alchemy of prana

The wind blows strong in this glorious light, lines of snow pulled outstretched off the high peaks to my south. The engine quiet, I sit...

What if the sixth extinction, global climate change (as outlined by the IPCC), habitat loss and deforestation, and the ongoing exploitation

If I mention the word radical, what comes to mind? What do you see or feel?

It was the shells. They were too thin. The Eagle chicks were not surviving their way into this world.

One of the barebones of the ceremony to which we align and were brought into as budding guides is that there are no rules to ceremony–-no...

We stood in the darkened night, moon conjoined with planet over the vast snowfield as the snowy mountain looked upon us from the far...

embrace solitude, reflection, heart-community, and nature

Awakened in Attunement with Nature--A Story of Juniper + Bare-Boned Fire         Tucked in groves of golden aspen and ponderosa, nearing...

edited from a soundwalk while backpacking out of the 3rd annual Adult Mountain Quest with Rite of Passage Journeys:...

To live in a way that is attuned with Earth is perhaps the guided-ally to our most sacred-belonging

The wilderness vision quest journey implies a metaphorical death, (severance), a liminal unknown that is pregnant with meaning...

Inhabiting Your Life by marking Rites of Passage Just as nature moves according to its inborn death and rebirth pattern, so does the Rite...

Entheos Holding Hands with Sorrow The dark night exposed their red stained lips From tasting the fruit of the underworld —digesting the...

musings with winter... Those of us living within the northern hemisphere have been—more or less—in relationship with what is known as...

By participating in an emergent, attuned liminal experience with the land, we evoke an intersubjective and permeable field of perception tha

The congealed alpine air penetrates the skin of my fingertips and cheek bones, and the fragrance of winter’s approach deliberately opens my

A throbbing magnetism pulls me closer to the core, closer to Earth: I feel gravity keeping me; and, in synchrony, I sense my soul untethered

fall vision quest Colorado

I feel the edge of spring at this threshold—the trickster, the fire, the spirit, the unseen.

Since 2017, Thompson and Colleen host a visioning passage retreat over the arc of the new year. This retreat is offered for free as an...