Sweet Darkness – March, 2025

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These questions are designed to help us determine your readiness for this program, and whether your intentions and those of this immersion jive, as well as to begin to stir things up for you! Please thoroughly read the program description on the website prior to applying, to be clear of your calling to this particular immersion. Please go to the heart of the matter in your responses to the questions, being brief yet thorough. Out of respect for your own time and the time of our staff and guides, we ask that you do not press “send” until you have strong confidence that you can arrange the time away, logistics and finances to join us if your application is accepted. Thank you!

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1 Welcome

2 Tell Us About You

Preferred Name and Pronouns
Gender	This information is used to help the guides understand the demographics of this program.
Birth Date
Address
Address 2
City
State/Prov.
Zip/Postal
Country
Please list soul-oriented or nature-based work you’ve previously experienced. Your prior experience might have been through wilderness programs, ecotherapy, depth psychology, vision fasts, indigenous training, other spiritual disciplines, or under the guidance of your own evolving conversation with the world. Please include any Animas offerings you’ve attended with program name, year and guides. *
Why are you choosing to enroll in this immersion at this time in your life? What is calling you at this time? What most allures you to this particular program? What are your intentions or hopes for this program? *
What deeper story is beginning to emerge through you, and what are the images or clues that have been revealing more of this story? In other words, what are you tracking in your personal mythology, including your soul infused experiences with images, symbols, motifs, qualities, truths, mysteries, archetypes, etc.? *
What do you know about your “mythopoetic identity” or the gift that only you can offer the world - discovered through visions, dreams, numinous encounters, revelations, conversations with nature, etc. Please address both what you know about your gift along with your preferred delivery systems (e.g., teaching, healing, managing, designing, writing, guiding, etc.). Or if unknown at this point, that's alright! *
Please list two or three of your current, deepest life questions or longings? What in the World’s (human and more than human) unfolding story most ignites your love or grief at this time? *
Do you feel ready to go beyond your comfort zone into unknown, mysterious or challenging inner/outer territory on this program at this time? What tells you so? What personal obstacles may obstruct your journey on this program? Be real here, we all have them! Best to be conscious of and compassionately work with the challenges and potential obstacles. *
Have you engaged in psychotherapy or other psychological explorations? Have you engaged in other kinds of inner work or journeys specifically focused on psychological wounds and/or shadow work? Please say a bit about what you learned about your wound(s) or the gifts received from the wound(s). *

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