5 Day Trauma as Medicine Retreat

This retreat is an invitation to come home. To open to the genuine presence of your being through the use of plant medicine ceremony and earth based traditional practices. It is focused on the awareness that you have what you need within you – everything is in fact here now – and our healing is the art of integrating, accepting, and loving what is. In this process we claim the light of our true nature and use this light to guide our way.  

Sarah’s teachings are nondual, based on the philosophy that we are one. Through cultivating loving awareness we remember we are not separate from our Source and in this way, we align who we are with how we live. She is the author of Trauma as Medicine, a DIY book for healing trauma and transforming your life; based on the personal experience of losing her mother to homicide and subsequent journey of healing and forgiveness. 

What's included:

Despacho 

 

Starlight Medicine Ritual – This ritual has come through the ancient teachings of our starlight ancestors as a guide for these times. We are in a great moment of awakening, and it is necessary to open to the highest light for the illumination of our path. This ritual is delivered through visualization, shamanic journey and earth-based practices.  

Forest Medicine ceremony – The Rainbow serpent lodge was passed to Sarah many years ago through her Spirit guide Thoth; the God of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon. In this lodge she shares mushroom tea in a night ceremony. You are supported with channeled medicine songs, music, hands on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic methods. This is an excellent medicine for moving into the underworld aspects of our life’s journey so we can integrate them with the light. 

The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following: 

Commune with Source
Regulate your nervous system
Illuminate your true nature
Release old patterns


Address grief & trauma
Come home to your self & your body
Investigate internal contracted energy
Enter loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Das 
Experience presence 

 

Heart medicine Ceremony – Sarah will facilitate this profound Heart Medicine experience in a day ceremony. This Heart Medicine is an exceptional ally for connecting us with our inner child and facilitating an experience of embodiment. Held in the social and sacred container of our retreat community you begin to see yourself in a new way – releasing stories that do not serve your highest good  - and opening to your child-like sense of wonderment. 

Fire Ceremony – Working with the Spirit of fire you will learn a practice passed through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.

Hape ceremony - A sacred snuff comprised of tobacco and other plants this medicine supports your healing through the opening of your third eye, connection with your heart, and a rooted sense of awareness in your physical body.   

Despacho – From the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains this ceremony offers a practice of gratitude that is rooted in the celebration of life. Utilizing flowers, seeds, and objects from nature a mandala is created with prayer and intention to give thanks for all that is here.  

Integration – Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle are an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group and to use your voice – be heard- as you share your heart.  

The team – Sarah has gathered a solid team of assistants – professionals in the holistic field - to ensure you have what you need to tuning and turning inwards.  

The location – The Sentinel is a top-notch environment for soul healing. Nestled on 6 pristine acres on Kootenay lake you can expect to be held in the power of these ancient mountains with love, wisdom and stillness. The rooms all have a view of the lake, the food is local, organic and much is grown on the property.  For you pleasure there is a hot tub, sauna, and of course cold plunges in the lake.  



 

Basic Itinerary:  

September 18th:

4-5:30pm Arrive – check in 

5:30 - 6:30pm Supper 

7:00 – 9:00pm Opening Ceremony & Circle Maloca 

September 19th:

7:00 – 8:00am Somatic Movement Maloca 

8 :00-9:30 am Breakfast 

9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop – Starlight ritual & Hape Ceremony 

12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch 

1:30 – 3:30pm Reflection time 

3:30 – 4:00pm snack 

4:00 – 6:30pm Ecstatic dance & Sound bath  

6:30 – 7pm Break – get ready for ceremony 

7:00 – 11:00pm – Rainbow Serpent Lodge (Forest Medicine) 

September 20th:

8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast 

9:30 – 10:30 Kundalini Yoga 

10:30 – 12:30 Integration Circle 

12:30 – 1:30 lunch 

1:30 – 3:30 Reflection time 

3:30 – 6:00 Fire Ceremony & Hucha stone cleanse 

6:00 – 7:00pm Supper 

September 21st:

No breakfast  

9:00 – 6:00 pm  – Heart medicine ceremony – Medicine songs, Despacho ceremony, circle and time outside on the land.  

6:00 – 7:00pm Supper 

September 22nd:

8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast 

9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony  

Depart

 

If you would like to BOOK a 15 min Call with Sarah to learn more about her retreat please do so here: https://calendly.com/sarahsalterkelly/free-15-minute-consult

For more information please visit Sarah's website here: https://sarahsalterkelly.com/retreats/

Please watch Sarah's interview with Marianne Williamson here: https://youtu.be/8WDFQOcNrho