Dates:   April 18 - 28, 2024

Do you hear the call of the wild beckoning your soul?

Do you sense that you are so much more than you are currently expressing?

Do you yearn to connect deeply with your innate gifts and your authentic voice?

Do you desire to truly serve the world and leave it better than you found it for future generations?

If so, then I invite you to consider joining us for what could just be one of the most influential and important initiatory events of your life…

What?           

• A 10-day Vision Quest experience in the pristine & remote high desert hills east of Santa Barbara, CA. 

The experience includes: 

• 2 sweat lodges
• 4-day solo water-fasting Vision Quest
• 6 days of teachings (pre & post quest): preparation, meaning making, integration & nature-connection
• Experienced, trusted ceremonial guides
• Additional support staff (women and men)

Guides:            

• Mark Tollefson
• Meghan Maiya

Dates:            

• April 18 - 28, 2024

Cost:              

• $2,595/per person 

NOTES:

• This is a drug and alcohol free event. No entheogens or psychedelics will be used or permitted on the land.
• Everyone will need to arrive between 4:00-4:45pm on Thursday, April 18th to caravan to the site as a group. Programming begins the next morning on 4/19.

Most people live life on a path that others have set for them, and are too afraid to explore any other. Then, there are people like you… 

People who see the world differently - who demand to meet life on your own terms. People who are willing to knock down all the obstacles that life puts in your way.

It isn’t easy. It requires you to be able to think differently, act differently, and see the world in a different way. 

It requires a level of consciousness that consistently requires you to be self-examining, and self-aware. This is even more challenging when our worlds are filled with things that constantly want to put us back to sleep: becoming unconscious in the busyness of life.

Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day!

Our culture gives us limited ways of living, being successful, being in relationships, protesting, birthing and dying. Who made up the rules?  Who enforces them?  How was I taught to follow them?

Think about the world as you see it now and ask yourself:

Is the life you are living your will?  

Is this what you wanted as the highest expression of your life?  

Did you agree to this?  

Is this consistent with the vision of the future that you want to see?

Getting real about these questions can feel overwhelming and validate our need to stay busy to hedge against feeling deep emptiness. 

But there is a way to slow down, to listen, and hear another voice:

The Vision Quest

Since the dawn of humanity people have fasted alone in the wilderness, seeking vision in order to serve their people and their land. The vision quest is a cross-cultural, nature-based, spiritual practice to discover, make peace with, and fully engage with what remains when all possible distractions have been shed.

In this place of profound stillness and silence, a deeper connection emerges. A deeper connection to the Earth, a deeper connection to Soul, a deeper connection to one’s interconnected essence. This is Vision.

It doesn’t matter if you feel unworthy, afraid of the unknown, wounded by experiences of the past, lack of clarity, overwhelm or any other form of resistance - a genuine meaningful and abundant life of vision can be yours. 

“A human not living their vision is not living at all.”

When we look to the natural world, we see that the only constants are birth, death, and renewal. The Vision Quest provides a container within which you can engage the natural developmental process of deep renewal. Releasing that which is metaphorically dying within, and embracing that which is metaphorically being born allows you to mature and grow with the changes inside and outside of yourself in order to connect with your deepest calling.

This Vision Quest experience was created for humans with a passion for nature and engaging the mystery of life itself.  This experience is designed to support you to transform from yearning for a profound connection with vision, nature and soul - to initiate you into living a life of profound connection to vision, nature and soul.

The Vision Quest is a timeless ceremonial process rooted in traditional earth-based wisdom, adapted for humans living today to facilitate the journey of ecological awakening and soul initiation.

This is an invitation for you to take 4 days to slow down - REALLY SLOW DOWN - and listen. This is an invitation to sit with, pay attention to, and commune with something greater than yourself in nature. This is an invitation to become aware of that spark of the Divine that is present in everything. 

What calling would you hear from Soul if you really surrendered in this way? What vision from the sacred would touch your heart? How would your life be changed if you were initiated deeper into your ecological self, into your most authentic Soul-driven life?

Our trusted mentor & guide, Mark Tollefson, believes that this is the greatest possible gift to ourselves AND response we can have to the challenges of our time. He believes that many years from now, future generations will look back with awe and wonder, "Who were the strong ones back then, the ones who took the time to slow down and really get clear about their deepest calling & and vision in life, in order to effect real change? Who were the ones that made a stand to make a difference?"

More than anything else, the Vision Quest is capable of initiating you into a truly Soul-driven life where you can make this kind of a difference.

Life has a way of taking us through initiation by accident, and most of the time our understanding of what life offers us is ungrounded, and incomplete.  Certainly, we gain wisdom, we accumulate reflective experience, but there is no guarantee that we have plumbed the depths of who we are, come back with the jewel, or have the success of our experience to stand on.  

We need a more structured environment.  Something that gives our river some banks to flow with purpose and meaning. This is what the Vision Quest can do.