JOURNEY TO MOUNT SHASTA, CALIFORNIA

Thursday, September 28th through Sunday, October 1st
Thank you for your interest. The 2023 Journey to Mount Shasta is Full.

You’re invited to enjoy a very special weekend of renewal and transformation on powerful Mount Shasta (Bullium Puuyuuk / Winnemem Wintu) in Northern California. Long considered one of the sacred mountains of the world, Mount Shasta holds a vibrant transformative energy that seekers the world over travel to experience. Graceful and deeply profound, Mount Shasta is an immense energy center filled with opportunities to connect deeply with the Heart of the Living Earth. How long has it been since you listened?

I treasure my Shasta experience. I have been awakened to even greater connection with my own heart! Thank you Julie, Elyshia, and all my Shasta journeyers for sharing love and presence/presents in our enlivening O.N.E. experience that continues to expand inside and outside of me! ~2018 Journey Participant


Our Journey container is one of co-creative partnership between humans and all the more than human beings, experienced through ceremony, heart directed and heart centered intention, and brilliant crystalline expansion.

Your guided Journey begins at 3 pm on Thursday, September 28 with a welcoming circle and delicious home-cooked meal, and ends on Sunday, October 1st after our final celebratory dinner and closing circle. Throughout your experience, you will enjoy opportunities to connect and communicate with Mother Earth and the more than human beings that she nourishes. You will:

  • Experience Mount Shasta and visit selected sites on and around the mountain, including a day hike along a beautiful stream

  • Explore simple yet profound techniques to help you more easily cultivate co-creative partnership with Earth and all her beings

  • Grow ourselves as Earth people, find our way to our full heart-selves

  • Feast in joyful communion in our Sacred Kitchen cared for by our personal chef, Carissa, who makes the most decadent, nourishing organic creations - it's truly foodie heaven

  • Enjoy lively discussions, laughter, and heart-centered community connection

  • Make a vibrational elixir that you’ll bottle up and take home to continue your Mountain journey

You’ll drink deeply from the vibrant, living waters of the headwaters of the Sacramento River that bubble from the base of the mountain and visit sacred sites long known for their abilities to create heightened states of awareness.

Each morning we’ll meet at our retreat center, the gorgeous future site of a teaching campus for Spiritual Activism in nearby Dunsmuir, California, enjoy nourishing breakfasts and journey to the mountain from there.

We’ll take field trips to the magical South Gate Meadows and to the most ancient stone formations on the Mountain, visit the sacred headwaters of the Sacramento River, known for its spiritually transformative properties, and explore the Gateway Peace Garden, a land that is consecrated and dedicated to world peace.

Itinerary
Please note that depending on weather and timing, specific activities planned for each day may change. But, with that said, our general daily schedule will be:

Thursday 28th, 3:00pm to 9:00 pm
We’ll meet at our retreat center for our opening circle and a delicious dinner where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and socialize with our retreat family, receive your Journey gifts, and instructions for the upcoming weekend. We'll share stories and a song or two. Please bring musical instruments if you wish.

Friday 29th, 8:00am to 9:00pm(ish)
Meet at the retreat center, enjoy breakfast, then carpool over to the Headwaters of the Sacramento River, where we’ll fill our water bottles and spend time in connection and communion with this wild, emerging water. We’ll enjoy a picnic lunch at the park, and then move further up the Mountain to Red Fir Flat and the Ancestral Stones for a guided expansive immersion. We'll complete the afternoon with a visit to the Peace Gardens and do our best to be back at the Retreat Center in time for you to have a rest before we come together for dinner and sharing about our day.

Saturday 30th, 8:00am to 9:00pm(ish)
Meet at the retreat center for breakfast and then carpool up to Old Ski Bowl area or Yet Atwam Creek (formerly Cabin Creek or Squaw Creek) Trails. Both groups will be in stunning wilderness and will be connecting with the same spring waters that flow to the Winnemem River (McCloud River) from the heights of Mount Shasta.  Note that the Yet Atwam Creek walk will be shorter and less challenging, and will return to the retreat center earlier. You’ll want to wear sun protection, bring plenty of water, and perhaps bring a walking stick. There’s lovely shaded groves for our picnic lunch.

We’ll do our best to be back at our Retreat Center by 4:30pm for a rest before our evening dinner and shares about our day. We'll enjoy a gift exchange with each other after dinner, guaranteed to bring joy, laughter and heart happiest.

Sunday October 1st, 8:30am to 9pm-(ish)
We’ll spend our last day together at the retreat center, starting with breakfast. We'll be guided through a powerful meditative experience called Green Breath where we'll receive insight, inspiration and integration (we'll be lying down, so you might want to have a cozy blanket and/or mat for personal comfort during this experience). After lunch we'll spend time with the Plants in the center garden, bottle our vibrational essences, enjoy ceremony and prayers, and share in a celebratory dinner feast.

Thank you for your interest. The 2023 Journey to Mount Shasta is Full.

Lodging

We’ll gather each day at a private retreat space in Dunsmuir, CA. It is a gorgeous location with several lodging options for retreat participants within walking distance. Please note that lodging is not included in the Journey tuition.

Possible lodging options include:

In mid-Septmeber, we’ll work with participants to help coordinate shared accommodations and rides as needed.

