What awakens us to living in reverence to Earth and Her rhythms?
What awakens us to sensing deep interconnection with all of Life?
What awakens us to embracing the sacredness of our Body?
What awakens us to experiencing radical aliveness?
Join physician and founder of Innate Medicine, Josefa Rangel MD and spiritual guide and healer, Riyaz Motan MFT as we guide retreatants into sacred connection with Body and Earth. Through guided meditation, gentle movement, and nature communion we will answer these questions through our Bodies as we connect to Earth and to one another.
This 4-day/3-night retreat is a time of deep reconnection to Body and Earth. We will conduct this retreat within the container of silence, supporting retreatants in their own deep listening & sensing of the world.
Offered to 30 retreatants
If you feel resonance with this offering, we encourage you to honor your own heart’s longing and join us today!
Cost: $900.00 (covers shared lodging and retreat meals) This fee does not include dana* for the retreat guides
(Solo lodging option available for additional fee)
Scholarships are available. Please inquire here.
*Dana is the ancient practice of reciprocity - giving from the heart to support the retreat guides and their teachings. Dana is an energetic practice which attunes us to the ever-flowing universal cycle of giving and receiving.
Retreat Guides
I offer this retreat from my whole heart, called to share the bounty of insights gifted to me through my own life journey and lifelong path within medicine. A decade ago, I felt called to bring forth a new ancient medicine, Innate Medicine. This calling has led me into deep explorations with my patients of innate healing capacity, bodily wisdom, intuition, and embracing illness as transformative process and as catalyst for deep awakening. I understand we are a microcosm (Body) of the Macrocosm (Earth). I have been weaving over the years a medicine infused with insights from Buddhism, Daoism, my Mexica ancestry, and the rich teachings of Marion Woodman. It is a true honor to share with you my medicine.
After many years of primarily working as a spiritually-oriented psychotherapist I have been called into a new stage of spiritual work. My deepest honor is to help people connect to the sacred within and without; to create spaces that allow people to connect to and embody their essential nature. In my offerings as a spiritual teacher and guide, I call upon my own practices of Buddhism, shamanism, yoga, psychotherapy and non-duality. My connection with and reverence for nature has recently taken a quantum leap: In response to a serious health crisis I have immersed myself into a daily nature practice and have been profoundly transformed by the experience. Inspired by this transformation, I am called to invite others to connect with nature’s healing powers.
Nestled in the sacred foothills of Mount Tamalpais, the ancestral lands of the Indigenous Me-Wuk (Coast Miwok) people. We honor the stewardship of this land by the Me-Wuk over millennium and acknowledge their current dispossession. With deep humility and respect, we will conduct our retreat on these sacred lands. As we awaken to being in reverence to the land, may we honor and respect the elders of this land, and move towards healing and repairing this deep wounding and erasure.
Nourishment
Essential in reconnecting to Body & Earth is our relationship with the food that sustains us. We will provide nourishing plant-based meals sourced from nearby farms made with love from local caterer, Marissa Daskalakis. Gluten-free options will be available.
Commitments
This retreat is open to all. Please plan to arrive on time, between 4-6pm on Thursday May 2nd and stay for the full duration of the retreat, ending at 12PM on Sunday May 5th. All retreatants are requested to maintain silence throughout the retreat, except during specific group sharing times. This commitment includes refraining from the use of phones, devices, books or other outer distractions during our retreat.
Refund Policy
Full refunds will be available 2 weeks prior to the retreat start date - April 17th, 2024. After this date, we will issue a full credit which can be applied to a future retreat for any last minute cancellations.
(This retreat has been postponed.)
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