Actions for Change

'We don't arrive - we grow.'

The Poetics of Becoming has completed its unfolding - and something in all of us will never be quite the same.

This was a descent into the living terrain where identity is not fixed but formed again and again - through myth and ceremony, through deep imagination and embodied encounter, through the slow and necessary work of grieving what no longer fits and listening for what is quietly, insistently emerging. We went where the small story ends and the larger one begins. We let symbol ripen into lived existence. We let life speak in wild sounds.
Together with my awesome co-guide , we guided a courageous circle of humans through 7 days of poetics, myth-telling, somatic practice, ceremony and wild kinship with the living world - in the sacred mountains of Romania.

The Earth held us.
The myth carried us.
Mystery had its way with us, as it always does when we are brave enough to show up with our heart wide open.

Becoming - by unfurling. By grieving. By serving. By being surprised by your own depth.

Deepest gratitude and awe to every soul who entered this fertile, demanding, beautiful dance with open hearts and fierce curiosity. You are the poem. You were always the poem.

Mythically guided by Sandra Horea and Ryder
Held by the wild creatures and mountains of Romania
Carefully nourished by Atelierul de gatit vegan cu Teodora
Passionately captured by Matei Plesa

This training course, ‘The Poetics of Becoming’, was financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Thank you!

What Art are YOU? Erasmus+ program

LAST WEEK TO APPLY

The guides of the journey:

Sandra Horea
Sandra Horea, also known as Rooted Vulture, is in a passionate love affair with the wild depths and the generative deaths. She is a mythic artist - devoting herself to creating and holding spaces of transformation where images, dreams, eroticism and whisperings of Soul and Mystery can move, emerge and feed the gods and goddesses. A priestess of ancient ways wearing the garbs of a modern soul guide.

Over the past 14 years, Sandra Horea has become well known for guiding hundreds of people from across Europe in eco-soulcentric human development practices, Soulcraft and Wild Mind, through her organisation Actions for Change, which she founded and has been coordinating for the past 11 years. Through wild and deep tended spaces, she invites soul to surface, weaving depth psychology, somatic practices, story, poetry and deep imagination into the deep art of becoming.
Her artistry is to listen for what is ready to die, so that deeper love may emerge.

Her work is rooted in her 10-years of experience training and apprentice-guiding as a Soul Initiation Guide (SAIP) for the Animas Valley Institute, a nature-based mystery school based in Colorado, under the mentorship of renowned founder Bill Plotkin and other highly experienced senior guides.
You can find more threads of here here: https://www.instagram.com/sandrahorea/

Lelde Gusta (Apprentice Guide)

Lelde is a facilitator, artist, and space-holder from Latvia, dedicated to the transformative power of art, community, and nature-based practices. With over nine years of experience in international projects, she crafts immersive experiences where creativity and deep reflection foster authentic connection and personal growth.

As an artist, Lelde designs workshops for local communities, exploring the interplay between spaces and human interaction. She creates opportunities for artists to express themselves, be seen, and embrace their gifts without hesitation—curating exhibitions and artistic gatherings that nurture both transformations and self-exploration.

Deeply engaged in continuous learning, she has participated in multiple Anima Valley courses and remains passionate about expanding her knowledge. She is also apprenticing Pirts—the traditional Latvian sauna practice—seeking to reconnect with ancestral wisdom and the profound power of contrasts.

Find her also here:
https://www.instagram.com/leldegusta/

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ALL THE POETIC DETAILS ARE WAITING FOR YOU HERE:
https://canva.link/t497k0u5hvmfw99

FIND THE APPLICATION FORM HERE: https://forms.gle/q7HHbstiZxvpdJUs7

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This project is co-financed by European Union programme “Erasmus+”. The program is administrated by Agency of International Programs for Youth Republic of Latvia - Jaunatnes starptautisko programmu aģentūra

Art. Is. Essential.

It gives shape to our existence, language to our emotions and expression to the way each of us perceives the world. In a time when life is often organized around speed, productivity and efficiency, art invites us back into presence, into listening, feeling and creating meaning.

