A collection of writings and recordings produced by the staff of Rites of Passage Council.
(Video) ROPC Founder Kedar Brown offers an interactive talk on Vision Quest ceremony, the cosmological medicine wheel, the structure and content of the ROPC Guide Training program, underlying philosophy, and his background and initiation into this work.
Read MoreTake a moment and get to know Kat Houghton, Rites of Passage Council staff member and Guide for Vision Quests and other nature-connection programs. Includes a brief bio, interview, photos and links to more info.
Read More(Video) Stories are some of the oldest healing art forms that exists. Like old medicine bundles woven together, braided and scented with sweetgrass calling us home through waters of remembering, healing and belonging. In a culture that emphasizes the keeping up of appearances and denies the more challenging aspects our lives and those of our ancestors we are not given the tools to go deep and claim the soul-treasure that is our birthright. The story offers reflections on the initiatory descent of soul. ~Told by Kedar Brown
Read More(Video) In this Global Summit Daniel Barber interviews Kedar Brown as they walk a conversational journey through a landscape of music and song as a way of both activating and realigning you to your souls calling.
Read More(Video) Do you feel a yearning to know your Wild One? The part of yourself that operates on gut instinct, that engages sensually with the world, that knows how to be free? This old medicine story helps us know our own Wild One more deeply and begin to learn how to integrate in with the Domesticated One and so access more of our humanity. Rites of Passage Council Guide, Kat Houghton tells the Tatterhood story in a recorded live webinar.
Read More(Video) In this rich conversation, Kedar gracefully walks us through the lost sacred art of "following your name" as we take a look through an ancient and integrative lens, imagining what it might be like to live into the unique medicine that we came into this world with.
Themes: Initiation Into Our Unique Gifts ● Grief As Healer ● Ancestral Healing & Connection As Etiquette ● Ritual & Ceremony
Read MoreKedar Brown offers an in-depth overview of rites of passage mixing poetry and prose. This piece includes some of Kedar’s history, his teaching lineage and experiences, stories of initiation, numerous quotes, and an overview of the four distinct phases of a modern day rite of passage
Read MoreWinter has a way of reminding us to surrender to something that is greater then ourselves and our own limited, resourcefulness. It is in this woodland council of the winter listening people that we are deeply seen and encouraged to accept our selves just as we are in this moment and to the accept the stories that have brought us to this crossroads if we are to engender the kind of faith that spring will return.
Read MoreMy morning started in the usual way. I brought the same level of surprise to the moment as if it had never happened before. Jasper, our eighth-month-old puppy, jumped on the bed urgently dragging us back from a softer and less abrupt dream world by sitting on our heads and licking our faces. “Get up! I need to pee!” he said. Now, barely awake, I’m standing in the backyard in my underwear with Jasper wondering if the neighbors can see me through the trees.
Read MoreWe offer these words from an old vision quest guide to our global village as we all continue to walk through this current rite of passage that can be both deeply destructive and overwhelming hopeful that a new vision is within sight.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guide’s adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read More(Video) KaChina Davine of Hummingbird PR interviews Kedar about his personal journey. He answers the question, "Where did you come from and how did you get into this?" by sharing a beautiful tapestry of his defining moments and key learnings that have led him along a winding path to the center of his life’s purpose.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
Read MoreWe offer you this poem as bread crumbs and sweet medicine from the trail of an old vision quest guides adventures and awakenings.
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