More about Plant Medicine Retreats

Preparation, Set, Setting, Dosage and Integration anchor every medicine retreat at Rootstock. Tending those 5 pillars with the utmost care and consciousness ensures an experience that is safe and secure and consistently impactful. Our practice marries the format of the mainstream therapeutic setting (lay on a comfy couch, cover your eyes, listen to a curated soundtrack, go inward supported by an experienced guide) with the grounding and expansive container of prayer, nature, and spirit. This means that every retreat is anchored in ceremony, incorporating the elements (fire, earth, air, water) and in conversation with the medicine, the ancestors, and the YOUniverse.

• The format is place-based, ceremonial and therapeutic. Our unique and beautiful healing sanctuary provides an optimal setting to explore your inner landscape and come home to yourself while held by a wild and beautiful hillside, enchanted forest, and imagination farm. Though you’ll immerse in the elements before and after your ceremony, the medicine work happens in a stationary, internal way with eyes closed and the ears in your heart open.

• An experienced and compassionate guide supports you through the whole process from preparation through to integrating your experience and remains present and supportive to you throughout your whole time here. Beana has deep experience holding herself and others and it’s her most sacred privilege to support you to navigate this experience with compassion, grace, clarity, courage, and humor. She has sat for over 5000 hours of therapeutic sessions (and counting) and supported many hundreds of humans to navigate this experience with safety, sweetness, and consistent results.

• Retreats last 36 hours and include one medicine journey, one preparation session, and one integration session. Guests are expected to stay for the duration. The more time you have able to set aside for this experience, the richer it will be. Ample time for preparation, experience and integration invite deepening awareness, authentic connection and lay a foundation for a nourishing unfolding long after the retreat ends. Guests unplug from their phones and timepieces while they are here and immerse in the experience.

• Guests are required to do one Preparation Session to ensure readiness (3-8 weeks prior to arrival) and are also provided with access to our Preparation Portal which is filled with resources, questions and contemplation to begin to prepare for your experience. Ample preparation is prioritized since it greatly impacts your experience.

• Guests are supported to distill an intention for the session and to speak that inside the ceremony. Your mindset leading up to the experience, your ‘Why?!’ is essential to guide you through the experience and effort is made to help you find the words and deep feelings that you want to address here. Intentions may shift greatly from the time you book until when you arrive into ceremony and that’s part of the process. Guests will learn to discern expectations from intentions.

• Medicinal music is carefully curated for your retreat and tailored to your unique experience. Our high quality sound system and powerful soundtracks are an important part of the medicine we provide. We give this playlist to our guests upon their departure to support integration and continued exploration. The music is profoundly important and something we curate and provide.

• Nourishing, local, organic food is served with love. Food is also medicine and an important part of the experience here. Guests receive breakfast on the morning of the journey, luscious snacks that evening, a simple supper that night and breakfast the following morning. Food preferences and allergies will be accommodated and guests are also welcome to bring snacks if they choose to.

• Our wood-fired hot tub is a deeply nourishing way to end your journey and start to integrate your experience. We call this Elemental Healing and it’s a powerful tool to bring you back into your body, to open your heart, to weave you into the web of life, and easy your weary body. *Please note that this is subject to weather & availability so please communicate if this is important for you.

• Dosage of the sacred plant, fungus and/or mineral medicine is determined upon your arrival and with your empowered agency. Guests are under no obligation to imbibe any medicine while they are here. We clarify details, potency, contraindications, and the ecological or cultural context of the herbal/mushroom/crystal medicine(s) you’ll be working with.

• An Integration Session happens prior to your departure and you leave your experience with tangible tools to help support you after the retreat is over. Comprehensive discussion, techniques, support and a suggested protocol for your first 7-14 days of integration. Guests are strongly encouraged to take the 2 weeks following the experience seriously and clear their schedules and make space to work with the experience.