Vision Quests are an opportunity to spend time in the forest - letting what is unimportant fall away. Going alone into nature, without food and a bare minimum of equipment, we feast on what we truly hunger for. In this space of solitude, one can surrender to the mirror of the natural world and the depth-of-being that is calling out just beneath the surface.

Is a Vision Quest calling you? Life transitions, like entering adulthood, midlife or elderhood are always “DNA invitations” to go out on the land. The need to become anew is planted deeply into our ancestral bones because it was (and is!) crucial for the survival of the community that we let go of what no longer serves and enter the calling of our new becoming.

Sometimes, traumatic events or other drastic life changes will beckon loudly, calling us to enter a deeper conversation with our lives and thus lead the way to the ceremony. Other times, the longing for change may be harder to name, but is equally important. It may be an unnamed sense of separateness from one’s inner nature while our outward life seems picture perfect, or a feeling of disconnect with one’s life purpose or heart’s desire.

And so you follow the call and go alone, with an empty belly and a bare minimum of equipment, into the heart of the wilderness, for four days and nights. There you live with yourself, in perfect solitude. You surrender to the mirror of your wild environment, and to memory, the looks-within-place. You enter the mansions of nature’s soul, perhaps to find some of the big questions waiting: “Who am I?” “Who are my people?” and “What is my intent?” You wander the precincts of loneliness, where vision lies waiting. You drink at the springs of your soul and are filled with self-recognition. What is not important falls away so that you can become anew.

Guiding Owl offers an eight day ceremony that includes a four day/night fast. The ceremony takes place on private and public land near Baldwin, MI. During this offering, you will be supported physically, psychologically, mentally and spiritually so that you may attain the full benefit from this experience.

Upon registering a ceremony, you will receive an email with instructions for writing a letter of intent, suggested readings, and an equipment list.

After registering, please fill out the medical information form and release of liability waiver found on this page.

Please reach out to guidingowlofferings@gmail.com with any questions!!