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. . . everything around you, the ground, the stones, the trees, the air, the birds, your blanket - everything - is alive, aware, conscious, intelligent, and speaking to you. For “prayer” as Thomas Merton says, “is not science but poetry.” And the poetry of prayer is built on experiencing the invisibles behind all forms of creation and then sending out from the deepest recesses of the human heart communications in return . . .
- Stephen Harrod Buhner
THE PROGRAM WILL BEGIN
Friday, July 27
& End Sunday afternoon, August 4.
If you are arriving from another state or country, you can fly into Burlington , Vermont . We will arrange to caravan or transport to the quest site. Contact us regarding your arrival for suggestions for places you can stay before and after the Vision Quest program.
After we receive your deposit and enrollment form we will send you a confirmation letter and a list of camping equipment and any other information required for you to participate fully in this life-changing, ancient ritual.
The Cost is $700.
Non-refundable deposit $200
(Nutritious Food is Provided)
2012 Vision Quest
ADVANCE ENROLLMENT RECOMMENDED
Give yourself time to prepare and approach your quest with balance and clear intention.
REQUEST INFORMATION & ENROLLMENT FORM:
Foundation for Gaian Studies, Church of Gaia
8 Pioneer Road ~ Silver City, NM 88061
(575) 538-5498 • www.gaianstudies.org
trishuwa@gaianstudies.org
YOUR GUIDES:
 Trishuwa, Ceremonial Director of the Church of Gaia and founding member of Foundation for Gaian Studies is an Earth Keeper and Metis of Irish and Cherokee lineage. Her first ceremonial experiences were with the San Juan Pueblo people who live 25 Miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande where she lived as a child. Trishuwa works with the 4 great ceremonies of the Earth—the experiential forms of working with the invisibles of the world—Sweat Lodge, Sacred Pipe, Vision Quest and the Medicine Wheel. She continues to travel and teach internationally each year. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, on “Good Morning America,” and on “CNN.” She now lives in New Mexico with her partners, Julie McIntyre and Stephen Buhner, author of The Fasting Path, Lost Language of Plants., and The Secret Teaching of Plants.
 Scott Harshman Ordained Practitioner of the Church of Gaia and Ceremonialist offers rites of passage ceremonies, healing with the Sacred Pipe and Sweat Lodge to his community and has been a Vision Quest guide for six years. He studied with Dhyani Ywahoo, with Stephen Buhner in Sacred Plant Medicine, and Earth ceremony with Trishuwa. He is a Pipe carrier and has combined plant medicine and ceremony as a life path.
YOUR HOST:
 Sara Caldwell has been teaching and leading Sweat Lodge ceremonies throughout New England for the past 5 years. She has traveled extensively, participating in indigenous ceremony, trained with Pam Montgomery, Matthew Wood, and has completed advanced studies in Sacred Plant Medicine with Stephen Buhner. She apprenticed with Trishuwa in Earth Centered Ceremony, including the Sweat lodge and the Sacred Pipe. Her first Vision Quest was in New Mexico with Trishuwa as her guide. Together Trishuwa and Sara offer Sweat Lodge at the New England Women’s Herbal Conference each year. Sara is adept at wilderness skills, and has taken groups backpacking and canoeing throughout New York and Vermont . She teaches middle school in Montgomery , Vermont where she stewards 280 acres of forest and fields.
In the end, the quest is very personal. It is you and your thoughts and your prayers to the Great Spirit. There is no blueprint for vision questing, no checklist of do’s and don’ts. Just you, the powers, and isolation. If you vision quest only once in your life, at least you took time with the Creator as to why you are here. Afterward, you, the vision quester, will be better prepared to use the special gifts with which the Great Spirit endowed you to join with those concerned ones who seek to help this planet.
-Ed McGaa, Eagle Man
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