Sarah Salter Kelly

Trauma as Medicine Retreat BC
2026-04-30 17:00 - 2026-05-05 12:00 (America/Denver) | Sentinel Retreat Centre, 5278, Amundensen road, Kaslo, BC, V0G 1M0
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 BodyTrauma 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 ResponsibilityThis 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 RelationshipTrauma often occurs in isolation. Repair happens within safe, intentional relational fields—with land, Spirit, and community.
Altered States Reveal; Integration Makes It LastExpanded 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:

Access to unconscious and somatically held material

Increased emotional processing and nervous system flexibility

A felt sense of connection, meaning, and belonging

Softening of rigid trauma-based identity structures

Forest Medicine 🍄 does not heal on its own.It reveals, amplifies, and illuminates.
Healing occurs through:

Preparation and intention

Skilled facilitation and energetic containment

Somatic awareness and self-inquiry

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

Two deep-dive evening Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremonies

One small-dose daytime Forest Medicine 🍄 ceremony

One Hapé ceremony

Shamanic journeying

Integration circles

Land-based teachings

Meditation

Ecstatic Dance

Self-inquiry practices

Partner dyads

Accommodation and organic meals

All practices are designed to support recognition that the capacity for healing already exists within you.
Preparation & Integration Support

1 × Intention-Setting Session (60 min, Zoom)

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:

Live, channeled medicine songs

Hands-on energetic healing

Tobacco cleansing

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-InquiryGuided investigation into identity, belief systems, and trauma patterning, supported by journaling and shamanic journey.
Fire CeremonyA cleansing and prayer-based practice from the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition.
Ecstatic DanceSomatic, non-verbal movement for emotional release, vitality, and embodiment.
Integration CirclesFacilitated 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:

Maintained a private clinical practice

Created and led shamanic training programs

Facilitated retreats and ceremonies internationally

Worked with plant medicines in ceremonial and therapeutic contexts

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.”

With Marianne Williamson
Waking up Human with Mandy Trapp
Waking Up Human with Mandy Trapp: #008: Opening the Door to Plant Medicine with Sarah Salter-Kelly on Apple Podcasts
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff
https://youtu.be/FVJxBW5b7Yg
Microdosing for Healing with Kayse Garett
Microdosing For Healing: Trauma as Medicine: Healing with Plant Medicine and Forgiveness with Sarah Salter Kelly on Apple Podcasts
I have my reasons with Deandra Dey
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey

Ceremonial Medicine Apprenticeship Training
2026-01-14 15:00 - 2026-01-24 09:00 (America/Denver) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Calling all Medicine People…
You who have been marked, initiated, and guided to sit with plant medicine at this time of great awakening. Life has gifted you a series of challenges that has led you into the heart center of our evolving times. This program is for you. To root your awareness in a foundation of leadership and support others seeking a deeper level of healing. It is time to remember your medicine, for the benefit of yourself, your family, your community, and our world.
Our focus is on the energetic and spiritual aspects of ceremony, healing, and land-based teachings; as well as the ethics of integrating this into a healthy psychedelic practice. The aim is for you to develop confidence and trust in yourself that you are enough, you belong, and these times are made for you. The Universe wants you to show up and share your gifts as a space holder and steward of plant medicine.
This is a life path. What is taught in the program is implemented and embodied in the further development of your spiritual growth on this planet. Though the teachings are condensed into a 10 month program it is with great recognition that this is a path you commit to for this lifetime.
APPLY NOW
Who is this program for:
This program is for Healers, Therapists, Counselors, Coaches, Nurses, Social workers & MD’s
Course Details

11 day in person training – Costa Rica
5 in person ceremonies
Shamanic initiations – Chumpi Karpay
4 three-hour group classes over the course of 10 months
4 one to one private sessions with Sarah – one hour each
Clinical practicum – holding space for individiual psilocybin session four times over the course of the year
Ceremonial Apprenticeship manual
Bi monthly zoom partner practices & assignments

Prerequisites
This Apprenticeship is designed for people who:

Are on a conscious medicine path for a minimum of two years.
Feel called to facilitate intentional space for prayer, connection & transformation with plant medicine.
Are anchored in the awareness that we are holy sacred beings who heal ourselves through coming into balance with who we are and what has come to pass.
Have been trained as a facilitator or practitioner in one or more of the following: circle facilitation, yoga, somatics, therapy, coaching, personal growth, leadership, medicine, energy healing, shamanism, trauma informed care – or have life experiences which compliment this capacity.
Have experience in working with Psilocybin and feel called by this medicine to explore its spiritual nature and the support it offers humanity.
Feel the Starlight nations calling.

Investment:
$3888 CAD – for program plus tax = $4082 – Paid directly to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com via e-transfer or paypal (add 5%) Payment is due upon confirmation of acceptance in program. (May be made in 3 installments if needed)
Room and Board:
Prices in USD – 10 nights including Lodging and Food:

Single Occupancy – $1810
Double Occupancy – $1460
Triple Occupancy – $1160
Payment links are given after application is accepted.
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All applications will be reviewed and an interview scheduled – Note this is on a first come first serve basis with room for 14 people.

photos from Canada 2024 program
Dates: January 14th – 24th 2026, in person , near Cahuita, Costa Rica
2026 Online zoom classes: 2-5 pm MST, Wednessday’s as follows: April 22nd, June 24th, Sept 2nd, Dec 2nd.
Sessions with Sarah, partner work and clinical practice organised after in person portion.
Meet the group info session scheduled for November 26th on zoom 3:30-5:30 MST

Despacho for the Starlight Nations
2025-11-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
This is an exciting event! My friend Juan Quispe and I are creating a powerful portal of prayer to connect with our Starlight Ancestors, with a traditional despacho ceremony on Zoom.
Cost is scale rate of $30-$60 CAD paid to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com via paypal or etransfer. With paypal please select friends and family option.
Be prepared with your own intention to give thanks for the light within and open to the highest counsel available to you.

