Do You Feel The Call?
Vision Quest offers a rare opportunity to step away from the noise of everyday life and enter into a deeper relationship with yourself, the Earth, and the mystery of life.
You may feel a clear calling, or perhaps there is simply a quiet knowing that something is asking for your attention. You may also wonder whether you are ready, whether you are capable of doing something like this, or whether you are โthe kind of personโ who goes on Vision Quest. These questions are often part of the threshold itself.
VISION QUEST
What Is Vision Quest?
Vision Quest is an ancient rite of passage practised across cultures for generations. Traditionally, people have entered the wilderness during times of transition to seek guidance, clarity and a deeper relationship with life itself.
This is an invitation to step away from the familiar rhythms of everyday life, meet yourself more fully and create space to listen deeply to the wisdom that is already within you.
The Threshold Of Vision Quest
Held within the Stalking Wolf lineage, the Quest invites you into a simple and profound relationship with the Earth through preparation, solitude, silence and ceremony.
Supported by experienced guides and held within a ceremonial container, you will prepare as a community before spending four days and four nights alone on the land.
For many people, stepping into solitude can feel both exciting and daunting. This is completely natural. The preparation, guidance and ceremonial container are there to support you in meeting whatever arises.
With no distractions and nowhere else to be, the land becomes your teacher. The more-than-human world becomes your companion. In the stillness, your own inner knowing has space to emerge.
Why Quest?
Perhaps you find yourself standing at a threshold - a moment where something is shifting, ending or beginning.
Vision Quest offers space to step away from the familiar, listen deeply and consciously enter into relationship with the transition you are moving through.
A NEW CHAPTER
You are moving through a transition, a relationship has ended, or a new chapter is beginning. You feel called to honour this moment and listen for what wants to emerge.
SEEKING CLARITY
You are longing for greater direction, purpose or a deeper understanding of where life is leading you.
BECOMING SOMEONE NEW
The person you have been is no longer the person you are becoming. You feel something new is asking to emerge through you.
RETURNING TO YOURSELFE
You have spent a long time looking outside yourself and feel ready to turn inward, listen more deeply and reconnect with your own knowing.
RECONNECTING WITH THE EARTH
You long to return to a simpler, more honest way of being and deepen your relationship with the natural world.
A QUIET INNER KNOWING
There may be no obvious reason at all - only a quiet feeling that something is asking for your attention and that now may be the time to listen.
Imagine Returningโฆ
GREATER CLARITY
Returning with a quieter mind, a steadier heart and a deeper trust in yourself and your path.
A DEEPER CONNECTION
Feeling more connected to the Earth, your own inner wisdom and the life you are here to live.
A SENSE OF BELONGING
Experiencing a profound relationship with the mystery and recognising yourself as part of the wider web of life.
WISDOM TO CARRY FORWARD
Carrying the insights, teachings and questions from your Quest into your everyday life.
The Vision Quest Journey
PREPARATION
We begin by gathering as a community, preparing through ceremony, teachings, practical guidance and shared intention. This stage helps you arrive fully and cross the threshold into the Quest with clarity, understanding and support.
THE THRESHOLD
As you step onto the land, you leave behind the familiar rhythms of everyday life and enter a sacred period of simplicity, silence and deep listening.
FOUR DAYS & FOUR NIGHTS ALONE
Held by the land and the wider ceremonial container, you enter four days and four nights of solitude and fasting. Without the distractions of daily life, there is space to listen deeply, meet yourself beyond your usual patterns and trust what arises.
RETURNING & INTEGRATION
You return to community where your experience can be witnessed, honoured and received with care. Together, we begin the process of weaving your insights back into everyday life, allowing the transformation to continue unfolding.
A Relationship With The Animate Earth
Vision Quest is not simply about spending time alone in nature. It is an invitation to remember our relationship with the animate Earth and recognise the natural world as a teacher, companion and source of wisdom.
Through solitude, silence and ceremony, we create the conditions to listen more deeply โ to ourselves, to the land and to the wider web of life that surrounds us.
Within the Stalking Wolf lineage, the Earth is not something separate from us. We are part of a living relationship, and the Quest offers the opportunity to experience this directly.
Whatโs Included
Your Vision Quest journey includes:
1. EIGHT-DAY GUIDED VISION QUEST
An immersive wilderness rite of passage held within the Stalking Wolf lineage, offering the time, space and support to step away from everyday life and enter a deeper relationship with yourself and the natural world.
2. EXPERIENCED CEREMONIAL GUIDANCE
A grounded and supportive container throughout every stage of the journey, held with care, respect and deep connection to the lineage from which this ceremony comes.
3. PREPARATION TEACHINGS
Guidance and teachings to help you arrive with clarity, understanding and readiness, supporting you to cross the threshold consciously.
