Are You Yearning...

• For a Break from the Hectic, Busy Pace of Life?
• To Return to Your Natural State of Attuned Aliveness?
• To Communicate Directly with the Great Web of Life?
• To Assess how You’re Doing with Living Your Soul's Purpose?
• To Experience a Deep Sense of Belonging?

Join us for a journey of reconnection and renewal among the ancient sentinels of the forest. Walk beside towering sequoias and play in crystalline creeks as they leap and dance over sparkling granite. As you become a part of the landscape around you, you will begin to feel it move, breath and express itself. And you will learn from it, as it teaches you how to return to your native state of being-attuned and connected with all that surrounds you. From there you will open a dialogue with Nature that will teach you deeply about yourself and how you are moving through your life right now.

Discover the wisdom within a stone. Or the secrets of a gurgling creek. If you actually stopped to listen, what would you ‘hear’ from a giant sequoia, a being 1500 years old?

THE DETAILS

We will be camping together by a creek in the midst of fir and pine trees. Nearby are cascading waterfalls, shining granite and gorgeous wildflowers. Several groves of giant sequoias are found a short drive away. Our modalities of exploration will include nature awareness activities, solitude and group time.  We will also be learning how to listen more deeply to one another as a part of our learning to listen more deeply to nature. This is a campground-based program and participants do not need to be able to carry a full-sized backpack to participate.

When: Thursday, August 17, 10 am- Monday, August 21st, 1 pm.  *Please Note- Most participants choose to arrive on the night of August 16th so they can acquaint themselves with the area and not rush into the start of the trip the next morning.

Where: The trip will begin and end at Stony Creek Campground by the north end of Sequoia NP (a 6 hour drive from the Bay Area). The campground has pay phones, a restaurant and small store nearby but is otherwise fairly isolated. Some other amenities can be found 8 miles away at Logdepole. All permits and camping fees from 8/16-21 are paid by Wilderness Reflections.

What you need to provide: Personal camping gear; share in carpooling costs/vehicles. No prior camping experience needed.

GUIDES FOR LISTENING FROM THE BELLY QUEST

Dave Talamo, MFT is founder of Wilderness Reflections. He has over 25 years of experience guiding wilderness trips, works as a therapist with youth and adults, and is a certified Wilderness First Responder. He is committed to the expression of joy and authenticity through the body and to helping others experience their own embodied selves in an intimate, ecstatic relationship with Nature.

 Annie Bloom is a naturalist for humanity, seeking and tending that which is essentially wild and untamed in all of our hearts. A gifted wilderness guide, she has been taking people into places of extraordinary beauty for 13 years, opening them to the joy of living in soulful connection with Nature and as caretakers for Earth. At her home in Utah, she educates and supports people as a professional body worker and facilitator of ceremonial leadership practices.