Last Mask Center & The Cycle Community present

The Threshold Process

Gateway into the Cycle of Transformation

April 14 - 19, 2025 - Troutdale, OR

Applications Closed for 2025

REGISTRATION TIMELINE

Application Deadline Extended!

** NEW Application Deadline: November 29**

Acceptance Notification: by December 13

Deposit: by December 27

Registration Window: Jan 3 - Mar 10

VIRTUAL THRESHOLD ORIENTATION

Saturday, February 22

Saturday, March 8

Saturday, March 22

Threshold Process: April 14-19

Art by April Staroak

What is The Threshold Process?

The Threshold Process is a 5 day, in-person immersion facilitated by Christina Pratt that supports us in stepping into our animist and community selves – the self that can enjoy being in vibrant healthy community with both the human and other-than-human world.

So many of us right now feel isolated, burned out, stagnating or stressed. We feel the new world that's possible and have many of the skills to get there - but still find ourselves caught in old patterns or fears that take us out at the knees. We often cycle in extremes of excess or deficiency, stuck in extractive relationships with the Earth and even ourselves.

The Threshold Process supports us in liberating our energy from oppressive patterning.

We have each internalized sneaky stories of extraction and separation from contemporary culture. These stories limit our potential and keep us from stepping into a generative, joyful and co-creative relationship with each other, the Earth and the Dreaming of all of Life. Through ritual, dance, journeys and group process we will take responsibility for our role as Dreamers on this planet, remembering that our dreams and desires deeply matter and learning how to gain traction in manifesting them.

The Cycle Teachings have shown us we can only truly live our wildest dreams sustainably with the support of community.

Our soul was never meant to try to live its unique genius without community. And the problems we face in the world today can't be solved by individuals working alone.

The Threshold Process helps us become the people that can commit to learning how to be in community. It liberates our capacity to show up with sovereignty and agency in the work of creating regenerative community.

If you successfully pass through the gate of the Threshold Process and choose to continue on to the Cycle of Transformation, you’ll be entering as a member of the Cycle Community, a collective of people striving to live in alignment with ancient animist principles and applying them in service of personal and collective liberation.

Applications Closed for 2025

In this process we are supported in uprooting the ways we have internalized systems that keep us feeling isolated, lost, fearful and disconnected and restoring our connection to our true sources of power.

The Threshold Process is not about perfection. It meets us exactly where we are and upgrades our capacity to engage the Cycle Teachings to create a community centered in true joy and freedom.

This is the incomparable joy of connecting and transforming that occurs when we dream with one another and Spirit. This is the exuberance we feel in expanded embodiment when we choose to turn towards our fear in love. This is a grounded and real celebration of Life. This is us each remembering who we are really meant to be, together, held and seen in community.

This is an invitation for you to become part of a movement and a people. If your heart yearns for community and the teachings, take this invitation as your cue.

Prerequisites to enroll in the Threshold Process

1

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

2

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

3

Have basic proficiency with shamanic journeying.

For more information on Threshold Process prerequisites see FAQ.

Completing the Threshold Process is the basic requirement for Masks of Illusion and all the subsequent Cycle of Transformation Retreats.

Applications Closed for 2025

“Walking through this threshold required bravery to keep my eyes open to who I am that prevents me from being in community and in right relationship with the earth. Having a process to correct these in my life was the most powerful energy. Being able to benefit as a person while serving the greater good of [The Cycle] Community was heart expanding. There was so much help from Spirit through Dance, Ritual and Teachings and the beautiful Lands holding the process all around. My soul felt pure exhilaration and joy! I’m really seeing how it’s affecting my engagement with myself, community and the Earth, already seeing fruits from the Threshold process!”

Larisa McAnally
“The week I spent in the threshold process produced a profound step forward for me that is still unfolding. The root of the word "threshold" is "threshing," a process during which the wheat is separated from the chaff.* During the journeys and rituals of the threshold process, I became aware of my illusions and saw who I would be without them. I met my edge and emerged humbled, committed to a path to deeper and more authentic wholeness.”

Rebecca Pepper
"The [Threshold Process] helped me to clearly identify the specific ways I have internalized cultural constructions, see them for the ways I had made them my own and dismantle them in ritual. It really felt like a 'lifting the veil' moment, like I could finally see this false reality I have been living in and projecting outwards for what it is and make the choice to step out of it. Challenging, in being able to now look back and see all the ways that this energy was derailing all the other processes I've been in, but really helpful and exciting. Overall, the work was deep but also really joyous and felt like a big relief."

Alexis Penney
“The Threshold Process allowed me to see exactly how I had been getting in my own way and not claiming my power; that I was in fact abusing power. It also allowed me to see how I was letting stories from the dominant culture dictate who I could and couldn't be and to begin to take those stories apart and work on writing a new story […] I’ve oriented differently to the world around me. I am a land spirit after all, part of the dreaming of the Earth. It has taken courage to look at these things and change what wasn't serving me and the rest of life […]. Choosing to change and act, while new and potentially a little frightening is also a grand adventure.”

Emily Iverson
“ […] exploring the wilderness of the elements gave me a visceral sense of the qualities and powers of the elements. I can feel in my body that the elements exist within us; our hearts carry their wilderness. Because of this […], I can easily tap into a greatly expanded understanding of my heart’s capacity for power, growth and beauty […] The work we did peeling away the cultural conditioning we all experience has given me enough spaciousness to actually be able to feel my personal truth in a clearer way. Tapping into this rooted and more robust felt sense has already helped me make decisions and approach daily challenges and questions with greater clarity and certainty. I’m moving in the world in a new way […]” - Kate O’Kelley

Kate O’Kelley