Animas Valley Institute

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DEEP IMAGINATION INTENSIVE APPLICATION

Name

Date of Birth: Gender:

Address: ______City: ______State: ______

Email address (please print )______Phone:______

Sliding Scale Fee You Choose (please see website for the range for this program):

Year & Month of Intensive:

Submission of this form acknowledges I have read and accept Animas Valley Institute’s Policies and Procedures -

Please put “First Name-Last Name-Deep Imagination” in the subject line of your email.

Dear Deep Imagination Intensive Applicant:

Thank you for your interest in this work! We are very much looking forward to guiding this intensive. We have a few questions for you to reflect on andrespond to before we can invite you into the program. You have surely read the description for thisintensive on the Animas web-site but we want to remind you of a key aspect of this work.

This deep imagination intensive is designed to invite participants to not simply commune with- but surrender to- the mysteries they encounter through their deep imaginations. Remember, the truth of what you encounter may require you to irrevocably change your life as you now know it; to let go of things you love; to be in the world in ways that were formerly unthinkable to you; to live a deeply satisfying and meaningful life….

In our program description you read:

“Access to our deep imagination is vital on the journey to soul because we are drawn into intimate conversation with the mysteries of Earth and Cosmos and the depths of psyche. In this communion, we hope to catch shimmering glimpses of how we are called to embody a unique and wild relationship with all of life.”

These shimmering glimpses can be as troublesome as they are life affirming.

By way of an application we invite you to respond to these questions:

  1. Why is this the right time for you toopen (even more) to your own innate imaginal capacities, hoping to find yourself in intimate contact and conversation with the wild world, and allow yourself to be irrevocably changed?What is calling you at this time?
  1. 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.
  1. Please tell us a bit aboutyour degree of willingness and readiness, desire as well as fear, to commune with and make yourself vulnerable to the mysteries of Earth and Cosmos and the depths of psyche for 5 days and 4 nights.
  1. What Animas programs have you participated in?

PLEASE EMAIL () THE APPLICATION TO US WHEN YOU HAVE COMPLETED IT, PUTTING THE SUBJECT LINE AS “YOUR NAME – DEEP IMAGINATION APPLICATION”

THANK YOU! WE WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU SOON.

MARY AND NATE