Seasonal microdosing immersions are a simple, honest, and radically effective way to access transformation that lasts. (They work!)
Mushroom medicine doesn’t speak human. It doesn’t speak logic or rationality or English. It communicates through a language of nature, symbols, neurons, spirit, synchronicity, somatics, alchemy, and magic.
Aligning your microdosing practice with the wheel of the year and reflecting it off a small community of 'believing mirrors' is a profoundly effective - and efficient - framework to bring the medicine home and genuinely heal yourself, your community, and the world.
Sowing seeds when the Earth is frozen and fallow goes against all the forces in nature. Trying to harvest fruit before the berries are ripe is also unsatisfying. Learning to move in harmony with the seasons outside of us helps us better navigate the changing seasons inside of us: the seasons of our days, of our years, and of our lives. Each immersion folds the world's best micorodsing protocol, Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living, into a season - Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall - to empower participants with a living conatiner to come back into harmony with themselves and their lives.
Learn to intuitively and effectively microdose psilocybin to leverage the ‘medicine of the moment’ and reclaim your presence, your wholeness, and your relationship to life.
Who is this for?
People that struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder in winter have found Medicine of the North to be a powerful ally to sustain wellness and life force. People needing to loosen their grip on control and welcome more play into their lives have surprised themselves inside the summer immersion. Every season brings some archetypal energy and invitations to align with Earth energy.
A guided microdosing immersion is helpful for people navigating depression, anxiety, life transitions, existential fear or dread, chronic pain, childhood trauma, spiritual development, addiction, overwhelm, stuckness, grief, creative blocks, fear of death, eating disorders, burnout, climate grief, social anxiety, numbness, apathy, and many, many other conditions, as well as for microdosing guides seeking alternative frameworks for supporting clients.
Anybody looking for a sturdy container to begin the slow work of tapering off pharmaceuticals with the help of nature and a seasoned guide can dive into any season and trust that the mushroom teachers want to help!
If you haven't already viewed my master class, Microdosing vs Macrodosing: The Full Spectrum, check it out and see if it help you assess if this practice is right for you.
Every season of the year, the wheel turns and there's a chance to walk with intention and support.
Whatever is happening in the world around us, whether that be rain, snow, war, famine, cold, heat, chaos, or calm, it’s alive in our bodies and psyches as well. As without, so within. The seasons of the year and of our lives guide what’s possible at any given time, and when we come into deep relationship with the elemental truth of this turning, we come into relationship with ourselves and re-learn how to be in the world.
Every 3 months a door opens, a path emerges, and an opportunity reveals itself. Every season shows us how to welcome change. Whatever season you choose to begin your journey is the right one and it will bring you where you're going.
How Does It Work?
An alchemical pot is carefully filled with a small, closed community of ~15 people seeking a new relationship to themselves. We then add some mushroom medicine, a well-worn path full of invitations to explore, and an experienced and loving guide. We stir it weekly with community calls and let it cook for three whole months! All the participants emerge more seasoned, supple, present, connected, and whole.
The online course lays the foundation.
Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Guide in Whole Living is a one-of-a-kind microdosing protocol derived from over 30 years of apprenticeship with the Mushroom Teachers and 8 years in practice. This beautiful course is vast, deep, and brimming with video transmissions, somatic exercises, journal prompts, context, and everything you need to navigate the season. Module by module, you are guided into your practice with Daily, Weekly, and Monthly invitations. Downloadable worksheet pages are included with the course or you can purchase the gorgeous 80 page workbook to ground your practice.
Although technology is the glue that holds the immersion together, the bulk of the 'curriculum' is experiential and done in your body, in nature, in your relationships, and in your life. Don't let the technical aspect of the course stress you out. Five to thirty minutes a day is enough to empower embodied action.
Weekly Group Coaching calls are the secret sauce...
'Zoom fatigue' is a real thing in this day and age and it's ok if some part of your feels hesitant to add more screen time to your routine. Our weekly calls are, without a doubt, the most potent part of the journey...even more so than the mushrooms!
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.
Beana wasn't sure when she started gathering people in Zoom if it would work and people would genuinely connect. After ten rounds of this offering, it's clear that the 'alone together' aspect of the course is powerful and the connections forged in these seasons matter.
A private Signal Thread weaves us closer...
In between Community Calls, a private Signal thread keeps the connection strong so there's always support during this journey. This is also the 'Bat Phone' to Beana and a way to access your guide anytime throughout the journey that you need it. Exchanging soundtracks and podcasts and sharing photos and reflections outside of our call times allows for effervescent connection and community weaving.
Seeds get sown inside our weekly calls that don't always have the time they warrant for conversation and reflection. The chat thread is the mycelial thread that keeps folks connected long after the immersion is finished.
Finally, we step out of the Zoom and into the Bathhouse at Rootstock!
Every season, in between the seasonal immersions, Rootstock hosts 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.
Details for ELEMENTAL ALCHEMY: A SLOW MEDICINE RETREAT will be posted soon for September!
A full season of bringing awareness to patterns, triggers, sensations, and self...
...is enough to change patterns, triggers, sensations, and self! These immersions really do change lives for the better! Steady, slow, patient medicine for change that lasts a lifetime.
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What's Included?
- Lifetime access to the 2nd Edition of Microdosing Earth Medicine: A Seasonal Practice in Whole Living. Many participants revisit this course curriculum again and again!
- 1 - 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
- 12x - 90min Group Coaching Zooms with Beana and the group to share, listen, reflect, translate the practice, make meaning, and cultivate presence.
- Private Group Chat in Signal to stay connected to your Guide and Cohort throughout - and beyond - the journey. Past seasons Signal chats are still alive and well and these connections last!
- A gorgeous downloadable course workbook (or spiral-bound printed workbook for sale) full of journal prompts, monthly tracking pages, coloring pages and more!
- *EVERYTHING* you need for the full 3 month microdosing protocol is included in the price of the immersion.
In addition, participants will receive:
- Priority booking for Elemental Alchemy, a seasonal microdosing retreat day at Rootstock. The whole group is invited to come up the night before to connect in person and then celebrate the season of growth with a day of elemental healing and microdosing in community.
- One free month in The Spore, Beana's online gathering space is a wonderful, soft place to land following your seasonal immersion where you can continue to connect and practice your becoming.
- Priority booking for a Medicine Retreat
Hop on the waitlist and be the first to register for Summer!
Limited to 15 people
Everything you need for the full 3 month journey is included. There is no cancellation policy so, please, only sign up if you are feeling called and committed to heal in community. If you are feeling really drawn to this offering but the cost is prohibitive, please, reach out to hi@rootstockretreat.com and let us know what you'd be able to invest and if we can make it work for you, we will.
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 nine 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. Promises 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.
Change is possible.
Should I Microdose or Macrodose?
What if I have no experience with psychedelics?
I'm on SSRIs or other pharma, can I combine them with a microdosing practice?
I already microdose, will this course show me anything new?
I struggle with technology, will I be able to navigate this course?
How long will it take to see results?
Is the medicine included with the course?
Do I need the course? Can't I just wing it?
What if I need help during this process?
Ready to dive in?
Buy the Self-Guided Course now and get started! Then hop on the waitlist for the next immersion and, when its time to enroll, you'll be notified and we'll apply the price of the self-guided course to your immersion so you don't pay for it twice!
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