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Sacred Medicine Healing Retreat- Feb 11-13, near Madison, VA $444
Very special sacred medicine retreat offered to heal the heart and align your energies for 2022.
Connie is honored to offer a heart-opening sacred ceremonial weekend in the mountains of VA. Frog and Earth medicines, Elemental Rituals, Yoga, Breathwork and a rich Sound Healing container.
Our time together honors Earth elements, opening our hearts and embodying ancestral teachings. Small group ceremony offers specialized healing work.
Luxury cabin in the mountains; includes Kambo and sacred earth medicine ceremonies, sound healing, yoga, breathwork, ecstatic dance, bodywork and in depth Integration support, offered with highest integrity. Experienced medicine woman, hands-on healer and guide, transpersonal therapeutic approach, offered in a tight container.
Friday evening: Arrive 5pm. Kambô, Rapéh, Sananga & Sound Healing, Dinner YOU MUST FAST ALL DAY FRIDAY (instructions/prep sent after registration)
Saturday: Earth medicine (+ Kambô option), Sound Healing, Ceremonial Rituals; Meal & Integration
Sunday: Yoga, Breathwork, Breakfast & Integration
$444 Vegetarian meals & luxury bed lodging included.
Full cycle of 3 Kambo: add $200 (a Cycle of 3 is normally $600).
Message us for details. Please include your email address, so details can be sent to you. All participants will undergo an initial intake screening. Space is limited to 7 participants.
REGISTER: $200 deposit required; after Feb. 1 full amount is required to reserve your spot. Venmo: @Connie-Magee Please note the dates & event title in your payment. Venmo: @connie-magee Please type “Donation-Feb 11″
Bring additional potluck items/personal preference if you have food sensitivities. You may all contribute healthy food for the meals/snack times. Think bean salads, whole fruit, vegetables; granola; no junk food, chips, candy, etc.
This is an alcohol and substance-free space all weekend. Please do not bring any vape pens, etc.
Friday you must fast all day, and drink minimal water. Kambo will be served that evening, and a light meal offered afterward. KAMBO INFORMATION HERE Full Preparation Instructions will be sent prior to retreat date.
Friday and Saturday will be sacred ceremony; Kambo will be offered each morning for those having a Kambo Cycle of 3 (each, additional $100). Each day will be full ceremony, held in silence. Evenings will be sharing & processing circle, dance/yoga, integration support and sound healing.
We open all ceremonies with prayers and everyone will be encouraged (but not required) to share their intentions and be supported skillfully through any necessary shifts. This is where Connie offers skilled integration support during the ceremonies.
You are welcome to laugh, cry, release, reintegrate, heal…right here in the sacred container held by two experienced medicine workers. Fears will be invited to dissolve into all encompassing patterns of love; all negativity will be understood and reintegrated in a positive understanding of authentic negative-and-positive self expressions. Learn the beautiful balance.
There will be optional herbal Medicines available, as well as a la carte energy work from Connie. Additional ceremonies, bodywork, one-on-one coaching and sound healing sessions can be booked as it best suits your needs for support and self care.
The emphasis of this Retreat is purification, rather than indulgence. The schedule has been designed with intermittent fasting in mind. If you need more sustenance support, you are invited to bring healthy options for yourself and to share. No processed foods, please.
Connie Magee Harrisonburg-based multidimensional healer & medicine woman, who uses bodywork, stones, sound healing, crystals, Reiki and Indigenous Shamanic medicines. She seamlessly and simultaneously blends them during sessions to facilitate deep, powerful healing in clients. She is also an Experienced Yoga and Meditation Teacher, ERYT500. Connie is a grounded and experienced practitioner of Kambô, and sacred indigenous medicines. She provides Integration support pre- and post-ceremony, for meaningful results that you will embody going forward. Clients appreciate the sense of safety and unconditional presence that Connie offers.
Connie is a Member of Oklavueha Native American Church by registering for this ceremony, you are agreeing to the membership tenets of Oklavueha Native American Church
We look forward to working together in highest alignment, excitement and greatest good, to be of highest service as we awaken our dreams into realities that we are living richly and authentically. Please bring an instrument if you play and wish to share!
