Wild Woman Vision Fast
August 13 - 21, 2024
Guides: Tracey Forest and Sandra Horea
Total tuition on a sliding scale: $999 - 1444.
$444.00 Deposit Required to Hold Your Space:
Dear Sister—
Earth is singing her daughters home. Do you hear her call?
She is calling us back to the soul stream that flows underneath everything – inviting us to shed our too-small coats of fear, and drop into deep time, so we may remember her ancient rhythms in our own bodies, hear and chant her potent voice, feel her generative love, and infuse in her ancestral wisdoms, making our own selves an offering on the altar of her beautiful and vulnerable, green and flowering heart.
As women of Gaia, in these challenging times, we are being asked to listen below the maw of destruction and human ego, so that we can learn to trust and move from a more feminine, life-giving place. That liminal, magical place can only be accessed when we wander away from the ‘village’ of our dayworld lives, cross the threshold into the realms of Mystery and make ourselves vulnerable to our dreams, our grief, our longings, and our embodied wholeness.
Dear One, will you join us?
Are you at a crossroads in your life?
Are you seeking a journey to the mountain to find your true voice again?
Are you longing for an immersion in the forest, with Mystery, in conversation with your soul and the wild and sacred others?
Offered only once a year, this 9-day-wilderness fast ceremony created by and for women will help you realign with your deepest truth and most authentic self.
I highly recommend this immersion experience into deepening your understanding of soul and spirit within and without. It will inform your life in ways both subtle and obvious and add to the ever-widening pool of consciousness that has the power to bring healing on both a personal and a universal level. – Cynthia H., 2018 participant
In the wildlands of Spirit Hollow, among mountain streams and the calls of the barred owl, you will be invited to step through the portal to seek the place where your dream and the Earth’s dream meet. This program is about getting you back to some of your “original instructions,” so you can re-member who you truly are. By engaging deeply with Mystery, Earth, and the other-than-human ones, you will gain perspective, insight, courage and clarity to begin living with deeper purpose in the world.
The first few days of the program will be spent at base camp in preparation for the solo fast. In a series of ceremonies, councils, journeys and wanders, you’ll be guided to lovingly call your authentic self back out from hiding, see where you have been conforming to stories that are not your own, and open doorways to your deepest gifts. In sacred space, you will be guided to hone your intentions, identify obstacles and fears holding you back from walking your truth, and learn Wild Mind wholing and self-healing tools to resource you for your solo.
The 72-hour solo and fast will be your time out on the land to open your whole being to guidance, inspiration, and clarity. You will cross the threshold into the mystery and magic of your depths, and be held and mirrored by the living Earth, to reanimate your wild self, to meet your soul in all its beauty.
The last two days back at camp, will be held in deep council, integration, ceremony, emerging from the wild lands, back into the ‘village’ resourced, clear, inspired and empowered on your path.
“The Wild Women Vision Quest was a transformational experience. I am deeply grateful for the powerful and sacred container the guides created for us. The solo fast changed my life and I received the vision I had been seeking. The preparation and return were equally important, and I felt deeply witnessed and held in each phase of the journey.” ~ 2020 participant
This gathering is about how we can move beyond conversation, valuable as it is, and begin the process of meaningful structural shift in our culture and in our own lives by bringing forth our unique contributions and practicing communication from our authentic selves rather than the masks of societal imprinting.
This immersion is held in a deeply resonant, revered, loved, and protected hollow in an expansive forested wilderness area in the Southwestern Vermont Taconic Mountains where wilderness fasts, trainings, wild immersions, extended solos, and camps have been held for decades. The trees, the stones, creatures, and waters know our pain, witness our breakdowns and breakthroughs, and reflect for us what we need to hear.
The time is now, dear one, Gaia needs us to step forward and claim our place of belonging in the Earth Community.
We need Earth lovers, healers, way showers, activists, ceremonialists, artisans and singers in every village re-enchanting the human community with songs, art, and medicine to bring people home to deep love and reciprocity with Gaia. We need to move from Soul and lift our voices. We need authenticity and sovereignty as the times of subservience have cost us too much. Join the groundswell of wild women, so together we may weave a new culture of care, sustainability, and consciousness into the world.
