Medicine Work

Finding our way to wholeness, meaning, and connection can be challenging or seemingly impossible in today’s paradigm. Modern medicine, talk therapy, anti-depressants, and SSRI’s simply mask a deep and swirling reality. We are being called upon to find new ways to make ourselves well and make the meaning we seek.

Medicine work with Rootstock Retreat can support individuals to feel their feelings, reclaim their intuition, and transcend their limited imagination of what’s possible for themselves and this world. It’s not an exaggeration to say that medicine work with Rootstock can change the trajectory of your life and, with that, all life on Earth. When you heal yourself you heal the World.

This work is ideal for people looking for support and empowerment in their healing, renewal, and reconnection, and for folks who seek to live meaningful lives. Medicine work can potentially support individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, terminal illness, "stuckness," relationship issues, writers block, unmetabolized grief, midlife transitions, ancestral and epigenetic trauma, idea generation, OCD, addiction, fear dissolution, mortality angst, as well as the existential grief and fear that comes with being on Earth in the 21st Century.

Beana has been in practice for many years now and with thousands and thousands and thousands of hours in service and many, many, many hundreds of people supported, she has learned some essential things to ensure that medicine work does no harm, is held with integrity, and has consistent impact. Her way of holding this medicine is honest, transparent, and deeply potent. Whether you meander onto the medicine path via her microdosing immersions or self-guided course or start with a guided retreat at Rootstock, you can trust that you are going to be held with deep care, safety, and results.

Which path is right for you?

Rootstock offers a variety of pathways to heal with the support of plant medicine. Explore the possibilities and be sure to join the Discovery Zoom to learn more about our offerings, meet Beana, and get your questions answered.

Something essential for you to understand about all of our offerings is that they all require time, effort, patience, humility, and a lot of self-compassion. None of these offerings is going to reinvent you without your participation. The mainstream media wants to sell the idea that psychedelic healing is a ‘miracle cure’ or ‘silver bullet’ but, rest assured, it isn’t. Healing can only move at the pace that it can move at and, though miracles abound at Rootstock and we help people of all types find their way back to themselves, it takes effort.

Read on to learn more about the ways we can support you… then, bring your questions to the Discovery Zoom.

Our Winter Microdosing Immersion is full but hop on the waitlist for the Spring session and look forward to our upcoming sessions!

About Your Guide

Beana is a not a doctor, therapist or licensed clinician. She is a Self-Certified Psychedelic Guide with:

• 30 years experience exploring psychedelics - 24 outside of a therapeutic setting, 6 inside the therapeutic settings

• 5000+ hours of time guiding therapeutic psilocybin sessions and more than double that time doing preparation and integration support

• Deep personal experience with psychotherapy, various modalities of talk therapy, and myriad other mainstream and esoteric healing modalities and systems

• Deep personal experience with AlAnon, AA, CoDA and NarAnon

• A year-long Shamanic Apprenticeship where she studied ceremony, journey work, the Medicine Wheel and other teachings from the Earth-based peoples

• A 200 hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training where she studied the power of breath, meditation, movement, mantra and the creative impulse

• A 2 week Ayahuasca Seminar at WasiWaska with Luis Eduardo Luna, Dr. Bill Richards and other thought leaders providing a deep dive into non-clinical therapeutic settings, preparation, ethnobotany, Holotropic Breathwork, Jungian analysis, integration and ethnomusicology.

• More than a decade of self-study in regenerative agriculture, community building, gardening, herbalism, and homesteading

• A BA in Economics and Philosophy from the City University of New York and over 20 years experience as a conventional, executive-level human trying to make meaning and add value in this body and on this planet

Her approach to the medicine is reverent, non-dogmatic, pragmatic, and transformative. Her trauma-informed staff and inspiring imagination farm will create a container for you that is safe, sturdy, beautiful, utterly unique, and effective so you can do the hard work of feeling and healing yourself.

But wait, there’s more…

No matter where you are on your healing journey, Rootstock has an offering here to support your becoming! Walking the ‘Medicine Path’ is not easy. It is not a short cut or a silver bullet. It is a hard and sometimes lonely journey into self, other, wholeness, and nature. No matter how you engage in your healing with us, you will come to completely reimagine your understanding of what medicine is and how to self-medicate responsibly.

It should be known that, although Medicine Work is the heartbeat of this hill and its Chief Imagination Farmer, Beana Bern, a great deal of healing and transformation happens here without plant medicine.

• Elemental Healing in The Oasis - Come visit our wood-fired bathhouse for an incredible experience with rustic hydrotherapy, ritual baths, and herbal spa offerings. This potent medicine is great for relaxation, inflammation, down-regulating the sympathetic nervous system, and coming back into your body and into nature.

• Community Circles - Come remember how to human in our monthly community gatherings for men, women, and people. Break bread, sing songs, enjoy rituals fireside with conscious community.

• Truth & Vision Consulting - Book a 30min or 60min session with Beana to get some deeply guided insight on your life, your vision, your truth, and your options. These intuitive coaching sessions are here to support you with navigating your path to your destiny.

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