Nature Quest on Espiritu Santo Island, Sea of Cortez, 7 Day Program
Mexico ( 2/21/2013 - 2/27/2013 )
GaiaFlow
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage

Immerse yourself in a sacred journey to Baja California's wild, beautiful Espiritu Santo Island, a World Heritage Trust Bio-Reserve in the luminous Sea of Cortez. This Nature Quest will be the Way of Nature's first program at Espiritu Santo Island and in the Sea of Cortez. We will also spend time in the lovely historic town of La Paz (The Peace), the capital city of Baja California del Sur. Our Nature and Source Awareness Training will be based in this tropical, dramatically beautiful coastal area. The La Paz area contains natural oasis' of tropical gardens with palms, mangos, papayas, bananas and citrus - local gardens will provide us with our own fresh fruit and the local Cortez Sea will support us with delicious local seafood during John's Awareness Training, before and after the coastal wilderness solos.

This program's Nature and Awareness Training will share extensive teachings on John's universal 12 Principles for Natural Liberation: a direct path to enlightenment that honors the essence of all the world’s great liberating traditions. He will also teach practices that open profound connections to Source Awareness, Nature and the Elements. The integrated solo time allows for a great deepening of these practices and will be a heart-opening and soul-enlivening experience.

Your solo is on a secluded beach, often in a beautiful cove enclosed by hills, bluffs and mountains. People are visited by friendly whales and dolphins during their solo. Bird life abounds, and a sparkling Sea of Cortez inspires communion with the depth of your Being. Watching the sunsets from these secluded beaches is incredible. From each solo site, clear skies stretch out over the vastness of the Sea and Sky - opening your Heart and merging your Spirit with sky and ocean's spaciousness and light.

Guides: John P Milton, Jennifer Menke and Brad Kahland
Teacher: John P. Milton

For pricing, more program information and to register, contact: jenniferbmenke@gmail.com

Costa Rican Pacific Coast - 12 Day Sacred Passage Solo Quest & Nature Retreat
Central America ( 3/07/2013 - 3/18/2013 )
GaiaFlow
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage
Tai Chi Training

Come explore the depths of your true nature in relationship with one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Central America. This 12-day, all inclusive, Sacred Passage has been uniquely designed to bring you into deeper communion with inner and outer nature in order to facilitate greater vitality, purpose, and authenticity in your life.
The program begins with 3 days of awareness training, followed by 7 days of solitude in nature, and concludes with 2 days of integration. This awareness training will include instruction in qi gong, tai chi, Gaia Flow and sensing awareness practices along with uniquely designed teachings specific to the group. The intent of the awareness training is to give participants the tools to deeply relax and come into a heightened state of awareness. These tools can also be drawn upon during the solo time. The wilderness solo gives you the opportunity to let go of everyday distractions, stress, and social identity, while bringing rejuvenation, relaxation, and an authentic expression of self. During this time you will have the support of beautiful and pristine wilderness to help you cleanse, invigorate and enjoy the exploration of self and creation. Upon re-entry from the solo immersion we guide you through a unique integration process so that you may bring the gifts received from this experience into your everyday life.
In the 30 years these programs have been run, participants have found their experience to be rejuvinating, deeply transformative and insightful; many report experiencing positive changes in their careers, relationships, and personal lives. The Sacred Passage and other Way of Nature programs have shown that when we relax and become present to the great mystery of life, our lives become enriched with beauty and an experience of profound harmony.
To register and for more information please contact jenniferbmenke@gmail.com and info@sacredpassage.com

Price (Transportation to and from San Jose, organic meals, and lodging included):
Double room occupancy - $2,547
Private room occupancy - $2,797
Scholarships are available

Early bird discount of $200 if you register before February 1, 2013.
Receive $100 off if you bring a friend

Teacher: John P. Milton
Guide: Jennifer Menke

Chiricahua Mountain Wilderness - 10 Day Sacred Passage Quest Retreat
Arizona ( 3/29/2013 - 4/07/2013 )
Sacred Passage

The Chiricahua Mountains are one of North America's most beautiful and biologically diverse areas. Elegant trogons (a close relative of the Mayan quetzal bird), raccoon-like coati mundis and dwarf deer may greet you in your wilderness quest camp. Golden butterflies, abundant bird life, and rich forests surround your solo camp with one of the most biologically-diverse and abundant environments in North America.

