Animas Valley Institute
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Application for the Underworld Journey Animas Quest
Name______
Date of Birth: ______Gender: ____ Occupation: ______
Address: ______City: ______State: ______
Email address: ______Phone: ______
Sliding Scale Fee You Choose if Accepted (please see website for the range for this program):
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Please put “First Name-Last Name-UWJ Application” in the subject line of your email.
Thank you for your interest in the Underworld Journey Vision Quest! We'd like to ask you some questions to help us determine your readiness for this program. These questions are intended to give us a sense of your previous experience with soulwork as well as to help you determine your own readiness for the quest, and, of course, to begin stirring things up for you.
* Please list the previous Animas programs you’ve attended (if any) including the guides and year.
* Please list any previous nature-based soul work you’ve done (including vision fasts). Only this: What, when, and with whom.
* Have you engaged in psychotherapy or other psychological explorations? If so, please list dates and very briefly describe the type of work (not the content).
* Have you ever been through a life crisis that pushed you to the edges and opened a new path for you? Would you tell us a bit about this (1/2 page or less)?
* Do you feel ready to go beyond your comfort zone on this Underworld Journey? Briefly, what tells you so?
* Why does this feel to you like the right time in your life to enact a vision fast?
* Why are you thinking of our "advanced" quest (the Underworld Journey) rather than one of our plenty-intense "regular" quests?
* Please briefly note anything you might know about your “mythopoetic identity” or the gift that only you can offer the world — in other words, your soul-infused experiences of images, symbols, motifs, qualities, truths, mysteries, archetypes —things you’ve discovered through visions, dreams, numinous encounters, revelations, conversations with nature, and so on. Or: Tell us a bit about what you’re tracking in your personal mythology. Or: Please tell us your two or three current biggest life questions.
Many thanks for your time and for answering these big questions of ours!
Please return your application by email to . It’s helpful to us if you can copy and paste this application into the body of the email as well as attaching it. Please put “your first and last name – UWJ Application” in the subject line of the email. Thank you.