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“And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” Rumi

Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living is a profoundly impactful and transformative microdosing protocol that provides individuals looking for healing a well worn path to wander. This three month curriculum empowers anybody looking to microdose psilocybin a guide, framework, and community to do so effectively, respectfully, and authentically.

Join Beana Bern for this intensive immersion into the Medicine of the North, the Medicine of the Earth, and the Medicine of Yourself and come navigate this winter in a new way.

“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,

and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,

and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”

Wendell Berry

Winter can be a very challenging time of year. Dark days, cold nights, and the desaturated landscape can stir up feelings of deep melancholy, stuckness, and even fear. The fallow time of the year can feel claustrophobic for some and isolating for others and, though it’s challenging, it is also essential for life to bloom again in Spring.

The contraction that follows the expansion, Winter is the exhale to Summer’s inhale.

It draws us in, close to ourselves and one another, asks us to hibernate - maybe even fast - and applies the pressure of ice, wind, snow, cold, darkness, and hardness to help us soften, surrender, and ultimately grow stronger and more resilient as people.

Whether you live in the North Country or even the Northern Hemisphere, in a rural or urban landscape, winter is a season that comes for all of us and learning how to winter is essential to learning how to live.

 

Why Earth Medicine?

The 21st Century on Planet Earth is an intense place to be. The single serving, plastic-wrapped, convenience culture of ‘pop this pill and feel better’ has revealed its limitations and both doctors and their patients are coming into consciousness about the limitations of pharmaceuticals and our Western medical industrial complex. People all over the world are looking for relief and new paradigms for healing and the organic intelligence of psilocybin is among many sacred Earth Medicines that has revealed it’s potential for helping humanity.

Studies are happening all over the world revealing over and over again the efficacy of psilocybin to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, OCD, eating disorders, and more. Though still illegal on a Federal level, legalization and decriminalization efforts for psilocybin are happening rapidly and successfully around the country, with 9 cities decriminalized, one state legalized, and many more bills in legislatures across the US, including in the brave little state of Vermont.

The organic, adaptogenic, and mysterious nature of mushroom medicine is radically safe, non-addictive, has little or no side effects, and is incredibly impactful if worked with in a good way.

"Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled after another goes down the hill a small number of main trails will appear in the snow. And every time a new sled goes down, it will be drawn into preexisting trails, almost like a magnet. In time it becomes more and more difficult to glide down the hill on any other path or in a different direction. Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the sled can go in other directions, exploring new landscapes and, literally, creating new pathways."

-Mendel Kaelen, Dutch postdoc in the Imperial lab

 

What’s a ‘good way’ to work with Earth Medicine?

While many are making leaps and bounds with the support of entheogens, the unfortunate reality is that some practitioners and protocols are still working with this medicine in a colonizing and extractive way. The promise of ‘effortless healing’ or ‘a miracle cure’ deny the truth of what the mushrooms require and deliver.

Working with Earth Medicine in a ‘good way’ means in a reciprocal, reverent, and honest way. It means giving as much to the medicine as you ask of it. It means learning how to live well off the medicine too.

Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living is a curriculum that was born out of years of deep, sacred practice with the Mushroom Teachers and a deeply elemental life on this spinning jewel in outer space.

This practice calls us into awareness that this medicine is not here to make us better; instead, it opens a portal that, if we walk through and keep walking, can help bring us back into balance and wholeness.

This one-of-a-kind container is both protocol and practice. Inside you’ll learn how to:

  • Calibrate dosage & frequency and develop your own intuitive microdosing practice

  • Differentiate intention from expectations and learn to discern intuition from external conditioning

  • Work energetically with the mushrooms, elements, and the medicine of Winter

  • Integrate experiences you have on the medicine into your life off the medicine

  • Hold space for community on the medicine path

“We are now fully engaged in the Sixth Major Extinction (“6 X”) on planet Earth. Our biosphere is quickly changing, eroding the life support systems that have allowed humans to ascend. Unless we put into action policies and technologies that can cause a course correction in the very near future, species diversity will continue to plummet, with humans not only being the primary cause, but one of the victims. What can we do? Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer some powerful, practical solutions, which can be put into practice now.”  

- Paul Stamets

Opening ourselves up to the lessons that the mushrooms and the Earth have to teach us requires that we widen the aperture of our awareness to the world around and within us. This three month curriculum is a wonderful way to relearn, remember, reclaim, and revive your deep knowing and capacity to live well.

What’s Included:

  • Lifetime access to the course curriculum including workbook and supplies

  • 1x - 30min Intake Call

  • 2x - 90min Kick-Off and Harvest Call to open & close the container

  • 3x - 90min Transmission Call and Q&A with Beana to kick off each month

  • 7x - 90min Weekly Group Coaching Video Call

  • 1 x - Full Day Elemental Winter Retreat at Rootstock

  • Private Signal Chat for the Group

  • Downloadable Course Workbook

  • Priority booking for 1-on-1 Coaching Calls with Beana

  • Preferred booking for a 2026 Medicine Retreat @ Rootstock

  • ***EVERYTHING*** you need for the full 3 month microdosing protocol

Investment in the Winter Wander:

The transmissions, transformation, and connections you will forge inside this container are truly priceless. You have the opportunity to change your relationship to winter, to your longing, and to your life. The direct access to Beana alone would cost a lot if you did this work one-on-one and, in addition to Beana’s support, you’ll gain a Sangha (community) of new friends and companions to walk your healing path with you.

The Medicine of the North Cohort kicks off on 12/17/25, and then meets weekly every Wednesday beginning 1/7/26. The course is limited to 11 people.