Integration Circle
2025-11-20 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
This event is free for all past ceremony participants or private session clients. Message me for Zoom link

Book Signing Chapters Edmonton West
2025-10-25 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Pop by and get your copy of Trauma as Medicine! I’d love to chat with you.
Check out this interview with Marianne Williamson

Trauma as Medicine Book Signing Edmonton
2025-05-22 15:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | 1837 – 99street NW Indigo Books Edmonton, 1837-99street Indigo South Common, Edmonton, AB, T6N1K8, Canada

Dreaming Our World Into Being Edmonton
2025-05-13 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Denver) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada

Starlight Medicine Spring Retreat
2025-05-01 16:00 - 2025-05-05 12:00 (America/Denver)
This retreat is an invitation to come home. To open to the genuine presence of your being through the use of plant medicine ceremony and earth based traditional practices. It is focused on the awareness that you have what you need within you – everything is in fact here now – and our healing is the art of integrating, accepting, and loving what is. In this process we claim the light of our true nature and use this light – starlight- to guide our way.
Sarah’s teachings are nondual, based on the philosophy that we are one. Through cultivating loving awareness we remember we are not separate from our Source and in this way, we align who we are with how we live. She is the author of Trauma as Medicine, a DIY book for healing trauma and transforming your life; based on the personal experience of losing her mother to homicide and subsequent journey of healing and forgiveness.
3 Plant Medicines:
1 Forest Medicine night ceremony
1 Heart Medicine day ceremony
Hape ceremony
4 Earth Tradition Ceremonies:
Starlight Medicine Ritual
Fire Ceremony
Hucha stone cleanse
Despacho
The location – The Sentinel is a top-notch environment for soul healing. Nestled on 6 pristine acres on Kootenay lake you can expect to be held in the power of these ancient mountains with love, wisdom and stillness. The rooms all have a view of the lake, the food is local, organic and much is grown on the property. For you pleasure there is a hot tub, sauna, and of course cold plunges in the lake.

Cost of this program is $1488 cad plus room and board – both of which are done in one payment.
Registration on this link
Further Details:
Starlight Medicine Ritual – This ritual has come through the ancient teachings of our starlight ancestors as a guide for these times. We are in a great moment of awakening, and it is necessary to open to the highest light for the illumination of our path. This ritual is delivered through visualization, shamanic journey and earth-based practices.
Forest Medicine ceremony – The Rainbow serpent lodge was passed to Sarah many years ago through her Spirit guide Thoth; the God of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon. In this lodge she shares psilocybin tea in a night ceremony. You are supported with channeled medicine songs, music, hands on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic methods. This is an excellent medicine for moving into the underworld aspects of our life’s journey so we can integrate them with the light.
The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following:

Commune with Source.
Regulate your nervous system.
Illuminate your true nature.
Release old patterns.
Address grief & trauma.
Come home to your self & your body.
Investigate internal contracted energy.
Enter loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Das
Experience presence

Heart medicine Ceremony – This profound medicine is shared in a day ceremony. Also known as San Pedro – is an exceptional allie for connecting us with our inner child and facilitating an experience of embodiment. Held in the social and sacred container of our retreat community you begin to see yourself in a new way – releasing stories that do not serve your highest good – and opening to your child like sense of wonderment.
Fire Ceremony – Working with the Spirit of fire you will learn a practice passed through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.
Hape ceremony A sacred snuff comprised of tobacco and other plants this medicine supports your healing through the opening of your third eye, connection with your heart and a rooted sense of awareness in your physical body.
Despacho – From the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains this ceremony offers a practice of gratitude that is rooted in the celebration of life. Utilizing flowers, seeds, and objects from nature a mandala is created with prayer and intention to give thanks for all that is here.
Integration – Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle are an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group and to use your voice – be heard- as you share your heart.
The team – Sarah has gathered a solid team of assistants – professionals in the holistic field – to ensure you have what you need to tuning and turning inwards – TBA
Note your registration includes an intention setting session as well as an integration session – each one hour long on Zoom.
Registration on this link
Basic Itinerary:
Day 1
4-5:30pm Arrive – check in
5:30 – 6:30pm Supper
7:00 – 9:00pm Opening Ceremony & Circle Maloca
Day 2
7:00 – 8:00am Somatic Movement Maloca
8 :00- 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop – Starlight ritual & Hape Ceremony
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:30pm Reflection time
3:30 – 4:00pm snack
4:00 – 6:30pm – Ecstatic dance
6:30 – 7pm Break – get ready for ceremony
7:00 – 11:00pm – Rainbow Serpent Lodge (Forest Medicine)
Day 3
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 Kundalini Yoga
10:30 – 12:30 Integration Circle
12:30 – 1:30 lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Reflection time
3:30 – 6:00 Fire Ceremony & Hucha stone cleanse
6:00 – 7:00pm Supper
Day 4
No breakfast
9:00 – 6:00 pm – Heart medicine ceremony – Medicine songs, Despacho ceremony, circle and time outside on the land.
6:00 – 7:00pm Supper
Day 5
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony
12:00 Lunch
Sarah Salter Kelly is a spiritual teacher, healer and author of the book Trauma as Medicine. She utilizes the raw compounded teachings of her life experience to uplift, empower and guide others. Her wisdom is authentic, embodied and hard won – generated through years of integrating the tragic homicide of her mother and forgiving the perpetrator – alongside 30 years of studying personal growth, energy healing, shamanism, and earth-based traditions. Over the past 16 years she has run a private healing practice, facilitated retreats in Canada (with Psilocybin) and in Peru (with Ayahuasca & Huachuma), taught trauma-focused and shamanic healing workshops, and presented at numerous conferences/public events. She is presently excited about the above ground emergence of psychedelic plant medicine and its capacity to generate healing. She is available online or in person (Edmonton, Alberta) for private sessions and teaches retreats/workshops/trainings internationally.
Spiritual Teacher Marianne Williamson interviews Sarah

https://youtu.be/8WDFQOcNrho
Follow her on Instagram, You tube or Facebook.
Find out more at www.sarahsalterkelly.com
Get a copy of her book
Trauma as Medicine: a DIY book for healing trauma & transforming your life – Sarah Salter Kelly
Why Group Psychedelic Ceremony with Psilocybin?
https://youtu.be/rzMq2mxvOno?si=AfpNWOjuxgesJC9O
Sarah has been interviewed on many podcasts:
Waking Up Human with Mandy Trapp: #008: Opening the Door to Plant Medicine with Sarah Salter-Kelly on Apple Podcasts
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff – https://youtu.be/FVJxBW5b7Yg
Microdosing For Healing: Trauma as Medicine: Healing with Plant Medicine and Forgiveness with Sarah Salter Kelly on Apple Podcasts
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey
The following tools are helpful for navigating a psychedelic experience:

