Thresholds and Altars: Nature-Based Rituals for Life’s Turning Points
October 30- November 1, 2026 with Day Schildkret
Life invites us into change, but rarely teaches us how to move through it well. Whether it’s a relationship ending, a role dissolving, a chapter closing, or a calling emerging, you may find yourself standing at the edge of what was … and unsure how to step into what comes next.
This immersive weekend retreat is a sacred pause for anyone navigating change. Through nature-based ritual, creative altar-making, reflective writing, and a circle of shared witnessing, you’ll learn how to tend life’s thresholds not as chaotic interruptions but as initiations into a deeper sense of purpose.
Held over Halloween weekend — a time often associated with the thinning of boundaries between past and present — we’ll also explore how moments of change can open us to a wider field of awareness. At times, this may include a felt sense of where we come from and what has shaped us.
Guided by renowned artist, author, and ritualist Day Schildkret, you’ll explore four notes of Threshold Literacy:
Cherishing: Honoring what has been lost and what still remains
Inventorying: Seeing clearly what is alive and what is no longer needed
Remembering: Reconnecting with what has shaped you and continues to live within you
Orienting: Choosing what matters most and the direction you want to move in
Using the acclaimed Morning Altars practice, you’ll forage for meaning, create ritual altars in nature, and experience the power of communal witnessing. This is not a weekend of quick fixes; it’s an invitation to slow down, tend what’s tender, and mark the sacred moment you are living through.
Whether you’re grieving a loss, stepping into a new role, or simply sensing that something is shifting within, this retreat is designed to support you in crafting your own modern rituals of change.
No prior experience with ritual, art, or nature work is necessary. Just bring your truth, your questions, and your willingness to cross the threshold.
Recommended Reading: Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art, and Ritual by Day Schildkret and Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change by Day Schildkret
This workshop includes an additional $20 for workshop material.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #6
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #2
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #7
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #3
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #4
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #5
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Thresholds and Altars: Nature-Based Rituals for Life’s Turning Points
March 5-7, 2027 with Day Schildkret
Life invites us into change, but rarely teaches us how to move through it well. Whether it’s a relationship ending, a role dissolving, a chapter closing, or a calling emerging, you may find yourself standing at the edge of what was … and unsure how to step into what comes next.
This immersive weekend retreat is a sacred pause for anyone navigating change. Through nature-based ritual, creative altar-making, reflective writing, and a circle of shared witnessing, you’ll learn how to tend life’s thresholds not as chaotic interruptions but as initiations into a deeper sense of purpose.
Guided by renowned artist, author, and ritualist Day Schildkret, you’ll explore four notes of Threshold Literacy:
Cherishing: Honoring what has been lost and what still remains
Inventorying: Seeing clearly what is alive and what is no longer needed
Remembering: Reconnecting with what has shaped you and continues to live within you
Orienting: Choosing what matters most and the direction you want to move in
Using the acclaimed Morning Altars practice, you’ll forage for meaning, create ritual altars in nature, and experience the power of communal witnessing. This is not a weekend of quick fixes; it’s an invitation to slow down, tend what’s tender, and mark the sacred moment you are living through.
Whether you’re grieving a loss, stepping into a new role, or simply sensing that something is shifting within, this retreat is designed to support you in crafting your own modern rituals of change.
No prior experience with ritual, art, or nature work is necessary. Just bring your truth, your questions, and your willingness to cross the threshold.
Recommended Reading: Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art, and Ritual by Day Schildkret and Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change by Day Schildkret
This workshop includes an additional $15 for workshop material.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #6
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #7
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 9 Daylong #1
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #5
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #7
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #4
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars Workshops at Lakewood (Afternoon Session)
Join Lakewood for this hands-on workshop led by internationally recognized earth artist Day Schildkret (Morning Altars). In this class, Day will guide us through the 7 step Morning Altars process, learning how we can make beauty from grief by creating unique mandalas dedicated to someone or something that is loved and missed. Using the earth as your canvas, create one-of-a-kind mandalas out of stones, leaves, flowers and more.
You will make — and deconstruct — your own memory mandala, leaving the workshop with a mindful practice you can do every day, no matter where you are.
