Intensives
The Quest Series. The Spirited Path. Reclaiming the Runes.
Immersive Study. Reciprocal Relationship. Lasting Change.
Animism. Soul Tending. Runes in Place.
The Quest Series
THE MODERN ANIMIST’S TOOLKIT
Learn to participate ethically in reciprocal relationship with the living world.
“How do I live?”
The Spirited Path
SOUL TENDING TRAINING
Develop rituals and practices to tend souls with the wellbeing of All as the focus.
“How do I serve?”
Reclaiming the Runes
PLACE-BASED RUNE MAGICK
Build a living relationship with the Elder Futhark through seasonal, place-based practice.
“How do I embody the runes?”
Animism and Soul Tending Intensives FAQ
What are The Quest Series and The Spirited Path
To “quest’ means to conduct an arduous search for something. It’s an apt word to describe how we arrive at our spiritual path, cosmology, rituals, and awareness of how we apply our agency in American settler culture. We aren't taught that we are Nature, and to rekindle that bond requires effort, skill, and curiosity. It's not an easy task to move through systemic barriers to find our unique land-based kinship.
To meet the dynamic needs of animistic land-based identity and soul tending of community on the Broken Path, Soul Intent Arts presents the unique opportunity to engage soul work in an intensive setting. In order to meet those needs well, we need to understand how we are in relationship with our cosmology, community, systems, and internal processes. This exploration begins with The Quest Series, a modern animist's toolkit. This Series is a collection of courses designed to bring you more deeply into land-based identity with your ecosystem and understand the implications of soul work in community. In it we explore the Broken Path, personal relationship to place-space, concepts of soul work, Nature Spirits, ritual and cosmology, and what it means to be an animist in settler culture, now. The Quest Series teaches you to cultivate strong lore in place that outlives you.
Completion of The Quest Series presents the opportunity to take the advanced work of The Spirited Path intensive, which is intended for those planning soul work with others. Intensive training builds on your rootedness to place-space and gives you proficiency in skills to find your unique spiritual path in support of your unquiet dead, Ancestors, fellow human-persons, and peaceful coexistence with your land spirits, so that you can live your calling and leave the planet better than you found it.
What Classes are in The Quest Series?
Classes covered in The Quest Series are
- Introduction to Soul Tending
- Working with Nature Spirits
- Ritual, Ceremony, and Cosmology
- Introduction to Animism
Each class must be taken in order to progress to the next.
Completion of The Quest Series is required to participate in The Spirited Path intensive, which begins in June 2026.
What is the Series Schedule?
REGISTRATION OPENS 6 NOVEMBER 2025
DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS 12 DECEMBER 2025
Classes are held Saturdays 11am EST - 2:00pm EST.
10 January
Introduction to Modern Soul Tending
14 February
Working with Nature Spirits
14 March
Ritual, Ceremony, and Cosmology
11 April
Introduction to Animism
What is the commitment to The Quest Series?
The classes in this series are all live and online. They are recorded, though class attendance is expected. In order to take them you must purchase the class (or whole series), and be able to access Zoom and Discord. Class takes place on Zoom, while community engagement is on Discord. You will also receive notes via Discord before each class, and you are welcome to take your own notes as we progress. Some homework requires that you be able to engage outdoors or have access to a window to see or hear outdoors to complete Introspections.
- There are no refunds on purchases, and your payment is not transferable to other services.
- Your commitment to this series is to the full Series. If you are paying over time, you are expected to finish paying for the full Series.
- Space in this work is limited. When you commit to this work you commit to a space that someone else doesn't get, and you commit to supporting my livelihood.
- Please make sure this work aligns with you at this time. Cancellations and change of plans on your part do not entitle you to a refund.
What Comes After The Quest Series
Upon completion of the four classes in The Quest Series, students can elect to move into soul tending studies to complete The Spirited Path intensive, to begin in June 2026. These studies build on the modern animist's toolkit, with deep skills for spirit work. With them you refine how communication with Spirit Allies works for you, how to access your cosmology to gain medicine to bring back to your ecosystem, community, and path. You will explore specific approaches of shadow tending, soul retrieval, deathwalking, bane work, Ancestor tending, and energy tending. The focus of The Spirited Path is for folx who plan to work with community, to gain the skills to do so, as well as the understanding of community support needed to do that work.
What is the Broken Path?
As most of us in settler culture walk broken spiritual paths, we cannot thoughtlessly claim animistic or shamanic traditions that went before us as our own. Neither can we claim the titles of those paths, or the land-based relationship of human-persons who have stewarded where we live, unbroken. We can, however, respond to our own calling and ethically create our own way, authentic to how and where we live and engage, to our Ancestors, without disparaging ancient paths, the people or practices of traditional shamanism, or indigenous cultures. We can ethically soul tend where we stand. Through The Quest Series and The Spirited Path teachings and community, I help you re-member direct relationship with Nature, find respectful land-based identity, and embody ourselves as relationship builders in soul tending.
That said, this is your quest to find your cosmology and rituals. I don’t teach you mine. I don't teach a brand of soul tending. I don’t teach a path of shamanism. I teach you how to find yours, and to ground the skills you discover into everyday life with sustainable passion and wisdom, in community, and to hold awareness of how all cosmology is in relationship. This coursework implements a thorough experiential curriculum to form your own approach to animist presence and soul tending, should you choose. It facilitates your ability to apply your agency to be a fit, embodied elder, and to upon death become a wise, capable Ancestor. This is land-based identity and spirituality.
What is The Spirited Path?
The Spirited Path is a 20-month mentored training in skills to tend the soul needs of Self, community, and the human place in All Things. Through skills gained in The Quest Series to cultivate intimate relationship with your rituals and cosmology, you learn to find your unique spiritual path in support of your quiet dead, well ancestors, fellow humans, and peaceful coexistence with your land spirits, so that you can live your calling and leave the planet better than you found it.
Completion of The Quest Series or one-on-one mentoring of that coursework is required to participate in The Spirited Path intensive. Having completed self-paced studies does not meet the criteria for participation in The Spirited Path.
What is the Intensive Schedule?
Classes typically begin in January or June, then continue monthly with ample breaks.
All classes are on Saturday mornings at 11am EST - 1:30pm EST
What is the commitment to The Spirited Path?
You must have successfully completed The Quest Series or its privately mentored equivalent to participate in The Spirited Path. Self-paced studies are not applicable for participation in The Spirited Path.
Intensive classes are all live and online. They are recorded, though class attendance is expected to learn spirit work and develop community bonds. You must be able to access Zoom and Discord. Class takes place on Zoom, while community engagement is on Discord. You will also receive notes via Discord before each class, and you are welcome to take your own notes as we progress. Some homework requires that you be able to engage outdoors or have access to a window to see or hear outdoors to complete Introspections.
- Space in this work is limited. When you commit to this work you commit to a space that someone else doesn't get, and you commit to supporting my livelihood.
- Please make sure this work aligns with you at this time. Cancellations and change of plans on your part do not entitle you to a refund.
- There are no refunds on purchases, and your payment is not transferable to other services.
- Your commitment to the intensive is to the full intensive. If you are paying over time via subscription, you are expected to finish paying for the full intensive even if you leave prematurely or are asked to leave early.
This is walking The Spirited path, with Soul Intent Arts.
Radical re-perception of your unique land-based kinship, reciprocal relationship, and re-orientation to soul work in community