Intention – what is the purpose of sitting with this medicine.
Breath – slowing down and regulating your breath when you feel challenged. Being able to use your breath to breathe in what you need and release what you do not, during ceremony.
Meditation – any practice that you use in your daily life for calming your nervous system and engaging your ability to observe mind translates well for a psychedelic experience. Check out Energy Body 1 & Energy Body 2 to help with this.
Contemplate your experiences with physical challenges be these ones you have created, like climbing a mountain or unexpected like an injury. How did you find the endurance to be with this and rise to the occasion. That is the gumption which is needed in ceremony.
Inner discipline – be this from training in spiritual traditions, religion, or personal growth.
Curiosity & playfulness – this is not all about the hard things! This medicine has a sense of humour and if you get curious during your journey, you will experience joy.
Gratitude practice – awareness that all the lessons which show up in our life are opportunities to learn – especially if we say thank you.

Kelowna Book Signing
2025-04-04 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
I would love to hear from you – share with me how Trauma as Medicine has been helpful for you, or come pick up your copy and begin to set intention in addressing your trauma.

What if our suffering holds the key to our personal and collective healing?

In Trauma as Medicine, Sarah Salter Kelly shares her experience of her mother’s kidnapping and brutal homicide as an inspiring example of how to distill trauma into medicine. Chapter by chapter, she invites the reader to take their own journey of healing.
Sarah’s story takes us beyond the realm of personal healing and into the collective, as she seeks to understand her mother’s murderer. This leads her to the First Nations reserve of his ancestors and real-life immersion in the history of colonization in Canada, systemic racism, and white privilege.
Offering ceremonies, journaling, and exercises, Sarah leads you into the discomfort of your own suffering. Her work invites you to be with your pain, determine for yourself what you need, and discover the tools to proceed towards wholeness.
Areas of focus include:

Connecting with your own helping spirits, guides, and ancestors
Altered states, including Ayahuasca
Setting healthy boundaries
Tending to the victim self
Tuning in to feelings
Facing fear and building a strong intuition
Metabolising trauma: digesting and composting the waste, assimilating the gifts
Ceremonies to face a perpetrator and contemplate forgiveness
Collective healing

Years of training in spiritual healing and personal growth, as well as a focus on animistic and shamanic traditions, enable Sarah to present a guide to freedom, compassion, and authentic forgiveness. She provides a path into the very life lessons which lie before us: those found at the heart of our trauma.

Dreaming our world into being
2025-03-31 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Denver) | 4th Street Studio, Grand Forks, BC
An evening of intentional visioning with Sarah Salter Kelly
With ritual, meditation, and intention, Sarah guides you into the portal of transformation to co-create awareness which brings forth illumination in your personal life, and sets the template for your role in collective healing.

Identify your role in bringing light to humanity
Learn practical steps to create your vision
Gain awareness to reconcile divisiveness
Anchor your energy into the collective power of love

Register through payment of $30 in advance etransfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or $40 at the door. Space limited to 16 people

Dreaming our World into Being
2025-03-28 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Soma Sound Studio, 444 Baker Street, Nelson, BC, Canada

Red Deer Book Signing
2025-03-20 15:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Chapters Red Deer, #10 5250 22st, Red Deer, AB, T4R 2T4, Canada

Edmonton Book Signing
2025-03-15 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-15 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Chapters Edmonton West, 9952, 170street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5T 6G7, Canada

Book Signing - Edmonton South Common
2025-03-13 15:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)

Trauma as Medicine Retreat Ottawa
2025-02-13 17:00 - 2025-02-16 12:00 (America/Denver)
Imagine the following: You are standing high on a mountaintop, feet planted firmly on the ground, arms stretched up to greet the heavens, totally connected to Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit. Everything in your body lives and breathes in alignment with the land around you. You know you are here on purpose, your life is rich with meaning, and all your experiences have happened for a reason. You are the co-creator of your life and embodying your medicine.
This is the intention of Trauma as Medicine.
It is the living act of releasing the shackles of powerlessness found in the wake of grief, trauma, or suffering and choosing to do the work required to metabolize your pain. Whether this is facing fear, expressing unresolved emotions, or telling your story – each act removes the sensation of subjugation to the past and opens you to the power of the present moment. This is where freedom lies. This is where that mountain comes in.
This retreat utilizes land-based teachings, integration circle, shamanic journey, movement, meditation, dyads, one ceremony with Grandmother Psilocybin and one Hape ceremony, to guide you in trusting you have the resources inherent in your own being to heal. With hands-on practices focused on personal embodiment and self-inquiry, you will be supported in connecting with your sacred self. Note that actual mountains are not always included.
Registration & Costs: Early bird price $1111 must be paid by December 15th (with gst $1167) Regular price $1488 paid by Jan 15th. (with gst $1562)
This includes the cost of the retreat and your room which is twin shared. Payments may be made via e-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or with cc (add 3.5%) via pay pal or message me to use Square.
How to register? Book an intake session if you are new to working with me at this link (this is a separate cost of $120 which is paid through the link) and Fill out this registration form. Once your spot is confirmed, proceed with total payment via e-transfer or pay pal.
Food will be a community creation where each person will be assigned one dish to contribute.
The Location: Ottawa area, details given upon registration
Plant Medicines:
Rainbow Serpent Lodge: The Rainbow Serpent Lodge was passed down to Sarah by her Spirit guide Thoth, the God of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon. In this lodge, Sarah shares mushroom tea in a night ceremony. Participants are supported with channeled medicine songs and music, hands-on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic practices to guide their journey. This is excellent medicine for delving into the deeper aspects of our life’s journeys so we can integrate them with the light.
The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following:
– Communing with Source.
– Regulating the nervous system.
– Illuminating one’s true nature.
– Releasing old patterns.
– Addressing grief & trauma.
– Coming home to oneself & one’s body.
– Investigating internal contracted energy.
– Entering loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Dass.
– Experiencing presence.
Hape: Hape is a tobacco snuff from the Amazon used to clear heavy energy, open the third eye, and ground.
Other processes:
– Self-inquiry: The practice of investigating who we are to raise our awareness, increase our understanding, and release old patterning. In our retreat, it is combined with shamanic journey & journal writing.
– Fire Ceremony: Working with the Spirit of Fire, you will learn a practice passed down through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.
– Ecstatic Dance: Free-flow improvisational movement allows the body to move to the rhythm within and without for release, empowerment, and healing.
– Shamanic Journey: The art of communing with Spirit through your own personal direct revelation – this practice enhances your intuition, increases psychic awareness, and instigates clarity in your healing experience.
– Integration Circle: Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle is an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group, and to use your voice – be heard – as you share your heart.
Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with a rich education in energy healing and hands-on practice. Her training is sourced in lived experiences – particularly healing from the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – as well as thirty years of studying energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She shares an integrated path to lay the foundation for personal transformation and empowerment.
Since 2007, Sarah has run a private clinical practice, created a healing centre, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and implemented shamanic training programs, spoken at many conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Her primary focus is curating experiences with plant medicine for the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Most recently, she is the author of her first self-published book – “Trauma as Medicine.”

