The Medicine Retreat with Beana is a one-of-a-kind healing immersion designed to help you reclaim your sovereignty, your truth, your authenticity and your power.  This potent healing modality isn’t for everybody – it’s intense and challenging – but it could be for you if you are ready to take responsibility for your joy and wellbeing and are ready to live before you die.  Medicine work at Rootstock is not recreational. This deep, therapeutic work is for people serious about healing themselves, their lineage, and their relationship to the Earth and all beings.  A medicine retreat at Rootstock can truly change the trajectory of your life and, with that, all life on Earth.

The healing that happens in this sacred container can be intense, unexpected, challenging, ecstatic, beautiful, uncomfortable, exhausting, confronting, funny, confusing and, if you’re committed to integrating your experience, it can be life changing. Beana has been working with psychedelics deeply and personally for over 30 years and has been in service as a guide inside the medicine retreat since 2018.  She brings deeply grounded experience and radical authenticity to create an experience like none other.

Together, we’ll co-create a sacred container filled with deep presence, plant medicine, sacred land, sound, elemental healing, medicinal food, music, mystery, and intention. Together we’ll look carefully into our hearts and minds and welcome with radical honesty the truth that dwells there.

Day 1

• 4:30 – 5:30pm – Arrival & nesting.  Guests should arrive fed or bring dinner to eat upon arrival. Snacks will be available too.
• 6:00pm – Introductions & grounding
• 6:15-8:15pm – Preparation session and Q&A
• 8:15pm – on – Optional: Homework assignment divining with tarot cards

Day 2

• 8:00-9:30am – Hearty breakfast & morning check-n
• 9:30am -11:30am Free Time for Journaling, Meditation, Intention Setting & exploring the land.
• 11:30am-5:30pm – Guided Journey Work
• 5:30pm-8:30pm – Simple Supper & Elemental Healing in wood-fired hot tub
• 8:30pm – Rest, journal, & sleep

Day 3

• 8:00am-10:00am – Breakfast & Integration Session
• 10:00-10:30am – Free time to pack up and prepare for departure
• 10:30am-11:00am – Closing Ceremony

Medicine Retreats 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. We recommend tapering off of all non-essential medications 4 weeks prior to arrival for the best results.  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 transformation. This potent ceremony will take place within Rootstock’s Log Cabin or the Belly, a 30′ yurt that stands high on the hill.  The profound healing that has been taking place here since 2016 reverberates throughout the whole place and you’ll feel it when you arrive.  This hill wants to help you heal and it will.

Rootstock is well-appointed and accessible but also quite rustic and rugged.  Guests are invited to let the weather touch them and to experience the place in all seasons.