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Ceremonial Medicine Retreats + Ancestral Immersions

Rediscover your roots through transformative gatherings inspired by nature, ancient wisdom and inner exploration.

Ceremonial Medicine Retreats

Our retreats offer a unique space to deepen connections with yourself, others and the living world. Our time together is life-affirming, transformative and integrative.

EARTH MEDICINE RETREATS

In the embrace of abundant temperate landscape, enter a sacred space of mutual growth and discovery. Our medicine retreats are rooted in the power of communal healing, where personal insights blossom into collective transformation.

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BESPOKE RETREATS

Tailored to honour your unique intentions, private retreats combine personalised care, profound ceremonial practices and the nurturing wisdom of nature, each private retreat is crafted to support your healing journey in the most meaningful way. 

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Some words from earlier gatherings…

  • “This was indeed my 1st meeting with psychedelics and, my word, was it amazing! The facilitators at Rooted Healing couldn't have done a better job at organising such a heart felt, wonderfully nourishing retreat for us. The parts workshop really called out to me and the psychologist Lilja helped me make sense of something I'd been grappling with for years! The sense of community we had was special and I feel I've left there with another family. I imagine so many people have been helped with this one retreat alone and I pray your work continues onwards and upwards. I have a whole new perspective on my life now”

    Radhika Mistry

  • "The facilitators gentle and accepting presence supported me in shedding painful stories and oh so many tears. Their passion in supporting the group on their healing journeys was clear for all to see and feel. I have left the retreat feeling lighter, clearer, and more grateful for the life I live than I have done in years. The sense of connection and belonging I felt in the group was so powerful and the retreat provided me with so many personal insights that have already began to steer my life in a much more positive direction. The retreat was quite simply magical, I will be forever grateful for the spiritual awakening I have experienced."

    Carys Mair

  • "The Rooted Healing team craft their experiences with a level of care, cohesion and wisdom well beyond their years. Like a bottle of precious artisan wine, this will get even better with age and attract awards and accolades. My prediction is that in this coming decade of earth medicine (psychedelic-assisted) interventions and nature connection immersions, they will set a new benchmark. The question which will define one's experience will simply be: "Were you facilitated by Rooted Healing or not?"

    Matthew Zylstra (Eyes for Earth)

  • “This week was one of the most transformational times of my life. I feel lighter, more expressive and more receptive to love. Everyone who organized or partnered with the retreat is the real deal. I knew none of these people beforehand, but feel like I left with a new family.”

    Jeff Pratt

  • “I feel so full of wonder, gratitude and inspiration after the incredible body-soul nourishment I received with Earth Medicine. I loved how the retreat weaved playfulness with sacredness. The effects have been both subtle and profound. The week offered medicine in so many ways - from the food, the land, the family we created as a group, the sense of belonging, the moving ceremonies, the reverence for nature, the deep rest, the heart-songs, all climaxing with the magical medicine itself. I’ve received healing on every possible level of my psyche and I feel the ripples to such far-reaching places. It was true alchemy.”

    Brighitta Moser-Clark

  • "One of the best things I have done in my life! Although a little nervous before, I immediately felt in safe hands with the team. I learned so much about myself through the workshops and ceremonies, and also through the other participants and their experiences. I felt held, loved and safe. I will feel the benefits of this week for the rest of my life. I feel calmer and able to deal with ALL what life has to offer with a new found wisdom and courage. I cant recommend this retreat and these people enough. And i say that with a warm heart and a smile."

    Michael Chestnutt

  • “This was a powerful and transformative journey which took me to the unknown shoreside of my inner self. It felt like embodying a new flesh, taming new sensations, embracing new forms on a constant discovery or rediscovery of scents and visions, as if the world was unveiling itself for the first time before my eyes. A metamorphosis full of promises, tears, laughs, smiles and an utter rage for life that will remain etched in my heart and flesh for eternity.”

    Elisa Henny

  • “The facilitators, the singing, rituals, and our whole group opened my heart in a way it has never been open, or a long time forgotten. It was like the first best friend group I had in my teenage years. Pure curiosity, vulnerability, so much joy and playfulness, trust, love, and our home was the safest place I have ever been. I immediately feel good when I think of it. My life has changed through this experience.”

    Eva Simin

  • “It healed my soul, helped me to forgive my mother and let go of the past, to surrender, to deeply connect to myself in a profoundly gentle and feminine way.  It’s the most transforming medicine retreat I’ve ever been to. The facilitators are absolutely dedicated and incredibly talented medicine women, who cherish and revive ancient wisdom in healing ceremonies and rituals. Whose love and care as space holders felt so safe to release, unfold, surrender. Their beautiful lullabies and windchimes at the child spirits ceremony were pure magic. There are no words to describe the gratitude I feel. You brought the fire of love back to my heart and reunited me with nature and community.”

