SPRING 2025:

• Year 1 - Birth of the Healer: 4/01- 4/04, workday 4/05

• Year 4 - Birth of the Visionary: 4/08 - 4/11, workday 4/12

• Threshold Process: 4/14 - 4/18, workday 4/19

• Year 3 - Birth of the Warrior: 4/22- 4/25, workday 4/26

GATHERING:

• Tentative Cycle Community Gathering: 6/18 - 6/21, workday 6/22

FALL 2025:

• Year 2 - Dance of the Shadow Self: 8/30 - 9/05, workday 9/06

• Year 1 - Masks: 9/07 - 9/12, workday 9/13 

• Year 3 - Sacred Syzygy: 9/14 - 9/19, workday 9/20 

• Year 5 - Dismantling the False Self: 9/23 - 9/26, workday 9/27 

• 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. (Christina Pratt's journeying class or equivalent.)

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

The NEW extended deadline to apply is Friday, November 29th 2024 at 11:59PM 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 (Christina Pratt's journeying courseor equivalent). 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 2025 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. Live attendance is highly encouraged with recordings available if you can’t make it live.

• Saturday, February 22 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

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

• Saturday, March 8 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

  Shrine Tending, Timing, and Listening to the Earth

• Saturday, March 22 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

  Clearing Upgrade: Power and Pitfalls

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 $2276.30 for those who choose to stay in a shared room in the house, and $2126.30 for those who choose to have privacy as they camp.

• Once your prerequisites have been confirmed and your application has been approved (by December 13th), you will receive a link to make your pre-registration deposit. Deposits for the retreat are $300 and are due by December 27th. Please note that deposits are not refundable.

• Registration will open on January 3rd for those who have submitted deposits by December 27th. If you choose to pay in full by February 10th, you will qualify for early registration. After February 10th,  $150 will be added to the cost of the retreat. 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. Please note that our community takes a winter break each year. We use this time to pause community work, connect with each other through ritual, artmaking and storytelling and engage in deep restorative yin cultivation to resource the year ahead. This year, our break will be from Dec 14 - Jan 19. We will respond to all emails when we return the week of January 20th.

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 in Spring 2026. 

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.

REGISTRATION TIMELINE:

Application Launch: October 8

Application Deadline (NOW EXTENDED): November 29

Acceptance Notification: by December 13

Deposit: by December 27

Registration Window: Jan 3 - Mar  10

VIRTUAL THRESHOLD ORIENTATION:

Online classes with Christina (live attendance highly encouraged with recordings available if you can’t make it live)

• Saturday, February 22 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

• Saturday, March 8 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

• Saturday, March 22 - 9am PT / 12pm ET

THRESHOLD PROCESS:

In- person immersion in Troutdale, Oregon

• April 14-19

• Workday on the land: April 19th (attendance highly encouraged)

VIRTUAL THRESHOLD FOLLOW UP:

Individual integration work and online group support calls

• April 20 - June 20