Navigating Transformative Experiences

What Happens:

This is a ceremonial process that unfolds over a period of time that is agreed upon between me and the client. The amount of preparation will vary, depending on the specific needs of the client. In general, the hunt can last anywhere from a 3-7 day experience, following the three-phase structure of transformation.

Severance (Preparation):

• Pre-hunt coaching sessions to clarify intention and readiness

• Ritual preparation and setting of sacred container

• Learning tracking, stalking, and reading sign

• Understanding hunting ethics and the animal's life

• Building psychological and emotional capacity for what's coming

• Nervous system preparation for intensity

• Creating the mental and spiritual readiness to take life.

Threshold - The Hunt

The sacred hunt is one of humanity's oldest and most profound threshold experiences. It confronts you with the primal reality of being a predator, the weight of taking life, and the deep reciprocity at the heart of existence. This isn't sport. This isn't recreation. This is ceremony. This is initiation into a truth most modern humans spend their entire lives avoiding: you are fed by death, and your life is sustained by the lives of others.

Most of us consume meat without ever confronting what that means. We eat animals we've never seen, whose deaths we've never witnessed, whose bodies we've never touched. The sacred hunt ends that separation. It returns us to an ancient covenant where presence, feeling, and honoring become inseparable from the act of taking life.

• We move into the field together at the planned time

• Track and stalk with full awareness and presence

• If the opportunity arises, a decision can be made to ethically harvest the animal

• We perform ceremony to honor the animal and express gratitude

• You participate fully in field dressing and processing the animal

Incorporation

This is a critical phase of the process that serves as an opportunity to be with, express and embody the experience. Whether or not we’re blessed with the good fortune of harvesting an animal, there will be plenty to work with.

• Time is taken for reflections and meaning making from the time preparing and being in the woods.

• We can prepare and cook the meat over open fire

• An opportunity to share the meal in ceremony and community

• We work with what arose: grief, power, reverence, complexity

• Somatic practices help you integrate what your body experienced

• You explore how this changes your relationship to consumption, nature, death, and life

• We anchor the transformation into your ongoing life and invite the experience to support your ongoing process.

The Work Includes:

• Tracking and stalking education

• Understanding the animal and its habitat

• Shot placement and humane killing practices

• Field dressing, butchering, and meat processing

• Ceremonial fire and ritual practices

• Deep processing of the emotional and spiritual impact

• Somatic integration of the visceral experience

• Nature-based practices and attunement

What this Requires:

This is not for everyone. The sacred hunt demands:

• Maturity and psychological readiness for the reality of taking a life

• Respect and reverence for the animal and the process

• Physical capability to participate in hunting, field work, and processing

• Emotional capacity to hold complexity, grief, power, and responsibility

• Commitment to the full ceremonial process from start to finish

• Valid hunting license for the state and legal compliance

What Changes:

The sacred hunt doesn't just teach lessons…it initiates you. Clients report fundamental shifts in their relationship to:

• Food and consumption: Knowing the true cost of nourishment and never forgetting what it took

• Nature and wildness: No longer separate observers but participants in the web of life and death

• Death and mortality: Understanding impermanence not as concept but as lived reality

• Responsibility and power: Feeling the weight of being predator, not just consumer

• Gratitude and reciprocity: Experiencing profound thankfulness for being fed by another's life

• Ancestral connection: Reclaiming primal knowing that lives in your bones

• Identity: Seeing yourself as animal, as part of nature's cycles, as capable of more than you knew

• Presence: Learning to be fully here for moments that demand everything

You don't just learn about the hunt. You become someone who has looked life and death in the eye and acted with intention, presence, and reverence. The magic of it all comes into play when that experience is tied closely to your deeper needs, wants and goals and what that all means to you.

Investment and Logistics:

Duration: 3-7 days depending on conditions and readiness

Location: TBD - Private land.

Requirements:

• Valid hunting license for the state

• Physical ability to participate in all aspects

• Psychological assessment via discovery call

• Commitment to full the ceremonial process

• Understanding this is sacred work, not sport

Investment: [Contact for details. Each sacred hunt is uniquely designed for the individual]

Next Step: Book a discovery call to discuss your readiness, intention, and whether this threshold is calling you.