Animism · Ceremony · Soul work
The medicine is already in you.
Sacred Paths is a shamanic school taught by Angell Deer, online and on the land at La Ferme du Cerf Bleu, a rewilding farm in Burgundy, France. For the ones who feel the call and haven't answered it yet.
New here? Start with the free Field Guide.
Author of Becoming the Medicine (Hay House / Balboa Press) · Speaker at Harvard Business School · 16,000+ readers on Substack
You already know something needs to change.
We've done the work. The therapy, the books, the retreats that promised transformation by Sunday afternoon. And still the hollow is there. The life we're living and the life our bones ache for run on parallel tracks, and the distance between them keeps growing.
We can feel the old world coming apart. The systems, the certainties, the stories we were handed about what a good life looks like. Something in us knows the answer isn't another strategy, or another course in performing wellness while the ground shakes.
The answer is older than that. Wilder. Closer to the bone.
You are not broken. You are remembering.
Your guide
I raised forty million dollars in the corporate world. Then I walked away from every cent of it.
I'm Angell Deer. Trained veterinarian. Medicine man. I know the empire from the inside. I left because I could feel the machine eating the world. And eating me.
I've spoken at Harvard Business School and sat in ceremony with Andean elders at Lake Titicaca. I stewarded a sanctuary in the Catskills for twenty years, then began again on a ruined farm in France at midlife, with a young family. Everything I offer grows from this ground and from over twenty years of walking this path.
Author of Becoming the Medicine (Hay House / Balboa Press), my latest book, and The Sacred Web. Writer of Rituals & Rebellion on Substack, 16,000+ readers. Host of the Sacred Paths Podcast, 100+ episodes.
The fire does not tend itself. Neither does the soul.
From the fire circle
What people say after sitting at this fire.
"I came to the Sacred Purpose Blueprint because I was successful and miserable, and I couldn't explain the miserable part to anyone in my life. Angell didn't try to fix me. He handed me a shovel and said 'dig.' Sixteen weeks later I had resigned from a career that was killing me slowly and started the work I'd been running from for a decade. I'm not richer. I'm alive."
Michelle T.
Sacred Purpose Blueprint
"I've studied with teachers who made me feel like I was always one more workshop away from being ready. EarthWalker was the opposite of that. Angell treats you like someone who already has the medicine in them and just needs help remembering where they put it. The circle held me through the hardest year of my life and I came out the other side knowing what I'm here for."
Amanda R.
EarthWalker graduate
"I came into the program because I struggled for years with my sacred business. Keeping it on the side, and keeping my corporate job (that I hated). This really helped me to find my voice, and the container to grow my sacred business and finally soon be able to do this full time!"
John M.
Sacred Business Mastery
Find your path
Four ways in. One path home.
You don't need to see the whole map. Just the next step.
Free · On your own
I want a taste
Something brought you here. A podcast, an essay, a friend, a feeling you can't name. You don't need a program yet. You need a taste of the real thing: seven practices you can begin tonight.
Want a weekly fire to sit at? Join Rituals & Rebellion on Substack
For your own life
My life is asking to change
You're in a transition. Your work, your life or your relationship to the sacred needs to change. Start on your own with Sacred Paths Essentials: three courses and five practices for grounding, grief, ritual and resistance.
Want Angell beside you? The Sacred Purpose Blueprint, 16 weeks
In a circle
I'm called to walk the path
You feel the pull toward initiation, ceremony, and holding space for others. Start by sitting at the fire: the Wild Hearth Gathering, a monthly circle with Angell and Rose.
Ready for the whole road? Sacred Paths Shamanic School, 2 years
For healers and practitioners
I want my medicine to feed me
Your work is changing lives, and you want it to sustain yours. Sacred Business Mastery builds the foundation over nine months with Angell. Root System is a self-paced build kit for work that already sells.
The place
Everything I teach comes from this ground.
La Ferme du Cerf Bleu is an 18th-century farm in the heart of Burgundy. Twenty acres in the slow, patient process of being returned to itself. Over a hundred trees planted. Beehives. An orchard remembering its wildness. Old stone walls that remember things the mind has forgotten.
This is where we hold retreats, and where the fire is lit every new moon.
The land is not a backdrop. It is a teacher.
Start here, for free
The Animist's Field Guide
Seven practices for remembering your relationship with the living world. Greeting the land, making offerings, sitting with a tree, listening to the more-than-human world, tending your ancestors, and learning to close what you've opened.
A real book, not a teaser. Free, because this remembering should not be behind a paywall. Downloaded more than 5,000 times.
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