This location in the Southeastern region of Arizona is one of The Way of Nature’s favorite base camps and Nature Quest destinations. The lush old growth canyon forests and cool streams adorn the landscape where an ancient volcano erupted 27 million years ago. Today this remote wilderness is home to golden eagles, trogons and even coatimundis. Doing a solo wilderness retreat here has provided support for many people seeking greater creativity & clarity, renewed energy and a pathway for their life purpose to open. Many report a feeling of liberation from suffering, leading to a more peaceful, fulfilling and tranquil life. Working with the 12 principles of The Way of Nature, participants will learn to quiet the chatter of a busy mind, relax and open their hearts to the gifts that nature provides. If you are physically or emotionally exhausted and cynical, dealing with the rapidly changing world, you will enjoy the opportunity to renew your energy, revive your spirit and restore your hope. A Sacred Passage is the perfect antidote for “Nature Deficit Disorder”!

During your training and alone time you will have the opportunity to learn powerful and practical ways to transmute old patterns and habits. You will enjoy 6 nights and 7 days with no cell phones, no reading, writing or distractions during your solo. Just you and the glorious gifts of contemplative and energy practices, surrounded by the magnificence of Nature. Participants emerge from this experience refreshed with a radiant and joyful new vitality to meet life’s challenges.

John has discovered ancient stone meditation seats throughout this ancient vision quest valley, which he will teach you to use during your Awareness Training. Numerous individuals have accomplished profound spiritual openings with the help of these primordial shamanic sites. A beautiful stream flows past most of the the solo quest sites, lush with large ponderosa pines and alligator juniper. Nearby cliffs provide soaring views, lifting the spirit towards Source.

Our private base camp cabins', constructed of local stone, are located next to the Chiricahua Wilderness Area; they provide a superb, comfortable support for The Awareness Training with full kitchen, refrigeration, shower and camping facilities. A lovely stream flows through our retreat center, making stream bathing possible, and deep pine forests surround us - filled with ideal locations for our outdoor Awareness Training prior to your solo quest. This Chiricahua Mountain Range is one of the most remote, pristine and beautiful areas in the American Southwest.

$1440 fee.
Guide: Led by
John P. Milton

Colorado's Celestial Sangre de Cristo Mountains - 12 Day Sacred Passage Quest Retreat
Colorado ( 5/23/2013 - 6/03/2013 )
Sacred Passage

Journey to one of North America's most powerful and ancient sacred places, Crestone and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Our alpine skies are vast, clear and spacious. No pollution mars the mountains or our lungs. The Sacred Passage group training and solo sites are very easy to access with a short walk at 8500 feet. Towering above our solo camps are five 14,000-foot summits that lift above the land here - a dramatic mountain panorama rivaling the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Lovely groves of large ponderosas, aspen and cottonwood line the mountain streams; open savannahs of juniper and pinyon pine wash right up to the base of the mountains. Higher up, forests of bristlecone pine, spruce and fir clothe the slopes below the rugged, cliffy peaks. During your Awareness Training and solo you share the land with mule deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, pronghorn antelope and beautiful black fox squirrels. Bird life abounds and Eagles circle above. A large, beautiful stream flows for more than a mile across our private, protected land where we do Sacred Passage. The stream flows crystal clear and provides superb, revitalizing drinking water for all of us.

In the late 1970's, John P. Milton moved to Crestone and was the intitial discoverer of the ancient stone meditation seats that fill the land here. An estimated two thousand such sacred stone meditation seats cluster on the Sacred Land Trust area, the largest aggregation of such sacred sites in the world. Working with Threshold's Sacred Land Trust Project, The Way of Nature is fund-raising to preserve these extraordinary sites in perpetuity. Meanwhile, those of you who choose to do Sacred Passage Awareness Training and Nature Solo here are the beneficiaries; beneficiaries of deep immersion in the Sacred View that is profoundly supported by this amazing land and its stone seats. These special sites have been used for millenia of vision questing, ceremony and prayer. Your pilgrimage here to do Sacred Passage is part of that great lineage of the Land.

Native peoples trace back their vision quests and sacred ceremonies here for over 15,000 years. Our Sacred Land Trust land is also trying to preserve the majority of these ancient and sacred vision quest sites, as well as a large kiva and courtyard complex. As mentioned above, when you do your Sacred Passage here, you join with those who have entered the Sacred Way on this land over many thousands of years. Almost everyone who comes to do a Sacred Passage feels the powerful joy and opening of Spirit that this place offers. Give your good heart to Mother Earth and Great Spirit; receive an incalculable blessing.

