Selected Photographs from
Previous Retreats and Vision Quests
I’m not keen on photographing groups whilst they are in process - it is too much of an interference to document these exquisite moments even though it’s probably good for marketing. Some experiences need to be kept sacred
so the images here are made at the fringes.
Wild Photography Retreats & Wilderness Vigils with 24hr solo time in nature
Tuscany 2017, 2018 & 2019
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Michael Eldridge, Adrian Kowal.
Peace, Power, Love & Wildness
Asturias & Alladale 2018
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Andres Roberts
An online hybrid nine month online and in-person journey that began an enquiry into the middle way – the deep union of yin and yang, the divine masculine and the divine feminine. We will explore this through the tradition of a nature quest, opening to what the wilderness reveals. Our journey will be shared with three invited guests including Pat McCabe and Paul Kingsnorth, and deepened through action-research projects, group work and online seminars. Here, each person will shape a question to to guide their learning and their experience with the intention of bringing awareness to how we can generatively impact upon our world from a place of greater balance
Unfolding Myth & Dream
Hembergen, Germany 2019
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Christiane Brosat.
Listening for the call of the forest and the myth of our lives.
A retreat that weaves together wilderness practices including the Fours Shieldsfour directions map,
solo time in nature, with story-telling and dream-councils.
The Call of the Wild for Women
Sussex 2019
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Lotte Trinhammer
A space to gather with women to deepen our connection with nature
and to find ways that help navigate the complexity of these times,
for the health of ourselves, our communities, and our planet.
Modern Quest Gathering
Scotland 2019
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Andres Roberts
Earth Initiation: A contemporary wilderness rite of passage
The Big Listen
Sussex, UK & Eschwege, Germany
Both in 2021
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Werner Pilz
Listening for the call of the forest and the myth of our lives.
A retreat that weaves together wilderness practices including The Fours Shields, Way of Council and
solo time in nature, with meditative ritual and heart-based practices from the Buddhist tradition.
Open Desert, Open Mind.
Death Valley 2022
Guides: Scott Eberle, Sylvia Talavera
Assisted by: Natasha Lythgoe, Matthew Sutton
This wilderness retreat draws upon the wilderness-based tradition of the School of Lost Borders and the spiritual practice of sitting meditation - neither a typical SOLB program nor a typical meditation retreat, but a blend of the two.
Note received after the programme: Thank you both - individually and as a dynamic pair - for all your great love and service to this Open Desert circle. What a great gift you both were and are. During the hard times, you were both stellar - right there and so reliable. And during the not-so-hard times you were equally stellar - right there and so very lovable! So much gratitude. Until next time in circle! Love Scott
Vision Quests & Retreats
Dartmoor in Devon
2021 - 2024
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Werner Pilz, Hamish Mackay-Lewis
There is only one life you can call your own and a thousand others you can call by any name you want.
- David Whyte
The Call of the Wild for Women
Devon 2024
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe assisted by Ali Wates
One of our greatest fears is to eat the wildness of the world.
Our mothers intuitively understood something essential: the green is poisonous to civilisation. If we eat the wild, it begins to work inside us, altering us, changing us. Soon, if we eat too much, we will no longer fit the suit that has been made for us. Our hair will begin to grow long and ragged. Our gait and how we hold our body will change. A wild light begins to gleam in our eyes. Our words start to sound strange, nonlinear, emotional. Unpractical. Poetic.
- Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Belly of the Night | Women’s Sauna Retreat
Sweden 2025
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Geeta Stilwell
These five days, this precious opportunity to disconnect from the digital dimension - existent as the mainstay of so many of our lives - weighing in like a third relationship we are hapless to disentangle ourselves from. It doesn’t take long to unplug and find ourselves landed back in this beautiful, alive body wondering how long have we’ve been gone.
Gently entrusting ourselves to our deeper selves with whom we have no contact unless we quiet down, with relaxation. The slow, gentle surrender into the depths where we meet bear medicine, the season of hibernation, dreaming-dens and winter medicine.
Everyday Sacredness:
Conversations Between Body, Land and Soul
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Claire Owen
Buddhism, Mindfulness & Nature Retreat - Sussex 2024 & 2025
These retreats brings together my background as a rites of passage guide working with the Four Directions Nature Based Map of Psyche, and Buddhism. Blending these teachings I hope to invite a deeper embodied connection with the elements, the unseen and subtle forces, and levels of reality that surround us.
Cretan Vision Quest 2025
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Werner Pilz
Earth Initiation: A contemporary wilderness rite of passage
Scotland Vision Quest 2025
Guides: Natasha Lythgoe, Werner Pilz
Earth Initiation: A contemporary wilderness rite of passage
