Vision Quest Ceremony
Rites of Passage Initiation into Life Transitions
Eleven-day Ceremony in the mountains of North Wales .
The Vision Quest will be held in the mountains of North Wales , U.K and will consist of four days preparation, four days alone with no food and three days of incorporation.
What is the Vision Quest?
The Vision Quest is an ancient ceremony to mark and move on from one life transition to another. The ancients knew that by crossing these thresholds in wild places, we face our fears, see our life pass through and gather our medicine, in order to move into the next phase of life.
"nature mirrors all that we are; it shows us the many faces of dark and light"
Our indigenous tribal ancestors also knew that their roots were connected in the Earth. They knew that the sun and the stars, the wind, stones, trees -every creature, season and cycle of nature are integrally connected to our very essence of being. The primal seeds are held in the cells of our bodies, in the birth of our images and the fire of our emotions.
We all have a story! The story of our life is held in our bones and blood - our childhood and history, the patterns we create, and relationships we make from birth to death, the first and final initiations.
Our soul and spirit is not somewhere else, but right here and now, waiting to grow and expand - each breath an initiation, an expansion into life and death.
"nature - embraces and beats us, blows right through us until the dawn of our being stands true, naked and free.free to just be!"
The next stage of our life!
Preparation
Before participating in the Vision Quest, we ask you to write a short account of yourself and your life, including the issues you carry right now, your intention and a description of want it is that you want to mark. We will work deeply to refine and clarify your intent in the first few days of our time together.
We will send you a handbook ( The Trail to the Sacred Mountain ) to help and guide you.
At least one month before the date of your fast, you need to take a medicine walk (from dawn to dusk, with no food, shelter, or human company) and to send us an account of your walk.
Opening the circle - crying for a vision
In your alone time you will create your own ceremony. This ceremony is born in a circle. You have the tools and the teachings from your own life. Nature will be your teacher and your vision is in the surrender to the emptiness, to the memories in your soul, and the landscapes within. Nature's great soul holds the mirror for you to recognise yourself in your own life. The mystery awaits.
In the south we prepare physically. We learn what we need to be with, and survive, the forces of sun, wind and rain. The clothes, equipment and strategies we need to care for and look after ourselves.
In the west we look into the dark places of our pain and depression. We will bear witness to the long night of despair, the deep places within, where our soul calls out to meet the secret treasures that speak through our dreams.
In the north our rational mind takes responsibility for our self, the group and our whole life. We learn to see ourselves in the world and to put our gift back into the circle of our life and into the larger circle of our community.
In the east we learn about our inspiration - the spirit that fires our gift, whatever it may be. We recreate ourselves in new ways and at new levels, discovering the person we are in the fullness of our being.
On returning
Still in sacred time and according to ancient tradition, we will tell the story of our quest and be witnessed, loved and blessed just as we are.