In a sacred circle of sisters, held by seasoned guides, we will dive into:
Group and Self-Designed Ceremonies
Dream Work
Wild Mind Wholing and Healing Work
Soulcrafting practices
Deep Council Processes
Imaginal Journeys
Authentic Dance/Movement
Daily Wanders in the Forest
72-hour Vision Fast
'Tools for integration and actualization of what you receive on your fast
“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
Cross The Threshold
Total exchange for the program is Sliding scale $999 - 1444, deposit required
This immersion requires an application. Once you have been accepted into the program, a $444 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot. Participants are responsible for bringing their own breakfasts and lunches. Meal teams will be formed for our shared suppers while at base camp. Two partial scholarships are available. Please email Tracey for an scholarship application.
Email Tracey with questions.
Tracey Forest (KeyTurner)
is a soul-initiation guide who is passionate about helping others step through the doorway into the mystical and the mythical, the sacred and the sublime, the earthy and the erotic, the dark depths and high heights. She is a fearless and compassionate facilitator who has “been to the mountain” and descended into the abyss to lament for the earth, to celebrate the beauty and pain and who knows the rich gifts that lie in the dark to be mined. She stands in the portal, holding a lantern, singing ancient songs, dangling a key, inviting you to step through into the vast landscape of your Soul.
KeyTurner is particularly called to help women and young adults to move from the outworn worlds, across thresholds into yet-too-be-revealed worlds that are coming. She is a deep listener of Earth's dreaming, of the "in-betweens," in communion with the sacred land that is Spirit Hollow and a devotee of the soul stream, the mythological realms in service to that which is the holiest of holies, the deepest Source beneath all identities, all spiritualities and all beings.
Co-founding Director of Spirit Hollow, Tracey is a healer and teacher, yoga teacher and singer of soul-stirring songs. She is graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three-Year Program (1998) in Advanced Shamanism and Shamanic Healing under the direct teaching of Dr. Michael Harner, also, she is a Certified Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level, having studied with transformational teacher, Shiva Rea.
With 30 years of experience guiding others, she has been studying with Bill Plotkin for the last seven years. She is a Certified Level 1 Wild Mind Nature-Based Underworld Guide with the Animas Valley Institute. Currently, she is in the final phases of the multi-year Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) with Plotkin learning the nuances of Soul Initiation Guide and cultivating more tools to assist in the Wholing and Healing of this broken, beautiful world.
Tracey has been guiding vision fasts for the last 20 years, has done four fasts herself, and knows the incredible power that this ceremony holds to dissolve, rearrange, and shapeshift us into who Earth has dreamed us to be.
Sandra Horea (Deeper Love/Deeper Death)
Sandra is a soul initiation guide courting and embodying Love and Death as necessary allies to the journey of transformation, supporting the remembrance of the sacred truth one is Here to make manifest. She is in love with the depth of the world’s mysteries, fiercely guiding humans to their most exquisite place of belonging, and inviting them into a mythological existence, having a Soul-driven life in service to Earth.
As a guide, she creates deep purposeful spaces of inner-discoveries incorporating in her work her experience regarding depth psychology and soul-based practices, eco-centric development, embodiment, storytelling, poetry and deep imagination. She has a wide experience of 14 years in working with humans in facilitating spaces of personal transformation and cultural evolution.
She graduated from the Wild Mind Program (focusing on eco-depth psychology of wholing and healing) at Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute in the USA.
At the moment she is intensively studying Soul Initiation Guiding Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) within the same organization, an in-depth study of soul-initiation practices and guiding skills.
She lives in between the worlds, calling home both her birth land, in Transylvania, Romania, as well as the Pacific Noth-West land by the Salish Sea in the US.
Sandra is the founder and coordinator of Actions for Change, a European a non-profit organization dedicated to guiding and facilitating personal and community transformation with the purpose of creating an Eco-Soulcentric world where individuals discover their inner gift and serve the earth with it.