Embrace Your Wholeness, Awaken Your Spirit, And Empower Your Journey With Spirit Hollow

Transforming consciousness one extraordinary being at a time

Spirit Hollow’s mission is to guide, support, and empower individuals to embody their wholeness, to step into psychospiritual maturity and to ripen into the fullness of their authentic selves, finding and living their Earth-rooted destinies in service of the Great Turning.

Founded on the innate understanding that love is the most powerful force, we help people to cultivate active, intimate partnerships with the animate Earth, with their own personal mythos, and with one another, thus becoming agents of change in the re-visioning and re-enchantment of the world.

Through hands-on, nature-based, soul-centric programs, and experiments in ecological living, individuals gain tools with which to live meaningfully in these unprecedented times.

By planting and nurturing seeds for the future ones, we inspire & support purposeful humans in bringing forth their most soulful gifts to shape a new world.

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“And into the forest I go
to lose my mind and find my soul.”

-John Muir

Our New Yurt is Ready

Ta Da!! The 30’ yurt is complete!

The generosity extended to Spirit Hollow has been truly remarkable (all the donations and outpouring of time— especially the people who donated $45,000– who don’t wish to be publicly named, but THANK you if you’re reading this).

Only with the tireless help of friends (in particular Brian Taylor, who spent days of his life on this project) did this come to fruition.

We are putting finishing touches on the yurt in preparation for a full summer of offerings here at Spirit Hollow.

Look for an invite to our Yurt Temple Blessing and Adornment Ceremony coming up later this summer -- part open house, part decorating and consecrating the space, part council, part drum and dance party, part sharing of yummy foods.

May you, too, receive the fulfillment of your deepest dreams!

STARTING OCTOBER 2024

A Nine-Month Immersive for PeriMenopausal - PostMenopausal Women

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Wild Immersions

Connect to your pure and beautiful humanness, whole fragmented parts, join in rich council-based community, and fall in love with the animate Earth, the other-than-human beings, and the challenges and opportunities of these times.

Through highly experiential practices, ranging from embodied dreamwork and deep imagery, authentic movement and drumming, to play and ceremony, core wound and shadow work, our seasoned guides create openings for you to draw closer to your own personal mythos and soul niche. Wanders in the forest and council circles are central to our practices.

Summer Camps

Our camps are designed to honor the unique, beautiful, creative soul in each child or teen, to foster love of self, community, and nature and to create meaningful experiences that build confidence, inner light and lasting friendships.

By gathering in an inclusive circle in the forest, campers access the wisdom of the land and freely explore their wild selves. Nature immersion is a potent antidote to the separation and over-saturation of technology and consumer culture. Campers come back to a sense of authenticity and deep belonging.

Soul Sessions

Embark on a journey of personal healing, discovery, awe, and spiritual revelation to feel fully alive, at home, and embodied. In one-on-one sessions, Tracey Forest will help you find pathways into wholeness and healing, rooted in exploring your inner landscape and your intrinsic place in the dreaming Earth.

Through soul-centric mentoring, dreamwork, and mirroring, you’ll be guided to access your own resources and tools, to get unstuck, to resolve old core issues, to heal core wounds, and to bring home parts of yourself that have been buried.

About Us

Tucked in the Taconic Mountains of Southwestern Vermont, Spirit Hollow is situated on 100 forested acres and surrounded by thousands of acres of National Forest Land. The Center was established in 2000 on the slopes of Grass Mountain.

Spirit Hollow is both a wilderness retreat and a non-profit organization. Workshops are held in the Brook Yurt and our NEW Sky Temple Yurt and out on the sacred land. In the geodesic dome, Tracey Forest and her family and animals live, and ceremonies are held around one of the fire circles, in the yurt and the Medicine Wheel Garden or along the banks of Oracle Brook. In the woods that surround us, there are trails to wander and streams to meditate by.

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What They Are Saying

Testimonials

MAGICAL & HEART-FILLED

“The Wild Women Vision Fast was a life-changing experience. My intent was to gain clarity of myself and the underlying anxiety, dichotomy I felt inside of me. The guides held such a beautiful space and were so present. It was a magical, heart-filled experience.”

Michelle T, 2022 participant

GUIDE TO SOUL

"KeyTurner/Tracey is a phenomenal and fiery guide. She is ever-alert and always listening, helping me to map out the brambles, beauty, allies and adversaries of my inner terrain. Like a loving, witchy, fairy-Godmother, she has encouraged me to write, draw, speak, sing and come wildly alive as I humbly reclaim the helm of my Soulship. I can always feel the brush of her wings, the warm glow of her lantern and the soothing wisdom of her words. She knows this mysterious terrain well and I feel so blessed to call her a mentor, guide and friend. I know you will too."

-Jon Marro, Artist, Author & Filmmaker

SALVE OF RECONNECTION

Tracey is such a bright light in this world. I booked a remote healing session with her recently, and it was a game-changer in my life. Tracey expertly guided me to the source of my long-standing challenges and worked it from an angle that was deceptively simple and tremendously effective. Tracey’s was the best healing session I’ve experienced. It was as if she was right there with me in person. In a time of physical distancing, Tracey’s work offers the salve of reconnection.

-Miriam Katz, healer and teacher

UPLIFTING AND INVITING

Amazing, uplifting, inviting, and most of all spiritually connected. Beautiful landscape and so warm…a simple “thank you” to all that you offer each and every person who is blessed enough to meet Spirit Hollow and just “be.”

-STACY MICHAUD

ALWAYS NEW, RICH PATHS TO FIND

At the Hollow, we have shared our love of the power and beauty of the land and water; there, we have learned countless lessons about how to better care for each other and ourselves. There are always rich new paths to find at Spirit Hollow and loving arms and outstretched hands of caring guides, teachers and friends to help you on your journey. The Earth would be a better place if more people had the experiences that both my daughter and I have had there.

-ELISABETH SHAPIRO, Mother of Isabella, camper

AN OASIS

An incredible oasis of healing energy and collection of beautiful and loving souls. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t benefit from time at SH. I love it and all the pilgrim travelers I have met there .

-LISA VERSHOOR