August 14-19, 2022 | Rootstock Retreat, Vermont

Reclaim your body’s sovereignty, release your ancestral patterns around food and nourish mind, body and heart in conscious community.

Climb inside the chrysalis. Bring your baggage. Bring your patterns. Bring your spare tire and your stretch marks, too. Don’t forget your self-doubt, fear and anxiety. Have anger? Bring it! What about confusion? Yes, that’s welcome too. Bring all of yourself and trust that you’re welcome here. This container was made for you. Not the perfect version of you. You. As you are right now.

Why Metamorphosis?

Metamorphosis Retreat is a safe container for people with disordered eating, body dysmorphia and/or food trauma to come together in sacred space to discover where their beliefs manifested from, to challenge and deconstruct limiting beliefs and enter into other realms of possibility as it relates to their food story. Weaving together ancestral healing and herbal pasta magic, sacred plant medicine, consciously created community meals with integration and newfound creation, it is my deepest hope that the medicine that helped heal my own food story, will help you heal yours too

This retreat is for you if you feel limited by your food traumas and you are ready to investigate the source, shift perspectives and create a new paradigm of what it means to consciously consume, in your own reality.

The Program

• Day 1 - Arrival - Afternoon arrival to Rootstock, settling into accommodations, introductions and shared experiences. First shared meal  - Ashley’s Dinner & personal experience with food traumas/how Metamorphosis was born. 

• Day 2 - Western Medicine - community breakfast, Western Medicine discussion surrounding food, emotions, family dynamics and the roles they play, interactive lunch, orientation of Rootstock land, timed dinner and conversation experience, shared bonding and pair sharing

• Day 3 - Ancestral Healing - community breakfast, Melissa’s herbal pasta magic: foraging, education, creation and conscious consumption. Free time to explore, wander and feel emotions. Beana’s sacred plant medicine safe space - talk about the journey, answer questions, begin the intention setting creation. 

• Day 4 - Sacred Plant Medicine - warm & nourishing breakfast before an intention setting circle with Beana to welcome in the sacred plant medicine experience. Wood-fired hot tubs, Danielle’s child-like wonder liberation activities, overflowing gardens and safe, sacred, space to be and experience your healing journey. Consciously created snacks, music and community.

• Day 5 - YOU Re-Born; Realization - community breakfast, integration circle with Beana, garden foraging and co-created lunch in the Cosmic Egg, Emily to lead us through a healing Grief Pinwheel experience

• Day 6 - Departure - departure morning, community breakfast, Danielle’s presentation of creative space and visualization for your path forward, closing circles and free space to say goodbye to the land and your guides 
  

Conscious Culinary

When it comes to healing from food trauma, it's my experience that it's not only WHAT you eat that matters, but also how you eat, where you eat, who your company is and what your conversation during your meal is that plays a vital role. All the meals provided to you during your retreat experience have been carefully curated, created with tender love and care, and are meant to help nourish your mind, body and soul along this healing journey. 

“Whole Foods + Soul Foods and No Guilt Ever” 

Sacred Plant Medicine 

Medicine Journey’s at Rootstock are all unique reflections of the people that participate in them, the quality of the light on the journey day, the bird songs, blooming flowers, music, and food.  ALCHEMY is what makes these experiences transformational and the vulnerability and openness of the guests that attend.  Though we will work with many varieties of plant and elemental medicine throughout this experience we will focus on mushroom medicine for our journey work.

This medicine is very safe and only contraindicated with SSRI’s so folks currently on these medications that wish to participate will need to work with their therapist directly to ensure readiness.  No special diet is required to prepare though taking good care of your body leading up to this kind of deep work is beneficial.