$1800 fee.
Teacher and Guide:
John P. Milton

Brazil, July 2013: Offering three inspiring programs: First Official Way of Nature International Guide Training & Certification Retreat in Bahia; A public 8 Day Nature Quest in Bahia; A 2 Day Weekend of Natural Renewal near São Paulo, Brazil
South America ( 7/06/2013 - 7/28/2013 )
GaiaFlow
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage
Workshops and Custom Retreats

Join us in this inspiring second offering of John P. Milton’s Way of Nature Programs in Brazil. Former Sacred Passage participant, Christel Scholten, former getWild Sweden participant, Henrique Vedana, Marina Minari, Karina Tatit and Eduardo Vitale are organizing these teachings. Three programs, in collaboration with The Way of Nature, are being offered: an introductory Weekend of Natural Renewal July 6-8, a longer Nature Quest July 16-24 open to all who are interested, and the first of a series of Way of Nature International Guide Training Programs July 13-28. These guide training programs are designed to certify guides to better serve the numerous Way of Nature groups now growing rapidly in many parts of the world.

The Weekend of Natural Renewal will be an introduction to the Way of Nature Experience with two half-day afternoon safe solos in Nature - combined with two half-day morning trainings that emphasize The Way of Nature's Six Core Principles of Natural Renewal, “sensing” practices to refine and deepen connection to outer and inner Nature, John's creative movement system called GaiaFlow, and Qi Gong energy cultivation work. Overnight camping is an option, but not required. This program will be held in the State of São Paulo, approximately 2-3 hours from São Paulo.

The Nature Quest begins with two days of Awareness Training, followed by 4 days of solo and a day and a half of Re-entry Sharing and “Bridging Back” Training at the conclusion. This program will be held in magical state of Bahia using Castelar da Alvorada, a retreat facility of great natural beauty, as the basecamp (www.castelaralvorada.com/en) in the heart of the Chapada Diamantina (Diamond Plateau). Before becoming a park, many diamonds were found in the earth here. This is a place of great beauty, where nature is still pure and preserved. It is located near many of the natural attractions of the Chapada Diamantina National Park, such as the breath-taking Fumaça Waterfall, just 5 km from the Capão Valley. Doing a solo wilderness retreat here provides support for those seeking greater creativity & clarity, renewed energy and opening a pathway for life purpose. You will cultivate the 12 principles of The Way of Nature and learn Qi Gong, T’ai Chi and meditation practices outdoors. Participants will discover how to relax, become fully present, quiet the chatter of a busy mind, and open their hearts to the gifts that Nature provides. Participants will emerge from this experience refreshed with a radiant and joyful renewed vitality to meet life’s challenges.

This First Way of Nature International Guide Training & Certification Retreat is a 15 day immersion designed to serve those interested guiding and introducing Natural Renewal programs in their home region. This program includes guide training in the 12 principles of The Way of Nature, Experiential sensing and refinement, GaiaFlow, Qiqong, T’ai Chi and meditation; our training emphasizes the support and guidance of individuals in Way of Nature Programs with an emphasis on the Natural Renewal Program. Students will participate in a 7 day wilderness solo providing first hand experience in seeking inner silence, “sensing” and spiritual cultivation in preparation for guiding. You will receive comprehensive training on: 1) the key components of the Natural Renewal Program, 2) re-entry sharing and 3) preparation for reintegration and application. You will receive the benefit of three coaching sessions with John Milton after the program (to be paid for separately). This program will also be held in the beautiful state of Bahia (see above for the Chapada Diamantina description of the location). We highly recommend you also attend the prior Weekend of Natural Renewal program near São Paulo, however it is not a requirement for this training.

Fees: Fees: Weekend of Natural Renewal – USD 650, Nature Quest – USD 1150, International Guide Training – USD 1650. All prices include fees, food and lodging. Participants are responsible for transportation to the venue.,
For more information contact Christel Scholten at: saopaulo@reospartners.com
Guide: John P. Milton
To enroll, email: saopaulo@reospartners.com

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado - Long Mountain Retreats: 28 Day Intermediate Awareness Training or 44 Day Advanced Awareness Training
Colorado ( 8/02/2013 - 9/14/2013 )
Advanced Awareness Training
GaiaFlow
Intermediate Awareness Training
NatureQuest
Sacred Passage

This summer's Intermediate and Advanced Awareness Trainings include powerful, Heart-opening 28 or 44 Day deep solos and personalized Awareness Trainings. Because these Trainings are such profound transformational processes, John recommends that only those consider doing the 44 Day Advanced Training who have completed most of last five years of Advanced Training Sessions with him. Those who have completed the earlier two cycles of Advanced Awareness Trainings with him are also welcome to apply. These two programs are essential components of The Way of Nature's Guide Training, certification and licensing for both NatureQuests (the 28 day solo) and Sacred Passages (the 44 Day solo).