Feedback from last retreat:
“The best parts for me were the Kambo Ceremony, our first ceremony as a group Saturday night, and the hike we took on Sunday. All three still sit and resonate with me greatly everyday. The environment Saturday night was so special. Having the fire pit lit, the music going, us all comfy and laying next to one another. It felt like such a time for personal growth but group bonding as well. I also loved being outside so much, and what a perfect day for it.”
“…best part of the retreat was the main ceremony Saturday night and the sensation of everyone’s energy plus the harmonious sound bath. But the combination of medicines leading up to it was beyond my initial expectation, I think they all fostered a positive bodily experience.”
“…I can’t believe how good I feel.”
Mountain Medicine Retreat April 1-4, 2022 $825
near Burnsville, NC
Snaggy Mountain is an artist retreat located in the mountains of NC on a sustainable homestead.
The energy is calm and magical, with many beautiful nooks around the property. Grassy knolls overlooking the beautiful black and blue mountains, incredibly rich biodiversity, and a beautifully crafted wooden deck with a spectacular view of the mountainous valley make this place a true delight.Our weekend of medicine work will include Kambô frog medicine cleanse, two full days with the God molecule and toad medicine, acupuncture, Elemental healing rituals, and extensive Integration support, all with an experienced Medicine Woman and co-facilitators. The Ceremonial container will be safe, sacred, and consistent.
This retreat is for you if:
…you wish to see through the Illusions of Self and the limitations of a false reality
…you wish to develop discernment in ego/attainment, soul growth & spiritual receptivity
…you desire to truly change your lifeThis Sacred Medicine experience is extremely powerful and profound. Most initiates find that the experience easily integrates into their lives and organically unfolds over the next several days, weeks and, in some cases, months after their participation, offering unique insights and deeper understandings about the Self, the nature of the Universe, the Divine and the inter- relatedness and ultimate unity of these aspects of the All.
Connie and Jordan adhere to the Best Practice Guidelines and Code of Ethics as set forth by the Conclave. Additionally, participants are required to read the Integration Guidelines.
The practitioner-to-client ratio is 1:2.
Connie offers Rituals & Ceremony based in Elemental Shamanic Medicine; Matthew will guide you in Kundalini meditation to consciously raise, and lower your energy. This will be an important skill to have as you integrate this medicine. We will work with Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Connie leads all medicine work & sound healing. Matthew brings an immersive, ambient sound journey experience with live music- guitars & synthesized compositions… as well as the Ayurvedic meals. They both provide the safe, grounded container for processing your journey within the present moment.Both experienced yoga teachers, Connie & Matthew lead asana & breath practices, journaling, and integration in a calm, safe and deeply supportive setting. Jordan will be assisting Connie during the Medicine work; they both completed a yearlong mentorship under Chad Charles, a well known and well-respected practitioner based in Canada.
Arrive ready to discover what it is to be fully alive, and connected to Source.
One focus of this weekend will be to explore Sacred Silence, Guided Intermittent Fasting, and Mindful Meditation during meals. Matthew & Connie offer wisdom and guidance from many years studying the Yoga Sutras, teaching Yoga & Meditation, and practicing the Yamas (external ethics) & Niyamas (internal observances, including cleansing, discipline & self-study).
During this special weekend of self-exploration, you will have the support to practice living and experiencing yourself and your surroundings in a different way. The senses are purified, the awareness radically expanded, and the grounding is provided by a tight container, experienced, compassionate facilitators, Nature herself, and your own awakening divinity.
The intention for this work is deep personal healing, a structured, supportive ceremonial container, movement, sharing, release and cleansing. We are offering this at an energy exchange of $825. Astrological and intuitive healing, breathwork, as well as Reiki will be offered during the Integration Sessions. Focused Yogic diet consultation with Matthew ($50, 2 hours)
All participants will receive Kambo Friday night. God molecule will be offered in a sacred group witnessing ceremony.
Participants sitting with The God Molecule are required to schedule a pre- intake call with me (45 min), complete an intake evaluation via email, and schedule a 1-hour Integration Session after the retreat. These integration sessions are included as part of the retreat.The itinerary (which may change, based on the needs of the group):
Friday, April 1 Arrive between 2:00-5:00pm; 6:00 Kambô Ceremony All participants will have Kambô in ceremony (YOU MUST FAST ALL DAY FRIDAY); opening Integration Circle & Intentions. Ayurvedic stew after ceremony; Breathwork & Bedtime Gong bath.
