W I L D E R N E S S R I T E S , LLC
S T A F F

Anne Stine, MA, MFT
astine@wildernessrites.com
(541) 488-4899
Anne Stine, MA, MFT, is founder of Wilderness Rites, LLC with almost 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, ecopsychologist and wilderness rites of passage guide. Her programs offer initiatory earth-based healing rites and practices that assist people to reclaim their true place within the wisdom and cycles of nature and have been offered in the wilderness areas of California, Idaho and Oregon as well as at several universities. In addition, she offers an ecopsychology practice, which includes mentoring, teaching and guiding as well as training others in the way of earth rites. Her current interest is on calling back the elders into our communities, and offering initiatory rites for women in all stages of eldering.

 

susanSusan Hagen
hagen@womenatgroundzero.com
(209) 745-9029
For wilderness guide Susan Hagen, the vision quest has become an annual journey that clarifies and informs her life.  Since 1999, she has trained and worked under the mentorship of Wilderness Rites founder Anne Stine and is proficient in earth-based healing practices and wilderness survival skills.  In addition to leading vision quests and medicine walks for women, Susan is an award-winning nonfiction writer, writing teacher, and co-author of Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion.  Susan's writing workshops and retreats are inspired by the vision quest, using a unique blend of guided imagery and nature-based practices designed to set aside the thinking mind and clear a path to the deeper inner life. (www.womenatgroundzero.com).  Susan is a retired firefighter/emergency medical technician and a ten-year veteran of the Sonoma County Fire Service.  She is a certified Wilderness First Responder and a member of the Wilderness Guides Council.

 

skyeSkye Bailey
skye@littlearrows.info
(415) 246-6888
Skye Bailey is the founder of Little Arrows Schools, fine art and environmental education programs for people 0-6, focusing on sustainable living and self-expression in Marin County, California.  Skye’s great love of the earth is deeply rooted in childhood experiences of growing up on her grandmother’s family farm in Montana.  She shares her knowledge and love of the natural world with the children in her school, as well as participants she guides on medicine walks and vision quests.  Skye has trained and worked with Wilderness Rites founder Anne Stine since 1999, participating in and providing base camp support for vision quests in the Inyo Mountains and Death Valley.  She is an accomplished artist and is in the process of attaining a degree in Native American Studies at the College of Marin.  Skye is a certified Wilderness First Responder and a member of the Wilderness Guides Council. 

 

Ann Linnea
cbaldwin@peerspirit.com
(360) 331-3580

Ann Linnea of PeerSpirit has been a wilderness guide for nearly four decades. She has devoted her life to sharing the wonder and wisdom of the natural world with people of all ages. In her book Deep Water Passage - a spiritual journey at midlife (Pocketbook, 1997), she chronicles her courageous journey around the 1800 mile shoreline of Lake Superior by sea kayak. Through a lifetime of wilderness work and a decade of bringing the wisdom of council into the mainstream, Ann has developed a deep-seated belief that true, internal, systemic change is facilitated by extended immersion in the natural world in the creative company of peers.

 

 


WILDERNESS RITES, LLC

Anne Stine
541-488-4899
480 Herbert St, Ashland, OR 97520

astine@wildernessrites.com