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.
Medicine of the North 2025
Wednesdays from 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET
Registration Opens: 11/12/2024
Registration Closes: 12/12/2024
Kick Off Call: 12/18/2024
Start Date: 1/8/2025
End Date: 4/2/2025
Medicine of the East 2025
Tuesdays from 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET
Registration Opens: 2/5/2025
Registration Closes: 3/5/2025
Kick Off Call: 3/25/2025
Start Date: 4/8/2025
End Date: 7/1/2025
Medicine of the South 2025
Wednesdays from 7:30 - 9:00 PM ET
Registration Opens: 5/5/2025
Registration Closes: 6/5/2025
Kick Off Call: 6/11/2025
Start Date: 7/2/2025
End Date: 9/24/2025
Medicine of the West 2025
Tuesdays from 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET
Registration Opens: 8/5/2025
Registration Closes: 9/5/2025
Kick Off Call: 9/16/2025
Start Date: 9/23/2025
End Date: 12/16/2025
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.
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
2x - 30min Private Calls, one on intake, one at the end
2x - 90min Kick-Off and Harvest Call to open & close the container
3x - 90min Transmission Call and Q&A with Beana to kick off each month
8x - 90min Weekly Group Coaching Zoom with Juliana
1 x - Full Day Elemental Retreat at Rootstock
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 & Juliana
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
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 and Juliana alone would cost a lot if you did this work one-on-one and, in addition to Beana and Juliana’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.
BEANA BERN
Beana Bern is the founder of Rootstock Retreat, a self-certified psychedelic guide, and the co-creator of the revolutionary microdosing course Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice for Whole Living. With over 30 years of personal psychedelic experience and over 6 serving as a guide in a therapeutic setting, Beana has lived into the promise of some fundamental truths learned from mushroom medicine and has compiled them into a living library and experiential practice for you.
Beana holds sacred space and is a grounded and steady guide into the mysterious realm of psychedelic healing. Her weekly transmission calls will combine ceremony, ritual, somatic practice, and intuitive facilitation of the group to weave a sturdy container for individual and group transformation.
JULIANA ROSE GOLDSTONE
Juliana is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Scar Tissue Remediation Specialist, Trauma Informed Plant Medicine Facilitator, Somatic Psychedelic Integration Coach, and co-creator of the revolutionary microdosing course Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice for Whole Living. She works at the intersection of psychedelics, parenting, sexuality, and conscious relationship coaching.
The name of her practice is Boldly Embodied and she believes that both psychedelics and sexuality can offer portals into how to live fully and boldly embodied in our relationship to self and others. She is passionate about creating ethical bridges between the psychedelic and sexuality spaces as a form of harm reduction and believes fully in the wild and wise wisdom of the human body and psyche.
Want to explore at your own pace? Try our self-guided online course instead.
Learn how to work intuitively, energetically, and physically with mushroom medicine while moving independently through the course at your own speed.