The cost is $2,555 per person paid in full

Course Schedule

Calls happen in the Kajabi community and will be held from 7:00-8:30pm EST. Students of the course are expected to attend at least 2 group calls monthly to ensure cohesion and connection of the container. Additional coursework, reading, journaling, and practices will be invited daily, weekly, and monthly as well. The additional weekly coaching calls and full-day Winter Retreat at Rootstock are optional and here for your support and joy.

  • Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 - Kick-Off Call & Opening Ceremony

  • Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026 - Month 1, Week 1 - Transmission and Q&A (Begin microdosing!)

  • Wednesday, Jan 14 - Month 1, Week 2- Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Jan 21 - Month 1, Week 3- Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Jan 28 - Month 1, Week 4- Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Feb 4 - Month 2, Week 1 - Transmission and Q&A

  • Wednesday, Feb 11 - Month 2, Week 2- Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Feb 18 - Month 2, Week 3 - Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Feb 25- Month 2, Week 4 - Group Coaching Call

  • Wednesday, Mar 4 - Month 3, Weeks 1 & 2 - Transmission and Q&A

  • Wednesday, Mar 11 - Month 3, Week 3 & 4- Group Coaching Call

  • Sunday, March 15th - Elemental Winter Microdosing Retreat @ Rootstock (10am-4pm)

  • Wednesday, Mar 18 - Harvest & Closing Ceremony

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    Accepted enrollment in the course will grant you: Full, lifetime access to Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living which includes over 100-hours of self-guided online learning, worksheets, somatic exercises, and journal prompts; Weekly Transmission calls with Beana to diver deeper into the material and the moment; priority booking for 1-on-1 coaching calls with Beana to navigate questions and get support; Live-group support and community connection in a private online community with Beana and group participants; and a full-day elemental winter retreat at Rootstock to connect, break bread, and inhabit winter and our practice together.

About Your Guide

BEANA BERN

Beana Bern is the founder of Rootstock Retreat, a self-certified psychedelic guide, and the co-creator of the revolutionary microdosing course Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice for Whole Living. With over 25 years of personal psychedelic experience and over 6 serving as a guide in a therapeutic setting, Beana has come to understand some fundamental truths about healing with mushroom medicine and, in collaboration with Juliana Rose Goldstone, has compiled them into a powerful seasonal protocol.

Beana holds sacred space and is a grounded and steady guide into the mysterious realm of psychedelic healing. Her weekly transmissions will combine ceremony, ritual, somatic practice, and intuitive facilitation of the group to weave a sturdy container for individual and group transformation.

Learn more about Beana

Elemental Winter Retreat at Rootstock

There’s nothing quite like winter on Beach Hill and, though participants in this course will benefit from the wisdom of this place via its Land Wife and Steward, Beana, they will also have an opportunity to come and touch it! This retreat occurs in the 3rd month of the protocol, the Intuitive Practice component, and will provide an opportunity to microdose in community. Here’s a sample agenda for the retreat:

Sunday, March 15th, 2026

  • 9:30am-10am - Arrival at Rootstock

  • 10am-12:00pm - Opening circle in the Belly

  • 12:00pm-1:00pm - Potluck Lunch & Toasts to Winter

  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Winter wander to the Dragon Rock

  • 2:00pm-4:00pm - Winter wood-fired bathhouse & elemental healing in The Oasis

  • 4:00pm-5:00pm - Guest departure

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Microdosing psilocybin is legal in some places, decriminalized in others, and not yet in still others. Depending on your locality the answer may vary. Though there is some legal risk that must be acknowledged, many people are undeterred and willing to accept some low-moderate risk in order to heal. It’s a deeply personal decision and you should trust your judgement on whether you feel up to this sacred work.

  • As you’ll learn inside the course, the more you give to this practice the more you will receive from it. That said, we expect that students will commit to participating in at least 2 of the 4 monthly 90min zooms for the full duration of the course and will devote another 5-20min daily for the practice.

  • If you decide to join the day long Retreat at Rootstock you will be responsible for travel expenses to/from the hill as well as any accommodations you may book around that gathering. If you’d like to drop in one-on-one with Beana for a 30 or 60min coaching call, those calls are not included in the price of the course and will need to be paid for separately. Sourcing of the medicine for this course is something you will also be responsible for and, inside the course, we can offer coaching on ethical procurement and/or self-cultivation.

  • The self-guided curriculum of the microdosing protocol is hosted on a platform called Podia. You’ll receive a coupon when you enroll that will grant you access to the course. The weekly Transmissions and Coaching calls will happen in Zoom and you’ll be provided with a link to access those upon enrollment. Students will also be invited into a private Signal chat where we’ll have safe space to connect outside of regular course time.

  • $2,222/person for the guided 3 month journey, ~$160 for supplies depending on your source or farmer, plus travel expenses to and from Rootstock for the retreat bring the total investment for this 3 month experience to approximately $2,500.

    The value of the day long elemental retreat alone is $1,111, the deep access to Beana is substantial as well, and the full value of these collected offers is over $4,000.

  • Once enrolled in the course, no refunds will be provided. If, after some time, you determine that this curriculum is not for you, you will retain lifetime access to the course material to revisit at another time if needed.

    Take care to check your resolve, calendar, and resources to ensure your readiness and commitment to this course prior to enrolling.

  • Once inside the course, students will be informed about the Spring/Summer retreat schedule before the greater Rootstock waitlist. Students will have a window of time to book if they desire. Booking of a Medicine Retreat is not included in the price of this course and will need to registered for and paid for separately.