On this 8-day contemporary version of the vision quest, we guide you, prepare you and help you integrate the three days and three nights you spend on a spot alone in nature.

I am well again.

I came to life in the cool winds and the crystal waters of the mountains.

- John Muir

Across time and in countless ways, people of many cultures have gone into the wilderness to mark life transitions and seek guidance. They sought closeness with nature, the Mystery, or a higher self.

Barefoot on the mountain path. by Katrien Deboutte

The River next to basecamp. by Lien De Coster

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night.
- Maggie Stiefvater

In this time alone between the elements many experience a radical shift in self and world, a trial and a gift, and a ritual death and rebirth. It's an initiation, a rite of passage, a new birth in the womb of the natural world.

::Basecamp::

Our basecamp is situated at 'El Manau' – a natural camping site

near the home of a beautiful couple that recently retired from shepherdhood.

The location is a few of kilometres away from the French village 'Nohèdes', at sixty km from Perpignan.

The legend goes that this is the spot where Noah anchored his arc. This explains the extreme diversity of plants, animals and element creatures in the region.The landscape also offers a huge diversity of solo spots: from a possible sit on a mountain top or under a tree in the valley to one at the side of a clear mountain stream.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- albert einstein

::your guides::

lien de coster

Lien mentors groups and individuals around themes of nature and spirituality towards a soulful life.

She is a master-teacher of the Corepower method for personal leadership.

Among several wilderness solo retreats, she did a Sacred Passage & Advanced Awareness Training led by John P. Milton.

She has received a training in North-Western European shamanism, that made her a Woman of the Paths (nature connection work) and Soul Woman (working with dying, passing and mourning).

She is also energy trained, with a focus on healing, in the Standing Like a Tree chi kung lineage.

Further, she developed unearthing intuitive wisdom through her study of the Tarot.

As a nature connector and community builder she uses the 8 shields model by Jon Young and a combination of all the she learned from her teachers and mentors and travels in deep contact with nature.

More info about her and her activities at her website: Leaves of Lien

katrien deboutte

Katrien is a psychologist, dedicated to guide people in re-connecting with (their true) nature.

As a nature-based change facilitator she creates spaces for people to connect to themselves, others and the natural world and to transform their life into its fullest potential.

At her homestead on the Spanish countryside, a magic place called Kurkum Farm, she organizes a range of retreats and programs, ceremonies, musical and spiritual events and community-building activities.

She guides camps for kids between 7 and 11.

She is a sweatlodge ceremony leader, a carpenter and she also builds medicinal drums and leads workshops where people create their own drum.

She's a sound healer, a dj and she cultivates olive oil, almonds and vegetables.

Find out more at her facebook page Originature

or the website Kurkum Farm Eco Vida.