Medicine of the North
A 3-Month Microdosing Immersion this Winter with Beana Bern & the Mushroom Teachers
Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox 2027
“And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” Rumi
Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living is a profoundly impactful and transformative microdosing protocol that provides individuals looking for healing a well worn path to wander.
This three month curriculum empowers anybody looking to microdose psilocybin a well-seasoned guide, reliable and consistently impactful framework, and conscious, closed community to do so effectively, respectfully, and authentically.
Join Beana Bern for this intensive immersion into the Medicine of the North, the Medicine of the Earth, and the Medicine of Yourself and come navigate Fall intentionally
Signing up for the waitlist will ensure you get priority access to registration on November 11, 2026. Registration opens to the public on November 12, 2026. Space is limited and these immersions historically fill full.
Winter can be a very challenging time of year. Dark days, cold nights, and the desaturated landscape can stir up feelings of deep melancholy, stuckness, and even fear. The fallow time of the year can feel claustrophobic for some and isolating for others and, though it’s challenging, it is also essential for life to bloom again in Spring.
The contraction that follows the expansion, Winter is the exhale to Summer’s inhale.
It draws us in, close to ourselves and one another, asks us to hibernate - maybe even fast - and applies the pressure of ice, wind, snow, cold, darkness, and hardness to help us soften, surrender, and ultimately grow stronger and more resilient as people.
Whether you live in the North Country or even the Northern Hemisphere, in a rural or urban landscape, winter is a season that comes for all of us and learning how to winter is essential to learning how to live.
What's Included?
- Lifetime access to the 2nd Edition of Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living. Updated videos and added insights from 4 years of practice.
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1x - 30min Intake Call with Beana Bern to lay the groundwork for your practice and support you to make the most of the course features and curriculum
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12x - 90min Group Coaching Zooms with Beana to listen, reflect, share, and translate the practice, make meaning, and cultivate presence.
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A newly revised downloadable course workbook (or spiral-bound printed workbook for sale) full of journal prompts, monthly tracking pages, coloring pages and more!
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Private Group Chat in Kajabi to stay connected to your Guide and Cohort throughout the journey
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*EVERYTHING* you need for the full 3 month microdosing protocol
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Priority registration for a full day Elemental Winter Microdosing Retreat at Rootstock! Get out of the Zoom and into the Belly and Baths at Rootstock with your Fall cohort and other alumni of the Earth Medicine Course for a magical day in community
- One free month in The Spore, Beana's online watering hole and community space, following your seasonal immersion to stay connected and inspired.
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Priority booking for 1-on-1 Coaching Calls with Beana
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Preferred booking for a 2027/2028 Medicine Retreat
"Think of the brain as a hill covered in snow, and thoughts as sleds gliding down that hill. As one sled after another goes down the hill a small number of main trails will appear in the snow. And every time a new sled goes down, it will be drawn into preexisting trails, almost like a magnet. In time it becomes more and more difficult to glide down the hill on any other path or in a different direction. Think of psychedelics as temporarily flattening the snow. The deeply worn trails disappear, and suddenly the sled can go in other directions, exploring new landscapes and, literally, creating new pathways."
-Mendel Kaelen, Dutch postdoc in the Imperial lab
Real People. Real Shifts.
How Does It Work?
The online course lays the foundation...
A beautiful online course and corresponding workbook provide a linear path from the arrival of your earth medicine and basic preparation through three full months of proven-effective microdosing protocols! Module by module, you are guided into your practice with Daily, Weekly, and Monthly invitations, journal prompts, somatic practices, and more!
The weekly Group Coaching calls are the secret sauce...
We'll start with a Kick-Off call to introduce everybody and then, week by week, we'll gather to hear how the practice is unfolding. These calls are full of reflection, guidance, inspiration, validation, and just the right amount of challenge to keep you accountable to your intention for the season. The communal aspect of this journey is truly profound and deepens the experience for all...even those of you who are 'zoom-resistant!'
The Group Chat and Bulletin Board allow for sharing and weaving in between calls...
This is also the 'Bat Phone' to Beana and a way to access support anytime throughout the journey. Exchanging soundtracks and podcasts, sharing photos and reflections outside of our call times allows for effervescent connection and community weaving.
The Elemental Alchemy Retreat at Rootstock is a perfect culmination and the stuff dreams are made of!
A full day microdosing retreat for participants to either culminate their immersion or initiate it - or both! Participants of immersions are offered priority registration for these beautiful days filled with ceremony, elemental healing, healing food, community connection and Earth magic! An additional charge applies.
Alumni of the immersions are gifted a free month in The Spore, an ethereal watering hole and online community to stay connected and inspired.
Seasonal community rituals, monthly conversations, office hours, integration circles and a special space for the microdosing community can keep you connected with other people on the path!
Shared Experiences
Why Earth Medicine?
The 21st Century on Planet Earth is an intense place to be. The single serving, plastic-wrapped, convenience culture of ‘pop this pill and feel better’ has revealed its limitations and both doctors and their patients are coming into consciousness about the limitations of pharmaceuticals and our Western medical industrial complex. People all over the world are looking for relief and new paradigms for healing and the organic intelligence of psilocybin is among many sacred Earth Medicines that has revealed it’s potential for helping humanity.