Morning Altars Workshops at Lakewood (Morning Session)
Join Lakewood for this hands-on workshop led by internationally recognized earth artist Day Schildkret (Morning Altars). In this class, Day will guide us through the 7 step Morning Altars process, learning how we can make beauty from grief by creating unique mandalas dedicated to someone or something that is loved and missed. Using the earth as your canvas, create one-of-a-kind mandalas out of stones, leaves, flowers and more.
You will make — and deconstruct — your own memory mandala, leaving the workshop with a mindful practice you can do every day, no matter where you are.
Morning Altars - In-Person Alumni Gathering
For the very first time, you, our beloved Morning Altars alumni are invited to come together in person for our first-ever retreat.
For four days on sacred coastal California land, we’ll slow down together to make, learn, listen, grieve, laugh, and be a community all in one place.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #6
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #3
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #5
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #2
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 8 Daylong #1
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #4
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #7
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #3
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #6
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Thresholds and Altars: Nature-Based Rituals for Life’s Turning Points
February 27 – March 1, 2026 with Day Schildkret
Everything begins by leaving. — Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Life invites us into change, but rarely teaches us how to move through it well. Whether it’s a relationship ending, a role dissolving, a chapter closing, or a calling emerging, you may find yourself standing at the edge of what was — and unsure how to step into what comes next.
This immersive weekend retreat is a sacred pause for anyone navigating change. Through nature-based ritual, creative altar-making, reflective writing, and caring community, you’ll learn how to tend life’s thresholds not as chaotic interruptions but as initiations into a deeper sense of purpose.
Guided by renowned artist, author, and ritualist Day Schildkret, you’ll explore the four notes of Threshold Literacy:
Cherishing: Honoring what has been lost and what still remains
Inventorying: Seeing clearly what serves and what no longer does
Asking: Holding the big questions that shape who we are becoming
Aligning: Choosing what matters most and how we want to walk forward
Using the acclaimed Morning Altars practice, you’ll forage for meaning, create ritual altars in nature, and experience the power of communal witnessing. This is not a weekend of quick fixes; it’s an invitation to slow down, tend what’s tender, and mark the sacred moment you are living through.
Whether you’re grieving a loss, stepping into a new role, or simply sensing that something is shifting within, this retreat is designed to support you in crafting your own modern rituals of change.
No prior experience with ritual, art, or nature work is necessary. Just bring your truth, your questions, and your willingness to cross.
Recommended Reading: Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art, and Ritual and Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change by Day Schildkret.
This workshop includes an additional $10 for materials.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #2
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #5
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 7 Daylong #1
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #4
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #3
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 5 Big Sunday #7
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Big Sundays online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #2
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars Workshops at Lakewood (Afternoon Session)
Join Lakewood for this hands-on workshop led by internationally recognized earth artist Day Schildkret (Morning Altars). In this class, Day will guide us through the 7 step Morning Altars process, learning how we can make beauty from grief by creating unique mandalas dedicated to someone or something that is loved and missed. Using the earth as your canvas, create one-of-a-kind mandalas out of stones, leaves, flowers and more.
You will make — and deconstruct — your own memory mandala, leaving the workshop with a mindful practice you can do every day, no matter where you are.
Morning Altars Workshops at Lakewood (Morning Session)
Join Lakewood for this hands-on workshop led by internationally recognized earth artist Day Schildkret (Morning Altars). In this class, Day will guide us through the 7 step Morning Altars process, learning how we can make beauty from grief by creating unique mandalas dedicated to someone or something that is loved and missed. Using the earth as your canvas, create one-of-a-kind mandalas out of stones, leaves, flowers and more.
You will make — and deconstruct — your own memory mandala, leaving the workshop with a mindful practice you can do every day, no matter where you are.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 5 Big Sunday #6
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Big Sundays online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 6 Daylong #1
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Daylongs online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 5 Big Sunday #5
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Big Sundays online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.
Morning Altars - Teacher Training - Cohort 5 Big Sunday #4
Throughout the Morning Altars Teacher Training, we present 7 Big Sundays online taught live by Day, meticulously designed to offer hands-on, experiential, and community-based learning. Each day is framed by one of the seven steps of the Morning Altars healing modality and is beautifully designed to balance learning between screen and outdoors, individual and community, and mind, body, and spirit.
Our students rave about the profound impact of these weekends, which stand as the pinnacle of our program.