Join us in our special Change Maker retreat for Communities of Color in Northern California!
June 7th to june 16th, 2024
Join Spring Washam and the Lotus Vine Journeys team for our second annual California Retreat for all communities of color! In this retreat we will be focusing on working with and collaborating with our Ancestors. We will have 4 plant medicine ceremonies three with Ayahuasca and one with the Wachuma cactus. Invoking Harriet Tubman and the Spirit Underground to help us along our journey to decolonize the mind and fortify the medicine of the Heart. It's time to Heal Our broken hearts and let go of everything that is holding us back. We will open to the ancestors and learn how to come home to ourselves, each other, and Mother Earth. This is a sacred journey and may the seeds of our suffering become our eventual liberation. Together we are stronger!
As part of this amazing Lotus Vine Journeys retreat, we are offering 10 days and 9 nights in beautiful and unique retreat center surrounded by a forest and located on a river. Plant your feet in the soil for a barefoot rejuvenation, find serenity next to Hendy woods state park just three hours outside of San Francisco. The exact location will be given after the registration is complete. This retreat also includes daily meditation group practice, yoga classes and wisdom teachings based in Buddhist philosophy. Our retreats are specifically designed for those seeking a deep transformative experience and all those who want to contribute to making the world a more wonderful place.
Retreat costs
10 DAY RETREAT (3 CEREMONIES) - US $2,750- PER PERSON
Includes:
9 nights accommodation, including use of all facilities at the beautiful Retreat Center in Philo, California.
3 Plant Medicine ceremonies
Excellent organic food. We put much care and love into providing you with delicious, fresh and healthy vegetarian meals. A selection of herbal teas and filtered water is made available throughout the retreat at all times.
Daily meditation practice and instruction
Dharma Talks and heart practices
Daily Yoga Classes
Integration sharing circles
Decolonize the Heart Classes
Signal group to foster community.
Amenities & Services
Beautiful River to swim and play in
Magical Walking Trails
Cozy accommodations
Retreat Leaders
SPRING WASHAM
My medicine journey truly began when I decided to go on a trip to Peru in 2008, after experiencing an emotional breakdown while on a long meditation retreat. Despite being a meditation teacher, community leader and spending many years doing long Vipassana retreats, I realized that the traumas I endured as a child and while growing up were still there. I experienced a debilitating sense of grief every day and had difficulty maintaining healthy relationships and emotional stability no matter how hard I tried. Read More
Adélàjà Simon
Raised in Baltimore MD, Adélàjà Simon is first generation born in the U.S. of Yorùbá, Ayisyen and Arawak/Taino descent living and offering a deep exploration of the question, ‘What does a truly regenerative, purposeful and place-based human lifeway, rooted in ancestral praise look like, feel like, and take to re-root, preserve and sustain?’ This question has led them to study over the last 13 years with spiritual teachers of the North and the South as well as with Yorùbá traditionalists, rooting into the direct guidance of the sacred elements, the seven directions and àwọn Òrìṣà. He has led plant-based healing retreats focused on communities of color for many years. His work integrates: bodywork, Holistic somatic healing, dream work, grief work, sound healing, Permaculture, ancestral arts, and processes for mapping the human psyche and framing stages of development.
Tone Rawlings
Healer, artist, scientist, educator, and guide, I use ancient wisdom and contemporary science to help people heal personal, intergenerational, and ancestral wounds from White-supremacy programming and colonization. I work with individuals, organizations, and companies. Included in my program is a curriculum and practices to guide people to identify, track, and heal internalized White-supremacy constructs that get passed down through intergenerational conditioning and epigenetic trauma. My work also includes plant-medicine prep and integration support. Read More