Soul Initiation Guide

Philosophy

I grieve and praise both the creativity and the loss, of this exquisite Hologram of Beauty that is our Earth. And though it seems our doing, simultaneously, I trust that we too are part of Earth and their dreaming. We are not separate from nature, we too ARE nature. We are in perilous times, and it is more important than ever to remember ourselves as ones who embody the Dreaming of the Earth. Earth has called me to be a Death Doula for the Great Dying, tending cultural transformation and the end of our current paradigm called “modernity”. And, Earth has called me to be a Soul Guide, one who supports people to move through personal transformation, which we could understand as the death of personal paradigms, which are ways of understanding and being in relationship with, the world.

I believe, Earth is always moving towards transformation and renewal- to our eyes, it may look like rupture or being stuck, a dead end or a tragedy. And, like Earth, we are always Whole, regardless of the part we are currently stuck in. Resiliency is part of (our) nature. I do not offer the solution to your "problem" - what are often labeled problems, I understand as symptoms of disconnection from the Web of Life and the Trauma of Civilization. Both blessing and curse, they are the place where our gold is buried and shaped. I use all of the tools- physical, energetic and spiritual- I have learned and received, to support you towards wholeness and the building of inner resources in order to reduce your stress level, to learn to love yourself and to stand in your power.

In my experience, we all long to remember our relationship with all of life, to come home to Earth and know we belong to the More than Human Community. And we all forget, every day! The great forgetting that swept through my ancestors and most likely yours, in the form of christianization, colonialisation and civilisation, was not only a traumatic event, but an incredible survival strategy. Now, it is imperative that we remember. We must remember how to be in relationship with one another in ways that are generative and not purely destructive. We must remember our ancient ancestors who still practiced the old ways of ritual reciprocity with the Earth, or, the Holy in the Wild, which is what sustains our own lives. We must remember who we truly are and our particular way of loving the world, the shape we were born as and are also to grow into (like an acorn an oak). It is my privilege to accompany you on the journey, following what I imaginably perceive as your soul's frequency. Together, I will support you to track your soul's frequency, so that you might more consciously participate in your unfolding.

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Sara McFarland (she/they) is an improvisational nature-based singer, storyteller and ritual performance artist, naturopath, wilderness guide and mentor. Sara is a core team member of Starter Culture (www.starterculture.net), as well as a Wild Mind and Soul Initiation Guide for Animas Valley Institute (www.animas.org).

Sara travels the Hologram of the Golden Web of Life in many ways; one is through listening to the melodies that Earth and the Ancestors sing through them; another is through Somatic Gnosis; catching the wisdom of her ancestors and Earth Community; a third is ritual performance and trance story telling; a fourth is collective rituals of paradigm transformation. She bridges the ancient ritual practices of being in conversation with the wild Earth and the More-than-Humans with the present world. Their work is to help hospice the current culture as a Death Doula for the Great Dying, in order to create the fertile ground needed to birth a future human culture which embodies the Dreaming of Earth, one which we who are alive now will most likely never see, but for which we pray for their thriving in 500 years time.

As a guide, Sara welcomes Humans of all genders, sexual orientation, colors, race, and every other "identifying characteristic" with honesty and curiosity, devotion and loving fierceness in service to Soul. They are a queer both/and creature who accompanies you on your Soul Path, to discover your unique and interwoven essence, through the places that scare and enliven you- both the golden and the sinister. Along the way, you will be supported to heal the trauma of civilization through the practices of coming home and belonging to Earth Community as well as developmental/relational trauma through Sacred Wound Alchemy. Sara works with individuals who long to know who they truly already are and their place in the Golden Web of Life; bringing all of their gifts, powers and abilities to their people and in service to Earth, through the process of Soul Initiation. In her guiding, both one on one and in groups, she utilizes elements of energy medicine and ritual, consciousness shifting techniques, sound and voice, dream work, deep imagination journeys, trauma healing, nature-based parts work and more.

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Upcoming Programs

Dreaming the World
to Come

With Sara McFarland and Bell Selkie Lovelock

January 27, Feb 3, 10, 17 2026

weekly, from 13-15:30 EST/18-20:30 GMT/19-21:30 CET

When we can understand animals, we will know the change is halfway.

When we can talk to the forest, we will know that the change has come.

-Andrew Joe, Skagit Tribe, Washington

What if we are part of Earth’s dreaming; past, present and future? What if our gift of being human in these times is to offer our personal and collective deep imagination to Earth’s vision? Instead of knowing what will come and making plans and resolutions for the new year, we invite you to risk following your heart into the depths of the questions:

What is Earth up to in and through these times of crises and collapse?

How might we dream with Earth, the world to come?

What is a dream? There is the dream that visits us at night or in a sacred vision, and the dream that is our imagination expressed through our creativity. And there is the dreaming, the way humans are interwoven with life through space and time, in our own human ancestries and also other-than-human and place ancestries. We could say that Earth is dreaming us; through us and as us. We are part of and within Earth’s dreaming, which includes all creatures, and that our dreams arise directly from the dreaming of Earth. Dreams are like love letters from Life and Earth to our Souls that we might overhear.

As we re-member ourselves as part of Earth’s body and the dreaming we call Life, we awaken to the potential in our dreams. As we begin to remember our own dreams by deepening into the world of the dream and the emotions and aliveness within them, we let them guide us, rather than interpreting them. Bringing a dream from the night world into the day world, we dream into living a soulcentric life. This way of being in the world shifts the consciousness of our waking world into a deeper, more mysterious and soulful way of being. This changes the choices we make and the ways we are in relationship with our web of relationships across all strands- self, other human, wild others and unseen ones. When this happens, we can begin to listen to Earth's dreaming and center the wild voices of our world and our souls; rather than the feeding the consumerist habits of numbing and distraction, we feed Life and the Holy Wild.

We begin in the darker part of the seasonal year, with night dreams and as we circle towards the spring we will look at the ways Earth’s dream can be courted and amplified using nature-based Tarot and other divination practices. We will explore how we remember dreams, seed dreams and let the dream “work us” (rather than working on a dream). We will learn how to listen and understand their messages, both personally and collectively and how might we be guided in these times by the deep time/the dream time. And over the weeks each of us will open to experiencing how each of us uniquely might co-create the dream of this world with Earth.

Practices will include: