31/08/2026
🌬️ VISION QUEST | THE MEDICINE OF AIR 🌬️
Back in July, as part of my Shaman School training, I stepped into one of the most simple yet profound experiences I’ve had — a two-day Vision Quest working with the element of Air.
For two days, I went out alone into the wilderness with almost nothing.
A sleeping bag.
A yoga mat.
500ml of water.
No food.
No phone.
No distractions.
No conversation.
Just me, my thoughts, the elements and Mother Earth. 🌿
Vision Questing appears in different forms across a number of spiritual and earth-based traditions. While the practices and meanings differ between lineages, there is something incredibly powerful about intentionally withdrawing from everyday life, fasting, becoming still and listening.
We often think of “medicine” as something we consume.
But sometimes the medicine is in what we stop consuming.
No food to comfort us.
No scrolling to distract us.
No noise to fill the silence.
No other people to reflect ourselves back to us.
There was nowhere to go except within.
And that was where things began to surface.
Things I had been avoiding.
Things I hadn't wanted to look at.
Thoughts that everyday life had made very easy to push aside.
But alongside them came the most incredible sense of peace and tranquillity.
I had expected hunger to be one of my biggest challenges, yet strangely, it wasn't. My body seemed to understand what I was doing. As everything became quieter, I felt myself surrender more deeply to the land, the air and the experience.
🌬️ The element of Air became my teacher — breath, space, thought, perspective and freedom.
Sometimes we search everywhere for the thing that will heal us, awaken us or give us the answer.
And sometimes the deepest medicine is simply removing everything we've been using to avoid hearing ourselves.
Nothing to consume.
Nothing to distract.
Nothing to become.
Just you.
And perhaps that's where the real Vision Quest begins. 🤍🌿
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