Trauma as Medicine Fall Retreat
Healing Through Presence, Accountability, and Embodied Wisdom
Trauma as Medicine is a ceremonial and integrative healing retreat rooted in a simple yet radical truth:
Our pain is not a mistake.
When met with presence, responsibility, and skilled support, trauma becomes a doorway to wisdom, wholeness, and embodied freedom. This work is not about fixing what is broken—it is about remembering what is whole.
The Principles of Trauma as Medicine
Trauma Lives in the Body
Trauma is held in the nervous system, tissues, breath, and patterns of contraction. Healing requires somatic presence, regulation, and embodied awareness—not insight alone.
Power Is Restored Through Responsibility
This work does not reinforce victim identity. Participants are supported in reclaiming agency:
I may not be responsible for what happened to me, but I am responsible for how I meet it now.
Healing Happens in Relationship
Trauma often occurs in isolation. Repair happens within safe, intentional relational fields—with land, Spirit, and community.
Altered States Reveal; Integration Makes It Last
Expanded states of consciousness can open insight, emotional release, and spiritual remembrance. Integration is what transforms experience into lasting change.
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The Role of Forest Medicine 🍄
Plant Spirit Healing is used in this retreat as a ceremonial sacrament and therapeutic catalyst, not a recreational substance.
Within a carefully held ceremonial container, Forest Medicine 🍄 supports:
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Access to unconscious and somatically held material
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Increased emotional processing and nervous system flexibility
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A felt sense of connection, meaning, and belonging
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Softening of rigid trauma-based identity structures
Forest Medicine 🍄 does not heal on its own.
It reveals, amplifies, and illuminates.
Healing occurs through:
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Preparation and intention
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Skilled facilitation and energetic containment
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Somatic awareness and self-inquiry
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Post-ceremony integration and accountability
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What This Retreat Includes
This retreat weaves together ceremonial, somatic, and integrative practices to support deep healing and embodiment.
Core Elements
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Two deep-dive evening Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremonies
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One small-dose daytime Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremony
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One Hapé ceremony
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Shamanic journeying
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Integration circles
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Land-based teachings
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Meditation
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Ecstatic Dance
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Self-inquiry practices
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Partner dyads
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Accommodation and organic meals
All practices are designed to support recognition that the capacity for healing already exists within you.
Preparation & Integration Support
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1 × Intention-Setting Session (60 min, Zoom)
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1 × Post-Ceremony Integration Session (60 min, Zoom)
These sessions support continuity, safety, and real-world integration.
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Plant Spirit Healing 🍄
Rainbow Serpent Lodge
Rainbow Serpent Lodge is the ceremonial healing lineage through which Forest Medicine 🍄 is shared in this retreat. It was received by Sarah in 2007 through direct spiritual transmission from her guide Thoth, associated with wisdom and divine order in the Egyptian tradition.
Within the lodge, Forest Medicine 🍄 is shared in two evening ceremonies, supported by:
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Live, channeled medicine songs
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Hands-on energetic healing
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Tobacco cleansing
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Shamanic prayer and ritual
The lodge creates a coherent energetic field that supports participants in meeting deep personal material with safety, clarity, and compassion.
Additional Practices
Self-Inquiry
Guided investigation into identity, belief systems, and trauma patterning, supported by journaling and shamanic journey.
Fire Ceremony
A cleansing and prayer-based practice from the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition.
Ecstatic Dance
Somatic, non-verbal movement for emotional release, vitality, and embodiment.
Integration Circles
Facilitated group sharing to metabolize insight and ground experience into daily life.
About the Facilitator
Sarah Salter-Kelly
Sarah Salter-Kelly is a spiritual teacher, ceremonialist, and trauma-informed facilitator with over 30 years of experience in healing and consciousness work.
Her work is deeply informed by lived experience, including the homicide of her mother and a long journey of grief, forgiveness, and embodied integration. This path became the foundation for Trauma as Medicine—both the methodology and the text.
Since 2007, Sarah has:
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Maintained a private clinical practice
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Created and led shamanic training programs
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Facilitated retreats and ceremonies internationally
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Worked with plant medicines in ceremonial and therapeutic contexts
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Guided thousands through integration and embodiment
This Retreat Is a Fit for You If…
☐ You feel called to meet trauma at the root
☐ You are willing to take responsibility for your healing
☐ You understand psilocybin as a sacrament, not a shortcut
☐ You value preparation, ceremony, and integration
☐ You can remain present with discomfort and uncertainty
☐ You seek spiritual depth without bypass
This Retreat Is Not a Fit for You If…
☐ You are seeking a recreational or purely visionary experience
☐ You expect psilocybin or the facilitator to do the work for you
☐ You are unwilling to engage in integration or accountability
☐ You are currently in acute crisis requiring clinical care
☐ You are seeking escape rather than embodied presence
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Praise for Trauma as Medicine
“This book provides not only a story of tremendous healing but gifts the reader a thorough roadmap to navigate our own healing and ultimately contribute to the collective wellbeing of our planet.”
— Teresa Callihoo, MBA, Wetaskiwin AB
“Sarah Salter Kelly took the agonizing pain of personal catastrophe and turned it into soul medicine for herself and others.”
— Marianne Williamson
Testimonials
Kate Hook — Onoway, AB
“Working with Sarah and Trauma as Medicine has been a tremendous gift. Her ability to empower me to heal myself—without reliance on anything outside my own inner truth—has been remarkable.”
Dianna C — Edmonton, AB
“Traumatized is the best word to describe myself when I started working with Sarah. Every teaching was medicine for my soul and body. I learned to love myself and awaken my Spirit after years of trauma.”
Jae Wright — Vernon, BC
“To share our stories in a space with no judgment—only support—was profoundly healing.”
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