MEDICINE RETREATs
Therapeutic, guided plant medicine retreats for individuals and small groups for personal healing, ancestral healing & Earth healing.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that a medicine retreat at Rootstock can change the trajectory of your life and, with that, all life on Earth. When you heal yourself you heal the World. A magic kind of alchemy occurs when people, place, music, food, fire, plant medicine, intention, ceremony and deep presence combine. The safety and comfort you’ll experience inside a medicine retreat at Rootstock is beyond compare. With over 30 years experience with psychedelics and 6+ years sharing our unique and impactful format at Rootstock, we’ve guided many, many hundreds of people back to their center and back to themselves.
This experience is ideal for people looking for some healing, inspiration, connection, renewal or meaning in their lives. We have supported guests suffering with PTSD, CTPSD, anxiety, depression, terminal illness, "stuckness," couples work, writers block, veterans, addicts, unmetabolized grief, midlife transitions, ancestral healing, idea generation for entrepreneurs, fear of mortality, OCD, eating disorders, as well as some curious folks who read Michael Pollan’s book and wanted to simply explore some transformational Earth Medicine.
Join the Discovery Zoom
Join our biweekly Discovery Zoom. Here you'll learn all about our ethos, format & story and get all your questions answered. Come meet Beana and get all your questions answered!
Book a Preparation Call
If you resonate with what you hear in the Zoom, next step is to schedule a 60-min Preparation Session and tell us all about you. Your story, your hopes & intentions. If we both agree that our work can support you on you’re healing journey, you'll be guided onto the path that makes the most sense.
Access the booking portal
Booking for Medicine Retreats and Microdosing Immersions opens up 4x yearly and is first come, first serve. Guests wait between 3-12 months for a Medicine Retreat at Rootstock but don't let this discourage you, if you're meant to be here you will come. Folks are welcome to join waitlists for retreat and immersions in the event of cancellations and will be informed via email about new chances to book as they become available.
Register & Begin Preparation
Registered guests receive access to our Preparation Portal and all the details they need to make the most of the experience.
For those of us that live close to the Earth, we know that the plants, fungus, mist, animals, rocks, moss and elements are medicine. We know they’re teachers. We know that they are family, connected to us, dependent on us, and healers of us. Taking the time to really be with nature is the most powerful medicine there is but our busy, broken world doesn’t afford that ‘luxury’ and too many people are living disconnected from what makes us whole and human.
Finding our way back to wholeness, meaning and connection can be challenging or seemingly impossible. It’s up to each of us alive today to cultivate the strength, courage and creativity to embody our best selves, discover our creative destiny and then serve ourselves and our communities from an authentic and heart-centered place. There’s a shift occurring and people are seeking support from the fungus, plant and mineral kingdoms to transcend their limited imagination of what’s possible for themselves and this world and it’s urgently important work and profoundly beautiful to support, witness and hold space for.
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.
Investment in your healing & evolution
Valuing this priceless experience is difficult as you’ll come to understand once you journey here. It’s an intense, comprehensive and utterly unique healing experience and one that you’ll remember for a lifetime. Exquisite care is taken to ensure your safety and comfort are tended so you can do the courageous work of healing yourself.
All journeys require a non-refundable deposit of $250 to hold the dates and full payment 30 days prior to arrival. The price is all-inclusive and covers preparation, medicine, our extraordinary setting, cozy accommodations, organic, local food, ceremony, elemental healing in our wood-fired bathhouse, a deeply experienced and present guide for the duration of your time here and powerful integration support following your retreat. This is an experience that will continue to unfold for days, months and years after you’ve left the hill.
36 Hour Individual Retreat - $2500/person
Couples - $2000/person
Up to 4 people - $1750/person
Up to 10 people - $1500/person
Payment plans are available by request and the Rootstock Medicine Fund also helps to provide scholarships to folks needing some support to access the experience. Refunds are non-refundable and payment in full is required 30 days prior to your arrival. Guests may shift/change their retreat one time if emergencies occur or sickness happens before losing their deposit and needing to book again fresh.
We want this powerful healing modality to be accessible to any and all that need it. Apply for a scholarship here if accessing this work feels inaccessible and please still get in touch! We want to hear from you if you believe that you’d benefit from this experience regardless of your ability to pay the full price.
The Retreat includes:
1x - 1 hour Preparation Session in the months & weeks before you arrive
Access to Rootstock’s Preparation Portal upon registration
1x - 90min Preparation Session with Beana the night prior to your journey
2x - Two nights accommodations in one of Rootstock’s beautiful on/off-grid nests
Access to the Rootstock’s sacred spaces including the Temple at Dragon Rock & Tipi
1x - Guided Mushroom Ceremony
1X - Custom curated playlist for you
3x - Nourishing Organic Homemade Meals
1x - Closing Ceremony
1X - 2 hour Integration Session with Beana the morning of your departure
Fully present, nurturing support from the time you arrive to the time you depart.
Guests wanting a little extra attention can add on a therapeutic massage to their retreat. These beautiful offerings are subject to availability and can deepen your experience in meaningful ways.
Booking Your Retreat
First, book a private consult or drop into the Discovery Zoom to see if our format and approach resonate with you. If, following this consult you feel compelled to work with us, then…
Schedule a one hour Preparation Session to get deeper into your intention, medications you’re taking, desired outcome from the experience, etc and allow for more opportunity to connect with Beana and see if this is a useful format for you.
Following that one-on-one session, if we both agree that a retreat here is in service to your journey, you’ll be provided with a link to the booking portal and will gain access to available dates. Guests may wait an average of 1-6 months for an opening at Rootstock.
Registered retreat guests will be required to do one more 1 hour Preparation Session (included in the price of the retreat) prior to arriving on site via phone or Zoom and to read through a Preparation Portal and certify that they read and understand the information provided.
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Integration is where the healing happens.
Join a monthly Zoom to share your experience and get some guidance and support on how to work with it and live into the healing, off of the medicine.