Sacred Medicine Men's Retreat in the Ecuadorian Andes

Orion Chase has been a practicing acupuncturist (Colorado Lic #846) since 2001, honing his skills in a variety of settings. After graduating from a 4-year, 3000-hour Masters of Oriental Medicine program at Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, Colorado, he was certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) in 2001. He began private practice with acupuncture and Chinese herbology the same year in Boulder and later practiced in Durango, Colorado. He has experience in various work environments- a hospital setting, in an addiction treatment center, and recently yoga retreats and healing centers in Mexico and Ecuador. He practices a blend of Traditional Chinese and Japanese styles of acupuncture, and integrates ancient Eastern medicine with modern modalities like auriculotherapy, electro-acupuncture, and Acutonics™ (tuning forks). Orion leads men´s circles and co-leads retreats based on the work of the Mankind Project, and facilitates workshops based on the Wim Hof method, a technique using breathwork and cold immersion to enhance human resilience. He created a meetup in 2018 in Boulder Colorado that is still going strong every Saturday morning, providing free instruction to the community in Wim Hof style breathwork and guided meditations and cold immersion experiences. Building on a BA at Prescott College in Arizona in transpersonal psychology in 1996, Orion has actively explored many personal development modalities. Some examples are The Event (an evolution of Werner Erhard's EST/ Landmark Forum), Intrinsic Breathwork, Osho’s Path of Love, and the Mankind Project where he served for 2 years as enrollment coordinator for the New Warrior Training Adventure. He has been practicing and teaching Tai Chi and Qigong for over 30 years. Since co-leading a course at Prescott College in 1992 entitled Tai Chi in Mexico, Orion has built his skills through countless hours of instruction from his own teacher, a 50-year student of the Taoist Neigong and the Sun Pan Ling Tai Chi form. He has been a student of the East Indian mystic Osho since 2018 and has been trained to lead Osho’s meditations, including the Dynamic meditation, the Quantum Light Breath, Kundalini meditation, Chakra Sounds meditation and others. Orion has been a student of plant medicine, specifically San Pedro (Huachuma) and Ayahuasca, since 2017. He has participated in over 50 ceremonies personally, and has begun assisting in ceremonies under the guidance of Steve Eagle Sewell at Dancing Dragons San Pedro Retreat Center in the Yungilla valley outside of Cuenca, Ecuador.