Coming Home to an Animate World
with Thresholds and Mirrors
Dates: 11th August - 15th August 2027
Costs: Dana
Location: Alfoxton Retreat Centre
This retreat will be based on the content from my three month online programme called: Conversations in the Forest
This retreat will deepen our ability to listen with "the ears of our hearts" to all that is speaking within us and around us. By bringing a question or an intention into time alone reflecting in nature, sharing councils, the mirror of nature and guided somatic experiences.
Answers come in real and significant ways when we take the time to truly listen - to track the threads and gently follow impulses through nature based ritual, entering into a call-and-response with the living world. An enchanted thread, greater than ourselves, revealing hidden gems.
The practice of Thresholds and Mirrors - terms used in Wilderness Rites of passage communities - can open the doorway to a listening relationship with the natural world, inviting a deepening of your intuitive ways of knowing. Like a lantern in the dark, connecting you with a deeply felt belonging and guiding you toward your true nature in communion with the sacred and living earth.
Weaving betwixt inner and outer terrains, these threads lead us into a fuller connection with our innate wisdom, our intuitive selves, and our most authentic being - while remaining firmly rooted in this world. The imaginal, the systemic, and the embodied are not separate domains, but different lenses on the same relational reality
Experience & Guiding Principles
Read more about our experience as vision quest guides and our emphasis in this work:
Your Guide
Natasha Lythgoe| Nagadipa
I’m Natasha, also known by my Buddhist name Nagadipa which means light in the depths. This name was given to me twelve years ago, after fifteen years of training to become an ordained buddhist. It serves both a mirror of my inner essence and as a life teaching.
I guide individuals and groups through transformative nature-based experiences. The way I work weaves together the main threads of my life; creativity, dharma, mythic journeys, the intelligence of the body and nature.
With over twenty years of experience leading programmes I have been moved and honoured to witness countless stories; listening and tend to what has purchase on folks’ hearts.