Studies are happening all over the world revealing over and over again the efficacy of psilocybin to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, OCD, eating disorders, and more. Though still illegal on a Federal level, legalization and decriminalization efforts for psilocybin are happening rapidly and successfully around the country, with 9 cities decriminalized, one state legalized, and many more bills in legislatures across the US, including in the brave little state of Vermont.
The organic, adaptogenic, and mysterious nature of mushroom medicine is radically safe, non-addictive, has little or no side effects, and is incredibly impactful if worked with in a good way.
What’s a ‘good way’ to work with Earth Medicine?
While many are making leaps and bounds with the support of entheogens, the unfortunate reality is that some practitioners and protocols are still working with this medicine in a colonizing and extractive way. The promise of ‘effortless healing’ or ‘a miracle cure’ deny the truth of what the mushrooms require and deliver.
Working with Earth Medicine in a ‘good way’ means in a reciprocal, reverent, and honest way. It means giving as much to the medicine as you ask of it. It means learning how to live well off the medicine too.
Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living is a curriculum that was born out of years of deep, sacred practice with the Mushroom Teachers and a deeply elemental life on this spinning jewel in outer space.
This practice calls us into awareness that this medicine is not here to make us better; instead, it opens a portal that, if we walk through and keep walking, can help bring us back into balance and wholeness.
This one-of-a-kind container is both protocol and practice. Inside you’ll learn how to:
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Calibrate dosage & frequency and develop your own intuitive microdosing practice
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Differentiate intention from expectations and learn to discern intuition from external conditioning
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Work energetically with the mushrooms, elements, and the medicine of Spring
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Integrate experiences you have on the medicine into your life off the medicine
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Embody a spirit of reciprocity and reverence for earth medicine and the Mushroom Teachers
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Hold space for community on the medicine path
Fall Dates
Calls happen via Zoom and will be held on Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30pm EST. Students of the course are expected to attend at least 2 group calls monthly to ensure cohesion and connection of the container. Additional coursework, reading, journaling, and practices will be invited daily, weekly, and monthly as well. The additional weekly coaching calls and full-day Elemental Retreat at Rootstock are optional and here for your support and joy.
Tuesday, November 10 2026 - Priority Registration Opens
Wednesday, November 11 - Registration Opens
Friday, December 11 - Registration Closes
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Monday, Dec 14 - Introduction email & Begin Groundwork
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Wednesday, Dec 23 - Kick-Off Call & Opening Ceremony
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Wednesday, Dec 30 - Month 1, Week 1 (Begin microdosing!)
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Wednesday, Jan 6 - Month 1, Week 2
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Wednesday, Jan 13 - Month 1, Week 3
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Wednesday, Jan 20 - Month 1, Week 4
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Wednesday, Jan 27 - Month 2, Week 1
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Wednesday, Feb 3- Month 2, Week 2
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Wednesday, Feb 10 - Month 2, Week 3
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Wednesday, Feb 17- Month 2, Week 4
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Wednesday, Feb 24 - Month 3, Week 1 & 2
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Wednesday, Mar 3 - Month 3, Week 3 & 4
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Wednesday, Mar 10 - Harvest & Closing Ceremony
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Saturday, March 19- Elemental Alchemy: Slow Medicine Retreat @ Rootstock. Additional Charges Apply
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Accepted enrollment in the course will grant you: Full, lifetime access to Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living which includes over 100-hours of self-guided online learning, worksheets, somatic exercises, and journal prompts; Monthly Zoom calls with Beana to diver deeper into the material and the moment and weekly Group Coaching calls with Beana to bring the practices to life; Access to a private community space with Beana, offering ongoing dialogue, support, and connection with fellow students. ; and a full-day elemental spring retreat at Rootstock to connect, break bread, and inhabit spring and our practice together.
“We are now fully engaged in the Sixth Major Extinction (“6 X”) on planet Earth. Our biosphere is quickly changing, eroding the life support systems that have allowed humans to ascend. Unless we put into action policies and technologies that can cause a course correction in the very near future, species diversity will continue to plummet, with humans not only being the primary cause, but one of the victims. What can we do? Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer some powerful, practical solutions, which can be put into practice now.”
- Paul Stamets
Opening ourselves up to the lessons that the mushrooms and the Earth have to teach us requires that we widen the aperture of our awareness to the world around and within us. This three month curriculum is a wonderful way to relearn, remember, reclaim, and revive your deep knowing and capacity to live well.
Investment in the Winter Meander:
The transmissions, transformation, and connections you will forge inside this container are truly priceless. You have the opportunity to change your relationship to spring, to your longing, and to your life. The direct access to Beana alone would cost a lot if you did this work one-on-one and, in addition to Beana’s support, you’ll gain a Sangha (community) of new friends and companions to walk your healing path with you.
Microdosing Earth Medicine Fall Cohort runs during October, November, and December, and meets weekly every Wednesday in Zoom. The course is limited to 11 people.
The cost is $2,555 per person paid in full or in 3x installments of $888
Join the waitlist today! Registration will open on November 10, 2026 for people on the waitlist and then on November 11, 2026 for the general public.
These seasonal immersions always fill so hop on the waitlist and ensure your participation when it's time to roll!
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