For those interested in reading her book prior to attending – it is available here: Trauma as Medicine | Sarah Salter Kelly

“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. Sarah provides many pertinent reflections on our collective relationship to the First peoples of this land and the role required of each of us.” 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. What seared her soul, then opened her soul. And an amazing light came in.”
— Marianne Williamson, Spiritual teacher and international best selling author
Testimonials:
Working with Sarah and Trauma as Medicine has been a tremendous gift on my journey of healing my deep and long-standing abandonment wounds. Sarah’s ability to help empower me to heal myself, without reliance on anything or anyone outside of my own inner medicine and truth has been a remarkable gift. Kate Hook – Onoway Alberta
Traumatized is the best word to describe myself when I started working with Sarah. I attended her Trauma as medicine retreat, did private sessions, went to healing circles and many keynote speaker events. Every one of these teachings was medicine for my soul and body. I learned to love myself and awakened my Spirit from the resentment of spousal beatings and residential school trauma. Sarah is a gifted Healer, and she has opened my life to see my own amazing journey unfold for the better. I talk to everyone about her teachings. Dianna C – Edmonton Alberta
I have gleaned such a profound understanding of the importance of all of us being able to share our stories of trauma in order to help heal each other as a collective. To be able to do it in a safe environment where we know there will be no judgment, just the pure desire to help support each other wherever we are in this process. Jae Wright – Vernon BC
Basic Itinerary
Day 1 –
4 – 6:00pm Arrive & get settled
6 – 7:00pm Supper
7:00 – 9:00pm Opening Circle
Day 2 –
7:00 – 8:00am Movement
8 :00-9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop teachings – Mandalas & Shamanic Journey
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm Reflection time
3:00 – 5:00pm Workshop teachings – Mandalas & Hape Ceremony
6:00 – 11:00pm Rainbow Serpent Lodge Ceremony
Day 3 –
7:00 – 8:00 Movement
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 12:30 Integration Cirlce
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Reflection time
3:00 – 6:00 Ecstatic dance & Fire Ceremony
Day 4 –
7:00 – 8:00 movement
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony.
12:00 Lunch
Sarah has been interviewed on many podcasts:

With Marianne Williamson
Waking up Human with Mandy Trapp
Waking Up Human with Mandy Trapp: #008: Opening the Door to Plant Medicine with Sarah Salter-Kelly on Apple Podcasts
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff
https://youtu.be/FVJxBW5b7Yg
Microdosing for Healing with Kayse Garett
Microdosing For Healing: Trauma as Medicine: Healing with Plant Medicine and Forgiveness with Sarah Salter Kelly on Apple Podcasts
I have my reasons with Deandra Dey
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey

Trauma as Medicine Retreat
2024-11-21 17:00 - 2024-11-24 12:00 (America/Denver)
Imagine this: You are standing on top of a mountain, with your feet firmly planted on the ground and your arms stretched up toward the sky. You feel completely connected to Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit. Every part of your body is in harmony with the land around you. You know that you are here for a reason, your life is filled with purpose, and all your experiences have meaning. You are actively shaping your own life and embodying your essence.
This is the intention of Trauma as Medicine.
During this retreat, you will engage in land-based teachings, circles, shamanic journeys, movement, meditation, and three plant medicine ceremonies. These activities aim to help you trust in your inherent resources for self-healing. Through hands-on practices that emphasize personal embodiment and self-inquiry, you will receive support in connecting with your sacred self. Please note that actual mountains may not be included.
Time Frame: November 21 – 24
Registration & Costs: Early bird price $1111 must be paid by November 1st (with gst $1167) Regular price $1488 paid by Nov 15th (with gst $1562)
This includes the cost of the retreat and your room which is twin shared. Payments may be made via e-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or pay pal.
How to register? Book an intake session if you are new to working with me at this link (this is a separate cost of $120 which is paid through the link) and Fill out this registration form. Once your spot is confirmed, proceed with total payment via e-transfer or pay pal.
Food will be a community creation where each person will be assigned one dish to contribute.
The environment: Located on private land at Cooking lake Alberta in a 6 bdrm house, with 4 bathrooms.
Plant Medicines – Psilocybin & Huachuma
Psilocybin tea is shared in the Rainbow Serpent Lodge which was passed to Sarah through a vision she has back in 2007 through Thoth, the Egyptian God of wisdom. Participants are supported with channeled medicine songs and music, hands-on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic practices to guide their journey. This is excellent medicine for delving into the deeper aspects of our life’s journeys so we can integrate them with the light.
The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following:
– Communing with Source.
– Regulating the nervous system.
– Illuminating one’s true nature.
– Releasing old patterns.
– Addressing grief & trauma.
– Coming home to oneself & one’s body.
– Investigating internal contracted energy.
– Entering loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Dass.
– Experiencing presence.
Huachuma (San Pedro) is a psychedelic cactus that grows in the high Andes of Peru. It specializes in opening our hearts to love and helping us to bring this into the world. Our health and vitality are linked to our relationship with ourselves, Mother Earth and Spirit, which is often out of balance. Huachuma helps us to re-establish these relationships and investigate what is needed for harmony. It is a daytime ceremony which will hold moments of inner reflection as well as times for group engagement. You are encouraged to trust in yourself, the medicine, and the process. The ceremony is twelve hours long on Saturday.
Hape: Hape is a tobacco snuff from the Amazon used to clear heavy energy, open the third eye, and ground.
Other processes:
– Self-inquiry: The practice of investigating who we are to raise our awareness, increase our understanding, and release old patterning. In our retreat, it is combined with shamanic journey & journal writing.
– Despacho: The art of gifting and giving thanks for all that we have through creating a sacred mandala we offer to Mother Earth.
– Fire Ceremony: Working with the Spirit of Fire, you will learn a practice passed down through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.
– Ecstatic Dance: Free-flow improvisational movement allows the body to move to the rhythm within and without for release, empowerment, and healing.
– Shamanic Journey: The art of communing with Spirit through your own personal direct revelation – this practice enhances your intuition, increases psychic awareness, and instigates clarity in your healing experience.
– Integration Circle: Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle is an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group, and to use your voice – be heard – as you share your heart.
– Qi-gong: A meditative practice incorporating breathing techniques, movement, sound, and self-massage. Its origins lie in traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.
Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with a rich education in energy healing and hands-on practice. Her training is sourced in lived experiences – particularly healing from the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – as well as thirty years of studying energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She shares an integrated path to lay the foundation for personal transformation and empowerment.
Since 2007, Sarah has run a private clinical practice, created a healing centre, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and implemented shamanic training programs, spoken at many conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Her primary focus is curating experiences with plant medicine for the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Most recently, she is the author of her first self-published book – “Trauma as Medicine.”

