Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
With the possibility of selling Monkey Valley later this year, I have been revisioning the way I will offer vision fasts retreats. I have a retreat planned for August 8 - 14, 2010. If Monkey Valley is no longer mine, the retreat will take place in the wilderness south of ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
2011 Dates TBD
July and August (week-long trips include 3-day fasts, with preparations and post-fast storytelling and incorporation)
$800 - $1,200 sliding scale
Guides: Karen and second guide TBD
To arrange a customized individual vision fast for other dates, contact Karen at 604.251.6337.
"...by the time you step out of your purpose circle into ...
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
I've been telling you the story of how Ruth and Larry mirrored my intention for my day walk, also known as a medicine walk or contemplative walk. Mirroring for intention is an important part of the vision fast ceremony. This process usually begins months before a participant's fast, with a ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
As I mentioned in August, I have put Monkey Valley on the market. I was going to give you a virtual tour of my house today, but Wordpress is not cooperating with uploading photos. A final disruption from Mercury, who went direct this morning at 6:30 AM Pacific time?
So instead ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
A: Yes, and so can you!
Okay, you're probably thinking I've totally flipped out, if you didn't already think this after some of my previous entries about mouse turds, including "The mystery of the dead animal in my living room," and the moving song "Blue turd on my window sill."
But the ...
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
I was interviewed this week on Vancouver's Co-op Radio (CFRO 102.7 FM) about the vision fast. The interview was for a radio show called Conscious Living. Listen to the interview to find out more about this thing called a vision fast. The interview concludes with a song for calling in ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Next vision fast: July 5 - 11, 2009 at Monkey Valley
This week I had the great pleasure of giving a presentation on the vision fast to the Vancouver chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Our March STC program was a Pecha Kucha event, in which speakers each discuss 20 slides for ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Monkey Valley Retreat Centre has hosted vision fasts, medicine wheel teachings, teachings of ecopsychology practices, medicine walks, inquiry groups, and, of course, many gatherings of family and friends, too.
In the summer of 2008, the grandmothers and grandfathers of this land greeted a vision faster, perhaps for the first time in many ...
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