John's Awareness Training time is integrated into both the 28 and 44 day mountain retreats. John will include weekly personalized training with each individual doing either mountain retreat.

Preparation for the powerful 44 Day retreat should include deep cultivation of all the practices taught during the five years of prior Advanced Awareness Training. This spiritual training and practice should include our past work done in Dzogchen, Bon, Buddhism, Taoism, Tantra, Native American Way, Shamanism, Vedanta - and the special training given to open the deeper levels of the Twelve Principles of Natural Liberation.

This 44 Day Mountain Retreat is an essential part of the Advanced Awareness Training.

Those interested in doing either the 28 Day Intermediate Training, or 44 Day Advanced Training Solos this year, (both are normally held in Crestone during mid-summer), should contact John directly to make special arrangements this year. The 28 Day Retreat is open to all who have done at least one full Sacred Passage with John. The 44 Day Mountain Retreat is open to all who have previously done the 28 Day Solo Retreat or the equivalent, and completed a substantial amount of the Advanced Awawreness Training Programs. John reserves the right to determine whether you are properly prepared for the deep transformational processes of either Program.

Allocating ideal space for the long mountain retreats, solos and vision quests are challenging since good long-term sites are limited, and we will be offering both 28 Day and 44 Day Awareness Training Retreat Programs. Therefore, be sure to contact us as soon as possible if you want to do either the 28 Day or 44 Day Retreat this year.

Both the 28 Day and 44 Day Mountain Retreats will be carried out in dramatically beautiful higher elevation mountain areas, between 10,000 and 12,000 feet. Surrounding peaks often lift to over 14,000 feet. Native peoples trace back their vision questing and sacred ceremony in these same places for over 15,000 years. Doing our longer Intermediate and Advanced Awareness Trainings here will join you with those who have entered the Sacred Way on this land over many thousands of years. This sacred land offers profound communion with Mother Earth, birthing of powerful joy and a deep, opening realization of Source Awareness itself.

$2700 fee for the 44 Day Program.
$2250 fee for the 28 Day Program
Teacher and Guide: John P. Milton

Colorado's Celestial Sangre de Cristo Mountains - 12 Day Sacred Passage Quest Retreat
Colorado ( 8/22/2013 - 9/03/2013 )
Sacred Passage

Journey to one of North America's most powerful and ancient sacred places, Crestone and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Our alpine skies are vast, clear and spacious. No pollution mars the mountains or our lungs. The Sacred Passage group training and solo sites are very easy to access with a short walk at 8500 feet. Towering above our solo camps are five 14,000-foot summits that lift above the land here - a dramatic mountain panorama rivaling the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Lovely groves of large ponderosas, aspen and cottonwood line the mountain streams; open savannahs of juniper and pinyon pine wash right up to the base of the mountains. Higher up, forests of bristlecone pine, spruce and fir clothe the slopes below the rugged, cliffy peaks. During your Awareness Training and solo you share the land with mule deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, pronghorn antelope and beautiful black fox squirrels. Bird life abounds and Eagles circle above. A large, beautiful stream flows for more than a mile across our private, protected land where we do Sacred Passage. The stream flows crystal clear and provides superb, revitalizing drinking water for all of us.

In the late 1970's, John P. Milton moved to Crestone and was the intitial discoverer of the ancient stone meditation seats that fill the land here. An estimated two thousand such sacred stone meditation seats cluster on the Sacred Land Trust area, the largest aggregation of such sacred sites in the world. Working with Threshold's Sacred Land Trust Project, The Way of Nature is fund-raising to preserve these extraordinary sites in perpetuity. Meanwhile, those of you who choose to do Sacred Passage Awareness Training and Nature Solo here are the beneficiaries; beneficiaries of deep immersion in the Sacred View that is profoundly supported by this amazing land and its stone seats. These special sites have been used for millenia of vision questing, ceremony and prayer. Your pilgrimage here to do Sacred Passage is part of that great lineage of the Land.

Native peoples trace back their vision quests and sacred ceremonies here for over 15,000 years. Our Sacred Land Trust land is also trying to preserve the majority of these ancient and sacred vision quest sites, as well as a large kiva and courtyard complex. As mentioned above, when you do your Sacred Passage here, you join with those who have entered the Sacred Way on this land over many thousands of years. Almost everyone who comes to do a Sacred Passage feels the powerful joy and opening of Spirit that this place offers. Give your good heart to Mother Earth and Great Spirit; receive an incalculable blessing.

