Your Monetary Contributions

Become a Supporter

What Your Support Provides

Support Levels

Anima Supporter Profiles

Welcome... and thank you for your interest. That you were drawn here to this site, work and extended community, says as much about you as it does about us. We greatly appreciate any commitment you can make to provide essential financial support in these difficult times, as well as to help get the word out about Anima opportunities and services.

For as little as $50 a month you serve as an honored Anima Supporter, one of the few committed benefactors whose regular donations this school, its teachings, and the wildlife and botanical sanctuary depend on. Those of you unable to make such a commitment at this time can make a contribution of any size, at any time, either for general use or earmarked for a specific project that you want to see to fruition. There are Non-Monetary Ways Of Contributing for you to consider as well, including the gifting of material items you may not need. And if you would enjoy assisting in any way with either vital research or outreach, then please take the time to check out the Spread the Word page. We’d love to have your able and heartful assistance!

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Your Monetary Contributions

We welcome your sending a monetary gift at any time to help support and further our projects, and feel free to earmark your gift for any specific purpose such as land restoration expenses, the publication of a particular book title, or to cover the tuition of students that can’t afford to pay (scholarships). You can make a contribution at any time by logging into:

PayPal.com

and sending your gift or payment direct to the following address:

TWHKIVA@gmail.com

Gifts and Payments can also be in the form of checks or money orders made out to:

Gretchen (Loba) Geggis

The Anima School

P.O. Box 688, Reserve, NM 87830

Larger giftings can be made by direct deposit, please write for details.

NonMonetary gifts are welcomed as well. Write for a list of current equipment and food needs that you just might be able to help with.

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Become A Supporter

Supporters are those very rare individuals who commit to help over time, enabling everything that this project does, creates, and ultimately engenders and inspires in others... with predictable and dependable monthly or annual contributions. For a monthly pledge of $50 or more you can become part of a small purposeful family, counted on and depended upon for consistent support. And with your permission, you’ll be honored with a photo, brief bio and your URL if you like, acknowledging your important involvement in the Supporter Profiles section of this page.

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What Your Support Provides

As someone gifting for an Anima service or book or contributing regularly as a Supporter, you are directly funding the following projects and more:

• The creation, promotion and distribution of new Anima Lifeways & Herbal Home Study Courses, including free scholarships to some who cannot afford them otherwise.

• Sweet Medicine Press, the Anima publishing arm, making possible the printing and distribution of life-changing Anima Books & Recordings.

• The gifting of books to libraries, learning centers & engaged activists and seekers. Some of the people who need and deserve them the most, are also the least able to pay for them.

• Free content for everyone on the Anima and Medicine Woman’s Roots blogs. Without your help, the authors would be unable to afford the time to write down their valuable insights, or to get them printed in important but nonpaying magazines. Loba, Kiva and Jesse’s work is currently enjoyed by readers of dozens of regional and national periodicals including SageWoman.

• The development, production, server and maintenance costs of the Anima Lifeways & Herbal School website, not only a means for outreaching books and services, but also a free resource featuring articles on nearly every imaginable topic, plant medicine recipes and informative herbal profiles.

• The preservation & active restoration of the Anima Botanical & Wildlife Sanctuary, a rare Southwestern river ecosystem. Once largely defoliated, the Center & Sanctuary now features a lush willow and cottonwood forest that’s home to diverse wildlife such as endangered songbirds, elk, bears, lions, raptors and waterfowl.

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Support Levels

There are 4 Levels of Support, depending on your ability to help, and how strongly you feel drawn to do so:

Leaves

...aiding the spread of lessons and tools, hopes and dreams, like the spreading of new foliage

$50 or more per month

or $600 or more annually

Branches

...the strength to bear the glad load, while reaching out ever further

$100 or more per month, or $1200 or more annually

Trunk

...the firm stalk from which all branches out

$200 or more per month, $2400 or more annually

Roots: Core Supporters

...the most committed level – earth-hugging roots that can be depended upon to keep everything from falling down even through the heaviest storms

$400 or more per month, $4800 or more annually

To participate, please download, fill out, and then return in its entirety the:

Anima Supporter Form

Thank you so much!

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Anima Supporter Profiles

It is a great pleasure to honor the few and central Anima Supporters by acknowledging them here. Some have been grateful folks whom the Sanctuary and teachings personally aided or inspired. Others have been neither students nor guests, and make contributions largely because of the School’s policy of turning no one away due to an inability to pay, or else began donating after witnessing the effect that Anima insights and service has had on others. Supporters are moved to pledge a continuing level of assistance because of a deeply felt connection to this work and the place that fosters it. If you are considering offering Support yourself, it is hoped that you will allow your profile to be featured here next to these much cherished allies.

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RESOLUTE, Root/Core Supporter, is one of our most committed contributors, as well as one of our most empowered students. She serves as as the site manager for Anima’s Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference, and helps with proof reading Anima writing whenever time permits. It is her name that comes up when we want to cite someone as an example of radical honesty, responsible action and utilization of what is given. She is truly a boon to everyone she encounters, in her work and in her life. Even when wearing her professional clothes she is an unmistakable woman of magic and power, and when her hair is braided, the strands of life, love, earth, service and purpose are seen tightly woven together. We treasure in our “Northern Owl”, delight in her, and are at least as committed to her growth and fulfillment as she is dependably devoted to the furtherance of Anima.

THE MORGAN FAMILY are a dear and sweet component of the Anima family, community, Sanctuary and mission. Nick and Sloane live with their wonderful boys Paris, Jeremy and little Django, at the center of an intimate neighborhood and wide ranging circle of activists, artists, musicians and visionaries. They are actively creating not only a life of beauty, but also true, earth-respecting community through their art and activism events, concerts and related projects. The Anima mission is wholly dependent on a costly satellite internet provider and server for maintenance of the website and blogs, receiving email queries and submitting articles, today sponsored directly by the Morgans. Nick, in fact, was the second person to ever help with donations of any kind, and his family have supported Anima longer than anyone. Like all Supporters, it means a lot to them to hear about about the continued restoration of the canyon ecosystem, as well as the many people who may not have may not have received inspiration or guidance without the Morgans’ assistance and love. It does so much to reduce worry and stress, knowing their continued help can be counted on even through trying financial times.

TOBI PANTER has been our other most consistent and dependable contributor, honoring our work by becoming a committed ally of it. While some folks blow us away with their ability to make a single large gift, it is no more impressive than Tobi’s unfailing monthly giftings, not only helping fund our low-income efforts to affect the world, but making us always feel valued and not alone. Tobi is a multilingual herbalist and acupuncturist certified in Hakomi Mindfulness-based Therapy, whose passion “lies in the body-mind connection... [with] our state of health as much about our emotional and spiritual presence as about our physical condition.” Her frequent sojourns in Colombia, South America, exposed me to the local indigenous Taitas and their shamanic, Earth-based perspectives, and her work with clients reflects her deepened earthen sensibility... as she dedicates her life to promoting true healing: “our return to the Wholeness of Being.” Thank you for staying with us, no matter what.

To apply to become a Supporter yourself, please download, fill out and then return the

Anima Supporter Form

Your involvement and support mean so much...

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