Medicine Woman Retreats

Our Processes

Our substances are sourced via a personal relationship with the grower who also grows microgreens for restaurants. Mushrooms are dried, ground, and either put in capsules or tea for consumption.

Our participant-to-staff ratio is three clients per guide.

Intake and Screening Process

Complete the intake form indicating interest. Have a personal call to discuss and assess appropriateness (medical, mental health history, medications, intention, and goals) Group meeting call pre-retreat to introduce guests to one another if need be.

Preparation Process

• Intention and preparation session.
• Custom preparation and integration journal provided to all.
  • Each person gets a one-on-one.
  • The whole group gets a 2-3 hour intention-setting group.
  • Each person receives a journal,
  • Intention cards as group.
• Discuss and teach somatic grounding as tool for journey day.

Ceremonies

• Journey day begins with a mindfulness walk in nature for grounding into the now with breath and mindfulness.
• Return to the ceremony space and create an alter with peoples objects.
• Smudge, light candle.
• Read Maria Sabina poem.
• Lead guided meditation about trust, release inviting inner wisdom.
• Medicine via tea. Everyone to their personal, cozy, private journey spaces with headphones and eye shades.
• One guide per 2-3 guests.

Integration

• Quiet grounding and alone time as you arise from the journey.
• Guides available if guests want to process but mostly quiet, reflective time and journaling encouraged.
• Next morning integration circle.
  • Clients take turns sharing their experiences.
  • Heather leads integration helping clients make meaning, explore symbols, and process somatics.
  • Group holds space and also shares some refractions if invited.
• After all, have shared move to art space for quiet art experience with ambient music.
  • Draw, paint, capture symbols, colors, images, emotions via art processing.
• Later celebration feast with toast and poems and gratitude to the mushrooms and our inner wisdom.
• One group integration session via zoom a week later.
• Individual integration sessions available upon request and encouraged with either myself, team of therapist of their choice.