Journeys into the Raven's Eye

"I lay my body down on slick rock and it grabs me - pulling me into the dream. On slick rock I can doze as I gaze at ravens high overhead and float with the breeze through the cottonwoods. I can disappear in turquoise sky and flatten into warm sunshine."

"My eyes get heavy, here, draped over the rounded curves of sandstone walls and I am asked to forget the doing self and the monkey mind. Let go, she whispers - trust...trust the journey into nowhere and back again. Follow me into the history of time and find out what stillness really feels like. Let your eyes close and drift."

The trips we call Journeys Into the Raven’s Eye are explorations for women only. All of the journeys we lead…into and out of wild places, with questions and vision, serve as an opening for us to come back to ourselves and to our connection with the Earth Mother. These experiences offer a time of slowing down and settling into ourselves as a way to feel our truth, our hearts and our knowing in a more potent and dynamic way. So often the magic of gathering women together engenders it's own particularly beautiful and needed healing.

It has been our experience that when women spend time together, in communion and sharing, looking and simply living, that a certain kind of sweet magic is birthed that teaches and blesses all that it touches. We invite you to give yourself the gift of this quality time....for you, for the collective of women, for your loved ones and for the planet.

This is a time of great change when we must gather together to unravel and reclaim the mysteries of the feminine and of balance, through the Earth Mother's wisdom, and through listening to, and sharing our own innate knowing. In our gathering together in natural places of beauty, we have the opportunity to give back so much to the Earth, simply through our prayers and gratitude, and living softly and respectfully on her belly.

Most of the wilderness journeys we lead, including the vision quests are in the magical desert lands of N. Arizona and S. Utah. The secret red rock canyons of these lands hold a mystery and spirit of a people long passed, but not forgotten. These softly curved and rounded, womb-like canyons cut deeply into the Colorado Plateau, creating deep winding mazes that beckon the body to follow, and the spirit to imagery. The silent subtle hues of this desert magic stirs the ancientness in our own bones and calls our souls to speak. There is an unspeakable softness in the days and nights of this land.

"It is in the wilderness where a woman will find her own unique version of feminine soul. It is in the wilderness where she will find an integrity and 'at-home-ness' which knows, from the inside out, what femininity is in general, and what her expression of that is in particular." L.R. Keck, 'Sacred Eyes'