Saturday, April 2 8:00am Yoga Silence & fasting until after Ceremony
9:00am Group Sacred Medicine Ceremony
6:00pm Yoga & Chakra Meditation
7:00pm Dinner
8-10:00pm Group Integration & Ambient Sound Journey
Sunday, April 3 8:00am Yoga & Meditation Silence until after breakfast
10:00am Sacred Medicine Ceremony
4-5:00pm Group Foraging Hike, Nature time, Rest
7:00pm Ayurvedic Meal, Integration Fire Circle, Sound Journey
Monday, April 4
8:00am Yoga, Meditation
9:00am Breakfast
9:30am Group Integration
12:00pm Closing & Departure
Connie Magee Harrisonburg-based multidimensional healer & medicine woman, who uses bodywork, stones, sound healing, crystals, Reiki and Indigenous Shamanic medicines. She seamlessly and simultaneously blends them during sessions to facilitate deep, powerful healing in clients. She is also an Experienced Yoga and Meditation Teacher, ERYT500. Connie is a grounded and experienced practitioner of Kambô, and provides Integration support pre- and post-ceremony, for meaningful results that you will embody going forward. Clients appreciate the sense of safety and unconditional presence that Connie offers. SacredValleyHealingArts.com
Feedback from past retreats:
“The best parts for me were the Kambo Ceremony, our first ceremony as a group Saturday night, and the hike we took on Sunday. All three still sit and resonate with me greatly everyday. The environment Saturday night was so special. Having the fire pit lit, the music going, us all comfy and laying next to one another. It felt like such a time for personal growth but group bonding as well. I also loved being outside so much, and what a perfect day for it.”
“…best part of the retreat was the main ceremony Saturday night and the sensation of everyone’s energy plus the harmonious sound bath. But the combination of medicines leading up to it was beyond my initial expectation, I think they all fostered a positive bodily experience.”
PAST RETREATS:
October 4-6, 2019 A mountain escape that serves your body, soul and spirit! Full Moon Ecstatic dance, yoga, meditation & mountains is your perfect escape.
Join three experienced yoga and movement teachers for a spectacular early-fall weekend in the mountains of WV. DJ’d dance sets! Less than one hour from Harrisonburg, VA is a gathering place for soaking in nature under the darkest skies on the east coast. Our lodge is the perfect place to explore movement of all kinds: expert yoga sessions suitable for all levels; daily guided sound healing meditation, conscious dance every night and organic vegan meals. 360-degree views of unobstructed, undeveloped mountain splendor. Two woodburning stoves, cozy bunk rooms, plenty of space to spread out and lounge. Nooks to hide out in solitude. The energies of the Full Moon will amplify our work, our release and our healing during this special weekend.Depending on the weather, we have the option to dance and do yoga on a large outdoor deck; otherwise, a huge, beautiful hardwood yoga studio with panoramic views of the Appalachian Mountains.
OPTIONAL Kambô Frog Medicine CleanseThursday night, 10/3 7:00pm (details below).
WHAT’S ECSTATIC DANCE? Ecstatic dance/conscious dance is free-form, non-verbal, non-partnered, authentic movement in a safe, consensual group setting, with spectacular DJ’d music.) There is no experience or skill required at all- without the need to follow specific steps, we abandon ourselves to the rhythm and move freely as the music takes us, leading to trance and a feeling of ecstasy. Your dance can look like an explosion of movement, or you can roll around on the floor and release emotions.There are no judgments in this space. No talking is allowed during the dance- wordless expression allows the body to release trapped emotions and experience maximum JOY.
Mornings we will practice the yogic discipline of Mauna- silence. No talking until breakfast. This will allow you to calm your mind and center your energy, and connect to your body during our AM practices. This process allows for maximum clarity in your morning, and maximum joy for your day! This weekend is also your chance to take a break from coffee (a variety of teas will be provided). The workshop options are designed for maximum choice- Vision Boarding will be offered in the AM and PM, so join as you like; it will be possible to participate in all activities if you like…or none at all, and just nap. It’s your retreat. Our lodge offers many places to snuggle up with a blanket, besides your bunk. We will observe silence after 10:00pm. If you have never practiced Mauna (silence) before, you will be amazed by how it calms the mind and sharpens your senses.
SCHEDULE
Friday Arrive 12:00-4:00pm Settle in.
