Diamond Heart Path
Black Canyon, Oregon
“Initiation: 6 Day”
Guide: Richard Brandt
June 30– July 5, 2023, Six day journey with a 2 day solo fast
(Preparatory gathering on Zoom: June 27th)
This journey is for you if you are deeply sincere about personal growth and are ready for a ceremony immersed in Nature.
This “Initiation: 6 Day” honors the important transitions into your next phase of maturity.
“Initiation…” opens an opportunity to look deeply within…to discover your true strengths, unique gifts, and make friends with new allies that can carry you into your new future. You will look clearly upon your life to understand those parts of your life that, with gratitude, you can leave behind. Leaving behind what doesn’t serve you gives spaciousness and energy to those parts of yourself that you want to nurture, grow, and flower in your life. You can announce to the universe that you are ready to be seen for who you truly are and live your life in service to that.
We offer you personal support so you’ll be safe and able to embrace the challenges of this ceremony. We honor and respect nature as our most powerful teacher by orienting you to the plants, animals, and geology of the area. This orientation will enhance your receptivity to her guidance.
Focused intention gives you not only strength and clarity for this ceremony, but sets the tone and vision for your future. Asking yourself potent questions will help guide you to your Diamond like intention.
Plan
Day 1: June 30th
8 am: Depart….Meet at common location. Carpool if possible.
Noon: Arrive at Black Canyon. Make Land acknowledgement.
Set Up Base Camp, Circle, Check-in, Orientation, safety, Timeline.
Orientation Walk..
Introduction: Web of Life Circle in Base Camp.
6 pm : Circle. Dinner, clean up
Individual support. Night walk and listen.
Welcome Dreams. Rest
Day 2, July 1st
8:30 am: Silent Rise. Dream Circle.
Breakfast.
10 am: Everyone looks for their Solo spot.
2 pm: Return to Base Camp
Make water haul / equipment to solo spot.
6 pm return to Base Camp, light Dinner.
7 pm Circle, Talk of allies.
8 pm: Make Intention ties, council, night walks, state intention
Welcome dreams, Rest
Day 3–5 (July 2nd–4th): Full Moon, solo fast:
6 am Circle. Move to your solo spot, carry remaining water and equipment.
Settle in. Rest/ Listen. Gather your Web of Life Circle, opening to allies.
Welcome Dreams
My visit: Check in and Witness.
Day 5, July 4th
Morning: Come down to base camp. Welcome.
Gather to break Fast.
Rest.
Noon: Lunch, Rest
2 pm: Return for remaining items at solo spot. Gratitude for the Web of Life Circle and your Spot, Leave behind what you don’t need. Return to Base camp.
4 pm: Circle: Share / honor story
6 pm Dinner
6 pm : Share / honor story
Welcome dreams, Rest
Day 6, July 5
8 am Breakfast
9 am allies, community, This is the beginning…
Circle Integration of individual experiences into Community gifts/vision
Break personal camp and base camp
Circle with Altar, gratitude.
3 pm Return to Cars, Closing circle
Difficulty Rating: 4 & some 5
4 – Challenging – Trail is steep and rocky, with elevation gain of more than 1000 feet. May feature rock scrambles or other challenging features. Trekking poles recommended.
5 – Extremely Challenging – Off-trail travel. Terrain is variable and potentially steep.
Transportation & Food
Participants are responsible for all transportation expenses. Please connect with me if you can offer a carpool vehicle or if you would like a carpool ride. Those flying in will need to find their own transportation but every effort will be made to arrange a carpool for you. The destination is approx. 4 hrs. From PDX airport. No special type of vehicle is required. Please let me know if you will be joining us from afar and need some orientation.
Participants are responsible for all of their breakfasts and lunches. Dinners will be provided.
Further Information
A thorough guide will be emailed to you upon registration. It will include an equipment list, a brief survey of flora and fauna, and other considerations.
You will also be emailed a liability waiver, and a brief health history disclosure form. Please complete and return them as soon as possible.
Fees and Registration:
All Heart Fire Sanctuary Creative Pathways are offered Freely
Donations are welcome: Suggested $400 - $500
My dedication to cutting through inequity and accessibility barriers has inspired me to offer all my excursions, programs and workshops for “pay what you wish.” Upon registration you will be directed to a Paypal page. There will be suggested donation amounts for those that have monetary energy to offer.
Please choose “other” if your monetary energy is low and your enthusiasm is high! My apologies but you have to donate $1.00 just to get the website registration complete. I can pay you back that $1.00 when you arrive.
All done and Welcome!!!
About Heart Fire in the Field:
Heart Fire in the Field is a branch of Heart Fire Sanctuary in remote locations.
Heart Fire Sanctuary realizes that the ultimate teacher is the divine relationship between you and mother Earth. While we understand that all spaces are inherently a part of our sacred Earth we know that opportunities to immerse oneself into a wilderness setting is unparalleled in its healing power. She offers her unconditional love, compassion, and wisdom with absolute generosity to everyone equally. We are committed to offering these opportunities so ALL people can experience their own divine relationship with the Earth and Cosmos. BIPoc and LBGTQ+ encouraged to attend.
There are 4 aspects to Heart Fire in the Field:
- Creative Pathways: dedicated to reawakening creativity in all of us.
- Creative Pathways Medicine Walks: Becoming better humans by deep immersion into nature, our nature, enriched by our birth rite to altered states of consciousness.
- Diamond Heart Path: dedicated to deep spiritual healing and honoring the phases of our life with ceremony.
- Diamond Heart Medicine Path: dedicated to deep spiritual healing and honoring the phases of our life with ceremony. Surrendered to wisdom and enriched by our birth rite to altered states of consciousness.
We believe in low to no intrusive ecological “footprint” as we tread lightly on our precious home.
The gift of your life was given to you for no other reason than to live your uniqueness.
And, even more to the point, share your uniqueness by living it “out loud”.
This is why living your uniqueness is important to the health and future of the community.
You have come to complete us.
Richard Brandt
Heart Fire Sanctuary
14305 SE 242 Ave
Damascus, Or 97089
971-302-3143
heartfiresanctuary@gmail.com
Photos by Richard Brandt