Great Places To Start

The Animas offerings listed on this page, while some of our most profound experiential immersions, are also the most popular “entry points” for those with no prior experience with Soulcraft™ practices or the work of Animas Valley Institute.

Great Places To Start offerings include:

  • Soulcraft Intensive
  • Wild Mind Intensive
  • The Way of Council & the Art of Mirroring
  • Nature and the Human Soul
  • Animas Quest

Nature and the Human Soul: A Special Online Program for Parents & Educators – April, 2024

April 19 - May 31, 2024
Online

With Brian Stafford, MD, MPH and John Lynch, Art.D.

Anchored in traditional four-directions wisdom, the Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development and cultural transformation.

Queer Wild Mind Intensive – May 2024, Canada

May 3 - 7, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Sara McFarland and Jules Howatt

Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

Soulcraft Intensive, June 2024

June 5 - 9, 2024
Spirit Hollow, Vermont

With Doug Van Houten and Jules Howatt

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Wild Mind Intensive – June 2024, Dominican Republic

June 28 - July 2, 2024
Villa Pajon Eco-Lodge, Valle Nuevo National Park, Dominican Republic

With Laura Gunion

Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

The Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring – July 2024, Dominican Republic

July 3 - 7, 2024
Villa Pajon Eco-Lodge, Valle Nuevo National Park, Dominican Republic

With Laura Gunion

In the mirror of another, our eyes are opened to aspects of both our gifts and our challenges that we might not see otherwise.

Soulcraft Intensive – July, 2024

July 10 - 14, 2024
Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado

With Rebecca Wildbear, M.S. and Kent Dobson

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Soulcraft Intensive – July 2024, Canada

July 22 - 26, 2024
Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria, British Columbia

With Mary Marsden and Palika Rewilding

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Wild Mind Intensive – October 2024

September 30 - October 4, 2024
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky

With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

Join our nature-based guides in an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature.

Soulcraft Intensive – October 2024

October 6 - 10, 2024
Harrod's Creek Sanctuary, Kentucky

With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Soulcraft Intensive – November 2024

November 9 - 13, 2024
Dharma Treasure Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona

With Doug Van Houten and Rebecca Wildbear, M.S.

This is our popular five-day experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft TM — a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.