$1800 fee
Guide: John P. Milton

Flinders Island, Australia 10-day Sacred Passage
Pacific Basin ( 11/08/2013 - 11/17/2013 )
GaiaFlow
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage
Tai Chi Training

Sponsored by The Way of Nature - Australia, this Sacred Passage Awareness Training teaching and solo experience will be conducted on pristine privately owned land on Flinders Island, a magical, and completely unspoiled place in the Bass Strait, north of Tasmania, Australia.
The verdant, lush setting, with mountain water streams running through, is bounded by national parks and the ocean and situated at the intersection of powerful Ley (energy) Lines that reach across our planet. Mount Strzelecki soars to the East, and the land opens out to the Bass Strait and magnificent sunsets to the west. Wildlife abounds – Flinders Island is home to between 5 and 15 times as much wildlife as the rest of Tasmania and the Australian mainland. You will be joined by wallabies, wombats, wonderful birdlife, and much more.
Join us for 10 days of reflection and growth, immersed in nature, supported with contemplative practices from ancient eastern and indigenous traditions.
The full program takes 10 days, the first and last days being traveling days. The first two days of teaching include learning about the Way of Nature, based on John’s book, Sky Above Earth Below, as well as Qi Gong and contemplative practices that will be of benefit in the following days.
Flinders Island is easily accessible by plane, via Melbourne or Sydney.

Listed dates are tentative. Please contact Way of Nature Australia (info@wona.org.au) for current updates.

Guide and Teacher: John P. Milton

For more information and pricing, please go to http://www.wona.org.au/retreats or email info@wona.org.au

Sacred Island of Bali - 16 Day Advanced Awareness Training & Pilgrimage (Open to all)
Asia ( 11/23/2013 - 12/08/2013 )
Advanced Awareness Training
GaiaFlow
Intermediate Awareness Training
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage
Tai Chi Training
Workshops and Custom Retreats

Join us on a 15 day Advanced Awareness Training and Pilgrimage to magical, sacred Bali. Our teacher and guide, John Milton, has led pilgrimage and done spiritual practice here over many years. The extraordinarily friendly people of this amazing Hindu island culture have preserved one of Southeast Asia's most deeply spiritual ways of life. We will immerse ourselves deeply in Bali's ceremonies, sacred temples and incredibly beautiful landscapes. Our Balinese friends will share their secrets to opening a life of harmony, ceremony, beauty and sacredness in every step.

In addition, John will teach his carefully-developed system of Qi Gong for health, for revitalization, for building powerful life force and for spiritual development. Qi Gong, which is a major foundation of Chinese health care, is easy to learn, safe for all ages, and fun to practice. John will also teach on Taoist Internal Alchemy - a spectrum of powerful practices for spiritual illumination at the heart of the Taoist Path. Additional teachings on Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu will complement the strong immersion in Taoist cultivation at this retreat. John will also share meditations from his extensive background training in the meditation practices of many traditions. With John's 12 Principles for Spiritual Cultivation as our guide, each day we will devote at least three hours to learning and cultivating complementary forms of Qi Gong, Advanced Taoist Yoga, Dzogchen, Tantra and practices from other meditation systems.

Devotional cultivation of the path to the Divine Feminine will be an important part of our Bali Retreat. This will focus on honoring of Kali, Durga and Bagalama through ceremony, prayer, mantra and meditation as part of our deep exploration and cultivation of the Divine Feminine.

John is keeping this pilgrimage-based Advanced Retreat open to those new students who are either joining the Advanced Awareness training for the first time, to students who have done training or Passages with John before, and to those wanting to experience deep Pilgrimage on this extraordinarily sacred island.

With the help of the rich tradition of spiritual teachers from Bali, we will also delve deeply into the ceremonies, practices and modes of spiritual cultivation of the remarkable Balinese People. In particular, we will discover the Balinese mastery of bringing the Sacred View into every aspect of everyday life - and explore how to create this spiritual harmony in our own lives, wherever we are.

$1600 Fee for John's Teaching
(meals, housing & land transport costs shared upon request)
teacher: John P. Milton

Baja California's Wild Pacific Coast - 12 Day Sacred Passage Quest Retreat
Mexico ( 1/23/2014 - 2/03/2014 )
Sacred Passage

Immerse yourself in a sacred journey to Baja California's wild, beautiful Pacific Coast. We will also spend time in the lovely historic town of Todos Santos, the "Santa Fe" of Baja California. Our Nature Meditation and Source Awareness Training is based at our lovely "La Via Natural" Retreat Center adjacent to Todos Santos. Our retreat center is set in the middle of a natural oasis of tropical gardens with palms, mangos, papayas, bananas and citrus - these local gardens provide us with our own fresh fruit and local food during John's Training before and after the coastal wilderness solos. The Awareness Training provides extensive teachings on John's universal 12 Principles for Natural Liberation: a direct path to enlightenment that honors the essence of all the world’s great liberating traditions. John will also teach on Shamanic, Taoist and self-liberation practices that open profound connections to Source Awareness, Nature and the Elements. The solo mediation retreat time allows for a great deepening of these practices.

