Animas Valley

Nature-based initiation with a goal of soul descent to mature the ego/cultivate a person's deepest, world-transforming gifts.

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Hello all! As of recently, we are no longer using Twiter. To stay updated with all things AVI, please follow us on Instagram (@animasvalleyinstitute) or find us on Facebook. As always, all of the information on our upcoming offerings are available here: https://t.co/KpmtOm9aDO

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Soul Coming Through [Collage]. Doug Van Houten

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Turn your wild antennae toward honouring, hearing, sensing, receiving, and expressing the longings of the intelligent organism called Earth: the body/psyche in which we are entwined. Awakening Planetary Imagination, Online, England (GMT) https://t.co/ZXEcjjezJS

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The human species has entered a collective dark night. Each of us must dare to walk directly into the fires of love, bravely relinquishing old modes of being and surrendering ourselves to what is beckoning from the human soul. Prayers in the Dark, Feb, https://t.co/WBW9Qwkbjp

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Every dream emerges from the mystery of the soul and is an opportunity for our conscious self, our ego, to be further initiated into the secret stream of our deeper life. Soulcentric Dreamwork: The Secret Alchemy of the Nightworld, Feb, https://t.co/stpgFTh0YA

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Another World is Possible [Collage]. Doug Van Houten©

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The human species has entered a collective dark night. Each of us must dare to walk directly into the fires of love, bravely relinquishing old modes of being and surrendering ourselves to what is beckoning from the human soul. Prayers in the Dark, Feb, https://t.co/WBW9Qwkbjp

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Soulcentric Developmental Wheel (SDW) is a new ecopsychology of human development, a blueprint showing how richly we can grow and mature when soul and nature are embraced as our wisest and most trustworthy guides. Nature and the Human Soul, Jan, Online, https://t.co/f2ch3FD2gO

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By immersing ourselves in the practice of deep listening and mirroring, we uncover the archetypal themes that might frame a per-son’s experience within the arc of their destiny. Wild Mind Mirror Training, Feb, AZ, https://t.co/d53mtuAMBo

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The Dreaming Tree [Collage]. Doug Van Houten

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Every dream emerges from the mystery of the soul and is an opportunity for our conscious self, our ego, to be further initiated into the secret stream of our deeper life. Soulcentric Dreamwork: The Secret Alchemy of the Nightworld, Feb, https://t.co/TxWCa18cn6

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The human species has entered a collective dark night — perhaps a necessary one. At an hour like this, each of us must dare to walk directly into the fires of love, surrendering ourselves to what is beckoning from the human soul. Prayers in the Dark, Feb, https://t.co/WBW9Qw2zUP

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The Soulcraft Intensive is an experiential plunge into the wild depths of Soulcraft; a synergistic set of nature-based practices designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter. Soulcraft Intensive, Online, Jan 2022, https://t.co/vkOrc4RqWu

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… As if your place in the world mattered
and the world could
neither speak nor hear the fullness of
its own bitter and beautiful cry
without the deep well
of your body resonating in the echo. …

- David Whyte

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Training Offerings: Our training offerings are for cultural change agents seeking the most advanced and comprehensive study in Soulcraft™. For more information: https://t.co/Q4o3AtqgeN

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Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials that we might not know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and integrate them into our everyday lives. Introduction to Wild Mind Online - To register: https://t.co/5vSUYZxdJs

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Holy Ground [Collage]. Doug Van Houten

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...But darkness holds it all:
the shape and the flame,
the animal and myself,
how it holds them,
all powers, all sight -
and it is possible: its great strength
is breaking into my body.
I have faith in the night.
- Rilke

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Our wild minds possess astonishing resources, untapped potentials that we might not know exist until we discover how to access them, cultivate their powers, and integrate them into our everyday lives. Introduction to Wild Mind Online - To register: https://t.co/5vSUYZxdJs