4:00 Welcome and Introductions
5:00 Dinner
6:00-9:00 Evening Yoga practice that morphs into freeform flow. Matt Wasson DJs sets that will free you into your own rhythm. Through unrestricted movement, we feel connected to others and to our own emotions, as our bodies release restrictions. The dance serves as a form of meditation, helping us relieve stress and attain serenity. The night ends with a Yin Yoga practice and a long, guided Gong Bath meditation and Savasana.
SATURDAY
7:30am Early morning Vinyasa flow and sound healing
9:00 Healthy vegan breakfast. We will practice silence until breakfast.
10:00 & 10:30 Morning Workshop Options: Strength & Balancing Techniques; Vision Boarding- Connie get you started on your project and you continue at your own pace over the next 2 days. All workshop participation is optional.
12:00 Lunch/Rest time/Nature time
1:45 Afternoon Workshop: Embodying the Chakras Movement workshop; Vision Boarding continues at your own pace
3:30 Rest time/Nature time
6:00 Dinner
7:00-9:30 Yoga, Dance & Meditation; Yin Savasana
Our movement practice opens with easy, flowing Vinyasa and dissolves into dance. We end with guided Yin yoga for deepest structural release. Gongs and Tibetan Singing Bowls equalize your brainwaves and all body vibrations down to the cellular level, to a point of pure resonance. Enter a state of complete release, safety and bliss.
9:30 Bonfire Ceremony We gather round the fire, a tradition as old as humanity itself, and soak in the darkest night skies in the East coast. Starlight, moonlight, firelight.
SUNDAY
7:30 Easy Vinyasa Flow & Meditation
9:00 Hearty Vegan breakfast
10:00 Closing movement practice (outside, weather permitting)
12:00 Nature Ceremony
12:30 Lunch
1:00 Kambô Frog Medicine (optional, see below) or depart in bliss
This retreat is your chance to explore movement in many new ways, in a safe, fun atmosphere, under the guidance of three experienced teachers of yoga, meditation and the healing arts. The end result is a new level of joy, feeling of connectedness and openness.
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Connie Magee
Connie Magee MS Ed, E-RYT500, LMT has 9 years as Experienced Yoga & Meditation teacher, massage therapist, sound healer, shamanic medicine practitioner, energy worker and acupuncture student. Clients and students value Connie’s creative, integrative and inspired approach. Vinyasa Flow is her foundational style, as well as integrating multiple meditation styles into the movement and seated practice. With 12 years experience as adventure Guide and Wilderness EMT, she’s taken clients all over the world and US on awesome retreats. She teaches weekly classes at The Center Yoga and workshops in 7 states. As a bodyworker, she has deftly integrated sound healing, stones and shamanic healing into her work for the past 5 years, offering private sessions as well as workshops. Her mesmerizing guided meditations blend with elements of nature and instruments, for transformative states and deep clearing and healing. She began sound healing and teaching yoga during her life in NYC, at Sonic Yoga and courses with Satya Brat and Don Conreaux.
Sandra Diaz
Sandra has has been a yoga practitioner for 15 years and completed her 200 hour teaching training through Neighborhood Yoga in Boone NC in 2015. She is also a mindfulness practitioner, and helps facilitate Whispering Waters Sangha, a local meditation group. Sandra’s philosophy: Yoga means to yoke, to join. When we bring our breath, our mind and our body into unison, we allow the wholeness that is our essential nature to express itself. We step on the mat to intentionally witness how we move through the world, in order to lovingly encourage this wholeness to shine through. The more peace we can generate within ourselves, the more peace we have to offer the world. We can then express our values through thought and action from a place of groundedness and spaciousness. The path of the “wholehearted warrior” empowers us to create the world in which we want to live. Yoga, therefore, can be an act of resistance to the forces that encourage us to remain fragmented and distracted from our larger truth.
Matt Wasson
Since 2012, yoga has become a cornerstone practice for Matt’s well-being. Yoga taught Matt how to listen to his body and opened the door to other practices like meditation and dance that are key elements of a happier, healthier and more connected lifestyle today. Matt teaches a vinyasa flow style in which poses are built from the ground up and the core out and every transition is initiated from a place of support. His teaching is informed by many modalities including the Alexander Technique, which was the basis for my recovery from chronic back pain. Matt’s intention in teaching yoga is to help students learn to listen to their bodies and use them more wisely and to increase their range of motion, strength, equanimity and mindfulness.
