Wilderness as Antidote Social media trains the self to become the centre of its own small weather system. Algorithms learn our preferences, echo our opinions and offer us a polished room in which we meet ourselves again and again. Over time, the world can begin to feel strangely obedient. We Read more
https://youtu.be/1rTjNHaYJkw Lucille Greeff and Carine Roth from Rite de Passage hosted author Darcy Ottey for a global conversation about the new book Rites and Responsibilities: A guide to growing up in January 2023. RITE DE PASSAGE, a swiss association for nature-based rites of passage for youth and adults. Our website Read more
Growing (up) We are threshold beings, initiates of life walking through fires and valleys, crossing rivers and mountains, traversing wilderness and wasteland. Take my hand. Let me offer you a blanket, some food, an ear, a circle, a prayer, a provocation… I know it is hard and wonderful, I know Read more
And on the fourth day the heavens will open and the skies will weep a deep grief falling onto the land. Oh, what are we doing? What are we losing? Who will remember? Where is the holy land? And the wind will blow the cool air in, to brush Read more
Supermoon Life is short, short and painful and beautiful. I lie in the hottub after midnight, the wind singing in the trees. Alarms sounding in the distance. An almost full moon shimmers silver, the clouds float past at speed, the toads sing in a steady rhythm. All is found. All Read more
The melody and words of this song were received on a solo fast revisit spent out in the West of the Vision quest area, the direction of the ancestors. High up on a rock ledge I was looking down into the rocky valley, reminiscing about where my past life had Read more
Vision Quest Thank you so much for your interest in our Vision Quests. We have decided that it will be safe enough to go ahead with our next Vision Quest. It takes places from 18-28 November 2021. The pre- and post- mountain time will be hosted at our home Read more
Today is World Mental Health day. This gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on our own mental wellbeing and what we need. This reflexivity is so necessary in 2020, a year that has challenged us emotionally, socially, economically and politically. According to the British Psychological Association rates of Read more
Global Fast for Vision Fast Guides Lucille and Bukelwa will be participating in the global Earthlink fast during early September 2020. This fast brings together experienced rites of passage and vision fast facilitators in shared intention across the continents to look, listen, and learn with the Earth. As we prepare Read more
