A medicine retreat at Rootstock can change the trajectory of your life and that of all of your descendants. If you’re serious about reclaiming your sovereignty, your truth, your authenticity and your power, this potent healing modality could be for you.

This deep work is for people who are serious about healing themselves, their lineage and their relationship to the Earth and all beings.  Medicine work at Rootstock is not recreational.

The healing that happens in this sacred container can be intense, unexpected, challenging, ecstatic, beautiful and life changing. Together, we’ll co-create a sacred container filled with deep presence, plant medicine, sacred land, sound, elemental healing, medicinal food and careful intention. Together we’ll look carefully into our hearts and minds and welcome with radical honesty and truth that dwells there.

This Group Retreat is designed to hold space for 10 Medicine of the North participants to come together to heal in community.  If spaces remain open, we may invite in other participants to share the experience.  

This format requires sharing, listening, and welcoming the alchemy and mystery of humanity and togetherness into the experience.   In addition to participation in Medicine of the North, all registrants are required to do a one hour preparation session at least one month before arrival.

Retreats require 36 hours to allow for ample time for grounding, preparation, journey space and integration prior to departure and guests are expected to stay on site for the full duration of the experience.  These retreats are all-inclusive and come with the deep, loving presence of an experienced and intuitive guide, cozy accommodations, high vibrational organic food, plant medicine for ceremony, potent, medicinal music and lots of other magic details. Participants are encouraged to unplug from technology for the duration of their stay and, when possible, to take 1-2 days of rest prior to diving back into work and life.

A Group Medicine Retreat includes:

• 2 Nights Rustic Accommodations
• 3 Organic, home-cooked meals
• 1 – 90min Group Preparation Session
• 1 – 8 hour Guided Group Medicine Journey
• 1 night access to The Oasis Wood-fired Bathhouse
• 1 – 90min Group Integration Session
• 1 – Custom-for-you curated Spotify playlist

Guests can upgrade accommodations, add on extra nights before or after the retreat, add on extra access to The Oasis, and book add-on sessions with massage, energy healing, sound healing, and more.

Day 1

• 4:30 – 5:30pm – Arrival
• 6:00pm – Introductions & Grounding
• 6:30-8:30pm – Preparation Session and Q&A

Day 2

• 8:00-9:00am – Hearty Breakfast & Morning Preparation
• 9:00-11:00am – Free Time for Journaling, Meditation, Intention Setting.
• 11:00am-6:00pm – Guided Journey Work
• 6:00pm-8:00pm – Elemental Healing in The Oasis, wood-fired bathhhouse
• 8:00-9:00pm – Supper and Processing

Day 3

• 8:00am-10:00am – Breakfast & Integration Session
• 10:30am-11:00am – Closing Ceremony

Medicine Journey’s at Rootstock are all unique reflections of the people that participate in them, the quality of the light on the journey day, the bird songs, blooming flowers, music, and food. ALCHEMY is what makes these experiences transformational and the vulnerability and openness of the guests that attend. Though we will work with many varieties of plant, mineral, music, food and elemental medicine throughout this experience, mushroom medicine will guide your journey work.

This medicine is very safe and only contraindicated with SSRI’s so folks currently on these medications that wish to participate will need to work with their therapist directly to ensure readiness. No special diet is required to prepare though taking good care of your body leading up to this kind of deep work is beneficial.

Medicine is shared in its raw, natural form.  The choice not to disguise it in chocolate or another form is intentional and guided by respect for the medicine and the process guests here undergo.  The more we can accept the truth of things and the less we need to hide from or distract ourselves from What Is the more capable we will be as a species to find our way back to being in right relationship with the Earth and all beings.

West Glover, Vermont was chartered in 1783, though the Nulhegan Tribe, The Memphremagog Band, and the Northern Cowasuk Indians have lived here – N’DAKINNA (Our Land) – from time beyond memory.

Rootstock Retreat is an elemental healing sanctuary, rustic bathhouse and small creative refuge designed for healing, conscious connection and joy. This potent ceremony will take place within Rootstock’s Log Cabin or Tipi Temple, high on a hill in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, on the Earth and around a fire.