Come gather around the fire and welcome the lessons of The Grandfather, this sacred land, and your beating heart with Sierra McFeeters of Indigenous Roots Institute.
As we as individuals heal, and become more integrated inside, the outer world reflects this interconnectedness and becomes coherent. There is nothing more important at this time in our history. Wachuma helps release one from the ego represented in the way the head is removed from the cactus to make the medicine. It has also been used to treat depressive symptoms, alcoholism, and mood disorders. Practitioners often report a deep and heightened perception of the world as it truly is. For those struggling to know themselves or understand others, Wachuma presents a unique way to specifically explore your inner psyche and your greater place in the world.
Limited to 15 people.
The Ceremony
Arrival by 5:30pm
Ceremony begins at 6:00pm - To create a container of safety and intention, participants will be on time and will arrive with a clear intention connected to heart opening, healing any health issues, or peering into their shadowy places. Woven into the evening will be ancient songs, guided journeys, and support. There will be traditional drink and chocolate available.
Breakfast & Integration Circle beginning at 8:00am. A light breakfast of coffee/tea and fruit will be provided.
Departure by 11am
Ceremony will be held in the Tipi at Rootstock and guests will have also have access to the Garden Amphitheater. Guests are asked not to head out into the woods or off property during the gathering.
The Medicine
Wachuma is ingested as either a dried powder or a bitter, viscous tea made from the most potent parts of the Wachuma cactus. The effects can take anywhere from 40–90 minutes to begin and last up to 14 hours. There have been no reports of problematic use of Wachuma. You can learn more about the risks and benefits as well as contraindications of the medicine here.
Dieta (Diet)
To prepare to work with the medicine the participants should plan from one month-to two weeks a special dieta or diet. No pork, sex, sugar, caffeine, highly spiced foods including peppers, alcohol, marijuana, MAOI’s or any other medications. Please talk to me if this is an issue. It’s best to eat a simple, Whole Foods diet one month prior.
The Setting
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. 10% of all profits made from participants paying our requested price for this gathering will be donated to Abenaki Helping Abenaki, a 501 c(3) Non-Profit, that provides food and seeds for the tribe.
Rootstock Retreat is an elemental healing sanctuary, community-supported bathhouse in the making and small creative refuge designed for healing, conscious connection and joy. This potent ceremony will take place within Rootstock’s Tipi Temple, high on a hill in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, on the Earth and around a fire.
Participants will be welcome immerse in the healing waters of our garden tubs, cold baths and wood-fired hot tub. Water is a powerful ally when integrating plant medicine journeys and the garden tubs will be available throughout and after the journey.
Registered participants will receive a confirmation email with a link for payment and details on how to prepare for the ceremony.
About Sierra & Indigenous Roots Institute
Sierra Mcfeeters, director of Indigenous Roots Institute has had the great honor and privilege to work with medicine people and plants since around 2000. Traveling to Peru several times and working with the Grandmother and then Grandfather for many years with a female curandera has prepared her for sharing this medicine.
The greatest challenges our world faces at this time say the Elders, is bringing our world into unity and healing our Earth Mother.
As we tend to our own souls, clearing, mending, we restore the coherence of our co-created world.
It’s my greatest joy and service to share these ancient ways, that are effective and in the highest integrity.
I’ve traveled the path of midwife, Lightworker, Reiki Master Teacher, Shamanic educator, pipe carrier, lodge keeper and the founder/ director of Indigenous Roots.
At Indigenous Roots we provide sanctuary and safety for guests going though deep transformation, by first practicing sound Earth stewardship, responsibility and reciprocity with the gentle land and beings that support the work. We also practice reciprocity with the Abenaki people who inhabited these lands first, and were forcibly removed.
From this relationship of respect, we welcome guests who seek solitude to enter a death phase. This death can be metaphorical or literal. We nurture true solitude without diversion, but with access to ceremony, various forms of healing, and with seasoned helpers.
Solitudo is Latin for nature. In true solitude, you remember yourself back home, and just a part of everything, a part of nature. You rediscover ease, flexibility, inspiration, belonging, and wisdom in your own company, and therefore the community, and how you belong to the earth.