Vision Quest

A 10-day Vision Quest experience in the pristine & remote high desert hills east of Santa Barbara, California.

• Sweat Lodges 
• 4-day solo Vision Quest (water fasting)
• 6 days of Teachings (Pre & Post Quest): preparation, meaning making, integration & nature-connection
• Experienced, trusted ceremonial guides & support staff
• Plus, 3 group Zoom mtgs. (1 x before and 2 x after the 10-day experience to support integration)

• Mark Tollefson (Ceremonial Leader / Guide)
• Meghan Maiya (Administrative Director)
• VQ Support Staff / Assistants & Fire Keepers

• This is a drug and alcohol free event. No entheogens or psychedelics will be used or permitted on the land.
• Everyone will need to arrive between 4:00-4:45pm on Thursday, May 29th to caravan to the site as a group. Programming begins the next morning on 5/30.
• Before embarking on this transformative journey, it's essential to ensure that you're adequately prepared, spiritually, mentally and physically. Therefore, prior to enrollment, Mark (our Ceremonial Leader) requires a personal conversation with each prospective participant. This dialogue allows us to assess your readiness and ensures that the Vision Quest aligns with your current life circumstances. While the ceremony is rooted in ancient traditions, it's crucial to adapt it to meet the needs of modern individuals. In the past, we have observed that participants who were not fully prepared did not experience the intended benefits of the quest. Our discussion will help tailor the experience to resonate with where you are today, maximizing the potential for a meaningful and impactful journey.

Vision Quest is an invitation for real change, to step into a different way of being…a renewed Life…one that you create. 

Vision Quest is a ceremony that provides a fresh experience of reality, one that comes from an ability to hold a different possibility for yourself, for your relationships, for our world.

You will face the truth that you are creating the world you live in, even the one you have inherited AND the truth that you can declare and live a different way.

This is an invitation & opportunity to step into the authorship of your own life. 

This is an invitation & opportunity to decide on your own what value and meaning your life will have when you show up to it. 

Vision Quest is where you will come face to face with your greatest gifts and that which has been holding you back.

Join us for the 10-day Vision Quest experience led by Mark Tollefson and Meghan Maiya and supported by a team of powerful initiated women and men.  

Most people live life on a path that others have set for them, and are too afraid to explore any other. Then, there are people like you… 

People who see the world differently - who demand to meet life on your own terms. People who are willing to face & creatively maneuver around/through/over the obstacles that life puts in your way. 

It isn’t easy. It requires you to be able to think differently, act differently, and see the world in a different way. 

It requires a level of consciousness that consistently requires you to be self-examining and self-aware. 

Vision Quest is a sacred ceremony that will take you deeper on that journey.  You will be supported as you connect, listen, release, question and receive.  You will be guided in, sent off, held in prayer, and welcomed back.  We’ll help you make meaning of your experience and prepare you for your return home.

Here is additional information about the Quest, Guides, & Agenda for this 10-day experience.