Trauma as Medicine Retreat

Healing Through Presence, Accountability, and Embodied Wisdom
Trauma as Medicine is a ceremonial and integrative healing retreat rooted in a simple yet radical truth:

Our pain is not a mistake.

When met with presence, responsibility, and skilled support, trauma becomes a doorway to wisdom, wholeness, and embodied freedom. This work is not about fixing what is broken—it is about remembering what is whole.

The Principles of Trauma as Medicine
Trauma Lives in the Body
Trauma is held in the nervous system, tissues, breath, and patterns of contraction. Healing requires somatic presence, regulation, and embodied awareness—not insight alone.

Power Is Restored Through Responsibility
This work does not reinforce victim identity. Participants are supported in reclaiming agency:
I may not be responsible for what happened to me, but I am responsible for how I meet it now.

Healing Happens in Relationship
Trauma often occurs in isolation. Repair happens within safe, intentional relational fields—with land, Spirit, and community.

Altered States Reveal; Integration Makes It Last
Expanded states of consciousness can open insight, emotional release, and spiritual remembrance. Integration is what transforms experience into lasting change.
The Role of Forest Medicine 🍄
Plant Spirit Healing is used in this retreat as a ceremonial sacrament and therapeutic catalyst, not a recreational substance.

Within a carefully held ceremonial container, Forest Medicine 🍄 supports:

Access to unconscious and somatically held material
Increased emotional processing and nervous system flexibility
A felt sense of connection, meaning, and belonging
Softening of rigid trauma-based identity structures

Forest Medicine 🍄 does not heal on its own.
It reveals, amplifies, and illuminates.

Healing occurs through:

Preparation and intention
Skilled facilitation and energetic containment
Somatic awareness and self-inquiry
Post-ceremony integration and accountability

What This Retreat Includes
This retreat weaves together ceremonial, somatic, and integrative practices to support deep healing and embodiment.



Core Elements

Two deep-dive evening Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremonies
One small-dose daytime Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremony
One Hapé ceremony
Shamanic journeying
Integration circles
Land-based teachings
Meditation
Ecstatic Dance
Self-inquiry practices
Partner dyads
Accommodation and organic meals

All practices are designed to support recognition that the capacity for healing already exists within you.
Preparation & Integration Support

1 × Intention-Setting Session (60 min, Zoom)
1 × Post-Ceremony Integration Session (60 min, Zoom)

These sessions support continuity, safety, and real-world integration.

Registration: Please  Fill out this registration form. It is a separate form from your registration at the Sentinel.
*Please note this includes a preparation session as well as a post ceremony integration session. The link to book will be shared with you upon registration.
Plant Spirit Healing 🍄
Rainbow Serpent Lodge
Rainbow Serpent Lodge is the ceremonial healing lineage through which Forest Medicine 🍄 is shared in this retreat. It was received by Sarah in 2007 through direct spiritual transmission from her guide Thoth, associated with wisdom and divine order in the Egyptian tradition.

Within the lodge, Forest Medicine 🍄 is shared in two evening ceremonies, supported by:

Live, channeled medicine songs
Hands-on energetic healing
Tobacco cleansing
Shamanic prayer and ritual

The lodge creates a coherent energetic field that supports participants in meeting deep personal material with safety, clarity, and compassion.
Additional Practices
Self-Inquiry
Guided investigation into identity, belief systems, and trauma patterning, supported by journaling and shamanic journey.

Fire Ceremony
A cleansing and prayer-based practice from the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition.

Ecstatic Dance
Somatic, non-verbal movement for emotional release, vitality, and embodiment.

Integration Circles
Facilitated group sharing to metabolize insight and ground experience into daily life.
This Retreat Is a Fit for You If…
☐ You feel called to meet trauma at the root
☐ You are willing to take responsibility for your healing
☐ You understand psilocybin as a sacrament, not a shortcut
☐ You value preparation, ceremony, and integration
☐ You can remain present with discomfort and uncertainty
☐ You seek spiritual depth without bypass
This Retreat Is Not a Fit for You If…
☐ You are seeking a recreational or purely visionary experience
☐ You expect psilocybin or the facilitator to do the work for you
☐ You are unwilling to engage in integration or accountability
☐ You are currently in acute crisis requiring clinical care
☐ You are seeking escape rather than embodied presence

 

 Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with a rich education in energy healing and hands-on practice. Her training is sourced in lived experiences – particularly healing from the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – as well as thirty years of studying energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She shares an integrated path to lay the foundation for personal transformation and empowerment.

 Since 2007, Sarah has run a private clinical practice, created a healing centre, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and implemented shamanic training programs, spoken at many conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Her primary focus is curating experiences with plant medicine for the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Most recently, she is the author of her first self-published book – “Trauma as Medicine.”

 

For those interested in reading her book prior to attending – it is available here: Trauma as Medicine | Sarah Salter Kelly

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