The Embodied Soul Immersion Retreat unites modern therapeutic techniques with ancient and spiritual healing methodologies to create a deeply transformational healing experience. Our four facilitators bring  a holistic container  to the plant medicine experience with  decades of combined experience in clinical trauma (some specialties include Internal Family Systems therapy and Havening Techniques), indigenous healing and teachings, energy work, somatic and movement methods, narrative healing, and death doula work.

The Soul Embodied Immersion has been designed to do simply that: connect us back to our most authentic, loving, resilient soul pieces, illuminating the brilliance within us, and clearing any blockages in our embodiment so we can fully integrate these pieces to walk with us in the physical world. Our retreat is curated to meet you where you are in community, with the land, within yourself and with other participants.  Partnering with Ananda Lodge is intentional and exciting.  Our team aims to provide the comforts and essentials to support your journey.  From walks around the property, to nearby excursions, to delicious meals prepared by (name), to gifted and caring retreat leaders and comfortable lodging all your needs will be met. The week will include activities and ample downtime to prepare you for 2 (3, including cacao) medicine ceremonies  and support integrating the experience as you move back into your life at home.  What do you hope to cultivate during your stay?  More connection?  Increased peace? Openness to experience healing trauma? Release? Self-witnessing?  Embodiment?  Equanimity?  What if you got to choose the experience you desire?  This retreat wants to support an experience of you reclaiming and remembering what your internal wisdom wants and needs to flourish.  We are excited to be a part of your journey!

Modalities include plant medicine (psilocybin and cacao), therapy, ancestral healing and medicine, indigenous teachings, energy work, breath work, somatic and movement practice, meditation, internal family systems work (IFS), psycho-sensory techniques like Havening and EFT,  cacao ceremony, a death ritual, and a sound bath. 

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN:

This retreat can support where you are and become the beginning of a new story – a narrative that you create and desire. You will gain new connections within yourself, with our team, and the unique participants that choose this opportunity to explore and dive deeply into who they were and who they are becoming.  Our community welcomes you and we ask you to decide if you are called to participate in this community. The retreat experience can call you into a deeper awareness of who you are and where you come from. This awareness can create more access to being accountable, embodied and compassionate with yourself and your nervous system.  Our programming will help build a deeper understanding of how our bodies, spirits, and minds work together and how we can fully participate in our own healing; writing our next chapters. How can we hold compassion for the parts of ourselves that have so beautifully protected our hurt or confused parts all these years?  It is our hope that you will gain what you need to return to your lives with what you need to begin to grow in the direction of your choosing.

THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF YOU:

• …have previously engaged with some form(s) of personal and/or spiritual work- such as therapy, meditation, spiritual training, ancestral healing – and are ready for your next layer of deep uncovering and growth
• …are looking for a retreat that combines modern therapeutic practices with ancient and ancestral spiritual healing work
• …are trying psychedelics for the first time OR have experience working with them, but are looking for a safe, sacred, and holistic container in which to journey again
• …are curious about the parts of you that want to be seen and understood
• …want to heal in community
• …desire tools to be with your nervous system with equanimity and embodied presence
• …want to have a new experience
• …feel disconnected from your ancestors and are looking to come into relationship with them
• …are feeling stuck, stagnant, confused about your purpose or path and are seeking clarity
• …identify as a cycle breaker or multi-generational healer and are looking for more community, support, or ancestral connection around this
• …are looking to overcome negative self-speak, diminishing narratives and stories, or old belief systems that feel to have too much control in your life
• …are seeking to get in touch with your most authentic, loving self

Book Your Exploratory Call Here

RETREAT SCHEDULE:

Before you arrive

• A half hour one-on-one medical intake and review session with one of the facilitators
• Group zoom prep call with all four facilitators to open the container and begin to build the community

July 28th

• Morning/early afternoon – participants are shuttled from Liberia to retreat center
• Evening – opening welcome fire ceremony – exploration and announcement of group to the work

July 29th

Morning

• Meditation and movement/somatic body work
• Group Internal Family Systems therapy session with Jules Rachlin

Afternoon

• Group prep work for plant medicine using havening and EFT with Courtney Loving

Evening

• Extended movement/somatic body work session with Sami Bass – fascial release – prep the body for medicine
• First plant medicine (psilocybin) ceremony – from about 6pm – midnight

July 30th

Morning

• Sleep in
• Later (optional) meditation and movement/somatic body work

Afternoon

• Group integration session from medicine ceremony

Evening

• Death ritual ceremony with Naomi McDougall Jones – to ceremonially release who we have been and step into who we are becoming

July 31st

Morning

• Meditation and movement/somatic body work

Afternoon

• Sound bath
• Traditional Mayan cacao ceremony with Sami Bass
• Preparation for second medicine ceremony

Evening

• Second plant medicine (psilocybin) ceremony – from about 6pm – midnight

August 1st

Morning

• Sleep in
• Later (optional) meditation and movement/somatic body work

Late Morning – Early Afternoon

• Group integration session from medicine and other healing work

Late Afternoon

• Down time & plus individual check-ins

Evening

• Closing ceremony

August 2nd

Morning

• Participants are shuttled back to Liberia

After you leave

• One group zoom integration session a week or so after we depart