‘What Art Are You?’ is a learning mobility program that brings together people from Latvia and Romania to explore how creative practices and nature-based approaches can support inclusion, personal development and meaningful work with people.

Find all the necessary information here: https://canva.link/t497k0u5hvmfw99
or here: What Art are YOU? Erasmus+ program

For ROMANIAN and LATVIAN participants
Places are limited.

APPLY TILL 03.05.
https://forms.gle/q7HHbstiZxvpdJUs7
The selection results will be published on 06.05.

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Photo by Balu Gáspár

Supported by Jaunatnes starptautisko programmu aģentūra

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, EuropeanCommission or Agency for International Programs for Youth. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Rainer Maria Rilke writes:
“You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.”

This is not only about making art. It is about allowing something inner -
something not yet fully formed - to take shape through you.

Images are not only visual. They are your inner visions, felt truths, longings, dreams, and myths. The quiet impressions that arrive in stillness, in nature, in grief, in love. The things you sense before you understand.

To give birth to them means not trying to control or perfect them too soon, but carrying them, listening closely, and letting them emerge with care and courage.

Because what you dare to express does not stay only with you.
It becomes part of the world.
It touches others.
It opens pathways that did not exist before.

And in that, there is a certain responsibility -
to listen, to trust, and to let what is alive within you find its way into form.

Join us for a 10-day What Art are YOU? Erasmus+ program in Romania, from 3.07 to 14.07 - a space where you are supported to listen to these inner images, to stay with them, and to gently bring them into form through nature-based practices and creative-embodied expression.

The participation is fully funded by Erasmus+.

Find all the information here: https://canva.link/t497k0u5hvmfw99

For ROMANIAN and LATVIAN participants.

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Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, EuropeanCommission or Agency for International Programs for Youth. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

You are a piece of ART. You are a piece of labradorite - layered, mysterious, with shadows folded inside you, catching light differently depending on where you stand. You are a driftwood sculpture shaped by every water, sweet or salty, that has ever carried you. You are a snowflake that the sky will never ever repeat. And yet, somehow, you, and we, forget that we are ART.

This program is an invitation to fall in love with what you are. To finally see yourself as something rare, unique, powerful, impactful, something the world has never seen before and will never again. And that quality of seeing, that will change everything.That bare existence is already an act of creation. That the way you love, grieve, laugh and press your bare feet into the earth is a creative act.

What ART are you? is the question, and YOU are the answer, unfolding.

Find all he information here: WWhat Art are YOU? Erasmus+ programor here: https://canva.link/t497k0u5hvmfw99

and application form is available here: https://forms.gle/q7HHbstiZxvpdJUs7

We wholeheartedly invite you to join us, Rooted Vulture and Deer Ryder, for an intimate discussion about our 9-day Vision Quest ceremony.
Bring your curiosities and your open heart!

On Thursday, 19th of March, at 5.00 PM CET time.
Find the IG LIVE here: https://www.instagram.com/sandrahorea/

Read more about the our program here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLh8if361GvMyeI_yNJpFy8aAco-eyk6jYGRnFhUsTQLSXAg/viewform?usp=send_form

‘Mythomorphosis’, was a 7 day program, a unique journey crafted with love by weaving what we could call ‘Personal Myth’ - an identity rooted in Soul’s unfoldings; and ‘Metamorphosis’ - the ongoing process of human development, transformation and maturation.

While being in the wild splendors of Apuseni mountains, we grasped our inspiration from the outer landscapes, while journeying inwards, on a descent into the wild terrain of the self, where identity is questioned, creativity stirred awake, and fresh ways of perceiving begin to take shape. In this sacred gathering, we invited our participants to step into a space where their transformation is kindled through personal and mythic story, nature and the wisdom of the more than human ones surrounding us.

Guided with love by Sandra Horea and Lelde Gusta
Captured with awe by Ba Balu
Nourished with care by Chef Teodora

This training course was financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Thank you!

Jaunatnes starptautisko programmu aģentūra