Connect with Nature... Connect with Your Soul
Have you been searching for deeper meaning in your life? Do your dreams and your wildest longings sometimes haunt you with their persistent pleas? Is there a calling you have not yet tended in your life?
You've done enough inner work to recognize that while you may not be living it yet... you hunger to live an authentic life connected to soul and spirit.
The Heart Arrow Quest is for men who want to explore these questions for themselves--with other committed men and supported by guides who know and love this terrain.
Spend 3 Days In Conversation with Nature Discovering Yourself.
Just past the doorway of our fondest hopes, deepest longings and greatest fears, we find the path of the heart arrow.
The Heart Arrow Quest is a 3 day program designed to help you re-vision your life. It was born from Andrew and Mark’s spontaneous work together with dreams, archery, and wilderness questing. The ceremony is a time and place for soul-searching, creativity, inspiration, and renewed commitment—in a spirit of play, adventure and fellowship.
We'll spend the first day in preparation, with story, poetry, dreams, and somatics, working and playing with our intentions. The second day participants will enter the ceremony of a solo quest, listening, speaking, and engaging with the mirror of nature. The third day you will return to the group to explore the gifts of your time alone on the land. We will work together with creativity and spirit to clarify how your vision can be lived going forward.
Seasonal 3-Day Trips
Spring Quest : May 15 - May 17 (Friday - Sunday)
Summer Quest: Aug 28 - Aug 30 (Friday - Sunday)
Fall Quest: Oct 9 - Oct 11 (Friday - Sunday)
Where: Within an hour's drive of Boulder Colorado
Cost: $250-$375 on a sliding scale
Note: This is an overnight program with tent camping. Participants also have the option of commuting to our beautiful Rockies location if either or both overnights preclude your participation.
Your guides
Mark Sipowicz loves adventure, good conversation, books and wild places. He holds an MA in depth psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a Jungian Rites of Passage Guide. He plays ice hockey and climbs mountains with sons and other fathers. He commercial fished in Alaska, survived an avalanche, opened and ran a bookstore, and studied literature in Missoula. He has trained extensively with Animas Valley Institue, School of Lost Borders and Rites of Passage (Santa Rosa). His first vision quest in Death Valley almost a decade ago, changed everything for him. He is a father and husband living in Boulder.
Andrew Lipman hikes, sings, tells stories and is passionate about wilderness and the power of our collective dreams to change the world. He is a Registered Psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado and holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. Andrew has hiked for over six months continuously on the Appalachian Trail. He has gone on Vision Quest each of the past seven years and is a Sundancer in the Lakota tradition. He is a member of a local men’s group connected with the Mankind Project and is at work on his first novel, The Ogre and the Tree of Life, which began as a story he told to a super critical audience of kindergartners he taught at Boulder Waldorf Kindergarten. He unabashedly tells himself he is a great guy to hang out with in the wilderness, and is a proud parent to his two dogs, Taran and Osa.