    Ganna Nestrerenko

  • "My week retreat was a truly transformational experience. Set in beautiful and wild surroundings, our daily workshop practices supported our healing process. The ceremonies were conducted with exquisite attention to detail and I felt held and supported all along. All the way through I was well nourished with amazing food and true connection with my fellow participants. Again, the experience was profoundly soothing and insightful. PS. the value of this incredible work was very, very affordable for what we received.”

    Catherine T.

  • “It is hard to put into words how thrilled and touched I am by the work and dedication of the people who were involved. The creativity and the strength that I was able to recharge in the circle still has an effect on me today. Their ceremonies, their stories, their singing and the fun we had as a group touched my soul. Here, love really is in every detail. An unforgettable spiritual experience.”

    Katrin Jahns

  • "“This retreat was definitely a powerful and transformative journey which took me to the unknown shoreside of my inner self. A metamorphosis full of promises, tears, laughs, smiles and an utter rage for life that will remain etched in my heart and flesh for eternity.”

    Elisa Henny

  • “I have been lucky enough to attend 2 Rooted healing gatherings and could not recommend them enough. From the very first moments that I arrived I felt held and supported. I found myself deeply trusting of all the space holders and that feeling really helped with the building of a community with all the other guests. These experiences have been some of the most connected, creative and deeply nourishing experiences of my life. They help to remind me that I am the magic and I am the medicine.”

    Helen Turner

  • "I have just come back from a week with Rooted Healing experiencing the mushroom medicine for the first time in my life. Prior to the retreat I was quite worried and uncertain, but in the end I had fantastic time. Everything checked out: the location was beautiful, the team very experienced, knowledgeable, kind and supportive, and the program very well crafted - all to support myself and 14 others on our journeys. Regardless where you are at, I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you for all your efforts to put this together, this was a very special experience I will cherish for a long time."

    Edyta Krakowiecka

  • “The retreat was such a beautiful and transformative experience. I was able to reconnect with my inner child and leave feeling a new found sense of love for myself, for others and for nature. I met some of the most beautiful souls and gained a new family. Thank you for creating a space for us to feel safe and held.”

    Hailey Garcia

  • “I felt so deeply held and seen, whether that was through silent space holding or deep conversation dives. If you’re looking to remember how loved and special you are on this Earth, I cannot recommend this enough. Thank you for sharing the abundance of love you have and may it continue to radiate through future retreats.”

    Dillan Watts

  • "Rooted Healing are a truly special, humble, passionate collective of experts who create magic. They really do make you feel safe, held and completely at ease. Thank you for all your hard work, love, expertise and passion and for being such wonderful beings. I feel truly blessed to have had this experience with you."

    Laura Hodge

  • "The retreat was, for me, a truly magical experience, allowing me to delve deep and start an inner journey with a really lovely group of people - none of us wanted to leave. As someone who has held space for people in different ways, It was a joy to have others do so for me: their constant availability to talk to all of us, collectively and individually, yoga and workshops, ceremonies conducted with a quiet reverence, calm and respect that put everyone at ease and beautiful singing from all the space holders, gently guiding us through our inner travels. A lot of effort has gone into to the planning of these retreats by the Rooted Healing team. If you properly engage with the preparation and integration, it’s not just a 6 day retreat, you are taken on a journey lasting several weeks."

    Kit Rhodes

  • “This experience changed my life. I am so thankful for the creators & teachers. My intention was to transform, get out of the dark place where I was before. Thanks to the plants, above all the other participants on this journey and the team I could reconnect with the world again, I could express emotions that were trapped for a long time and I found my voice that speaks truly from the heart. I can only recommend this retreat to all those who want to start feeling again, want to remember, feel joy, but also to give sadness, pain and suffering their space in a safe place, and in the end want to feel this loving connection to other people, to the plants, nature and to themselves again.”

    Maurizio A.

  • “The time I spent with my new Rooted Healing family was a profoundly nourishing gift that moved in so many delicate and magical ways. The enchanted land that held us combined with the love, care, warmth and creativity of the team, made for the safest space in which to bond and soften down among the wonderful crew that were gathered there. I found that balances were struck with great intuition; each day contained so much that was soft and loving and provided a gentle invitation to meet our edges. With the trust and tenderness that evolved between us it was possible to laugh, cry, play, express, create and share without shame or judgement. Somehow each day felt rich with activity yet beautifully spacious. My connection to the world around me has been invigorated. A profound thank you.”

    Sarah McCunn

  • "The week they created for us had such a vast variety of experiences for us to surrender into, with detail and love put into each activity and gathering. At all times, the team made us feel so held and looked after, yet also craftily created a space that felt safe and encouraging to go deep into ‘the work’ in, which I hugely appreciated and needed. I have made friends for life and this experience will remain in my heart forever. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I can’t wait to come to another retreat!!”

