Are you ready to expand your practice to include Nature, Ritual and Somatic Focused Depth Psychotherapy?
Through a combination of somatic mindfulness, depth psychology, deep nature connection, animism, medicine wheel spiritual technology, and a variety of indigenous ceremonial practices, you’ll learn a framework for helping those you work with profoundly release old ways of loving and or surviving that have been holding them back so they can step without reservation into the next phase of their lives
Option One: 10-week / 4hrs per session / In-Person Death Lodge Ritual Process Training. Tuition and dates are below. To Be Reschedule for Winter of 2026
Option Two: One Spot Open: Six night residential training intensive February 7-13 in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. Includes three meals a day and lodging at a beautiful mountain retreat Bend of Ivy Lodge near Asheville, NC. Limited to 10 Participants. Tuition $3500. If interested contact Kedar@RitesofPassageCouncil.org
Option Three: Four Spots Open In response to the above program filling we are opening up new training dates: Six night residential training intensive January 24-30 in the Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. Includes three meals a day and lodging at a Beautiful Mountain Retreat near Asheville, NC. Limited to 10 Participants. Tuition $3500. If interested contact Kedar@RitesofPassageCouncil.org
Training Facilitators: Kedar Brown,Founder of Rites of Passage Council and Dr. Signi Goldman, MD Founder of Living Medicine Institute and Kallie Brown, MA LCMHC
*This training is open to Rites of Passage Guide training alumni and students and licensed professionals of a therapeutic profession (no prior training with Kedar required) ie: psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed mental Health counselors, addictions specialists, life coaches, nature guides, etc.
“In the depths of the soul, anyone’s soul, there is a desire for Initiation. Initiation means one thing dies and another comes to life.”
Walk with us...
Like rivers flowing side by side in opposite directions, one moving in the this world of ordinary reality and the other moving with a magical current from an unseen source in a darker, richer, fertile ground somewhere in the west, we generally think of our lives as beginning with a birth and ending with a death. The initiatory passages of our lives are the periods when the soul’s descent into the dark night runs opposite the flow of life, in that they begin with a death and end with a birth.
Every great vision and subsequent journey began with great loss. It is the life that we cultivate each day, by the stories we tell ourselves and the way we live or lives following these great disruptions, that will lead to the crafting of character and a true elder, rather than simply just an older version of our younger, uninitiated self, still in search of the holy grail- or even worse, one who simply refused the call. It is here, by the river of memory and belonging, that we begin to guide others across that great divide.
“White Hart” ~ Death Lodge Ritual Process Method
"This healing process has been informed by the integration of 65 years of my lived experience and 40 years as a rites of passage ceremonial wilderness guide, body centered psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, elemental ritual process facilitator, intuitive cowry shell diviner, certified Hakomi Body Centered Psychotherapist and vision quest guide, to name of few of the hats I have worn. After 33 years of counseling practice, I voluntarily surrendered my license as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist to give my full attention to pursuing writing, learning and teaching the study, practice and methods that are foundational to this method that existed outside the scope of my previous licenses. Here are some of the teachers, teachings and methods that have become foundational to the understanding and practice of this healing modality.” ~Kedar S. Brown
The Roots of this Work:
Psychological Teachings & Methods
1. Somatic Processing
2. Family Constellation
3. Psychodrama
4. Pesso Systems Psychomotor
5. Hakomi Body Center
6. Virginia Satir Family Systems
7. Transpersonal Psychology
8. Gestat Psychotherapy
9. Internal Family Systems
10. Grof Holotropic Breathwork
Deeper More Indigenous Roots
1. From Pathology to Mythology
2. Holographic Reality
3. Animism: The decolonization of language and perception
4. Shamanism: The three worlds of memory, healing and belonging
5. Medicine Wheel Cosmology: Down the rabbit hole!
6. Well in Spirit Ancestors vs. The Unwell Dead.
7. Rites of Passage Ceremonies
8. Deep Nature Connection & Elemental Rituals
9. Indigenous perspective on illness and healing
10. Remote Journey & Healing Work
Some of Kedar's teachers along the way
Steven Foster & Meredith Little, Founders of The School of Lost Boarders
Malidoma Some´ Mentor and Friend from many years
Will Rockingbear ~ Medicine Person of the Cherokee Nation ~ Mentor
Joseph Campbell
Angeles Arrien
Carlos Castaneda
“This is going to deepen you into your bones.”
