VISION QUEST & SWEAT LODGE - PURIFICATION

Remembering Who You Are

 

Module Four: 6 Days, Adirondacks

 August 
Facilitators: Antonia & Roger Vanoro +

Lev & Sarah Natan of The Medicine Tree Sanctuary

 

 

​A vision fast is the threshold ritual that dissolves culturally conditioned identity in order to initiate the soul-centered adult and clarify one's unique ecological vocation.

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Why One Goes on a Vision Fast

A vision fast is entered when the soul reaches a developmental threshold ... a moment when the current identity can no longer carry the deeper calling forward.

This corresponds to the crossing from one state of consciousness into soul-initiated consciousness , the phase where:

• Cultural identity (“who I learned to be”) no longer answers the deeper question:

  Who is my soul here to become?

• Current Achievements plateau.

• Psyche begins longing for authentic vocation ... a lived service rooted in essence.

A vision fast is taken to dissolve old identification enough for soul to speak.

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The Arc of the Vision Fast

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The Call

The journey begins with a soul call — an ache, restlessness, or uncanny magnetism toward something unnamed.

This is the first Plotkin stage:
The Longing for the Place You’ve Never Been

Symptoms:

• A sense of vague dissatisfaction despite outer success.

• A collapse of old motivations.

• An emerging intuition that life must serve something deeper.

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The Separation

The initiate consciously steps away from social mirrors, expectations, and projections — leaving behind the reflex to define self through others’ eyes.
Separation from the village to encounter the Wild

The wilderness is not geographic alone  it is psychological:

• Without distraction, identity begins to deconstruct.

• Habitual ego strategies no longer stabilize the self.

• The psyche enters uncharted mythic territory.

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The Descent

In fast and solitude, the cultural self destabilizes the Ego Dissolution Phase.

Here participants encounter:

• Fear

• Ancestral grief

• Abandoned dream-images

• Shadow material

• Long-buried pain

• Creative wildness

• Inner visions

• A personal Soul Symbol

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The Encounter with Soul

As defenses soften, the soul’s unique image begins to speak.

Rather than conceptual insight, this often comes as:

• Symbolic vision

• Dream transmissions

• Animal encounters

• Images of craft or service

• Somatic revelation

• Felt clarity of essence

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The Return with the Gift​

• A felt clarity about life direction and service

• A wounded identity softened into a soul-centered one

• Release of ancestral grief and emotional burdens

• Reclaimed shadow qualities and creative power

• A steadier nervous system and deeper intuition

• A personal symbolic image to guide lifelong orientation

• Relational boundaries anchored in sovereignty rather than fear

• Inner spiritual authority and devotion to purpose

• An embodied sense of belonging to the living world

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The "vision quest" is a rite-of-passage ceremony of certain Native American cultures. Traditionally, these rituals have been performed to mark significant life transitions or changes. Generally speaking, they are seen as both personal and collective events that are guided and witnessed within the community, and often involve the "quester" spending time alone in nature in search of a personal vision that also becomes a vision to support the entire community. An important vision quest, for example, is one that marks the passage of one stage of development into the next,

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The vision quest continues to be a powerful way for us to acknowledge, mourn, release, welcome, and celebrate important life transitions of any kind, such as actual or symbolic births and deaths, career changes, divorce, marriage, menopause, birthdays, successes and achievements, children leaving home, recovery from addiction, etc.

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The vision quest reconnects us to nature, the place from whence we came...

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Immediate contact with the natural world promotes health and development. The documented benefits of spending time in nature include stress reduction, fascination and appreciation for the environment, a sense of competence and self-esteem balanced with a sense of trust in oneself and the world, a more mature morality and care for others, and a sense of awe, wonder, and sacredness.

 

Direct contact with nature also leads to greater commitment to positive environmental action and connecting with your Soul’s purpose here at this time on Earth.

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SCHEDULE

 

2 Preliminary Zoom Calls to prepare for your Quest

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• Day 1- Late Morning Arrival, Lunch & Orientation and Preparation​

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• Day 2- Opening Temezcal (sweat lodge) 

        Begin Quest in the afternoon 

       (optional dry or water fast) 

 

• Day 3- Vision Quest

 

• Day 4- Vision Quest

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• Day 5 -Vision Quest Ends in the afternoon, enjoy a delicious meal, integration circle. 

 

• Day 6 - Integration+ Closing circle,  relaxation, optional one on one time with Antonia, Roger and support guides. 

 

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