Animas Valley Institute
brought to you by Soulcraft Africa
Founded by Bill Plotkin in 1980, Animas Valley Institute offers multi-day, experiential explorations into wild landscapes and into the wilds of soul with the goal of discovering the meaning and destiny at the heart of each life.
We stand on the Threshold of great change, and a great unknown. Our collective journey requires a radical shift in the human relationship with the community of all life, a cultural transformation so profound that future humans might regard it as an evolution of consciousness.
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Animas Valley guides people on underworld journeys, a descent into the mysteries of Soul and nature. Animas immersions are not designed to transcend the ego, solve everyday personal problems, or help people better adjust to — or be happier in — the flatland of contemporary Western culture. Rather, the intent is a deep-structure shift that matures the ego and elicits each person’s most creative, soul-rooted response to our critical, liminal moment in the unfolding of the world’s story — on the threshold of a future shaped by those who can see beyond our own time.
Animas Valley Institute offers a rich assortment of guided immersions into the mysteries of nature and psyche, including Soulcraft intensives, contemporary Vision Fasts (Vision Quests), and training programs for nature-based soul guides.
In 2023 the first Animas Valley programmes were launched in South Africa, the beginning of a long-term partnership and a local, growing soul community.
Since then Soulcraft Africa has offered 2 - 4 programmes per year including Soulcraft Intensive, Wild Mind Intensive, the Way of Council and the Art of Mirroring, and the Animas Quest.
WildMind Intensive with Brian Stafford MD MPH
Based on Bill Plotkin’s book, Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche, this five day intensive is an experiential exploration of our human psyches as unique expressions of the universal forces and patterns of nature. We will work with what we call the Nature-Based Map of the Human Psyche, which is, among other things, a comprehensive inventory of what can be right about a person.
EARLY-BIRD PRICING UNTIL 20 AUGUST