Speaking & Media

Hi! I’m Beana

I’m a landwife, a childless mother, and a transformational medicine guide for people ready to come home to their authenticity, reclaim their inner authority, and live well in their bodies and on this Earth.

My alchemical work blends the power of a laser-sharp intuition, Earth Medicine, elemental forces, and polarity to deliver profound healing. My unique combination of medicine work, somatic exploration, mythopoetic translation, and elemental healing empowers my clients to step into their authenticity, regulate their nervous systems, surf the highs and lows of life with grace and imagination, and remove the obstacles between them and love.

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Speaking Topics

Therapeutic Psilocybin & the Anatomy of a Medicine Journey
What actually creates the conditions for meaningful and transformative psychedelic work? And what does it mean to enter into relationship with Earth Medicine rather than simply seeking an experience?
From the anatomy of a mushroom journey to the importance of preparation, set and setting, and integration, Beana explores what it means to work with psychedelics with intention, discernment, and respect. Conversations might include fear and so-called "bad trips," resistance and disappointment, somatic and ancestral healing, rites of passage and initiation, and the place of psychedelics in end-of-life care.
At the heart of this work is a question worth asking: How do we work with the medicine without expecting the medicine to do the work for us?

The Art & Ethics of Psychedelic Guideship
What does it actually mean to accompany another human being through profound transformation?
As a "guide's guide," Beana brings a perspective shaped by years of working with medicine and supporting others through deeply personal experiences. She explores the difference between certification and lived experience, the role of apprenticeship, and the importance of being the one who is held before becoming the one who holds.
These conversations move into the less comfortable, but essential, territory of guideship: power and responsibility, boundaries, projection and transference, nervous system literacy, discernment, and knowing when to intervene and when to get out of the way.
What does it take to hold space with integrity, remain accountable to the people we serve, and stay humble enough to keep learning?

Microdosing Psilocybin & the Power of Slow Medicine
What if microdosing wasn't about doing more, feeling better faster, or finding the perfect protocol, but about learning to listen?
Beana approaches microdosing as a relationship with medicine rather than a productivity hack or quick fix. Her work emphasizes preparation, self-inquiry, seasonal and cyclical practice, and the ongoing work of integration. Drawing on energetic and homeopathic perspectives, she explores what it means to cultivate a thoughtful, sustainable relationship with psilocybin.
A central part of this conversation is learning how to live well off the medicine. How do we recognize what the medicine is revealing, take responsibility for the changes we're being invited to make, and develop trust in our own inner authority rather than becoming dependent on an external substance?

Earth Medicine, Elemental Healing & the Holy Work of a Modern Landwife
What changes when we remember that healing doesn't only happen inside a ceremony, or with a psychedelic in our bodies?
Beana's work is rooted in relationship with the land, the elements, and the everyday practices that sustain a life of service. Building a temple, building a practice, building a business, building a community—and then doing the mundane and devotional work of sweeping the floors and staying in practice with the practice.
These conversations explore place-based practice, land as medicine, elemental healing, reciprocity with the living world, and the relationship between tending the Earth and tending ourselves.
What does it mean to live our spiritual practice, rather than simply have one?

Community-Building, Imagination Farming & Staying Well and Resilient in Service
What does it actually take to build the kinds of communities and culture we want to live within? Beana explores imagination farming, community weaving, and the patient work of tending relationships over time. Topics include ritual and gathering, cultivating belonging without requiring sameness, navigating rupture and repair, and staying human in positions of leadership and service. She speaks to resilience, burnout, and the importance of serving without sacrificing ourselves, while making room for play, pleasure, and creativity as essential parts of a thriving life. At the heart of this conversation is the possibility of creating spaces where people can practice being more authentic, connected, courageous, and fully alive.

The Business of Guideship & Staying in Right Relationship
Late-stage capitalism being what it is… how do we make a living doing sacred work without turning that work into a commodity?
Money, power, access, and reciprocity in healing spaces. Charging for our work without confusing price with value. Building a sustainable practice without exploiting ourselves or the people we serve.
Beana explores the real tensions of making a livelihood from work that asks so much of us: burnout and over-giving, boundaries and responsibility, the complicated relationship between service and compensation, and the importance of keeping your mirror clean.
What does it take to remain accountable to The Work when the work becomes your livelihood?

Beana speaks at symposiums, conferences, trainings, classrooms, gatherings, and festivals and has been featured on many podcasts as well! Interviews, presentations, and trainings are all joyful ways to share her wisdom and we welcome you getting in touch if you’d like to talk.

If you’re looking for a clear and resonant voice from a truly grounded and deeply seasoned practitioner, Beana will bring the disruptive insight, poetic resonance, authentic truth, and honest, lived experience to life for you and your audience.

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About Beana

Over the past decade, I’ve built a world-class mushroom temple, co-authored a best-selling microdosing course, led four years of sold-out immersions as a microdosing mentor, coached thousands of people across the globe on how to reclaim authenticity and restore inner authority, facilitated thousands of hours of psychedelic preparation and integration sessions, facilitated thousands of hours of community gatherings, studied the art and mechanics of living in community, managed a small homestead, and led over a thousand retreats at Rootstock and beyond.

At the core of all my work is this truth: when you’re rooted in your authenticity, you can trust your life, your intuition, and let your life rise up to meet you.

You are your wisest teacher and most reliable guide, and when you choose to live from that deep center of your being, you can live like your life depends on it!

Through my signature Medicine Retreat offering, I've guided more than 850+ people in their work with depression, anxiety, overwhelm, existential dread, OCD, PTSD, fear of death, fear of success, and reclaim their healthy essence, teaching them how to decondition patterns of behavior and reflexes that were instilled during childhood and re-relate to the mundane magic of life in a body on Planet Earth.

Men, women, and trans folks ranging in age from 18-88 from all over the USA and world have made their way to my magical hill in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom to experience the one-of-a-kind magic of Rootstock, the place and temple and homestead that holds, informs, and amplifies the work I offer. Anchored by earth temples, gardens, a wood-fired bathhouse, and the rugged beauty of the Northern forest, the hill is a co-conspirator in all of what I offer.