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Circles of Air and Stone offers classes, trainings, and workshops at different locations throughout the year. These programs are intensive, offering participants a deep encounter with nature, both inner and outer, and the often shifting boundary between the two. They are appropriate for men and women wanting to gain insight, access deeper levels of awareness, or move forward on their spiritual path; or for anyone facing change or searching for tools and skills to help themselves or others. Further information is available on each program mentioned below. Please inquire.

Vision Quests

Since time immemorial, people have gone to the wilderness to seek guidance and renewal, to let their old lives and old selves die, to find the conditions where spirit may be rekindled, reborn within them.

At Circles of Air, Circles of Stone, we assist individuals who seek to find their true nature in nature. In our vision quest programs the participant spends 4 days and nights alone, fasting on the earth. The first 4 days are spent in preparation with the staff, including instruction in the three-phase dynamic of initiation; the four shields model of Self and psyche; emergency and survival procedures; archetypes and allegories of the heroic journey; the dynamics of fasting; and instruction in self-initiated ceremony. Preparation includes individual counseling and instruction in passage rite forms and ceremony relevant to the specific status of the individual.

The participant is then conducted to a wilderness setting where he/she crosses the threshold, living alone for four days and nights on the earth. Upon returning, the quester spends an additional three days with staff. The time includes a celebratory feast, elders' council, and other rituals of incorporation. The emphasis is on grounding and owning the lessons learned in the threshold period, for the true work of the vision quest awaits us when we return to our people.

Adventures of the Spirit Retreats and Workshops

Circles of Air, Circles of Stone was created to assist individuals in facing themselves and creating successful and meaningful passages through the transitions and crises in their lives.

Our workshops emphasize the authentic experience of the individual. We must face ourselves and learn to live from our strengths rather then our wounds. We must find our ground and determine our place, whether alone, in relationship, or in community. We are called to find our "medicine," our unique path to wholeness; to find our gift and give it to "our people."

Adventures of the Spirit help individuals to claim their own authenticity and authority; to define their own myths; to face their own pain and monsters; to make their own decisions; to determine their own meanings and success; to heal themselves.