4. FOUR DAYS & FOUR NIGHTS SOLO TIME IN NATURE
A profound opportunity to step away from distraction and listen deeply. Held safely within the wider ceremonial container, this time allows space for reflection, insight and connection.
5. OPENING & CLOSING CEREMONIES
Ceremonies to help you consciously enter the Quest and honour your return, creating meaningful moments of transition, reflection and integration.
6. STORY SHARING & WITNESSING
A sacred space where your experience can be heard, honoured and received by the community, offering the power of being witnessed after such a deeply personal journey.
7. INTEGRATION SUPPORT
Support to help you weave the insights, questions and changes from your experience into everyday life, allowing the transformation of the Quest to continue unfolding beyond the land.
8. COMMUNITY OF FELLOW QUESTERS
Connection, support and shared intention from others walking the journey alongside you. A reminder that although the Quest itself is yours alone, you are held within a wider community.
Who This Is For
This Quest is for those who feel genuinely called. Those standing at a threshold.Those longing to deepen their relationship with themselves, the Earth and the mystery of life.
You do not need previous experience of ceremony or Vision Quest. You do not need to think of yourself as particularly spiritual, experienced or deeply connected to nature already.
Many people arrive with curiosity, nervousness and questions. What matters most is your willingness to listen, be present and meet yourself with honesty.
YOU FEEL DRAWN TO THE UNKNOWN
You are willing to step beyond what is familiar and enter an experience of deep listening and discovery.
YOU ARE OPEN TO RELATIONSHIP
You feel curious about developing a deeper connection with yourself, the Earth and the wider web of life.
YOU ARE READY TO SLOW DOWN
You are willing to step away from everyday distractions and create space for reflection.
YOU FEEL CALLED TO MARK A TRANSITION
You sense that something in your life is changing and want to consciously honour this moment.
YOU WANT TO MEET YOURSELF MORE FULLY
You are open to encountering yourself beyond your usual roles, identities and patterns.
YOU ARE WILLING TO LISTEN
You come with openness, curiosity and a willingness to receive what emerges.
The Lineage
This Vision Quest is held within the Stalking Wolf lineage - a tradition that honours direct relationship with the natural world as teacher.
The ceremony has been carried forward through generations of guides, including Grandfather, Tom Brown Jr. and Malcolm Ringwalt, with a commitment to preserving the simplicity, integrity and depth of this ancient rite of passage.
At its heart, this lineage is about remembering our relationship with the living Earth and learning to listen deeply to the wisdom that surrounds and moves through us.
About Your Guides
Samantha Rose
Samantha Rose has walked the Vision Quest path for over a decade and serves as a Vision Quest Protector within the Stalking Wolf lineage.
Alongside her work as a professional storyteller, ceremonial guide and transpersonal art therapist, her life has been devoted to exploring the relationship between creativity, ceremony and the animate Earth.
Her own path has taken her from learning with Aboriginal elders in Australia to studying myth, storytelling and nature connection in the UK.
Through years of walking with the land, holding ceremony and exploring the deeper relationship between humans and the more-than-human world, Samantha has experienced the transformational power of stepping beyond the familiar and listening deeply.
She offers Vision Quest with humility, care and deep respect for the lineage from which it comes - holding a grounded ceremonial space where people can encounter themselves, the Earth and the mystery of life in an honest and transformative way.
Susanne Feld
Susanne Feld is an Alexander Technique teacher, Gestalt therapist, musician and Vision Quest Protector. She accompanies people through times of transition and transformation, exploring the often-unmet richness within those in-between spaces and times. Her work includes the reality of the body, feeling and our place in the natural world. With over 20 years of experience in the field of holistic embodiment, she has shared her work through one-to-one sessions, workshops and retreats.
In 2018, Susanne began her own journey as a Quester, completed her training as a Quest Protector in 2019, and has been running Vision Quests in different countries since 2020. Since 2021, she has accompanied groups through the journey Coming Home โ a space for returning to a truthful connection with the body, heart, inherent power and our place of true belonging.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I Need Previous Experience?
Will I Be Completely Alone?
Is Vision Quest Physically Challenging?
What If Iโm Scared?
How Do I Know If This Is The Right Time?
What Happens After The Quest?
VISION QUEST
If You Feel The Call
If you feel something inside you saying yes, I invite you to reach out.
And if that yes is sitting alongside fear or uncertainty, know that this is completely natural.
Often, this is how meeting a true threshold feels.
Applications are now open for the Vision Quest taking place 22โ29 May.
Book A 30-Minute Connection Call With Samantha
Together, we will explore where you are in your life, what is calling you forward, and whether Vision Quest is the right next step for you.
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