Sami Bass
Sami is an indigenous healer who has worked as a trauma informed movement specialist, using her abilities to channel and intuit the body’s needs with clients ranging from professional dancers, MLB + NFL players, celebrities, and more. Combining movement-healing skills with ancestral medicine practices and channeling she developed the Divine Dark Feminine Retreat in partnership with Embodied
Ecstasy Inc. in the Berkshires, focusing on female-identifying populations with cPTSD. 1:1 medicine clients and channeling ceremonies have helped business-owners and filmmakers with their endeavors, including such clients as Jessica Zemple of Life Shucker, Award-Winning Director Catherine Eaton and more. In a group capacity Sami provided channeling, movement, and medicine for the Avalon Story Filmmakers Retreat in 2021, Juneteenth: A Liberated Future Co-hosted by Nkechi Njaka, The Winter Solstice Retreat for Sacred Matriarch Creative, Cacao Ceremonies for The Flourish Foundation, and a sold-out Somatic and Ancestral Healing Retreat in Sun Valley, in partnership with Ketchum Counseling Collective. In 2023 Sami was commissioned to co-design a course for Coralus Global (formerly She-E-O) to teach global entrepreneurs how to incorporate earth based practices, reciprocity, and somatic and trauma informed modalities into their business practices. With the launch of the course, titled Rooted, in 2024, 450 participants had registered from 5 continents. In May of 2024 Sami was flown to the Coralus Summit to channel in person. for over a thousand people. Sami has offered trauma-informed consulting on dozens of movie sets, serving on the board of directors at Hire Survivors Hollywood and informing their education practices, and recently pairing with Treen Sorrentino and The Red Sands Project on their documentary shedding light on human-trafficking. Sami has been a featured speaker on multiple podcasts and panels, such as Revolutionary Woman Global, as well as being a featured speaker for the Plant Spirit Summit, and interviewed for an article in The Story of Us, a Regen- Impact Media Zine. Sami’s workshop, Sacred Rage: A Somatic Exploration, was featured at The Underground in Sun Valley, as well as Call of the Wildness, a workshop developed with Psychotherapist Courtney Loving, and lineage healer Naomi McDougall Jones, facilitating the integration between indigenous, ancestral, and academic healing modalities.
Upcoming Programs by Sami Bass

8-Day Trauma-Informed Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat in Playa Grande, Costa Rica
Also With Orfelinda Sanancino Cauper, Kimberly Ocana, Rachael Babette and Shannon Davies
Join us for an intimate healing experience with Shipibo master healer Orfelinda Sanancino Cauper from Pullcalpa, Peru. Orfelinda and our trauma-informed team will lead an all-inclusive 8 day/7 night experience with the Peruvian medicine of Ayahuasca. At Ananda Lodge Costa Rica, nestled in the natural beauty of Playa Grande, we offer a sanctuary where trauma-informed […]

8-Day Trauma-Informed Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat in Playa Grande, Costa Rica
Also With Maestra Olinda Cauper Canayo, Jilmer Barbaran Cauper, Kimberly Ocana and Rachael Babette
Join us for an intimate healing experience with Shipibo master healer Orfelinda Sanancino Cauper from Pullcalpa, Peru. Orfelinda and our trauma-informed team will lead an all-inclusive 8 day/7 night experience with the Peruvian medicine of Ayahuasca. At Ananda Lodge Costa Rica, nestled in the natural beauty of Playa Grande, we offer a sanctuary where trauma-informed […]