Marking Change: Using Nature, Creativity, and Ritual to Navigate Life's Transitions

With Day Schildkret

February 21 - 23, 2025

Workshop Schedule

Friday
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm*How to Drop into Esalen*
7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Saturday
9:30 am - 12:45 pm
3:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Sunday
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $590.00
  • Bunk Bed Space – $770.00
  • Standard Shared Space – $960.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $1,260.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $1,980.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $1,740.00
  • Premium King Room – $1,860.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $2,100.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $2,100.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $2,100.00
  • Rolf Suite – $3,960.00
  • Point House – $3,960.00
  • Fritz Point House – $3,960.00
  • South Point House – $4,830.00
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As life changes, we also must change — yet this isn’t guaranteed. Too many of us get stuck at our thresholds. Nature, creativity, and ritual can help us cross them gracefully, helping us ground, listen, and orient to what is changing. 

Join us for a transformative workshop designed to provide the skills and understanding needed to create your own modern rituals, with a special focus on the healing modality of Morning Altars. By working with nature and the incredible power of the land at Esalen, we will reawaken our creativity, open to possibility, and witness what is changing in our lives. 

Guided by award-winning author, artist, teacher, and ritualist Day Schildkret, you are invited to:

  • Learn the ins and outs of this ancient technology to expertly navigate change.
  • Learn the power of “symbolic action” to align your psycho-spiritual experience.
  • Craft your own modern ritual to mark your personal threshold and rediscover yourself.
  • Discover the 7-step Morning Altars practice, using nature, art, and ritual for understanding and meaning.
  • Experience the support and witness of others who are also experiencing loss, celebrations, and change. 
  • Create custom “Threshold Altars” that provide reflection, refinement, and direction.
  • Discover the meaning-making skills needed to traverse your life thresholds with renewed grace and purpose.

This workshop is designed for anyone in a life transition who wants to learn creative ways to ritualize it. Crafted with great care, this experience welcomes all genders, races, identities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Threshold moments are meant to be crossed together. Join us if you feel your transition has become protracted or need greater support and attention to skillfully move to your next chapter.

Recommended Reading: Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change and Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art, and Ritual by Day Schildkret

This workshop includes a $30 material fee.

About the Leader

Day Schildkret

Day Schildkret is an award-winning queer author, artist, ritualist, teacher and is internationally known for Morning Altars, which BuzzFeed calls, “a celebration of nature and life.” With nearly 100k followers on social media, Day has worked for close to two decades with thousands of individuals, communities, and organizations to help heal the culture through a […]

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