what you don’t need and nourish the self you long to be.
* Paying attention to what fascinates you in nature, you gain insight about your true self.
* The vision you seek is not one final answer that will solve all your problems, but a dynamic, authentic way of life you choose to live in every moment.
* You are the only authority you need.
Vision Arrow programs are different from other wilderness rites of passage trips, quests, and personal growth workshops in that we do not perceive you as lacking something that we can somehow supply. We have no system or dogma that you must follow. We do not claim to be able to heal you. We know the treasure is within you and we show how to use the tools you already have, not just to find that beautiful, joyful self but to use it in every aspect of your life.

Tennessee

ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE
Peter Scanlan
2822 Columbine Place
Nashville, Tennessee 37204
peterscanlan@comcast.net
http://www.animas.org/

Peter Scanlan, a clinical psychologist in private practice for 26 years, has guided wilderness vision quests and soulcraft programs for the Animas Valley Institute for eight years in Arizona, California, Colorado, Ohio, New York, Tennessee, and Utah. He also provides soulcraft mentoring in person and by phone. He trained with Bill Plotkin of the Animas Valley Institute for two years and with Steven Foster and Meredith Little of the School of Lost Borders in their month-long training program. He is very excited about co-guiding, with Annie Bloom, one of AVI's new Year Long Soulcraft Immersion Programs, in which the same participants meet four times a year for five-to-seven days in different wilderness locations to deepen into their soul work. Peter brings a hea

SEASONS OF THE SPIRIT
Mel Vandergriff (Bundle Council)
19 E Daytona Dr
Chatanooga, Tennessee 37415
mel@seasonsofthespirit.com
http://www.seasonsofthespirit.com

Services offered by Seasons of the Spirit include:
· Assistance in designing ceremonies and rituals for specific life transition purposes,
· Preparing for and processing individual nature experiences,
· Excursions designed to incorporate day walks, night vigils, and 24 hour fasts in solitude and to have these encounters in nature mirrored by experienced guides,
· Rites of passage custom designed for the participants, including traditional elements of the vision fast (severance, threshold, and incorporation).
· Annual kayak trip to San Juan Island to paddle with the orcas and celebrate summer solstice.

Texas

WILDERNESS DREAM QUESTS
Krystyna Jurzykowski
PO Box 1796
Glen Rose, Texas 76043
mcjurz@aol.com
http://www.wilddq.com

Women only quests in Utah (Dream Quests).
Couple quest, youth quest, coed in Texas.
Trained by School of Lost Borders (1991-1997, on-going).
Also trained by Native elders in New Mexico and Peru.
Guiding and co-guiding quests in US, Europe and beyond since 1998.

Virginia

INWARD JOURNEYS
Deni Horton, PhD
PO Box 382
Washington, Virginia 22747
torreon28@earthlink.net

Deni Horton, PhD is a Harvard-trained, Nature-bred psychologist, healer, and Vision Quest guide. She leads individuals and groups on transformational healing journeys and therapeutic rites of passage. Dr. Horton is in private practice in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains (Charlottesville & Rappahannock County) and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She can be reached at 434.296.2930.
Alternate address:
369 Montezuma Ave
Box 378
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Vermont

CIRCLES OF AIR and STONE
Sparrow Hart
PO Box 48
Putney, Vermont 05346
sparrow@together.net
http://www.questforvision.com/

THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL WONDER
Flynn Johnson
35 Fairview Rd
Wardsboro, Vermont
info@schoolofnaturalwonder.org
http://www.questvision.org

STILLPOINT
Fran Weinbaum (Advisory Council 2006-08)
128 Bliss Road
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
fran_weinbaum@yahoo.com
http://www.vermontvisionquest.com

Stillpoint is committed to fostering a relationship with Earth and Community that is based in gratitude and service. The individual's own spiritual journey is essential to the creation and nurtuance of spiritual community that supports this relationship. Vision fasts of varying lengths are offered as well as return councils, renewal fasts, coaching, mentoring and apprenticeships. Each vision fast culminates in a Community Return Gathering where friends, family, and those who have fasted before welcome those who have been on the mountain back into the community. Most vision fasts occur in Vermont. Fran Weinbaum, the principle guide, has been guiding vision fasts since 1996.