    Katinka Noack

  • “This retreat was one of my top moments of 2024 as I did my reflections journaling. As well as my biggest success: Being able to fully surrender to the medicine and the healing power of letting my grief be heard and seen by so many of you. Undoubtedly, the psilocybin medicine played a significant role here too. It cracked my heart wide open and let me feel so much. As did the preparation and the workshops leading up to this unforgettable Grief Tending Ceremony halfway through the retreat. The depth of grief which I was able to access and release from my body was so profound and so remarkably healing, that it felt like graduation. Thank you to everyone for your courage and dedication to this process.”

    Inga Driksne, Welcoming Grief

Glimpse into past retreats

Immerse in Ancient Wisdom…

Our ancestral immersions and skill-share gatherings ignite embodied intimacy with more indigenous ways of being with the land and each other, weaving together ancient wisdom, bone-deep nourishment, ancestral crafts, roundhouse councils and collective rest - all radical acts of rebellion against modernity.

ANCESTRAL

Experience the temperate rainforest of Eryri (North Wales) as we embody the ‘Original Village’ with mornings of ancestral skillshare and afternoons of foraging and hiking, and evenings of fireside stories, songs and ceremonies.

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ANCESTRAL PILGRIMAGES

If you are longing to connect with your ancestral lands in Britain and would like to do so in a deeply intentional, profound way, we offer bespoke ancestral retreats for individuals and small groups.

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From the village…

  • “Ancestral gatherings are an act of restoration on behalf of all life. Veronica, and the wisdom keepers and space holders who contributed to her vision, wove us into deep relationship with The Ancestors, Earth and her beings. I experienced the mighty medicine of reconnection in an enchanted, verdant, and ceremonial place, through immersive stories, songs, ceremonies, forest and ocean food, sacred craft, and pilgrimages upon the landscape, I found myself coming home to my wild, creative, mythical self, and flowing back to an interconnectedness with life that most humans have forsaken. Upon my return to Turtle Island (North America), I can feel what others claim they see in me: I’m settled, nourished in my cells, and trusting that the way of the ancestors has been rekindled and will stay with me wherever I dwell.”

    Jennifer Comeau

  • “I describe this experience to other people as it feeling like I lived this whole other life, had this whole other family, whole other home. I like to think maybe in another life that we did all live like that together, not just for a week but for our lifetimes. Ancestral is so magical, connected, and restorative. It’s an authentic way of living, in harmony with people and nature. The ceremonies were extremely powerful and moving, you could feel the collective magic in the air. As if when tension is so thick you could cut the air with a knife, it was the same thing but in a totally opposite and pleasant way. It’s nourishing for the soul.”

    Louis Lovegrove

  • “Deep gratitude for this beautiful experience. Spending these days at the land of Cae Mabon was like stepping into a dream of how life can be if we remember our true nature and how to live in a relational way. These days gave me clarity on what I want more of in my own life, and how I want to be of service. Experiencing days living in a harmonious village, in community around the fire, in ceremony reconnecting with ancestral crafts I believe would be a healing experience for anyone. It certainly was for me.”

    Robin Tåg

  • "The time I spent over the Summer with Veronica and my new Rooted Healing family was a profoundly nourishing gift that moved in so many delicate and magical ways. The enchanted land that held us combined with the love, care, warmth and creativity the village made for the safest space in which to bond and soften down among the wonderful crew that were gathered there. Veronica's deep love of the earth, of song and plants, of binding, gathering and weaving people and land together impacts you deeply. My connection to the world around me has been invigorated. A profound thank you."

    Sarah McCun

  • “I have been lucky enough to attend 2 Rooted healing gatherings and could not recommend them enough. From the very first moments that I arrived I felt held and supported. I found myself deeply trusting of all the space holders and that feeling really helped with the building of a community with all the other guests. These experiences have been some of the most connected, creative and deeply nourishing experiences of my life. They help to remind me that I am the magic and I am the medicine.”

    Helen Turner

  • “This one of the most amazing experiences I ever had. Veronica has a unique and beautiful way of constructing a retreat which not only opens the soul but creates a powerful, loving and sharing space. This will not be the last of her retreats I shall go on.”

    Gini Holden

  • ”The gathering was a rich tapestry of invitations to open, connect, remember ­– the ceremonial spaces so beautifully crafted and held. The programme of offerings was carefully prepared yet perceptively fluid, adapting with the mood of each moment. I felt safe and open knowing that I was in the hands of those that deeply respect and honour the traditions and practices being shared. I am so grateful for this sacred and intimate journey with myself, with the group, with the land on which we rested.”

    Julia Goodlife

  • “A deep remembrance of ancient rituals and practices we’ve lost throughout the way. Well, we didn’t really loose them, deep inside of ourselves we still know. Eyes sparkling around the fire, your inner child making a jump of enthusiasm, curiosity and excitement while at the same time feeling a deep sense of relaxation, a deep sense of pleasure. A feeling of coming home. Thank you. This retreat was simply a realm of total bliss. A portal of deep healing, remembering and home coming.”

    Moika Nkwocha-Nweze

A peek at past Ancestral Gatherings…