“We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.” 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 East, the Medicine of the Earth, and the Medicine of Yourself and come navigate Spring intentionally.

Spring can be a very electric time of year. The snow melts, the land softens, the seeds sink deep, the sap rises, and the urgency to CREATE! GROW! SING! infuses the world.

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

It draws us out, back into the gardens, the gatherings, and our communities. Spring asks something of us. It births us into a new season of growth and becoming and it’s a powerful time to be discerning, intentional, and rooted.

Navigating the Medicine of the East is exciting, energizing, and playful work and, though it’s not without challenge or pressure, this time of year is a ripe time for sowing the seeds that we most want to see grow.

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 Spring

• 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

• 14x - 90min Weekly Transmission with Beana

• 1 x - Full Day Elemental Spring 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 2025 Small Group Medicine Retreat @ Rootstock

Investment in the Spring Meander:

The transmissions, transformation, and connections you will forge inside this container are truly priceless. You have the opportunity to change your relationship to spring, 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.

Microdosing Earth Medicine Spring Cohort runs during April, May, and June, and meets weekly every Tuesday in Zoom. The course is limited to 15 people.

The cost is $2,222 per person paid in full

Spring Dates coming soon

Calls happen via Zoom and will be held on Tuesdays 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 Elemental Retreat at Rootstock are optional and here for your support and joy.

• Tuesday, March 19 - Kick-Off Call & Opening Ceremony

• Tuesday, April 2 - Month 1, Week 1

• Tuesday, April 9 - Month 1, Week 2

• Tuesday, April 16 - Month 1, Week 3

• Tuesday, April 23 - Month 1, Week 4

• Tuesday, April 30 - Month 2, Week 1

• Tuesday, May 7 - Month 2, Week 2

• Tuesday, May 14 - Month 2, Week 3 [prerecorded session, no Zoom]

• Tuesday, May 21 - Month 2, Week 4

• Tuesday, May 28 - Month 3, Week 1

• Sunday, June 2nd - Elemental Spring Microdosing Retreat @ Rootstock (10am-4pm)

• Tuesday, June 4 - Month 3, Week 2

• Tuesday, June 11 - Month 3, Week 3

• Tuesday, June 18 - Month 3, Week 4

• Tuesday, June 25 - 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; Access to a Community Coaching thread in Signal with Beana to navigate questions, get support, and commune with other students in the course; and a full-day elemental spring retreat at Rootstock to connect, break bread, and inhabit spring and our practice together.

Elemental Spring Retreat at Rootstock

There’s nothing quite like spring at Rootstock and, though participants in this course will benefit from the wisdom of this place via its Land Wife and Chief Imagination Farmer, 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, June 2, 2024

• 9-10am - Arrival at Rootstock

• 10am - Opening circle & intention setting

• 11:30am - Spring wander to the Dragon Rock

• 1:00pm - Potluck Lunch & Toasts to Spring

• 2:00pm - Wildflower Planting & Garden Party

• 3:00pm - Spring Wood-Fired Bathhouse & elemental healing in The Oasis

• 4:30pm - Closing circle

• 5:00pm - Guest departures

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