Washington

Jenny Allen
Bainbridge Island, Washington
jennyb@donobi.net

RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS
Stan Crow
22401 39th Ave SE
Bothell, Washington 98021-2180
stan@riteofpassagejorneys.org
http://www.riteofpassagejorneys.org

Journeys has been providing wilderness rite of passage and vision quest programs for 40 years. Our programs are 1-3 weeks, and serve ages 8 to 80+.
Experiences offered:
Mixed gender and age groups
Summer Youth Programs
Adult Vision Quests and Leadership Training
Training Program
Life "Audit" Retreats
Guide Training

Mentoring

WILDERNESS SPIRIT QUESTS
Anne Hayden
PO Box 706
Clinton, Washington 98236
ahayden@whidbey.com
http://www.wildernesspirit.net

Women-only and mixed-gender Backcountry Quests
We offer these backpacking quests as contemporary re-enactments of cross-cultural vision quests. The 7-day journey includes three days and nights of solitude with an optional fast. Extensive preparation is offered in the months preceding the quest. We work with specific sites in Eastern Washington.
Restoration of Land and Soul Journeys

Restoration Trips are 5-day gentle backpacks into a basalt-rimmed, sagebrush-scented, flower-filled canyon to help pull invasive weeds, remove old fire-rings, restore overused campsites, and respond to other needs the canyon might have. We also work with the subtleties of ceremony, movement, shamanic journeys, laughter, tears and song to release the deeper levels of impact that we humans unknowingly leave on the land.
As we work with the physical land, our inner landscapes receive the benefit also. Old stories tied to the smoldering fire pits inside are released; invasive, nonnative “weeds” of our inner culture are respectfully removed; and our life-song is set free again. Includes a 24-hour solo.

4H RITE OF PASSAGE PROGRAM
Larry Hobbs
Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110
info@inlandwhale.com
http://www.inlandwhale.com

Larry was trained by Steven Foster and Meredith Little at the School of Lost Borders and served for a time as Associate Director of the School. He founded, and is lead guide and trainer for, the Washington State 4H Rite of Passage Program and continues to guide for the School of Lost Borders. In addition to leading traditional rites of passage for youth, Larry offers guide training and vision quests for Adults and Elders both in Washington and in California. He also co-leads German speaking vision quests in California. In addition to vision quest work, his passion and connection with the land and the oceans over the past 35 years has taken him all over the world--from the Arctic to the Antarctic and the Amazon to Indonesia--lecturing and leading ecotours.

Dirk Johnston
717 83rd Ave SE
Everett, Washington 98205
dirkjdx@aol.com

Bette Lu Krause (Gathering Council 2005-6-7)
PO Box 1202
Ocean Park, Washington 98640
lupe@reachone.com
http://www.wsu.edu

4-H Rite of Passage for youth and adults in Washington’s Cascade Mountains. Wilderness guide since 2000. Trained with School of Lost Borders.
To locate us on the WSU website, search for ROP.

PEER SPIRIT
Ann Linnea
5383 S. Skewes Lane
Freeland, Washington 98249
linnea@peerspirit.com
http://www.peerspirit.com

Experiences offered: Women only
Our Elder Passage is a nine day immersion into the sacred leands of the eastern Sierras for women 50 and older to explore what it means to be an elder in the world at this time.

Lynnaea Lumbard
PO Box 308
Freeland, Washington 98249
lynnaea@earthlink.net

RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS
Darcy Ottey (Gathering Council 2006-07)
19900 324th Ave NE
Duvall, Washington 98019
info@riteofpassagejourneys.org
http://www.riteofpassagejourneys.org

Journeys has been providing wilderness rite of passage and vision quest programs for 40 years. Our programs are 1-3 weeks, and serve ages 8 to 80+.

Mixed gender and age groups
Summer Youth Programs
Adult Vision Quests and Leadership Training
Training Program
Life "Audit" Retreats
Guide Training

Mentoring

Rick Paine
PO Box 308
Freeland, Washington 98249
rickpaine@earthlink.net

WILD SOUL ADVENTURES
Selina Sweet
PO Box 17371
Seattle, Washington 98107
selina@speakeasy.org

Mixed gender and age groups, Women only.
Treks, Medicine Walks, Vision Quests, and Treks in Nepal to strengthen and deepen one's connection to Soul.
VISION QUEST. Cross the threshold into Sacred Space and Time in the canyons of Eastern Washington. Bear your unrest into the Heart of Nature. Encounter there - answers unique as yourSelf. Careful preparation precedes your 4 day/night solo wilderness fast. Attentive reintegration ceremony follows it.
ALSO: MEDICINE WALKS. One day solo nature immersion for new vision on current dilemmas. A consultation before and after prepares you and gives Witness to your experience.