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Courting the Mystery of Our Invisible Soul
May 8 - 12, 2013
Harrods Creek Farm
in Oldham County, Kentucky
(30 minutes outside of Louisville)
with Annie Bloom
& Doug Van Houten
PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED - Space is limited
To court is to discover what someone or something loves, and to find elegant and gallant ways to bring that into their lives. When our heart has been touched by the keen seeing of the Other into our own true nature, a delicious dance of loving reciprocity begins, a rich conversation of being known deeply and the experience of being ravished from the inside out.
Often we project this longing out into the world -- the endless search for the perfect mate. Or spend hours in disappointment of what we don't receive from our 'significant other.' The magic alchemy resides in the inner courtship with our own invisible soul, the shy one in the wings of our psyche who has always been waiting for our attention and gaze to focus on what he/she loves, and to begin to whisper love poems to this one while washing the dishes or taking a walk in the moonlight with the shadow of our desire illuminated on the path in front of us. These simple acts of engagement with ourselves open the doors to what is numinous.
The ravishment is our own secret discoveries of what brings our hearts and passion fully alive. In courting our own mysterious inner soul/lover, we are carried off in an ecstatic enthusiasm to birth new life into the world through encounters with our deepest authentic nature. This new, never-before-seen life, begot through intercourse with the mystery of our soulselves is what the world is longing for at this pivotal moment in time. Program begins at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and ends at noon on Sunday.
COST: $550 - All Camping Program Non-refundable deposit of $200 to register. Registrations and final payments due 30 days before the program. Meal cost not included. Sharing in food preparation will be part of our community practice, more details on meal logistics will be included in the prep materials. In the event that we find it necessary to cancel the program you will receive a full refund. Scholarships available.
To register or for more into on the program visit:
For more information or how to register please email Doug Van Houten at
doug@dougvanhouten.com or call him at
(502) 472-6563
Annie Bloom
 Annie has been guiding people into the mysteries of our deepest mystical connections with the earth for 20 years. She has trained with School of Lost Borders, worked with Wilderness Reflections, and was a senior guide with Animas Valley Institute between 1995-2013. Annie is an initiator, a soul practitioner, a deep listener who carefully attends to the large story in the everyday stories of our lives. She has a 30 year BodySoulWork practice which has blossomed through the careful and attentive listening of her hands. She has guided hundreds of people to the intersection where our personal soul resides in the world soul. She has traveled the planet, but most especially the red-rock deserts and mountains of the American west, guiding people into exquisite wildernesses to make contact with our larger destiny and the fulfillment of being alive at this time in our planetary evolution. Annie lives in Salt Lake City.
Doug Van Houten is a Body & Soul Guide, student of Hakomi, apprentice to the honeybee, visual artist, wild ceremonialist, heart-centred activist and guide for Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org). In this work he draws on the wisdom of indigenous cultures, the natural world, depth-psychology, eco-psychology, dreams, poetry, and many cross cultural soul-encounter practices such as vision fasting, council, trance rhythms and conversations with the sacred Other. Doug's true calling lives in support of others uncovering their own unique gifts and in so doing transforming their lives in service to the Great Turning transformation of our times. Doug lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED - Space is limited
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