Retreats & Workshops
We invite you to consider a Wilderness Retreat at Animá’s river canyon sanctuary, an ancient place of power deep in the mountains of the enchanted Southwest… or to attend any of the following Animá Events
5 hrs. N.E. of the Tucson airport, or 4.5 hrs. S.W. of Albuquerque.
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Wilderness Retreats
Individuals and families can apply for a retreat of up to 2 weeks at a time, staying in a primitive riverside cabin and being served Loba’s amazing home-cooked dinners — with optional Personal Counsel. For more information and photos of the land, or for an application, please go to the website’s:
Anima Wilderness Learning Center & Medicine Woman Tradition
2010 EVENTS 2010
(by sliding scale donation)
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May 7th-9th, 2010
Animá Herbal Tradition Intensive
(for both women and men)
With Kiva Rose & Jesse Wolf Hardin
• In-depth plant walks with Kiva and Loba, identifying, describing the uses of, and gathering some of the important wild medicinal herbs found in the American West and this diverse river canyon. ,
• Instruction and hands-on practice in medicine making with Kiva.
* An inspiring talk one evening by tradition cofounder Jesse Wolf Hardin
• Kiva’s instruction in essential Medicine Woman Teachings such as: Healing as wholeness; the problem with heroic healing models; vitalism and energetics; developing our intuition and tapping our instinctive abilities; connecting with one’s personal plant allies; obedience to awareness; the role of community healers and more. A weekend class for beginners as well as accomplished practitioners, in the remote Saliz Mountains of the Gila Wilderness.
July 1st – 4th, 2010
The Shaman Path Intensive
(for both women and men)
A 4 day intensive held not in a classroom but an ancient Place Of Power. Taught by Jesse Wolf Hardin with Kiva Rose, the focus is on realizing a deep and experiential understanding of empowered self, and on redefining the role of the contemporary shaman in terms of envisioning possibilities, bridging the worlds, and healing personal and societal imbalance.
Specific topics will depend on the needs and desires of the participants, but may include:
• Developing conscious hyperpresence, hyperawareness, hypersentience, precognition and intuition, tapping primal instinct
• Sensing, connecting with, drawing energy and discerning lessons from the various manifestations of the earthen Animá.
• Recognizing and learning from our kindred spirits, including our animal totems
• Reshaping perception
• Plant medicines and teachers
• Moving energy, and the Animá principals of healing
• The Animá Medicine Wheel
• Reincorporating the scattered or denied parts of our whole selves. Reintegrating mind, body, heart, spirit and earth.
Together participants walk through the portal of the feeling heart, to enter into deeper connection with the daily miraculous… taking responsibility as potentially powerful, artful co-creators of our world and our reality. Those wishing, have the option of spending a night or more out on a mini-quest, or otherwise customize your weekend experience to best meet their needs.
Sept 17-19, 2010
The Traditions In Western Herbalism Conference
Held not at the Animá Sanctuary, but at
Ghost Ranch Conference Center NW of Santa Fe, New Mexico
15 featured speakers and teachers, two nights of live music.
For more information and to register go to the
Traditions in Westerns Herbalism Conference Website
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Feb. (Dates to be determined according to demand. Please write with your preference.)
Writing From the Heart of Gaia:
Nature Writing Workshop For Budding & Published Writers:
Includes a riverside cabin bed or tent space and wonderful dinners
“Our experience of nature is in many ways a silent one,” Jesse Wolf Hardin tells us, “or at least its songs are free of words as we know them, its sublime poetic moments recited in a language of ruffling feathers as much as avian melodies, in stillness as well as the wind, in our own anxious flesh and telling bones.” And yet some of us feel called, implored, impelled to translate nature’s poignant imploring, lessons and tales. For us, Jesse’s insights into the craft – and sharing our works and ideas with others – can inspire and empower “the artful translation of forest and feeling, matrix and meld, into words that roll rocks from the page, that sprout melodic rivers and dangle soil scented roots.” The emphasis will be on writing not “about” nature, but “from” that place where we know nature and our natural selves as one… our hearts, speaking from the heart of Gaia.
For more information, or for Registration Forms that you can download, please go to the Anima Events page at:
Thank you for your interest, participation and support!