For those who would like the option of staying in nearby Todos Santos during the Awareness Training part of the Retreat, we can help you with local accomodations in our three recommended facilities; Hacienda Todos Los Santos Guest House Inn, or The Todos Santos inn - both beautiful and elegantly appointed accomodations in the heart of Todos Santos near our La Via Natural Retreat Center. A clean, charming more budget-minded option also centrally-located is Hotel Maria Bonita. For those desiring to camp, our beautiful campground at La Via Natural is available at no additional cost for the Sacred Passage Retreat. We have showers and a lovely private campground shaded by palm trees. La Via Natural is only a 5 minute easy walk to town and many fine local restaurants. The beach is an easy 15 minute walk from our retreat center.

Your solo is on a secluded beach, often in a beautiful cove enclosed by hills, bluffs and mountains. Most people are visited by friendly whales and dolphins during their solo. Bird life abounds, and a powerful ocean inspires communion with the depth of your Being. Watching the sunsets from these secluded beaches is incredible. From each solo site, clear skies stretch out over the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - opening your Heart and merging your Spirit with sky and ocean's spaciousness and light.

Your Nature and Awareness Training before and after the solo is deep and soul-enlivening. This Training will share extensive teachings on John's universal 12 Principles for Natural Liberation: a direct path to enlightenment that honors the essence of all the world’s great liberating traditions. John will teach extensively on Shamanic, Taoist and Himalayan practices that open profound connections to Source Awareness, inner and outer Nature and the Elements.

$1800 fee.
Guide & Teacher:
John P. Milton

Baja California's Wild Pacific Coast - 12 Day Sacred Passage Quest Retreat
Mexico ( 2/06/2014 - 2/17/2014 )
Sacred Passage

Immerse yourself in a sacred journey to Baja California's wild, beautiful Pacific Coast. We will also spend time in the lovely historic town of Todos Santos, the "Santa Fe" of Baja California. Our Nature and Source Awareness Training is based at a our lovely La Via Natural Retreat Center near Todos Santos. The town is set in the middle of a natural oasis of tropical gardens with palms, mangos, papayas, bananas and citrus - these local gardens provide us with our own fresh fruit and local food during John's Training before and after the coastal wilderness solos.

For those who would like the option of staying in nearby Todos Santos during the Awareness Training part of the Retreat, we can help you with local accommodations in our three recommended facilities; Hacienda Todos Los Santos Guest House Inn, or The Todos Santos inn - both beautiful and elegantly appointed accomodations in the heart of Todos Santos near our La Via Natural Retreat Center. A clean, charming more budget-minded option also centrally-located is Hotel Maria Bonita. For those desiring to camp, our beautiful campground at La Via Natural is available at no additional cost for the Sacred Passage Retreat. We have showers, simple cooking facilities, and a lovely private campground shaded by palm trees. La Via Natural is only a 5 minute easy walk to town and many fine local restaurants. The beach is an easy 15 minute walk from our retreat center.

Your solo is on a secluded beach, often in a beautiful cove enclosed by hills, bluffs and mountains. Most people are visited by friendly whales and dolphins during their solo. Bird life abounds, and a powerful ocean inspires communion with the depth of your Being. Watching the sunsets from these secluded beaches is incredible. From each solo site, clear skies stretch out over the vastness of the Pacific Ocean - opening your Heart and merging your Spirit with sky and ocean's spaciousness and light.

Your Nature and Awareness Training with John P. Milton before and after the solo is deep and soul-enlivening. John will share extensive teachings on his universal 12 Principles for Natural Liberation: a direct path to enlightenment that honors the essence of all the world’s great liberating traditions. He will also teach extensively on Shamanic, Taoist and Dzogchen practices that open profound connections to Source Awareness, Nature and the Elements.

$1800 fee.
Guide & Teacher: John P. Milton

Moab and Canyonlands, Utah - 12 Day Awareness Training, Meditation Retreat & Sacred Passage Solo
Arches and Canyonlands-SW USA ( 4/10/2014 - 4/21/2014 )
Sacred Passage

This 12 Day Awareness Training, Sacred Passage Solo and Meditation Retreat will bring our AAT Community together in one of the world's most beautiful and spectacular natural areas .

