Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Retreat

Original Medicine Earth-Based Intensive Retreat

Since 2014, we’ve continued to offer our Original Medicine program guiding hundreds of participants towards personal healing through deepening connection with nature as nature itself and cultivating relationships with our beloved ancestors and the Earth. We are thrilled to host the Original Medicine Residential Retreat welcoming participants of all backgrounds to experience the very essence of this unique yearlong healing crucible mindfully distilled into an immersive in-person land experience. 

Braiding together the teachings of the Buddha and Indigenous wisdom co-creates a foundation of truth, trust, and love. During this intensive retreat, we will explore ways of coming into the core of who we are, our own Original Medicine, and enhance our personal growth and purpose with nature as our teacher. Held by the magic of the Redwood forest, we will learn and experience contemplative practices that include mindfulness meditation, earth walks, and embodied mindfulness movement.

We will begin our mornings in the sweet territory of silence as we explore our inner landscape while the afternoons provide space for deepening through collective ritual and connection with sacred community. Each day, there will be periods for reflection, rest, and stillness. During our evening sessions there will be wisdom talks and further interactive work together. We will practice opening our hearts to each season, the four directions, and the elements while we ground in and develop the capacity of our inner resources. In the spaciousness of our practice, we create opportunities to courageously meet our beloved shadow sides. From this place, we can honestly investigate and address the patterns and habits that get in the way of embodying our deepest Original Medicine. Participants will experience the depth and essence of Braided Wisdom’s one of a kind yearlong healing program refined intentionally into an intensive, restorative, and heart-opening experience that will deepen and widen the nature of who we are… not separate from nature itself. 

We welcome all to consider registering, especially those who have been unable to commit to a yearlong journey.