Stand-Alone Workshop or Retreat

Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council

Overview

For millennia, people worldwide have used singing, dancing, drumming, whistling, and rattling to generate natural trance states in order to journey into the invisible realms and form alliances with benevolent helping spirits. 

Whether we’re aware of them or not, we all have compassionate helping spirits who are devoted to our wellbeing, potentiation, and evolution. 

The practice of journeying enables us to initiate direct contact with our spirit guides so we can receive their immediate support whenever we’re in need of wise council, helpful insights, and powerful spiritual healing. 

What's Included

During this experiential immersion, we will embark upon a series of journeys that are designed to enable you to:

  • Explore the invisible dimensions of reality that coexist with our physical world, where you can connect with your helping spirits
  • Open the subtle pathways of perception that can enable you to sense, see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and feel while journeying throughout the invisible realms
  • Use those subtle pathways of perception to cultivate a shared language with your helping spirits that can generate mutual understanding and clarity
  • Refine the inquiries you present to your helping spirits so you can optimize the guidance you receive
  • Journey to receive accurate guidance and potent spiritual healing for yourself and on behalf of others
  • Practice the art of telling a healing story, relaying guidance to others when you journey on their behalf with their consent and permission
  • Meet the benevolent helping spirits who co-exist alongside you in the place where you live and the opportunity to learn how to create harmony together
  • Learn how to navigate purposefully and effectively in the invisible spectrums of reality

It is believed that each of us has a cohort of specific spirit guides who are dedicated to helping us uncover, amplify, and hone the unique medicine that we carry. This is your Medicine Council. Your singular, inimitable medicine includes your innate gifts, qualities, and capacities, all of which you are meant to share with the world in order to fulfill your soul’s purpose.

By the end of this workshop, you will have met the members of your Medicine Council and your council will be well established. Our time together will culminate with a personalized ritual prescribed by your Medicine Council—and undertaken in collaboration with them—to ignite your medicine in the service of your soul’s purpose.

Locations, dates, and times

This is a stand-alone workshop or retreat that also serves as the prerequisite for Becoming a Spiritual Healing Practitioner Level I: The Essentials

Hollyhock Retreat Center
Cortes Island, B.C., Canada

This residential retreat will take place at Hollyhock, a gorgeous retreat center in the Discovery Islands at the northern end of the Salish Sea in British Columbia. The retreat will begin with dinner at 6:30pm on Saturday, May 3rd and conclude with lunch at 12:30pm on Wednesday, May 7th.  

Saturday, May 3rd – Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

*Please note, tuition coupon codes don’t apply to this retreat

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Bloom Holistic Retreat Center
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

This residential retreat will take place at Bloom Holistic Retreat Center, a 650 acre lakeside sanctuary located on Loughborough Lake in Ontario. The retreat will begin with dinner at 6pm on Monday, June 9th and conclude with brunch at 11am on Friday, June 13th.

Monday, June 9th – Friday, June 13th, 2025

 

Una Vida Meditation and Movement
Niwot, Colorado, USA

This in-person, non-residential workshop will be held in partnership with Una Vida Meditation and Movement just outside of Boulder in Niwot, Colorado.

Friday, June 20th, 2025
Saturday, June 21st, 2025
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

10am – 6pm Mountain Time each day

Tuition: $395 USD / $560 CAD
A $50 USD / $50 CAD non-refundable deposit is required to hold your space in the workshop. Your tuition balance of $345 USD / $510 CAD will be due by Friday, June 13th, 2025. Alternately, you may pay in full.

Virtual Workshop

This virtual workshop will be held via Zoom.

Friday, August 8th, 2025
Saturday, August 9th, 2025
Sunday, August 10th, 2025

9am – 5pm Pacific Time
10am – 6pm Mountain Time
12pm – 8pm Eastern Time each day

Tuition: $395 USD / $560 CAD
A $50 USD / $50 CAD non-refundable deposit is required to hold your space in the workshop. Your tuition balance of $345 USD / $510 CAD will be due by Friday, August 1st, 2025. Alternately, you may pay in full.

FAQs:

Tuition scholarships are available for all of the workshops and retreats for the exception of Hollyhock. If you would like to apply for a tuition scholarship, please click here to complete the application form.

Your Bloom tuition includes tuition, accommodation, and vegetarian meals, beginning with dinner on the first day and ending with brunch on the final day of the retreat.

The workshop is open to everyone; no prior experience is necessary. Everyone has helping spirits, and this workshop provides the techniques to begin forming relationships with them.

Yes, completing this workshop serves as a prerequisite for advanced programs, such as “Becoming a Spiritual Healing Practitioner Level I: The Essentials,” a year-long professional training and initiation.

No special tools are required. Participants are encouraged to bring an open mind, a journal for notes, and any personal items that help them feel grounded, such as a small sacred object or a comfortable cushion for sitting.

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