OPTIONAL: Kambô Frog Medicine Cleanse, Thursday night Oct. 3, ~7:00pm and Sunday, Oct 6, 1:00pm
Requires a 12-hour fast prior. No food, minimal water , the entire day Thursday.
The ultimate cleanse- body, mind, spirit? Kambô is the medicine of transformation, as it is the Master Cleanser. Multi-dimensional healer Connie Magee offers a special ceremony the night before our retreat. Traditionally, we receive Kambô medicine at every season change, for health and alignment. You will sleep deeply and awaken with incredible clarity, lightness and clearer skin and sensory organs! This will enhance your weekend experience and allow you to connect more deeply to the movement, the energies of nature, the nourishment of the foods, and ultimately yourself as a divine being.
Rapéh & Sananga will be served, as well. These indigenous medicines are legal, powerful agents of emotional & spiritual transformation as well as physical cleansing of the entire system. Bioactive peptides allow your system to dump its toxic load and fully release. All medicines offered are legal and safe. These are not psychedelics.
This indigenous and ethically obtained medicine is from the Amazon, where it has been used for centuries to purge the body, cleanse the spirit, release energetic attachments and heal disease of all kinds. It is known simply as “The Inoculation.” Tribespeople take Kambô at every season change, lifelong.
The medicine provides incredible mental clarity, sensory acuity and restored physical function, as well as pain relief for chronic conditions. It is also known as “Hunter’s Medicine,” as is taken by tribesmen prior to hunting in the jungle at night, due to the stamina and mental clarity it provides. It is especially effective for depression, anxiety, substance abuse/addictions, PTSD, sexual trauma, autoimmune issues, Lyme disease, musculoskeletal pain, heavy metal and chemical toxicity, infertility and many other conditions. Clients invariably report feeling lighter, more emotionally intact, and empowered to make changes in their lives, where they were previously blocked. Longstanding physical and mental issues show improvement or complete resolution with this medicine.
Kambô is best received in a Cycle of 3 during one moon cycle, or ideally, 3 in 3 days. Connie offers this medicine continually by appointment in Harrisonburg and other areas, and in group session at the season changes. This allows the Medicine and process to work at progressively deeper levels, for greatest benefit. If you wish to incorporate a Cycle of 3 into the retreat, Connie can offer an additional ceremony on Sunday at 1:00.
There are dietary and spiritual preparations- contact Connie directly via fb Messenger or email to initiate.
A detailed preparation document will be sent and each participant will receive an in-depth 1:1 screening. This medicine is not offered to anyone with serious heart conditions, history of aneurysm, Crohn’s or Addison’s Disease or an active drug or alcohol addiction. A fast of 12 hours is required prior to each ceremony, and meat/dairy-free diet for 3 days before and after.
This medicine is safe, powerful and effective. References available upon request.
PAST RETREATS: coming again soon!
April 26-29, 2019: Spring Escape w/ Justine and Connie in West Virginia! $450 early sign up (before Mar. 1)
Individual or small group healing retreats in amazing natural settings. Call (540.416.2964) for individual or custom trips.
Past custom healing adventures have included the island of Dominica; Sedona, AZ; regional outdoor adventures and journeys in the western US. Connie offers retreats at Treasure Mountain Lodge & Bike Park in Franklin, WV. Next retreat is April 26-28, 2019.
Retreats can be created based on an individual, couples, families or small groups. Any of the modalities and services listed on this website can be included: private yoga & meditation instruction; sacred practice cultivation; specialized bodywork, outdoor adventure. Connie has 12+ years experience as an adventure guide and Advanced wilderness EMT. She has taken clients to 8 countries and traveled to 22 herself. Start to finish, you’re in good hands.
Jan 2019 Feedback:
Spending a weekend with Connie Magee was a profoundly grounding
opening beautiful awakening. I went to the weekend with an empty cup
no expectations, but knew that I have been dealing with many anxieties
and fears and I’ve been trying to work through over the past year.
Connie held space on a beautiful sacred mountain top where there was
no light pollution, no cell phone service, no flight Paths.
Through movement/yoga, breath work, daily individual and group sound
healing with her magnificent gongs and singing bowls, energy work, and
chanting all held in sacred ceremony, I feel as though I was able to
release all of the things I intended To let go of, and created space
and openings for many blessings that I’ve been waiting to receive.
Thanks again for such a great weekend!