For those interested in reading her book prior to attending – it is available here: Trauma as Medicine | Sarah Salter Kelly

“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. Sarah provides many pertinent reflections on our collective relationship to the First peoples of this land and the role required of each of us.” 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. What seared her soul, then opened her soul. And an amazing light came in.”
— Marianne Williamson, Spiritual teacher and international best selling author
Testimonials:
Working with Sarah and Trauma as Medicine has been a tremendous gift on my journey of healing my deep and long-standing abandonment wounds. Sarah’s ability to help empower me to heal myself, without reliance on anything or anyone outside of my own inner medicine and truth has been a remarkable gift. Kate Hook – Onoway Alberta
Traumatized is the best word to describe myself when I started working with Sarah. I attended her Trauma as medicine retreat, did private sessions, went to healing circles and many keynote speaker events. Every one of these teachings was medicine for my soul and body. I learned to love myself and awakened my Spirit from the resentment of spousal beatings and residential school trauma. Sarah is a gifted Healer, and she has opened my life to see my own amazing journey unfold for the better. I talk to everyone about her teachings. Dianna C – Edmonton Alberta
I have gleaned such a profound understanding of the importance of all of us being able to share our stories of trauma in order to help heal each other as a collective. To be able to do it in a safe environment where we know there will be no judgment, just the pure desire to help support each other wherever we are in this process. Jae Wright – Vernon BC
Basic Itinerary
Day 1 – Nov 21st
4-6:00pm Arrive & get settled
6:30 – 12:30 pm Opening Circle and Rainbow Serpent Lodge Ceremony
Day 2 – Nov 22d
7:00 – 8:00am Qi-gong
8 :00-9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop – Integration Circle & Energy Body practice
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm Reflection time
3:00 – 5:00pm Workshop teachings
5:00 – Supper
Day 3 – Nov 23
7:00 – 8:00 Qi-gong
9:00 – 6:00 pm Huachuma Ceremony
6:00 Supper
Day 4 – Nov 24th
7:00 – 8:00 Qi-gong
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony.
12:00 Lunch
Sarah has been interviewed on many podcasts:

With Marianne Williamson
Waking up Human with Mandy Trapp
Waking Up Human with Mandy Trapp: #008: Opening the Door to Plant Medicine with Sarah Salter-Kelly on Apple Podcasts
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff
https://youtu.be/FVJxBW5b7Yg
Microdosing for Healing with Kayse Garett
Microdosing For Healing: Trauma as Medicine: Healing with Plant Medicine and Forgiveness with Sarah Salter Kelly on Apple Podcasts
I have my reasons with Deandra Dey
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey

Energy Body 101
2024-10-01 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Delve into the mystery of who you are in this fun, pragmatic, hands on course.
Subjects exlpored:

What is your energy body?
How to use it to cultivate peace, connection, & heart centered living
Creating & maintaining healthy Boundaries
What are you carrying that does not belong to you – moving into the symbolic.
Energy Body & Psychic awareness – who is talking to you and why?
Alchemizing your intention through energy healing practices

The goal in Energy Body 101 is to support you in developing skills to connect with your highest self & Spirit as a means of living more authentically in alignment with your true nature.
Dates: October 1, 8, November 12, 19, December 3, 10
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Roots on Whyte Conference Room Edmonton – 8135-102st, third floor.
Cost: $344 early bird price paid by September 15th. $388 regular price. Registration confirmed upon payment in full via etransfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com
A little more info…Our energy body is synonymous with the terms light body or energy bubble. It is influenced by your connection to the natural world around you and is sourced in your capacity to embody love. As your unique expression of the creative life force, its vitality depends on your relationship with self and Spirit. If you feel filled with the love and wonder of the universe, trusting yourself as a sovereign leader in your life, your energy body is strong and light. If you are holding lots of unresolved pain, afraid of what might happen next, and not sure where you fit or belong, your energy body is likely dense and dysfunctional.
Check out these videos for a taste of what we are exploring:

