SoulCraft

Created by Bill Plotkin and the guides at the Animas Valley Institute, Soul Craft is a contemporary, Western, and nature-rooted path to the terra mysterium of Soul Initiation. Soulcraft (TM) has been shaped and influenced by wilderness rites and writers, the theories and practices of depth- and eco-psychologies, the poetic tradition, perspectives and practices common to current and earlier traditions of animism and Earth-honoring, the lived experiences of thousands of contemporary people, and the wild Earth herself. Soulcraft practices include dreamwork and deep-imagery journeys, solo ceremonies and exercises while wandering on the land, trance dancing and drumming, council work, storytelling, vision fasts, symbolic artwork, soul-oriented poetry, Shadow work, and communicating with birds, trees, the winds, and the land and waters.

In Key and Compass, SoulCraft practices are foundational in all the work we do. This body of work is both wide and deep, and by experientially entering into it, we find ourselves immersed fully in the Living Earth—her dreaming, her teachings, and her unbounded love. By listening deeply to Gaia and the other-than-humans, we access our authentic voice and purpose, and come into, finally, our truest belonging in the ‘family of things.’

source: Animas Valley Institute