• Threshold Process: 3/24 - 3/29, workday 3/30

• Year 2 - Dance of the Shadow Self: 9/15 - 9/21, workday 9/22

• Year 3 - Laying the Bones to Rest: 9/22 - 9/27, workday 9/28

• Year 1 - Masks: 9/29 - 10/4, workday 10/5

• Completed Energy Body Mastery with a year or more of practice

• Completed Energy Body Clearing with a year or more of practice

• Have basic proficiency with shamanic journeying

  The application process will help confirm you have the necessary skills to be able to complete The Threshold Process.

The deadline to apply is January 27, 2024 at 5pm PST.

1. You have a basic energy hygiene practice (learned in Energy Body Mastery) you’ve been practicing for at least a year during which you tend your grounding, central channel, boundaries, truth cord, etc.

2. You have completed successful clearings as defined in Energy Body Clearing and have a regular clearing practice.

3. You have a basic level of proficiency with journeying. This includes entering a trance state with a sonic driver (often a drum or rattle), connecting with a trusted helping spirit, asking a question, receiving the answer, interpreting the answer, taking action based on the answer and evaluating your results.

4. You have the basic capacity to navigate your inner landscape and be in relationship with what’s there. This means you have a stable enough sense of self to bring your current self into conscious relationship with other parts of yourself.

We have the confidence in your ability to examine whether the Threshold Process is for you. Check in with your inner knowing to see if you are ready for this next step. If in doubt check in with your truth cord and helping spirits. A journey question could include: “Show me how taking the Threshold Process in 2024 will serve my capacity to live my soul’s purpose at this time.”

If you do not know if you have met the requirements, and/or are feeling uncertain if you are ready, feel free to reach out to info@thecyclecommunity.org with your questions.

There will be three online classes offered by Christina Pratt to assist in your preparation that are required prior to joining the Threshold immersion in person.

• Journeying: Cosmology, Constructs and Cultivating a Working Relationship With Spirit

• Shrine Tending, Timing, and Listening to the Earth

• Clearing Upgrade: Power and Pitfalls

These classes will take place in the two months prior to the retreat. They will be recorded if you cannot make them live, but live participation is highly encouraged.

Additionally, check out Other Resources for optional reading that can begin to root you into an animist framework and awaken the longing for a robust community self.

• Tending a collective earth shrine

• Elemental rituals

• Dancing

• Multiple journeys with helping spirits, well ancestors, and the spirits of the Cycle Community to help you along the way

• Group discussion and processing

• Time for personal introspection and self-inquiry

• Partner clearings

• And more!

• The full cost of the retreat is $2183 for those who choose to stay in a shared room in the house, and $1933 for those who choose to have privacy as they camp.

• Once your prerequisites have been confirmed and your application has been approved, you will receive a link to register and make your deposit. Deposits for the retreat are 50% of the full cost and are due by January 28th. Please note that deposits are not refundable.

• If you send in your full payment by February 28th, then you will receive a $150 discount off the full price. Full payments are due no later than March 10th.

• If you have any questions please reach out to info@thecyclecommunity.org and we can discuss with you.

The Threshold Process is a test designed in co-creation with Spirit to meet you wherever you are currently, without judgment, blame, or shame. In this sense it is a real gate into the next phase of the teachings tended by the Spirits of the Cosmology and human teachers. The process will help you assess if you are ready to enter into the Cycle of Transformation and the Cycle Community, and if they are right for you at this time.

The process includes prep beforehand, the in-person immersion and group mentorship support in the two months afterward.

By the end of the two months post-immersion, the teachers facilitating the process will help you know whether or not you made it through the Threshold. If you do not, you will still receive valuable experiences that support you in cultivating your animist and community self. In addition, teachers will share with you next steps you can take if you wish to become ready to enter the Cycle of Transformation.

The Threshold Process is a test designed in co-creation with Spirit to meet you wherever you are currently, without judgment, blame, or shame.

People who have experienced the western education system tend to bring a lot of baggage to the word “test”. In an animist context, a test is a diagnostic tool and an experience that you learn from.

In this sense it is a real gate into the next phase of the teachings tended by the Spirits of the Cosmology and human teachers. The process will help you assess if you are ready to enter into the Cycle of Transformation and the Cycle Community, and if they are right for you at this time.

The process includes prep beforehand, the in-person immersion and group mentorship support in the two months afterward.

By the end of the two months post-immersion, the teachers facilitating the process will help you know whether or not you made it through the Threshold. If you do not, you will still receive valuable experiences that support you in cultivating your animist and community self. In addition, teachers will share with you next steps you can take if you wish to become ready to enter the Cycle of Transformation.

After the two months post Threshold Process immersion, if you have successfully made it through the process, you will receive an invitation to join the Cycle Community and register for Masks of Illusion and the Authentic Self*. This is the first retreat of the Cycle of Transformation. The Cycle of Transformation is held in community and all participants serve in the non-local Cycle Community.

*If you have already taken Cycle retreats in the past you can take whatever your next retreat is, you don’t have to start the process over.

The Threshold Process is the first step to be eligible for taking Cycle of Transformation Retreats. After you successfully pass through the Threshold you can take the next retreat in the sequence for you or repeat retreats you have already taken. If you completed the eldership process, you do not need to take the Threshold Process to qualify for retreats.

The Threshold Process will be offered yearly. The next Threshold will take place again at the beginning of the next retreat cycle, so likely sometime in Spring 2025. 

It will not be possible to participate remotely in the Threshold Process this year.

Financial support / energy exchange scholarships are currently not available for the Threshold Process. We are a community of volunteers and after not hosting retreats during the early years of the pandemic, we are working to rebuild our capacity to provide support. We have priced the retreats with accessibility in mind and are committed to expanding our ability to provide equitable support for participants in need as we grow. If you require additional time to make payments prior to the Threshold Process, please contact info@thecyclecommunity.org.

Donations are welcome and can be earmarked to support future financial assistance for those participating in retreats or to logistical costs of operating the Cycle Community which produces the retreats.

Please let us know at info@thecyclecommunity.org if you would like to donate.

• December 1 - January 27 - Application period

• February 3 - March 23 - Individual prep work

• TBD February - March - Three online classes with Christina (recordings will be available if you can’t make it live)

• March 24 - 30 - In-person immersion in Troutdale, Oregon

• April 1 - June 1 - Individual integration work and online group support calls