programs 2015

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Sacred Wound Alchemy – Spring 2015

A Soulcraft™ Group

Group meets every other Wednesday in Boulder, CO

Wednesdays: Mar 11, Mar 25, Apr 8, Apr 22   from 6:30pm to 9pm

The weekend of April 25 -26, 2015    9am – 9pm (Sat) & 9am – 2pm (Sun)

Venue: Boulder and Retreat Space on Flagstaff Mountain, CO.      Cost: $425      Limited to 8 participants

Sacred Wound Alchemy works with a profound truth: The ways in which you may live into your destiny, your unique way of belonging to the world, is a function of your most profound sensitivities and vulnerabilities. One key to understanding this lies in how you relate to your core vulnerability or wound—your most painful place. The core wound is [more info]

Guided by: Mary Marsden    Assisted by: Lauren Golten

Weekend accommodations: Optional camping

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Deep Imagination: Into the Heart of the World – March 2015

March 31, 2015 – April 4, 2015
Venue: Joshua Tree National Park.  Cost: $875

It is our imagination, our deep imagination, that allows us to comprehend the voice of running water; to overhear the song of a place; to move between the knowable world and the unknowable world; to stand in the presence of the infinite; to discover our unique ways of participating with the Mystery that courses through all things; and to connect with the secrets of our own souls. [more info]

Guides: Mary Marsden and Nate Bacon         Accommodations: Camping

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Thresholds to Belonging – Spring/Summer 2015

A community based exploration of conversations and practices that feed our soul and the soul of the world.

Residential with camping: June 5, 2015 – June 7, 2015  &  July 7, 2015 – July 12, 2015

July 19, 2015 (all day) | August 26, 2015 (evening)

Thresholds to Belonging is a community-based exploration of the conversations, myths and practices that feed our souls and the Soul of the World. It’s an embodied discovery in ways of perceiving and participating that reweave us each in unique, aware, intimate-felt-relatedness and reciprocity with Earth, Cosmos, Mystery and our own souls. It’s essential that we rediscover how to kindle warming fires that can burn through [more info]

Guided by: Mary Marsden  Assisted by: April Glaser      Venues: Boulder, CO area &  San Isabelle National Forest, CO

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Soulcraft Journey – July 2015

July 26, 2015 – August 2, 2015

Okanogan National Forest, WA    Cost: $1,250

Do you feel a quickening in your life? Do you feel a call towards a greater mystery that in some way includes you? What if this year, with all of its weighted prophecy and precarious wonder, is the year for you to move courageously toward that mystery? What if it is time to say [more info]

Guides: Mary Marsden and Nate Bacon        Accomodations: Camping

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Soulcentric Dreamwork – October 2015

October 6, 2015 – October 10, 2015
Skalitude Retreat        Carlton, WA            Cost: $1,350

There is no better way to deepen the conversation with soul than by attending your dreams while immersed in nature. Soulcentric Dreamwork is a central component of soulcraft – a contemporary set of nature-based, cross-cultural practices designed to facilitate the encounter with soul. There are many forms and schools of dreamwork. Soulcentric dreamwork has the distinguishing purpose of initiating the ego into its soul path through a familiarization with the nightworld or underworld. Other forms of dreamwork attempt to borrow or steal a little something from the nightworld and import it back into the dayworld — seeking meanings or interpretations to [more info]

Guides: Nate Bacon and Mary Marsden        Accommodations: Retreat Center

To register, contact Mary Marsden @  be.earth.now@gmail.com or click here to request more information and/or begin the application process. Thank you for your interest. 

Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California