Trauma as Medicine ~Inspirational Talk & Energy Body Healing
2024-09-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Meet Sarah Salter-Kelly, author of Trauma as Medicine, Spiritual Healer & Teacher.
On a cold winters morning in December of 1995 Sarah’s mother was brutally raped and murdered in a dark parkade by a stranger. After being found guilty of first-degree murder, the perpetrator suicided in prison. In her Trauma as Medicine presentation Sarah shares her inspirational healing story as a template to guide you in your own journey of transformation. She encourages you to consider the life lessons you came here to learn are found in the center of your greatest challenges, and if you lean in, miracles unfold. For Sarah, these miracles became a path of Forgiveness and Compassion.
Sarah’s experience fine tuned her healing abilities and she shares these with you this evening through guiding you to learn healthy pracitices for wellenss in your energy body.
Trauma as Medicine is the act of releasing the shackles of powerlessness found in the wake of grief, trauma or suffering and choosing to do the work required to metabolize your pain. Whether this is facing fear, expressing unresolved emotions, or telling your story – each act removes the sensation of subjugation to the past and opens you to the power of the present moment. This is where freedom lies. This is where that mountain comes in.
“Sarah Salter Kelly took the agonizing pain of personal catastrophe and turned it into soul medicine for herself and others. What seared her soul, then opened her soul, and an amazing light came in.”
– Marianne Williamson, Best Selling Author & Spiritual Teacher
If you do not have a copy of Trauma as Medicine you can order one here. Aternately you can pick one up at the event.
Check out this interview with Marianne Williamson

Trauma as Medicine - Spring Retreat
2024-05-09 17:00 - 2024-05-12 13:00 (America/New_York)
Imagine the following: You are standing high on a mountain top, feet planted firmly on the ground, arms stretched up to greet the heavens, totally connected to Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Spirit. Everything in your body lives and breathes in alignment with the land around you. You know you are here on purpose, your life is rich with meaning, and all your experiences have happened for a reason. You are the co-creator of your life and embodying your medicine.

This is the intention of Trauma as Medicine.

This retreat utilizes land-based teachings, circle, shamanic journey, movement, meditation, and one plant medicine ceremony to guide you in trusting you have the resources inherent in your own being to heal. With hands-on practices focused on personal embodiment and self inquiry you will be supported in connecting with your sacred self. Note that actual mountains are not always included.
Time Frame:
Arrival between 4-5pm on Thursday, Finish after lunch Sunday – 1pm
Registration & Costs:
Early bird price $1111 must be paid by February 29th. (with gst $1167)
Regular price $1488 paid by April 1. (with gst $1562)
This includes the cost of the retreat and your room. Payments may be made via e-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or pay pal.
How to register? Book an intake session at this link (this is a separate cost of $120 which is paid through the link) and Fill out this registration form. Once your spot is confirmed, proceed with total payment via e-transfer or pay pal.
Food will be a community creation where each person will be assigned one dish to contribute
The environment: Located on private land at Charleston Lake near Kitchener Ontario, this retreat offers the sanctuary needed for deep soul healing work. Rooms are twin shared.
Techniques, methods and further details:
Self inquiry – This is the practice of investigating who we are to raise our awareness, increase our understanding and release old patterning. IN our retreat it is combined with shamanic journey & journal writing.
Non dualism – Sarah’s teachings are nondual, based on the philosophy that we are one. Through cultivating loving awareness we remember we are not separate from our Source and in this way, we may align who we are with how we live. She is the author of Trauma as Medicine, a DIY book for healing trauma and transforming your life, based on the personal experience of losing her mother to homicide and subsequent journey of healing and forgiveness.
Fire Ceremony – Working with the Spirit of fire you will learn a practice passed through the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition for cleansing your being and asking for help.
Shamanic Journey – The art of communing with Spirit through your own personal direct revelation – this practice enhances your intuition, increases psychic awareness and instigates clarity in your healing experience.
Plant Medicine – The Rainbow serpent lodge was passed to Sarah many years ago through her Spirit guide Thoth – the God of wisdom in the Egyptian pantheon. In this lodge she shares mushroom tea in a night ceremony. You are supported with channeled medicine songs and music, hands on healing, tobacco cleanse, and other shamanic practices to guide your journey. This is excellent medicine for moving into the underworld aspects of our life’s journeys so we can integrate them with the light.
The intention of this lodge is to create a portal for the following:

Commune with Source.
Regulate your nervous system.
Illuminate your true nature.
Release old patterns.
Address grief & trauma.
Come home to yourself & your body.
Investigate internal contracted energy.
Enter loving awareness – as referred to by Ram Das
Experience presence

Integration – Sarah has had the joy of facilitating circles for over 20 years. The practice of bringing your visions into our circle is an integral part of awakening. This is where you learn to be seen, to listen to the collective teachings in the group and to use your voice – be heard- as you share your heart.
Somatic Movement – is a slow and gentle practice to develop our ability to self sense, feel the tensions within our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Once tension is sensed and felt, it can be released with this easy, pleasureable technique to restore balance and harmony within all parts of self. Truly a sef-empowering felt sense and release technique!
Assisting: Kim Novotny

A lifetime of evolving movement education going deeper into the roots, returning to remembering of all we already know. Kims background: Bachelor of Physical Education, Core dynamics Pilates certified, Clinical Somatic Educator, Phoenix Academy of Psychedelics & Breathwave training.
As I awaken, others awaken
As I heal, others heal
As I remember my own medicine, so do others
As I share my heart, so do others share their heart
As I breathe life in, others breathe life in……..I desire to be in community, sharing and expanding with likeminded souls who desire to live in the here and now in all its fullness with grace and gratitude.
Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with a rich education in energy healing and hands on practice. Her training is sourced in lived experiences – particularly healing the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator – as well as thirty years of studying energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She shares an integrated path to lay the foundation for personal transformation and empowerment.
Since 2007 Sarah has run a private clinical practice, created a healing centre, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and implemented shamanic training programs, spoken at many conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Most recently she is the author of her first self published book – Trauma as Medicine.

