VISION FAST
 With Sylvia and Cam 
Call for Upcoming Dates 707.829.1772

Native peoples conducted Vision Fasts for young men and women as rites of passage, making the transition between childhood and adulthood. Alone time in nature is healing, energizing and provides a unique opportunity to discover and dedicate ourselves to life purpose. The combination of fasting, opening, and going deeply within provides an opportunity to lift the membranes that may cloak our true path.

We begin by sensing nature, and move to deep introspection, opening to reappraisal of family, friends, relationships, and our roles in nature and on this sacred earth. Fasting allows our systems to heal and clear and be receptive to the host of messengers that nature sends—bees, flies, dragonflies, birds, lizards, plants, critters, rocks, wind, trees and animals. These beings offer a joyous, sometimes raucous, welcome, fan gently over the heart and share deep wisdom. A vision fast is wonderful preparation for and an opportunity to fully explore our life purpose, relationships, connection to the earth, awe at the joy, aliveness, and beauty of our Mother, parenting, elderhood, death and rebirth as we spiral around the four directional shields.

This is a six day retreat. After two days and nights fasting in the forest you will tell your story and the elders will mirror your truth. You will never forget the alone time with nature, and we offer tools to incorporate nature's teachings into your life and your journey on the path. There are redwoods, views of the ocean, and no poison oak!

$450 includes 5 nights camping and delicious organic meals.

A VISION FAST PARTICIPANT:
"The vision fast was, in the best transformative tradition, what I expected and not what I expected. Sure, I fasted and went into the wilderness alone. And I wrestled with my question for long hours. Then time and my readiness opened up in unexpected ways, and I worked on several related issues, and ones I did not know were related. It was a wonderful, gently transformative time.

It is amazing when everything is significant, as it is during the fast. Events become symbolic, like interpreting a dream. Passing events and the sum of events in those days revealed patterns and answers I did not know were in my life. After the fast, your reflections on my journey added a wonderful new dimension to my experience."
—Ken, Engineer