Purpose Mountain

FREE LIVE TEACHING

Coming Home:

An Introduction to the
Vision Quest

with Tim Corcoran and
Alia Yarrow

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern

Human Milky Way Vision Quest

Our Invitation

Join us for this free live teaching event where we’ll offer an introduction to the cross-cultural Vision Quest, including teachings on the power and relevance of this ancient human practice in our modern world, as well as a logistical overview of how the Vision Quest actually works.

During this 90-minute live Zoom video conference, you’ll learn:

  • What is a Vision Quest?
    • The essential role that deep nature connection mentoring and an earth-based understanding of the human psyche play in a holistic quest experience.
    • A historical framing of how nature-based initiation practices have been core community processes to support human development for the majority of our shared history on Earth.
    • The modern cross-cultural Vision Quest – what it is and what it is not.
  • Benefits of enacting a Vision Quest
    • Discovering your medicine through soul connection
    • Facing your shadows, tending your wounds
    • Nature connection and homecoming
    • Connecting with trusted mentors
    • Finding belonging in community
    • Ancestral connection and healing
  • How to know if you’re ready for a Vision Quest
    • Common indicators of readiness
    • What the calling looks like objectively, and feels like subjectively
  • What to expect going through a Vision Quest
    • An overview of what the 10-day journey entails, including accommodations, meals, fasting, and personal/group activities.
    • Our carefully curated map of the Vision Quest experience that offers a contemporary take on this timeless cross-cultural initiatory experience.
    • The essential role of preparation and integration.
  • ​How to address fear, resistance, doubt, and other obstacles on the path of connecting with Vision, and how to avoid the most common mistakes.
  • ​Inspiring stories of deep nature connection vision quest experiences.
  • Time for you to ask questions and discover if a Vision Quest might be  calling you at this moment of your life.
  • A heartfelt invitation for those who are called to join us for our live in-person Vision Quests being led by Tim and Alia in 2025, including a special discount​ for live attendees.

About the Presenters

Tim Corcoran

Tim is the founder of Purpose Mountain and Twin Eagles Wilderness School, both nature-based visionary organizations dedicated to the transformational journey of connection to wild nature and wild soul. A leader of vision quests, holistic rites of passage, and men’s groups, Tim has been facilitating spiritual initiations in the wilderness for 25 years. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant sons and husband to a magnificent wife and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho.

Alia Yarrow

Alia Yarrow

Alia is a vision quest guide and founder of Soul Rooted Healing Arts, a counseling practice committed to eco-centric, holistic, integrative, and relational approaches to human development. She is also a co-founder of The Seeds, whose guiding mission is to sow seeds of a life-affirming world at the intersection of the individual, communal, and ecological worlds. She is blessed to serve as a licensed psychotherapist, permaculturalist, community facilitator, sister, daughter, partner, poet, and loving witness.

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