an eco-spirit encampment
2008 Schedule
April 25-27 Camp Renewal: Trim trails, gather firewood, plant, ready the Barn for the '08 season.
May 2-4 Private Group
May 30-June 1 Private Group
June 6-8 Reunion with Nature: Explore nature and fill your senses with wonder of sky, trees, water and fire. Weather observation from Bill Triola, trained weather spotter.
June 20-22 Wild Plant Intensive - Food and Medicine: Identify, gather, feast. Make tinctures and oils. Celebrate the Summer Solstice.
July 3-6 Nature Cures: Four-day retreat immersed in the cures of Nature. Seek solitude. Find peace and quiet. Do nothing and de-stress. Heal with herbal teas, clay body paint, nature attunement, elemental medicine.
July 19 Blackberry Pickin' and Creek Swimmin': Spend a long lazy summer day splashin' in the creek and slurpin' blackberries off the vine. Harvest your own berries to take home.
July 20 Clay Day
Aug 2 Celtic Shamanism: Explore the elements of Celtic Shamanism in this one-day retreat in nature. Celebrate your Celtic soul and honor summer's bounty, the flowing wave, the quiet earth.
Aug 3 Clay Day
Aug 9-10 Forest Shamanism: Pat will be teaching at the Yellow House in West Plains MO. Call Sasha Daucus 573-996-3339 to register.
Aug 17 Clay Day
Aug 22-24 Instinct, Memory and the Nose: Explore the power of your sense of smell and how scents connect you to your emotions, your instincts and awaken memories. Study the basics of aromatherapy and the healing qualities of essential oils.
Aug 29-Sept 1 The Elements of Forest Shamanism: Four-day shamanic retreat with the animals, plants and elements of the Ozark landscape. Work with the Fianna, the Green Man and other forest deities.
Sept 12-14 BOW - Becoming an Outdoorswoman: at Camp Lakewood. Pat will be teaching Wild Plants as Food and Medicine and Survival Skills. To view or download a registration form click here.
Sept 19-21 Soul Shining: with Rhonda Leifheit. Heal your psychic wounds of past and present lives. Using journeywork and past life regression, examine the beliefs, vows, patterns and scars that have traveled with you through the many cycles of your soul. Let the light of your true nature shine.
Sept 27-28 Private Group
Oct 3-5 Private Group
Oct 17-19 Echo of the Ancestors: Hear the voices of the ancestors, receive their wisdom, feel their influence, heal old wounds. Work with those who have gone to the Otherworld. Honor the ancestors - we exist because of them.
Oct 31-Nov 2 Halloween: The time of the thinning veil between the worlds, the roaming spirits, the candlelit jack-o-lantern.
See Shamanism or EcoCamp page for further descriptions.
Private Retreat: Schedule your own group of 7 - 15. See registration page for details.