Chapter 1 of My Year Without Matches: Escaping the City in Search of the Wild.
A journey of leaving the city and finding my soul.
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An Animas Valley Institute event
The Animas Quest catalyses the encounter with soul by temporarily displacing everyday consciousness through five primary means: (1) solitude for three or four days and nights while (2) fasting (i.e., drinking water only), (3) being fully exposed to and enfolded within the forms and forces of nature,
An Andrew the Bird Guy event
After sold-out inaugural retreat in the sprawling forests of Gilwell Park during autumn of 2024, Andrew is stoked to be able to return (a little earlier in the season) in 2025! The beautiful Dandenong Ranges offers us everything we could ever need for 4 days of unadulterated, genuine nature connection, with the local forest birds proving themselves to be ideal teachers for delving deeply into bird language.
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“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen”
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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri, Taungurung and Gunaikurnai traditional owners on whose lands we gather. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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