Women’s Vision Fast
September 19 – 28, 2024
In Southeastern Oregon with Cascadia Quest
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Kinde began co-leading contemporary rites of passage in 2009, She has led fasts in the tradition of the School of Lost Borders in Northern Utah since 2014 and has guided with Veteran’s Rites in the Pacific Northwest and now with Cascadia Quest in eastern Oregon.
Kinde holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology / Ecopsychology has been certified as an Integral Coach. She is a former Netkeeper (ED) of the Wilderness Guides Council. Kinde currently is a rites of passage coach with Rooted Expansion, a community of holistic healing practioners out of Denver, Colorado.
Kinde is committed to cultural renewal through the work of deepening and transforming our relationships to the natural world, to ourselves and to each other.
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What is it like to be human? Nicole explores this question through her practice of poetry, spirituality, and theater, from her home in Eugene, Oregon. A longtime ritualist, Nicole first joined the nonprofit rites of passage organization, Cascadia Quest, in 2018 and became steeped in the work that follows the lineage of The School of Lost Borders. As an animist, being out on the land in of itself is a religious experience that she enjoys sharing with others. Nicole’s style as a vision fast guide is informed by her other job as a professional clown, and vice versa. She aims to bring love, levity, and a mythic perspective to the guide chair. She holds a bachelor’s in Philosophy from Pomona College in Claremont, California and has completed various trainings with Cascadia Quest, including the year long guide training, The Four Seasons of Leadership. As a woman of Mexican heritage, she enjoys speaking Spanish and supporting Latinx people. She is the mother of a teen, an amateur wildlife tracker, and loves to break out in song whenever possible.
This year I will be co-guiding a women’s adult fast with Cascadia Quest in the Steens Mountain Wilderness in September of 2024. You are invited to join us to enact a profound ceremony marking change & transformation in your life..
A CONTEMPORARY RITES OF PASSAGE CEREMONY
Since ancient times, people from cultures all over the world have known the importance of ceremonially fasting in wild nature in order to touch their own unconditioned Essence, to commune with The Divine and to know themselves as part of the web of life. From this profound experience, they would return to their people to participate in the maintenance and renewal of culture.
You are invited to join us on this 10 day vision fast ceremony, enacted in mountainous high desert of Southeastern Oregon. Includes time to slow down and prepare for a four-day solo fast on the land, with several days of integration following.
This vision fast trip is performed in a pan-cultural form as taught by the School of Lost Borders. We will form a community and explore together the deepest meaning of our lives both personally and collectively, and what it is to be fully human. This is a ceremony of living and dying, of death and rebirth, and so of authentic growth. It gives you the opportunity and space to dig deep, and to die to what no longer serves you so that you may hear your soul’s genius, echoed in the clear mirror of Nature.
A CONTEMPORARY CEREMONY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
• marking a new life phase or transition; dying to what was and being reborn to what is to come
• re-membering your connection to Self, The Divine, and others
• uncovering vital aspects of your soul’s genius
• your empowerment for action in the world
Register by CLICKING HERE and scrolling down and finding the “I’m in” button.
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“Utah Vision Fast , une si belle aventure, d’une pureté de coeur et d’esprit ! La nature vous accueille, vous écoute et vous protège, ainsi l’on peut ralentir le temps entrer en immersion avec ce lieu si subtil et riche d’enseignement, porteur de réponse à nos question de vie ! Oui une si belle aventure que vous anime bien avant de partir, que l’on vit intensemment en harmonie avec les éléments, et que l’on emmène avec soi au retour comme une source dans laquelle on peut se ressourcer et qui nous accompagne au quotidien!
Being intentionally set apart from “civilization,” from food and any routine interactions, forces back open the world that I was closed off to for a long time. Everything from conversations with chipmunks, to sitting under and aspen for hours and hearing the coyotes howl at sunset reinforced what I already knew cognitively, but I was reminded in my core: I am in and of this world.”
View from Secret Canyon basecamp in Northern Utah
Grandmother Juniper at Secret Canyon base camp
South on the Threshold Circle
“Unplugged, silence, time slowing, remembering how to deeply listen, finding connecting with the people, wild nature, and the land . . . it feels like coming home to my truest self.”
“The vision fast started me on a path to work on important personal “intentions” that I had been putting off, but needed to work on in order to feel whole and content. ”
Return from a fast in Northern Utah, 2021
“This was one of the most beautiful and meaningful experiences of my life and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who feels called to awaken into a deeper connection with themselves and the world that surrounds us. ”
Mask of the Ancestors.
“Well the vision fast has been a wonderful and powerful experience for me. It has open many doors and I can still feel the impact of it on my life here. It helped me to feel the connection to myself and to nature. Better than a dream.”
“I am grateful for every part of Utah Vision Fast, especially for the deeper sense of my purpose in life. Reading the guidebook in advance really helped me trust the ceremony.”
“Safe space, magic, life pouring through with vigor and joy, deep bonding with self, the group, the land, the universe. Grateful. I had no idea so much love is accessible and it is free.”