RECIPROCAL ILLUMINATION:
Weekend INtensives
Journey Toward Integration
Deepen your practice with Plants and People
Reciprocal Illumination reimagined as a series of stand-alone intensives to be more accessible for more people
Siskiyou Mtn. Convocation
Weekend Intensive
August 1-4, 2024
Cave Junction, OR
Big Creek Communion
Weekend Intensive
Dates TBD
Corbett, OR
Open to previous participants
Thursdays to Sundays 10am-5pm
with Scott Kloos and Samantha Tanis
Limited to 14 participants
Registration for 2024 Weekend Intensives open now!
Experience and understand processes of healing and holding space
through intimate ecological engagement
guided by archetypal plant intelligence
Whether you are an aspiring or currently practicing professional space holder or not, Reciprocal Illumination’s weekend intensives can help you lead a more fulfilling life as you become more present with yourself and the world around you.
In Reciprocal Illumination we cultivate stable foundations rooted in our interrelations with the community of life. Rooted in this way we cultivate calmness through our trust in the vegetal realm and the forces of Wild Nature.
Coming together and being present in spaces of shared inquiry, we learn to navigate within the flow of ecological intelligence. In this way guided by the archetypal wisdom of plants, we release cultural conditioning and habitual responses to past trauma so that we can act in life-affirming ways that support individual and collective healing and transformation.
PARTICIPATING IN THESE INITIATORY WEEKEND INTENSIVES WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO:
become more present in heart-centered, embodied awareness to dispel depression, apathy, lack of self esteem, and feelings of doubt in your abilities
work with some of the Pacific Northwest bioregion’s most important botanical allies and help others develop relationships with allies of their own
deepen trust in your supporting allies to bring forth the gifts you’ve been called to share with the community
work with song and prayerful intention as you work in ceremonial containers and hold space for non-ordinary states of awareness
“Participating in Reciprocal Illumination has been one of the best investments of my time, money, and energy. I, like many, signed up with the intention of creating a deeper relationship with the materia medica of the Pacific Northwest...I got the calling to be an herbalist and I would do the diligence of taking courses to get me there! While Reciprocal Illumination without a doubt taught me about our local plant beings, it was not the botanical identification and wildcrafting tutorials I had expected. Instead, RI is about communing with plants, which is something much deeper that I didn’t know I needed. It nourished the place in my heart that had been begging to learn about plants in the first place. It’s the same place that does backflips when I smell the mossy forest floor or see the first dogwood bloom of the season (or any dogwood in bloom at any point of the season, for that matter). To know the plants in this way, is to know how to feel, how to behave; they are reflections of the lived experience making their lessons endless in abundance. ”
By rooting ourselves in the ecological intelligence of the lands in which we live, we learn to be conduits for the transformational currents of Wild Nature, and we become more aware and embodied participants within the web of life.
As we connect with the plants, we remember who we are. As we develop relationships with our allies, we see ourselves more clearly, and as we illuminate these beings of the forest, we cannot help but illuminate ourselves and others.
Understanding deepens: true healing extends beyond individual selves to encompass the greater ecological self.
