Earthfire just hosted our first official retreat with animal communicator Penelope Smith. A huge success! Here are some comments from the participants of the workshop.
This was a beautiful experience. I feel changed fundamentally, and I am not sure how or when this occurred. It feels like an unfolding or a softening with each experience being with wild animals. Pimpernel, the coyote, the talkative Mr. Goose, Teton Totem and Mr. Pinkerton and Windwalker all helped me unpack my preconceptions and fears about being present with wild animals, and I feel like this has enriched my life and the way of being in the world in ways I can’t predict. Suffice it to say the experience at Earthfire is still unfolding within me.
Learn from animals. Take care of the earth. We are all one.
Earthfire provides a unique place to gain an understanding of the individual nature of animals and what exceptional spirits they can be.
Everyone at Earthfire, human animal and wild animal, have provided such a beautiful and wonderful
journey! Congratulations and thank you! Even the food was great.
Thanks to everyone who participated and helped put this event on; Penelope Smith for the retreat, Miso Hungry for the food, Anthony Birkholz for filming, Jean Simpson for the animal handling.
I sponsored an old horse named Nomad for several years. When he was about to be retired (and moved an hour away), I took him for a favorite walk and sang him a song that we could be together any> Read more
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Pat Hager used his experience at Earthfire retreat as a stepping stone for volunteering in his area, helping preserve wildlife corridors. Read more
There are parts of me I miss, terribly. At an early age, I understood my relationship with animals. With unapologetic certainty, I knew we were kin, that our lives were entwined, our destinies connected. I spent hours in a tree> Read more
Caitlin and retreat leader Polly Klein, returning to the yurt. (c) Hershel Klein In August, I was honored to be invited with 10 other students to a retreat at the Earthfire. We were brought there by our Reiki teacher and animal> Read more
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This year will be my second visit to Earthfire Institute, and while there are many good friends there, I am especially looking forward to spending more time with Windwalker the cougar. Windwalker has a powerful presence and a great heart that> Read more
By the time I was able to make the trip to Minneapolis to work with the Bun, his movement had been impaired for just over a year. His human companions, Mia and Paul, were not sure what had happened, but> Read more
Earthfire Institute is a place to experience the profound connection between all life. 
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I am forever changed after my weekend at the Penelope Smith Retreat at Earthfire. I came for the animals, but left with a deep love and respect for all living things. How lucky we are to have the Earthfire Institute in Idaho!
Comment by Joan Smith — July 1, 2010 @ 4:22 pm