Beautiful red, white and orange slickrock canyons, waterfalls, extraordinary rock arches and other stone formations create one of our favorite places to enter the Sacred Way. You experience a land that evokes visions of dinosaurs and ancient beings, whose shapes are echoed in the formations of the canyons. Explore the numinous qualities and distinctive energies hidden within the radiant red rock canyons, pristine waterfalls, exquisite natural arches and stone spires of this spectacular region.

Part of this retreat will build on the Dzogchen transmissions John has provided in earlier Retreats. He will emphasize teachings from the great Dzogchen master, Longchenpa. This teaching holds some of the purest teachings of the Way of Natural Perfection. John will also teach on a series of Dzogchen practices to clear, open and empower our right, left and central channels. Half our teaching time will be devoted to both of these extraordinary Dzogchen Teachings.

The retreat will also emphasize some of John's teachings on Taoist Internal Alchemy. He will select from some of the following: Opening the Micro and Macrocosmic Orbit Circulations, Fusion Practice, and a new series of Qi (Chi) Energy Cultivation practices that help with the conversion from Jing to Qi, from Qi to Shen (Spirit) and from Shen to Wuji. Overall, the Advanced Awareness Training emphasis in 2008 and 2009 will include a significant emphasis on cultivating Internal Energy through a series of esoteric yet very practical both Taoist and Dzogchen techniques.

Daily T'ai Chi for Enlightenment training on form will also be included. Also, daily "Sensing Hands/Push hands' practice will be taught. John will also teach on the linkages between these Taoist practices and Tibetan Buddhist, Bon, Native American, and Dzogchen teachings and practices.

We will also go deeper with Teachings on GaiaFlow, and refining how the principles of T'ai Chi and Qi Gong Training apply to deepening GaiaFlow practice. John will also share his series of dyadic (two-person) practices that he designed to realize Source in each other, as well as in Oneself, in close relationship. This series of practices could be described as interpersonal Dzogchen, with an applied continuing view of Source as the basis for all relationships and their changes.

There will be four days of wilderness solo to cultivate these advanced practices during this retreat. The whole focus is on the teachings and the chance for individual meditation retreat practice in the solitude of the wilderness.

All are welcome to attend this retreat.

This Retreat will embrace the vast spaces and natural luminosity of Utah's Canyon Country. The land and John's unique training will integrate to support the special practices he will be teaching - an inner cultivation that will help us to recognize our Primordial Awareness that underlies all Being.

$1440 fee.
Teacher: John P. Milton

Sami Traditional Reindeer Mountains,Sweden - Advanced Awareness Training in one of Europe's Last Wildernesses
Europe ( 6/07/2014 - 6/15/2014 )
Advanced Awareness Training
GaiaFlow
Intermediate Awareness Training
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Sacred Passage

Co-sponsored with The Way of Nature by Goran Gennvi and Sweden's Naturakademin, this special Nature Retreat is designed to provide an Advanced Awareness Training accessible to Africans, Asians and Europeans. This is the first in a series of special Advanced Training Retreats planned abroad over the next several years. We are also blessed by the support of Reidar Nordfjall, Kerstin Angantyr and the Great Sami People who have generously provided their wild traditional Sami Reindeer Range for part of our training and solo retreats.

This powerful awareness Training will explore a variety of ways to deepen the experience of Unity with all life.

Building on the Pathfinder's pioneering training, John P. Milton will teach a variety of principles and practices that lead to the direct experience of inner and outer Nature as Sacred. Many of these practices are rarely taught in modern society, so this Training provides a unique opportunity to learn them. They provide all who learn them with powerful "keys" to open the Heart and experience oneness with Nature. They also ground the experience of recognizing pure Source Awareness as the ultimate foundation of all perceptions and all of Nature, both inner and outer.

As Pathfinders, we will learn the GaiaFlow Sacred Movement system as a means for experiencing communion with all life through Nature-connected, flowing postures. We will also learn how to develop Natural Mandala Awareness through a deep exploration of relaxation techniques, presencing and the refinement of sensing exercises. Visualization practices and Ceremonies to honor The Sacred Circle (Sphere) will also aid us as Pathfinders. We will go deep into dyadic (two-person) exercises (both moving and stationary) to dissolve the usual personal barriers to non-dual awareness. Lastly, we will cultivate profound ways to safely purify, refine, amplify and store universal energy. In The Way of Nature we follow three interconnected Pathways to Unity and Liberation: the Pathway of Universal Energy, the Pathway of the Open Heart and the Pathway of Awareness. The spontaneous unification of these three Pathways leads to full Liberation. This Advanced Awareness Training will cultivate all three Pathways at a deep level.

