Learn to intuitively and effectively microdose psilocybin to leverage the ‘medicine of the moment’ and reclaim your presence, your wholeness, and your relationship to life.
Life on Earth in the 21st century is challenging and getting harder by the day. There is immense pressure building with the state of the environment, world politics, and the growing disfunction of our culture. Modern medicine has limits to how it can help. Talk therapy does as well. In the deep, soft center of more and more people there is an unquenchable thirst for something different and something better to help soothe the soul and reinstate a sense of wellbeing, health, and joy. Finding our way out of the maze of our soul sick modern culture and back into relationship with our bodies, nature, community, spirit, and possibility can feel impossible but it isn’t.
Psychedelic healing is alive in our collective consciousness right now. There’s a lot of hype and hope about how these molecules and medicines can help save us. More and more offerings and coaches are arriving onto the scene daily to tell you how to do it and to try and point the way and, though it’s ultimately positive that this medicine is finding traction in mainstream culture, there are limits and pitfalls to trying to fit this miraculous medicine into the obsolete framework of the western medical model. Many protocols and programs are missing some of the most essential and potent aspects of how to work with this medicine effectively for the long haul and these seasonal immersions are here to bridge that gap and teach you how to work with this medicine.
Beana Bern has been in relationship with mushrooms for over three decades and has been a dedicated servant to them professionally for seven years in her therapeutic practice at Rootstock. Her work with this medicine is unparalleled, (w)holistic, impactful, and designed to empower you to create an authentic relationship with psilocybin yourself and create your own intuitive practice. This is a simple, honest, effective, and beautiful path to learn, heal, and grow with this medicine.
Whatever is happening in the world around us, whether that be rain, snow, war, famine, cold, heat, chaos, or calm it’s alive in our bodies and psyches as well. As without, so within. The seasons guide what’s possible at any given time and, when we come into deep relationship with the elemental truth of this turning, we come into relationship with ourselves and re-learn how to be in the world.
Mushroom medicine doesn’t speak human. It doesn’t speak logic or rationality or English. It communicates through a language of nature, of spirit, of somatics, of alchemy, and of magic. Marrying your microdosing practice with the medicine of the moment is a useful and effective framework to ‘bring the medicine home’ and genuinely heal yourself, your community, and the world.
Sowing seeds when the Earth is frozen and fallow goes against all the forces in nature. Trying to harvest fruit before the berries are ripe is also unsatisfying. Learning how to turn with the seasons outside of us empowers us to learn how to turn with the seasons inside of us. The seasons of our days, of our years, and of our lives.
Each immersion folds the same practice into a three month container immersing into Winter through the Medicine of the North, rising into Spring through the Medicine of the East, growing in Summer through the Medicine of the South, and falling into Autumn through the Medicine of the West.
Medicine of the North dives deep into the energetics of winter, darkness, shadows, midnight, contraction, and cold. Introspection, hibernation, rest, and reflection are central to this lap.
Medicine of the East rises with the Sun and explores springtime, birth, emergence, innocence, play and beginnings. Tapping energetic and creative reserves, sowing seeds, physical embodiment, and visioning are central to this lap.
Medicine of the South leverages the apex that is summertime, heat, passion, peace, and power to manifest visions and consciously create. Manifestation, cultivation, discernment, and resilience are central to this hot lap.
Medicine of the West helps to harvest the lessons of the year and release that which no longer serves. Gathering and preserving learnings, releasing, composting, and making space for the hibernation that begins again in the North.
We are all in a constant state of movement on the continuum between life and death, light and dark, and composition and decomposition and, no matter what season finds you stepping onto the medicine path, all roads will lead you home, to the home in your heart.
The term ‘Earth Medicine’ may mean different things to different people, but in the context of this practice, Earth Medicine refers to psilocybin mushrooms, the five elements of water, fire, earth, air and ether, and the complex and sticky web of nature, both seen and unseen.
Earth Medicine could be the spirit of Mother Earth, the food you grow in your garden, the tea you drink in the morning, the flood that sweeps away your home, or the fire that burns bright in your belly begging you to create. It could be a bird song, a dense fog, a sunrise, a forest fire, or the sounds of water falling on the dishes in the sink. Many things comprise life on Earth so Earth Medicine is vast and plentiful and available to all of us.
The Mushroom Teachers have a way of cleaning the eyes in our hearts, slowing us down to the speed of nature, and sensitizing us to the present moment so that we can experience our lives, inhabit our relationships, and connect to our land and communities in good ways. Folks inside this practice consistently share that they experience:
Increased presence
Slower reactivity in challenging or triggering situations
More ease and willingness to surrender to the flow
Heightened senses and sensations in their bodies
Creative problem solving, new takes on old problems
Profound gratitude for the community & shared experience
Curiosity about themselves and their habits
Resonance, challenge, and curiosity with the various practices
Awareness that the practice is helping
Hope can be a fragile or scary thing to open yourself up to, especially if you’ve been struggling for a long time. It can feel hard to try and trust in a new experience, seek out support, or step vulnerably into new territory. Add the cultural taboo to working with psychedelics before they’re ‘approved’ by some of the very systems that are failing us and it can be hard to know what to do. This slow and steady practice eases you onto the path and week by week, lesson by lesson, and call by call, sweetly holds you there so you can see for yourself what’s helpful and possible.
This one-of-a-kind container is both protocol and practice. Immersions blend some self-paced online study with weekly coaching calls and a vibrant and supportive online community to journey with. Daily, weekly, and monthly practices anchor the work and a daylong elemental retreat at Rootstock draws participants out of the Zoom and onto the hillside to celebrate our connections and effort in community.
Here’s what’s you get:
Lifetime access to the course curriculum Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living
1x - 30min Intake Call post registration
14x - 90min Weekly Transmission with Beana
1 x - Full Day Elemental Retreat at Rootstock (Option to extend the stay into Community Weekend)
Private Signal Chat for the Group
1x Seasonal Spotify Playlist to provide a soundtrack for your practice
Downloadable Course Workbook
Priority booking for 1-on-1 Coaching Calls with Beana
Preferred booking for a Group Medicine Retreat @ Rootstock 6 months following this course
…and here’s how it helps. You’ll learn 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 the season
Integrate experiences you have on the medicine into your life off the medicine
Hold space for community on the medicine path
Join the waitlist for the upcoming immersion to get notified when registration opens
The waitlist for the next Immersion will open in May with registration scheduled for June. These immersions fill quickly and we open enrollment quarterly to allow folks new to Rootstock the opportunity to hop in the Spirit Canoe every three months.
The transmissions, transformation, and connections you will forge inside this container are truly priceless. You have the opportunity to change your relationship to your healing, 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 with you on your healing path.
3 Month Immersions run seasonally and meet weekly in Zoom.
Courses are limited to 14 people
The cost is $2,222 per person
*Payment plans, work trades, barter, and scholarships are available. Payment is due in full by the start date of the course and no refunds will be available once access to the course is granted.
