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Chivito Cowa
"What if we completely give ourselves over to learning in a humble way? To acknowledge the Path is Alive. We can speak to it, listen to what it has to say, walk in togetherness with what's dreaming us into the world."
A Traditional Path
For more than two decades, Chivito has walked a traditional learning path rooted in direct experience, ceremony, contemplative practice, and relationship with elders from enduring lineages.
Early in his journey, he recognized that many modern approaches to healing addressed symptoms while remaining disconnected from the deeper patterns of soul, community, spirit, and the living world. This realization led him into years of apprenticeship with traditional teachers in India and within Indigenous earth-based ways in North America.
Much of his training unfolded outside conventional settings — in extended silence, prayer, wilderness solitude, ritual practice, and close guidance from teachers who emphasized humility, service, discipline, and listening deeply to life.
Over time, he was entrusted with practices related to healing, purification, rites of passage, and supporting others through seasons of grief, disorientation, transformation, and what many have called the Dark Night of the Soul.
As a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, Chivito has accompanied youth and adults through profound thresholds of loss, initiation, reconciliation, and renewal. Again and again, he has witnessed that healing rarely comes through fixing ourselves, but through becoming intimate with what the soul has been asking of us all along.
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"You can only guide and hold space for others in proportion to the dark depths you're willing to go within yourself and bloom out of."
His work today weaves together depth psychology, mythology, contemplative traditions, earth-based practice, ritual, and decades of lived apprenticeship. Yet beyond any training or certification, he considers himself most deeply shaped by the generosity of his teachers, the wisdom of lineage holders, and the ongoing humility of walking a path that is never truly finished.
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He now facilitates Vision Quests, rites-of-passage journeys, Shadow Guide Trainings, and soul-centered mentorship for those navigating seasons of transition, descent, and awakening.
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See Testimonials Below
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TESTIMONIALS
"There is expression vs words that are deeply felt when being guided by Chivito Cowa. I have come home to my remembering in such an intimate way that no other guide has been able to offer, until I met Chivito. I've experienced many programs (journey's rather) under his guidance and each one has unlocked doorways within my soul that I never thought possible. He truly shares from a well of wisdom and celebrates you every step of the way. Anyone looking to explore their inner and outer landscape would benefit grateful from Chivito's guidance and teachings. There is so much more I can share, but trust that you are in good hands and will be deeply grateful for the work you experience with him."
Delia Spirit Bear
"I whole-heartedly and soulfully recommend working with Chivito Cowa. He is a true gem and a living embodiment of spirit. He has a powerful, unique gift of intuiting what people are missing and deeply yearning for in today's society and is magically (I can think of no other word to describe his process) able to provide a path to reclaiming that in the form of horizontal guidance. It's a totally empowering, inspiring "we're in this together but each have our unique journey" vibe. His ability to cultivate a sangha while also providing concrete suggestions for moving through all that comes up in the soul-spelunking deep dives that you are in for when you sign up for this ride is truly saving the world by helping souls reconnect with their essence- the ultimate calling. I'm so glad I answered and got Chivito on the other end"
Laura Tousaint
"I encourage anyone who struggles to find the beauty in life to consider any of Chivito’s Courses. It is salve for your soul. The stories, the struggles, the heartbreaks, they are the medicine of your life. This was news to me. Awakening the sage within changed my life. I now have a new lens with which in interact and receive the world. Chivito is a gentle, insightful teacher and guide. He is connected with nature and ancient teaching and uses these tools to walk you inward, to find the magic that is inside of you, inside your life."
Jennifer Pledger
"I’ve been a mentee of Chivito’s for the past 14 years, and he is by far, the more impactful person I’ve had in my life. His wisdom, teachings, and writing, have helped equip me with powerful tools that shaped me into the leader I am today.
His craft is vast, his applications are enjoyable to hear/read/experience, his heart is pure, and he literally LIVES what he preaches.
Chivito is an extraordinary example of ‘how to live a life connected’. I’m so excited for him to publish, so more people may be nourished by his wisdom and all his many years’ dedication to being of service to others."
Deep Bow Chivitoji & My Deepest of Thanks!!
Niene Pugliano