Embrace Your Wholeness, Awaken Your Spirit, And Empower Your Journey With Spirit Hollow

An Emergency Appeal from Spirit Hollow

Spirit Hollow is in crisis

Without adequate notification, the U.S. Forest Service has began an industrial logging operation just 100 feet from our land, and the nonstop roar of heavy machinery has made it impossible to hold our programs here for the next four months. To keep our work alive, we must rent an alternative venue at a cost of $15,000—an expense we cannot pass on to participants. If Spirit Hollow has touched your life or you believe in protecting places of soul and Earth connection, we invite your support to help us weather this emergency and continue our mission.

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Transforming consciousness one extraordinary being at a time

Spirit Hollow’s mission is to guide, support, and empower individuals to embody their wholeness, to step into psychospiritual maturity and to ripen into the fullness of their authentic selves, finding and living their Earth-rooted destinies in service of the Great Turning.

Founded on the innate understanding that love is the most powerful force, we help people to cultivate active, intimate partnerships with the animate Earth, with their own personal mythos, and with one another, thus becoming agents of change in the re-visioning and re-enchantment of the world.

Through hands-on, nature-based, soul-centric programs, and experiments in ecological living, individuals gain tools with which to live meaningfully in these unprecedented times.

By planting and nurturing seeds for the future ones, we inspire & support purposeful humans in bringing forth their most soulful gifts to shape a new world.

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“And into the forest I go
to lose my mind and find my soul.”

-John Muir

FEATURED EVENT

KEY and CompaSS

Doors and Pathways to the Radical Remaking of our World

An Earth-Rooted Training in Soul-Centric Leadership

KEY AND COMPASS is for all genders and ages who have heard the whispers of their true soul calling and are committed to offering their gifts in service of Earth’s Great Turning.

Come if you’re a bridge-builder, edge-walker, cultural midwife, or peace-weaver—ready to walk through the doorway and lead from the deep heart of the world.

Our Two-Year Journey

Starts January 2026

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Wild Immersions

Connect to your pure and beautiful humanness, whole fragmented parts, join in rich council-based community, and fall in love with the animate Earth, the other-than-human beings, and the challenges and opportunities of these times.

Through highly experiential practices, ranging from embodied dreamwork and deep imagery, authentic movement and drumming, to play and ceremony, core wound and shadow work, our seasoned guides create openings for you to draw closer to your own personal mythos and soul niche. Wanders in the forest and council circles are central to our practices.

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Soul Sessions

Embark on a journey of personal healing, discovery, awe, and spiritual revelation to feel fully alive, at home, and embodied. In one-on-one sessions, Tracey Forest will help you find pathways into wholeness and healing, rooted in exploring your inner landscape and your intrinsic place in the dreaming Earth.

Through soul-centric mentoring, dreamwork, and mirroring, you’ll be guided to access your own resources and tools, to get unstuck, to resolve old core issues, to heal core wounds, and to bring home parts of yourself that have been buried.

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About Us

Tucked in the Taconic Mountains of Southwestern Vermont, Spirit Hollow is situated on 100 forested acres and surrounded by thousands of acres of National Forest Land. The Center was established in 2000 on the slopes of Grass Mountain.

Spirit Hollow is both a wilderness retreat and a non-profit organization. Workshops are held in the Brook Yurt and our NEW Sky Temple Yurt and out on the sacred land. In the geodesic dome, Tracey Forest and her family and animals live, and ceremonies are held around one of the fire circles, in the yurt and the Medicine Wheel Garden or along the banks of Oracle Brook. In the woods that surround us, there are trails to wander and streams to meditate by.

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“What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What They Are Saying

Testimonials

GUIDE TO SOUL

"KeyTurner/Tracey is a phenomenal and fiery guide. She is ever-alert and always listening, helping me to map out the brambles, beauty, allies and adversaries of my inner terrain. Like a loving, witchy, fairy-Godmother, she has encouraged me to write, draw, speak, sing and come wildly alive as I humbly reclaim the helm of my Soulship. I can always feel the brush of her wings, the warm glow of her lantern and the soothing wisdom of her words. She knows this mysterious terrain well and I feel so blessed to call her a mentor, guide and friend. I know you will too."

-Jon Marro, Artist, Author & Filmmaker

MAGICAL AND SOULFUL

I started writing “I can’t find the words”… then I stopped myself. I CAN find the words to share with you how magical, soulful, earth-connecting and transformative Anima Terra is. How the guides create a dynamic duo for the deep journey to Soul, to Earth.

Kim I, 2022-2023 participant

LOVE AND INTEGRITY

KeyTurner and NorthStar are excellent at seeing straight through the fog and debris that clouds you, and seeing right into your potential and your gifts. They are true guides that will not force you or try to change you or bludgeon you with unhelpful spiritual platitudes. They come with a palpable sense of love and integrity.”

— Emily, "WayShower"

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

“Tish and Tracey are the wise women guides for the amazing year long journey — ROOT AND BONE — to track and reveal your deepest wisdom and unique gifts for this world. This program is not directive, there are no shoulds or have tos or lists of requirements for achieving wise woman status. When you show up fully with courage and curiosity, Key Turner and Mother Bone use their decades of experience to offer support and guidance (and so. much. love!) to help YOU remember who you are.”

~ Laura H.

MAGICAL & HEART-FILLED

“The Wild Women Vision Fast was a life-changing experience. My intent was to gain clarity of myself and the underlying anxiety, dichotomy I felt inside of me. The guides held such a beautiful space and were so present. It was a magical, heart-filled experience.”

Michelle T, 2022 participant

ALWAYS NEW, RICH PATHS TO FIND

At the Hollow, we have shared our love of the power and beauty of the land and water; there, we have learned countless lessons about how to better care for each other and ourselves. There are always rich new paths to find at Spirit Hollow and loving arms and outstretched hands of caring guides, teachers and friends to help you on your journey. The Earth would be a better place if more people had the experiences that both my daughter and I have had there.

-ELISABETH SHAPIRO, Mother of Isabella, camper