Date & Time Details: February 9-13, 2025 - Start Time 1pm End Time 1pm

Location: Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, Tucson, Arizona

Contact: [email protected]

What To Bring: This program is priced for indoor lodging or camping. If camping, participants are responsible for bringing their own personal camping equipment. Everyone is responsible for personal transportation to and from the program.

Meals : Participants also responsible for bringing their own breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. For dinners, the group will be divided into meal teams to plan, purchase and prepare group dinners using safe protocols.

Sliding Scale Price: $1,100 - $1,400

Deep Imagination: Into Earth’s Dreaming – February, 2025

February 9 - 13, 2025

With Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D., Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding

The application deadline for this immersion is December 1st and guides will be in touch with all applicants after that date.

A shifting, leafy canopy casts green shadows on the forest floor. A creature appears: tall and upright, hair braided, body draped in earth fibers and verdant silks, human-like but not tame. She turns your way and perhaps you shudder,recognizing that she may know you better than you do. The trees lean in, listening.

The exuberant, inter-species conversations that animate our planet are nearby – very near – as is the mysterious terrain of soul, where we might encounter strange, alluring, cryptic, unbidden images, creatures, or impressions. Deepimagination is a portal to the terra mysterium of soul and to participatory relationship with the wrenchingly alive,sentient, ensouled world. Recovering our innate awareness of an intelligent Earth (populated with both seen and unseen presences) and reclaiming our relationship with our deep imagination not only re-enlivens us as individuals but also erodes the outworn Western worldview of a meaningless, disenchanted universe, a worldview upon which life-assailing business-as-usual depends.

‘If our lives interpenetrate not only with human creatures but with the wilder others as well, then how we enact our lives – how we participate, how we engage our relationships with the Earth community – may matter more than we can imagine’
                            — Geneen Marie Haugen, from The Mystique of Rain. © 2018.

 

Discovering or deepening a relationship with soul can serve as a compass to guide us as we learn to reinhabit a wildly alive, participatory Earth and Cosmos.

We will tend the possibility that it’s (also) Earth’s dreaming that courses through us electric as a deep fascination, or that howls through us in love/loss/grief. Suppose it’s by virtue of Earth’s dreaming that an idea or image, a knowing, song, or story flutters on silent wings into our awareness, as if ‘from nowhere’. If we didn’t shrug off such happenings as inconvenient, nonsensical or weird, we might find the courage instead to listen and feel; to let such mysteries ripple through us, eventually blossoming into a response. What if even the spontaneous gesture of our trembling fingers, or tender voice echoing a song line matters, enlivens the world—beyond measure, proof or profit— and, necessarily, shapes us as well.

In this immersion, we offer inter-connected, multi-layered experiential practices – including deep imagery journeys, dreamwork, solo wanderings on the land, stream-of-consciousness writing, conversations with other-than-human beings,and poetry – that shift our consciousness toward the depths, toward the wilder, mythopoetic current that streams beneath everything else. There is a significant difference between intellectually recognizing that Earth is alive versus directly experiencing an ensouled world. Through the wild window of deep imagination, we might experience the soul of the world in intimate relationship with our mysterious human soul, which is the psychoecological – or mythopoetic – niche that each of us occupies in the larger community of Earth/ Cosmos.

The application deadline for this immersion is December 1st and guides will be in touch with all applicants after that date.

 

ARAVAIPA CANYON RANCH

Nestled at the foot of Brandenburg Mountain, Aravaipa Canyon Ranch invites you to a quiet getaway for reflection, healing and spiritual renewal. Miles of secluded, ever-changing terrain in the midst of natural, pristine beauty unfold to the accompaniment of the singing waters of Aravaipa Creek, one of Arizona’s all-year-round streams. For more information, go to http://www.aravaiparanch.com/

 

 

 

Guides

Geneen Marie Haugen, Ph.D.
Geneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up a little wild, with a run amok imagination, and has lived at the wild edge for most of her life.  Once upon a time, she was a whitewater river guide and a tipi dweller who loved knowing that only thin canvas separated her from the the world.  In her wild wanderings, she’s been amazed to have had dozens or maybe hundreds of close encounters with creatures such as moose, elk, grizzlies, wolves, black bears, cougars, bison, and more. For her, the sulpher-scented hot springs of Yellowstone smell like home.  Her matrilineal ancestors are the indigenous…
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Mary Marsden
Mary is a soul-centric guide and mentor. She creatively and heart-fully invites people to be in intimate and vulnerable relationship with Nature, Soul and their own multifaceted psyches. Mary is gifted at guiding individuals into their dream worlds, accessing the power of deep imagination, and supporting those who are ready and willing to be claimed by their unique, mystical relationship with the World. She guides with humor, genuine compassion, and a deeply intuitive knowing of the soul journey. With grace, beauty, and fierceness, Mary invites sojourners to discover their unique gifts and to bring them into world – to feed…
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Palika Rewilding
Palika Rewilding has been courting and centering  the mysteries of the moon and the wild miraculous blue green pearl as long as she can remember. As a threshold midwife she listens and tends the edges and holy cracks with fierce love for pearls and shadowed gems within the psyche and hearts of the individual and collective, longing to recover our enchantment with Mystery, and our reciprocity and response ability with the Animate Earth. Passionately committed to the somatic and imaginal, deep structure, the descent into the Underworld, and the way of  beauty; she tends questions that matter, praise, grief and…
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