For those interested in reading her book prior to attending – it is available here: Trauma as Medicine | Sarah Salter Kelly

“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. Sarah provides many pertinent reflections on our collective relationship to the First peoples of this land and the role required of each of us.” 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. What seared her soul, then opened her soul. And an amazing light came in.”
— Marianne Williamson, Spiritual teacher and international best selling author
Testimonials:
Working with Sarah and Trauma as Medicine has been a tremendous gift on my journey of healing my deep and long-standing abandonment wounds. Sarah’s ability to help empower me to heal myself, without reliance on anything or anyone outside of my own inner medicine and truth has been a remarkable gift. Kate Hook – Onoway Alberta
Traumatized is the best word to describe myself when I started working with Sarah. I attended her Trauma as medicine retreat, did private sessions, went to healing circles and many keynote speaker events. Every one of these teachings was medicine for my soul and body. I learned to love myself and awakened my Spirit from the resentment of spousal beatings and residential school trauma. Sarah is a gifted Healer, and she has opened my life to see my own amazing journey unfold for the better. I talk to everyone about her teachings. Dianna C – Edmonton Alberta
I have gleaned such a profound understanding of the importance of all of us being able to share our stories of trauma in order to help heal each other as a collective. To be able to do it in a safe environment where we know there will be no judgment, just the pure desire to help support each other wherever we are in this process. Jae Wright – Vernon BC
Basic Itinerary
Day 1 May 9
4-5:30pm Arrive & get settled
5:30 – 6:30pm Supper
7:00 – 9:00pm Opening Ceremony & Circle
Day 2 May 10
7:00 – 8:00am Somatic Movement
8 :00-9:30 am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:30pm Workshop – Mandala teachings, Shamanic Journey & Energy Body practice
12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:30pm Reflection time
3:30 – 4:00pm snack
4:00 – 7:00pm Workshop – Mandala teachings, Shamanic Journey, Energy Body practice & movement
7:00 – 8:00pm Break – get ready for ceremony.
8:00 – 12:00pm – Rainbow Serpent Lodge
Day 3 May 11
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 Somatic Movement
10:30 – 12:30 Integration Circle
12:30 – 1:30 lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Reflection time
3:30 – 6:00 Fire Ceremony, Hucha stone teachings
6:00 – 7:00pm Supper
Day 4 May 12
8:00 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 12:00 Integration circle & closing ceremony.
12:00 Lunch
Sarah has been interviewed on many podcasts:
Waking up Human with Mandy Trapp
Waking Up Human with Mandy Trapp: #008: Opening the Door to Plant Medicine with Sarah Salter-Kelly on Apple Podcasts
Beyond the veil with Tara Kabatoff
https://youtu.be/FVJxBW5b7Yg
Microdosing for Healing with Kayse Garett
Microdosing For Healing: Trauma as Medicine: Healing with Plant Medicine and Forgiveness with Sarah Salter Kelly on Apple Podcasts
I have my reasons with Deandra Dey
I Have My Reasons Podcast | Deandra Dey
Spiritual Teacher Marianne Williamson interviews Sarah
https://youtu.be/8WDFQOcNrho

Shamanic Journey Course
2024-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Shamanic Journey is the art of communing with Spirit through your own personal direct revelation. It is a method which enhances your intuition, increases psychic awareness, and instigates clarity on your path. You will gain a foundational understanding of how to work with the three worlds in a core shamanic practice, to bring forth messages, meaning, and purpose in your life. These teachings are based on the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition with a focus on three main archetypes – the Serpent , Jaguar & Condor as well as a connection with our Ancestors and Starlight nations.
6 consecutive Tuesdays nights in Edmonton – in person. Dates as follows: March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16 & 23 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm – Roots on Whyte, conference room
Class one Medicine stone teachings & Power animal journey
Class two Sachamama – great serpent – underworld – belly center
Class three Jaguar – middle world – heart center
Class four Condor – third eye – wisdom center
Class five Ancestor cave
Class six Starlight Teachers
Register through payment in full of $240 etransfer too: sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com – Your spot is confirmed upon receipt of payment.
Class structure
6:30 – 6:45 – Open Sacred Space
6:45 – 7:15 – Teachings
7:15 – 7:45 – Shamanic Journey
7:45- 8:15 – Journal & Sharing circle
8:15 – 8:30 – Close Sacred Space
What to Bring:

Yoga matt
Cushion to sit on
Blanket – whatever you need to lie comfortably on the floor
Stone – same one each time – you will be creating a healing stone that is charged with your experience in shamanic journey
Water bottle
Journal

Want more details on Shamanic Journey? Check out this blog
Read more details on the practice in my book Trauma as Medicine
Or try one of my free videos on you tube:

Ancestral Healing Journey
2024-01-31 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Grit and Growth Center, 37, 3rd street NW, Erikson, Manitoba, R0J 0P0, Canada
We are gifted with the capacity to heal through the use of our awareness and willingness to open our hearts. This is truly an amazing thing.

Each of us humans are comprised of the legacy of those who have gone before us, just as we pass down our legacy to the future generations. This is rooted in what we have, or have not healed in our ancestral lineage.

In our journey this evening we will venture into our mother and father lines to investigate what core patterning we are carrying and what is within our power to change.

Itinerary:
6:30-7:00 – Open Sacred Space discuss evening and welcome in our ancestors
7- 8 Shamanic Journey
8-8:30 Sharing circle

WHAT TO BRING:

Yoga mat
Cushion
Blanket
Journal
Stone
Water
Wear Comfy clothes

Cost: $30 in advance
$40 at the door
registration via payment to deandra@gritandgrowth.center

Check out this new podcast with myself, Deandra Dey and Karli of Grit and Growth Wellness

A prayer for the Ancestors…
https://youtu.be/tkd_YWnZ8NQ?si=viWLca1H5TAJEEXU

Shamanic Journey with Jesus
2023-12-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
This is the season of the birth of light and what better time than to forge relationship with one of the greatest teachers known to humankind. Jesus.
In this journey you will be led to make personal contact with Jesus and explore what he has to share with you about who you are and the meaning of your life. From whatever background you come from Christ has the ability to offer up the highest healing light possible. Set aside the dogma of organized religion and open your heart to his presence.
Cost $30 in advance – $40 at the door
E-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com
WHAT TO BRING:

Yoga mat
Journal
Cushion
Blanket
Water
Wear Comfy clothes

LOGISTICS:

7pm – Open Sacred Space – Check in
7:20-8- Shamanic Journey – You lie on the ground (or sit up if you prefer) while I lead you through the experience using my voice, drum, handpan, rattle or other sound tools.
8-8:20 – Circle/share
8:20-8:30 – Close Sacred Space

You might like:
How to work with your energy body 1
& energy body 2

Did you get your copy of Trauma as medicine yet?

