Deer is a wilderness and human development guide and poet storyteller in the American Southwest. He loves and labors to support youth and adults on their journeys of growth, healing, rites of passage andtheir soul’s path in relationship to the wild.
Deer’s primary lineage is as a “Soul Initiation Guide” apprentice with the Animas Valley Institute, a nature-based mystery school in the southwest. Deer trains in the Nature Based Map of the Psyche, Soulcraft, and guiding their vision quest/rites of passage model.
Deer has been a dedicated meditation and mindfulness practitioner for 9 years, as well as an occasional facilitator, primarily in the Vipassana/Insight traditions, and has participated in over 100 days of silent retreat around the world, with contemporary teachers and traditional monks, with special emphasis on blending practice and service to the earth.
Deer spent two years as a field guide for Open Sky Wilderness Therapy, is a certified Wilderness First Responder, and is certified in nature-based practices and eco-psychology by Rupert Marques: former School of Lost Borders trainer, worldwide rites of passage guide, and former teacher at the bi-lingual radical ecology Eco-Dharma Centre in the Catalan Pyrenees, Spain.
Deer honors the Kogui people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in Colombia, where he lived and worked helping to guide expeditions in the jungles and high coastal mountains for the Amazon Conservation Team’s efforts to help the Kogui reclaim stolen territory.
Lastly, Deer received his Permaculture Design Certification from The Permaculture Academy and applied its teachings while living and working on permaculture-based projects around the world, including ancestral land practice research at Navdanya Earth University in northern India. He has his BA in Literature and Creative Writing from UCLA and is a student of worldwide mythology, storytelling, and traditional cultures. He is currently writing and seeking representation for a novel trilogy and has traveled to 30 countries, living in 9 before calling the southwest home. You can read more about him, his art, and offerings at www.mystic-wild.com
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Deer is a wilderness and human development guide and poet storyteller in the American Southwest. He loves and labors to support youth and adults on their journeys of growth, healing, rites of passage andtheir soul’s path in relationship to the wild.
Deer’s primary lineage is as a “Soul Initiation Guide” apprentice with the Animas Valley Institute, a nature-based mystery school in the southwest. Deer trains in the Nature Based Map of the Psyche, Soulcraft, and guiding their vision quest/rites of passage model.
Deer has been a dedicated meditation and mindfulness practitioner for 9 years, as well as an occasional facilitator, primarily in the Vipassana/Insight traditions, and has participated in over 100 days of silent retreat around the world, with contemporary teachers and traditional monks, with special emphasis on blending practice and service to the earth.
Deer spent two years as a field guide for Open Sky Wilderness Therapy, is a certified Wilderness First Responder, and is certified in nature-based practices and eco-psychology by Rupert Marques: former School of Lost Borders trainer, worldwide rites of passage guide, and former teacher at the bi-lingual radical ecology Eco-Dharma Centre in the Catalan Pyrenees, Spain.
Deer honors the Kogui people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in Colombia, where he lived and worked helping to guide expeditions in the jungles and high coastal mountains for the Amazon Conservation Team’s efforts to help the Kogui reclaim stolen territory.
Lastly, Deer received his Permaculture Design Certification from The Permaculture Academy and applied its teachings while living and working on permaculture-based projects around the world, including ancestral land practice research at Navdanya Earth University in northern India. He has his BA in Literature and Creative Writing from UCLA and is a student of worldwide mythology, storytelling, and traditional cultures. He is currently writing and seeking representation for a novel trilogy and has traveled to 30 countries, living in 9 before calling the southwest home. You can read more about him, his art, and offerings at www.mystic-wild.com