Things to Bring

  • A homemade gift for our giveaway. This could be a piece of art, a jar of jam, a poem – anything you’ve personally made with your hands and your heart.

  • A blanket for extra coziness during indoor meditation experiences and discussions-optional

  • Sunscreen

  • Reusable Water Bottles

  • Paper or journal, with an extra pen.

  • Drums, rattles, guitars, and other musical instruments – if you wish

  • A walking stick (optional)

  • A day pack

  • Snacks or special foods you might need.

Deposit and Registration
The cost of the journey is $695. A non-refundable deposit of $ 150 will hold your space. The remaining balance of $545 is due by August 15th. Please register with the button below using either a credit card or PayPal.  

All proceeds from this event will benefit ONE, a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, and a portion of the proceeds will be returned to the Winnemem Wintu. Mount Shasta / Bullium Puuyuuk is their ancestral home.

After paying the deposit, you will receive an email with a link to our registration form. Please take a moment to fill it out so we can contact you and can share retreat information.   Please email us if you have any questions info@natureevolutionaries.com

Thank you for your interest. The 2023 Journey to Mount Shasta is Full.

Meet Your Facilitators

Julie Caldwell, MA
Twenty-five years ago, Julie (she/her) opened the doors of Humboldt Herbals ~ a full-service herbal apothecary located in the heart of the Redwoods in Wiyot Territory on the pristine northern California coast. She and her staff of experienced herbalists now serve hundreds of community members each month who rely on Humboldt Herbals as a primary source of health care.

Originally from Alabama, Julie grew up with a plant-talking granny, a pharmacist father, an artist mother, and loads of fiddle-playing, guitar-picking relatives. Her first serious relationship with a plant began over 50 years ago at age 5 when she became great friends with a wild black cherry tree her granny called Crazy Doug. Julie’s “formal” education includes a BS in research psychology and biology, an MA in contemporary American poetry, and many, many herb classes.  She serves on the Visioning Council for the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries and continues to enjoy a long history of spiritual exploration with wise ones from various traditions around the world. You can check out Julie’s herbal apothecary at www.humboldtherbals.com.

Elyshia Holliday
Elyshia is the executive director of ONE and is also the co-founder of an Earth-Wisdom-based organization dedicated to healing the relationship between human beings and Mother Earth. 

During these last 20 years and in support of this work she has had the privilege of knowing many indigenous elders and has benefited immensely from their guidance and innate perspective of living as part of a whole Earth system. Their wisdom and knowledge profoundly influenced the way Elyshia views life, healing, and our basic guardianship of Earth. 

Much of Elyshia's work centers around community group facilitation, commitment to healing past wounds across generations and lineages, and helping people deepen their relationship with Mother Earth.  Elyshia is a fourteenth-generation American settler descending from northwestern Europe's Celtic and Nordic peoples. She resides in the Yakama Nation’s ancestral homeland.


Sara Artemisia, MS
Sara (she/her) is a Plant Spirit Wisdom Teacher, Flower Essence Practitioner, Herbalist, and host of the Plant Spirit Podcast.

She helps wellness professionals and empaths learn the energetic language of plants and how to work in collaboration with the conscious wisdom of Nature. Sara’s been coaching people to move through obstacles and connect more deeply with the Earth and their inner guidance for over fifteen years. And she deeply loves the land and place where she lives, which is the traditional ancestral homelands of the Takelma and Shasta people in Southern Oregon.

Having always felt connected to Nature and the sacred foundation of life, Sara serves on the Visioning Council of ONE and shares this work with people on the journey of understanding how collaborating with the conscious wisdom of Nature can help them fully embody an experience of joy and purpose.  Learn more about Sara’s classes and podcast at www.multidimensionalnature.com


Lillian Edwards
Lillian (she/her) is a plant spirit healer and botanical illustrator, ever-guided by the benevolent consciousness of the natural world. It is her intention to reawaken our birthright to be in communication with the ever-accessible, loving, and wise, presence of Nature’s intelligence. Her healing business, Earth Prayer, was birthed from a desire to give voice to the plants, illuminate their prayers through writing and art, share flower essences, teach plant communication, and serve her community with 1:1 energy work.

Lillian has a background in ecological restoration, permaculture design, organic urban farming, and studio art. She currently resides in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California, in the traditional homeland of the Nisenan people. 

She loves being a part of the ONE visioning council, aligned with the organization’s work to deepen our collective relationship with the Sacred in all of Life.  You can learn more about Lillian at: www.earthprayer.love


Carissa Rose- Kitchen Momma- Divine Goddess of Nourishment 

Carissa Rose (she/her) is a Personal Chef, Holistic Nutritionist, and Herbalist based in Nisenan Territory and offers nutrition and herbal consultations. She is also a Full Spectrum Doula, Postpartum Care Provider, and offers Womb to Tomb Well Womxn Care.

During the 2019 Journey to Mount Shasta, Carissa nourished us with incredible, nutritious, and high-vibration meals.  The beauty, deliciousness, and heartbeat contained in the food added another layer of healing and transformation for the group.  Carissa cares for the kitchen and the Journey family like an Earth Momma and the blessings of the Goddess of Nourishment come through clearly from this central hearth space.  

Learn more about Carrissa at https://www.quercuscollective.com/carissa-rose-herbalism