Shamanic Journey Ancestors
2023-11-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Grandmothers and Grandfathers, you who have gone before us, you who are with us now and you who are yet to come. We welcome you. Be with us in this journey here this evening.
This is an integral shamanic journey for all on a healing path. For in this journey tonight we will investigate what is need of healing in our mother and father line. At this time of the year, the veil between the worlds is thin and it is easy for us to connect with those who are in the great beyond. Join me and invite in the particular ancestors who can support you in brining balance to where you came from and celebration to where you are now.
7-7:15 Open Sacred Space – check in
7:15-8:00 Shamanic Journey
8-8:20 Circle/Share
8:20-8:30 Close Sacred Space
Cost: $30 in advance via etransfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com
$40 at the door
WHAT TO BRING:

Yoga mat
Cushion
Blanket
Journal
Stone
Water
Wear Comfy clothes

SHAMANIC JOURNEY is the art of experiencing direct revelation at will. As a core shamanic practice, it is a fundamental tool in learning to navigate the underworld, middle world & upperworld, utilizing the information gathered to bring forth messages, meaning and purpose. Relationship is built with each realm to support a greater understanding of who you are and your place in the Great Mystery.
An homage to the ancestors and healing trauma quoted from my book Trauma as Medicine

Intuition 101
2023-11-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
In Trauma as Medicine I dive into the relevance of using our intution as a compass to navigate our life. Now is your opportunity to put this into practice via this mini workshop.
Questions we will explore through self inquiry and deep listenining

How does my intution speak to me?
What is my yes response?
What is my no response?
How do I apply this to cultivate direction in life?
What is the difference between fear patterning and an intuitive no?
How do I intuitively connect with my purpose?

Come explore all this and more
Bring your copy of Trauma as Medicine, grab one before hand or pick one up from me.
Cost $30 in advance via etransfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com or $40 at the door
Interview with Marianne

Book Signing Edmonton South Common
2023-10-13 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | 1837 – 99street NW Indigo Books Edmonton, 1837-99street Indigo South Common, Edmonton, AB, T6N1K8, Canada
Come on out to Chapters Red Deer and share with me how Trauma as Medicine has impacted your life.
Grab a copy and get it signed.
All about Trauma as Medicine

Get your copy

Jaguar Shamanic Journey
2023-10-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
From the West direction of the medicine wheel Jaguar greets us. Every step and motion accounted for, it is Jaguar who inspires impeccability and integrity to guide us through the dark. It is jaguar whose astute confidence leads us to come to terms with our power and address our fears. In Andean Shamanism Jaguar represents the Kay-pacha, the middle world & the present moment. Invite Jaguar in lead you as a powerful archetype in coming home to your body in the now.
7pm – Open Sacred Space
7:15-7:45 Shamanic Journey
7:45-8:15 Ecstatic Dance/movement
8:15-8:30 Circle Share & Close space
Cost $30 in advance – $40 at the door
E-transfer to sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com
WHAT TO BRING:

Yoga mat
Cushion
Blanket
Water
Wear Comfy clothes

SHAMANIC JOURNEY is the art of experiencing direct revelation at will. As a core shamanic practice, it is a fundamental tool in learning to navigate the underworld, middle world & upperworld, utilizing the information gathered to bring forth messages, meaning and purpose. Relationship is built with each realm to support a greater understanding of who you are and your place in the Great Mystery.
POWER ANIMAL – Receive the benefit of shapeshifting into their body and seeing the world through their eyes/experiences. Listen and feel into what you must learn on a sensory level and how this perspective may change your own point of view. For example: Cobra helps us to connect with the Kundalini fire rising from the earth, awakening each of our chakras with this power. Experiencing what it is like to move with the awareness and presence of Cobra shows you how to embody, feel and express what you want.
ECSTATIC DANCE – There is about thirty minutes of free form movement included in each of these classes to support your body in releasing contracted energy, open to your gifts, and practice embodiment.
More on Shamanic Journey here
Energy Body Meditation

Ritual for letting go
2023-10-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Calling all healers, shamanistas, shaman, witches, wise ones, mystics, druids and the like… This is the season to prepare for a big give away. To release and let go of what you have gathered over the course of this past year – the good, the bad, the inbetween, the personal and the collective – all of it… and offer it up to the Four winds. We are embarking on the season of the void, in order to generate renewal we need to name what we are releasing and what we are grateful for. This allows us breathing space as we merge into the season of the dark, and helps us to be align with our true nature.
7pm – Open Sacred Space
7:15-7:45 Shamanic Journey – what are your releasing, what are you grateful for?
7:45 – 8:30 Creation of letting go gratitude objects
Bring if you have: Sharpy & markers
Cloth and other supplies provided
Cost: $30 in advance via etransfer, (sarahsalterkelly@gmail.com) $40 at the door
What is a shamanic ritual? Here is an example from one that focuses on releasing negative energy. A bit different from what we will be going – but you get the drift.
What do rituals look like – note these are all outside and we are indoors

Red Deer Book Signing
2023-10-04 14:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Chapters Red Deer, #10 5250 22st, Red Deer, AB, T4R 2T4, Canada

Energy Body 101
2023-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Roots on Whyte, unit 304, 8135-102st, Edmonton, Alberta, T6E4A4, Canada
Defining your relationship wtih your energy body is one of the first steps in a conscious spiritual practice, as well as a tool for moving our of your head and into awareness/presence. Practicing the exercises shared in this class will strengthen the integrity of your boundaries, enhance your sensory perception, and help you tune in to your Spirit guides. Plus its a lot of fun.
In this class:

What is your energy body
How to feel it
How to use your awareness of it for healing
Boundaries
Use of Expansion/Contraction

What to bring:

Yoga mat/cushion
Blanket
Journal
Water bottle

How to pay:
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A little more information from my Book on Energy Bodies:
Your energy body is synonymous with the terms light body or energy bubble. It is influenced by your connection to the natural world around you and is sourced in your capacity to embody love. As your unique expression of the creative life force, its vitality depends on your relationship with self and Spirit. If you feel filled with the love and wonder of the universe, trusting yourself as a sovereign leader in your life, your energy body is strong and light. If you are holding lots of unresolved pain, aftraid of what might happen next, and not sure where you fit or belong, your energy body is dense and dysfunctional. Obviously, we all have moments where we deviate between the two; the intention at hand is to be consious of this deviation and address whatever issue/trauma/experience is blocking you.
Short version energy body meditation to practice
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