One of the goals of this training is to deepen the process of "Pathfinding," and to help support the training and certification of new guides in the global growth of Nature Quests, Sacred Passages, Rites of Passage and Vision Quests.

For more information and to register contact Goran Gennvi:
Telephone: +46 8 716 3677
email: gennvi@naturakademin.se

World Nature Quest: 9 Day World Nature Quest & Way of Nature Guide Training, in Sweden's Samiland
Europe ( 6/07/2014 - 6/15/2014 )
GaiaFlow
Intermediate Awareness Training
International Pilgrimages
NatureQuest
Qi Gong Training
Sacred Passage
Tai Chi Training
Workshops and Custom Retreats

This 9 Day Nature Quest GuideTraining, led by John P. Milton and Goran Gennvi, includeses a Naturequest Solo and Meditation Retreat in one of the world's most beautiful and spectacular natural areas .

This 9 day Nature Quest marks Sweden's yearly participation in the second World Nature Quest process. World Nature Quest is designed to be held simultaneously around the world in different ecoregions, sharing training, re-entry and concluding celebrations. The concluding celebration will be part of our re-entry from solo time on the last evening of the program. That evening and the following morning will be devoted to sharing, worldwide, a giving of thanks back to Nature and Gaia for the support of all life As to location, this Retreat will embrace the vast spaces and natural luminosity of the traditional Sami back country. The land and John's unique training will integrate to support the special practices he will be teaching - an inner cultivation that will help us to recognize the Primordial Awareness that underlies all our Being._This 9 Day Awareness Training, Nature Quest Solo and Meditation Retreat will bring our AAT Community together in one of the world's most beautiful and spectacular natural areas - A perfect location for Sweden's participation in this global event.

In order to connect deeply with the dozens of other groups gathered around the world for this simultaneous retreat, at sunset of the final day we will gather for Earth-centered Tonglen and Rainbow Light Meditations. In the early morning, ideally at sunrise, on the final morning, we will perform the Eleven Direction Ceremony in a spirit of Thanksgiving from our species to Mother Earth for all She has done to nurture and support all of life, including human existence.

Before the solos, some of the John and Goran's Awareness Training will focus on the "Sensing" Practices that are essential to deepening and refining One's experience of connection to, and communion with, all life. A second part of this retreat will help establish direct recognition of pure Source Awareness. John will build on the Dzogchen teachings that he has provided in earlier Retreats. As a key resource, John will emphasize teachings from the great Dzogchen master, Longchenpa. Longchenpa’s teachings hold some of the purest teachings on the Way of Natural Perfection. John will also teach on a series of Dzogchen practices to clear, open and empower our internal energy channels. Half our teaching time will be devoted to both of these extraordinary Teachings.
The retreat will also emphasize some of John's teachings on Taoist Internal Alchemy. He will select from some of the following: Opening the Micro and Macrocosmic Orbit Circulations, and a new series of Qi (Chi) Energy Cultivation practices that help with the conversion from Jing to Qi, from Qi to Shen (Spirit) and from Shen to Wuji. Overall, the Advanced Awareness Training emphasis in 2008 and 2009 will include a significant emphasis on cultivating Internal Energy through a series of esoteric yet very practical both Taoist and Dzogchen techniques.
Daily T'ai Chi for Enlightenment training on form will also be included. Also, daily "Sensing Hands/Push hands' practice will be taught. John will also teach on the linkages between these Taoist practices and Tibetan Buddhist, Bon, Native American, and Dzogchen teachings and practices.

We will also go deeper with Teachings on GaiaFlow, and refining how the principles of T'ai Chi and Qi Gong Training apply to deepening GaiaFlow practice. John will also share his series of dyadic (two-person) practices that he designed to realize Source in each other, as well as in Oneself, in close relationship. This series of practices could be described as interpersonal Dzogchen, with an applied continuing view of Source as the basis for all relationships and their changes.

There will be four days of wilderness solo to cultivate these advanced practices during this retreat. The whole focus is on the teachings and the chance for individual meditation retreat practice in the solitude of the wilderness.

All are welcome to attend this retreat.

For more information on the broader World Nature Quest event, go to: http://worldnaturequest.org/

For more information and to register contact Goran Gennvi:
Telephone: +46 8 716 3677
email: gennvi@naturakademin.se