Introducing
THE ESSENTIAL REVOLUTION:
A DEEP RETURN TO SELF
Join US for A 12month
spiritual apprenticeship
in conscious living
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WALK A YEAR OF SACRED RITUAL
Move beyond theory into a living, breathing relationship with the earth’s cyclic wisdom as a path of evolution and return to your higher self.
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Recover Your Essential Self
Reclaim fragmented parts of your soul through shamanic ceremony and somatic healing to embody your gifts and live from true authenticity.
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Reclaim Energetic Sovereignty
Stop leaking power into the world and build an unshakeable centre by transforming relational patterns and imprints that keep you stuck.
Welcome to a 12-month spiritual pilgrimage and revolutionary pathway dedicated to the art of soul-led living, seasonal and ancestral ceremony, and deep community connection.
This life-changing shamanic path is woven with Celtic mysticism, psychedelic wisdom, ancestral healing, and somatic relational psychology, offering a transformative and practical design for a life of deep connection and meaning.
A RETURN TO POWER
We are living through a pivotal period of human evolution.
It is impossible to be alive right now and not feel the profound weight of our shifting world. We are living in a culture shaped by a relentless overexposure to information that is actively eroding our capacity to find deep meaning in our lives.
As the natural world unravels, many of us feel a quiet, persistent grief for the land, a sense of disconnection from our ancestral lineages, and a loss of major rites of passage that once guided our lives and made us strong. It is easy to feel we have lost our tether to the Earth and our own inner guidance.
While it may feel like an ending, this time of global change is also a threshold!
It’s an opportunity to evolve, to reconnect with our ancient knowing, and take up the mantle of our human design as healers and creators of Mother Earth.
Within this shifting landscape, The Essential Revolution is a sacred invitation to remember who you truly are. It is a path to realign your life with the heartbeat of the Earth and return to your Essence, anchoring you in the art of soul-led living to reclaim a profound sense of connection and meaning.
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Build Your Village
Take your seat in a grounded, inclusive community of like-minded initiates, moving from isolation into the strength of a shared journey.
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Enter Sacred Retreat
Deepen your transformation through 3 immersive in-person medicine retreats, stepping into the quiet to anchor your connection to the land.
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Forge Earth Kinship
Develop a profound, living intimacy with the natural world through Earth medicine and land-honoring rituals that restore your place within the web of life.
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Rekindle Ancestor Wisdom
Remember who you are through ancestral veneration and healing practices that transform inherited burdens into sources of strength.
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Cultivate Spiritual wisdom
Develop spiritual resilience with energy medicine practices, transmissions and activations. Receive the sacred rites of the five directions.
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Lean Into with Spiritual Support
Learn to navigate altered states of consciousness and walk the unseen realms, receiving direct guidance and protection from your spirit allies.
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Heal Relationship Patterns
Bring consciousness to your shadow and transform the adaptive strategies that keep you stuck, allowing true intimacy and sovereign connection.
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Work With Plant Medicines
Step into deep reverence with ancient teachers, learning to weave the insights of expanded vision into the practical fabric of your daily life.
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Realign with the Ancient Celtic Year
Walk a year through the Celtic Medicine Spiral and the initiations of birth, growth, harvest, and rest to reclaim soul parts and heal relational patterns.
FIVE Foundational Medicines that Guide the Journey
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Shamanism
Learn time-tested skills of walking between the worlds to restore harmony and retrieve fragmented parts of your soul. By utilizing trance states, journeying, and sacred ritual, you will learn to journey to the unseen realms and access direct guidance, healing, and a deeper alignment with your essential self.
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Ancestral Healing
Practice repairing and reclaiming your connection to those who came before you to heal lineage patterns, restore your sense of belonging, and liberate your Ancestors. Through this work, you learn to transform ancestral burdens into a "Cauldron of Plenty," inheriting the unique gifts and wisdom of your Deep Time Ancestors and become a descendant in service to the Earth.
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Plant Medicine
Step into sacred reverence with ancient plant teachers and move beyond theory into a living, breathing relationship with the spirits of the land. Through seasonal microdosing cycles and immersive ceremonies, you will learn to listen to plant wisdom as a direct guide for your own somatic healing and spiritual evolution.
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Somatic Relational Living
Practice honouring your nervous system’s unique history to create a sustainable foundation for spiritual growth. By developing a felt sense of safety and choice, you learn to move out of survival patterns and into authentic, resilient connection with yourself, your loved ones, community, and Mother Earth.
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Community Connection
Step into the sacred practice of taking your seat in a Village of the Soul where your unique medicine is witnessed, mirrored, and celebrated. Within this grounded, inclusive container, you will move beyond isolated healing into a shared journey of belonging, where the group’s collective wisdom amplifies your individual growth.
Key TEACHINGS & Practices
THROUGHOUT THE apprenticeship
The Medicine Hearth
Inter-Connection
Historically the central axis of the Celtic home, the hearth served as a sacred threshold where the domestic met the divine. It was a place for nourishment, ancestral honouring, protection, divination, and fostering community.
In this apprenticeship, we reclaim this tradition by building your own Medicine Hearth, a sacred bundle or Mesa that acts as a living altar and a powerful microcosm of the macrocosm.
As we weave this central Council into our lives, it becomes the anchor for a new paradigm of relationship between you and the Universe.
Energy
Transmissions
Receive Sacred rites (energy transmissions) which have been passed down through our lineages to deepen and anchor your connections with the ancestral energies of the elements.
In-person retreats also include:
plant medicine ceremonies
elemental blessings
water purifications
fire ceremony
conscious breathwork
and somatic embodiment.
Technologies of the Soul
Master four conscious awakening practices to navigate altered states and bridge the physical and spiritual realms
Shamanic Journeying: Develop direct relationships with helping spirits, animal allies, archetypes, and ancestors to receive clarity and healing.
Conscious Breathwork: Use the power of the sacred breath to bypass the analytical mind and release stored emotional and energetic imprints.
Trance Dance: Learn the ancient technology of rhythmic movement to access the body’s wisdom and become a vessel for sacred ecstasy and spiritual insight
Soul Singing: Activate your authentic voice and song as a healing vibration to clear your field and call your Soul home.
OUR 12 MONTH JOURNEY
THROUGH THE MEDICINE SPIRAL
Walk a Year of Sacred Ritual
This apprenticeship is a deeply immersive hybrid journey, blending virtual mastery with intimate in-person retreats to sustain your momentum and integrate your growth.
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Let's Begin with Foundation
STARTS WED, OCTOBER 7, 2026
Live online classesThe apprenticeship begins by establishing the structure and roots of the practice. We reclaim your time and energy from the overculture’s shoulds by opening the wisdom teachings of the Medicine Hearth and relationship with the rhymths of the Earth.
Shamanic journeying gives you a powerful tool to navigate non-ordinary states for spiritual guidance. This is how we stop feeling unmoored and start following the true compass of the soul and the path of Earth honouring ritual.
Learn Shamanic Journeying
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The Samhain gate
OCTOBER 2026: Celtic New Year
Live online classesWhen we reconnect with where we are from, we remember who we are.
Samhain is the time to honor our ancestors. We practice ancestral honoring rituals to activate our roots and reclaim our wild nature, and meet the Helping Ancestors of our Blood lineages.
This supports the awakening of the Bold Heart and the Spiritual Warrior who is the descendant your Ancestors have been calling for.
Ancestral Honouring with Blood Lineages
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Winter Community Retreat
NOVEMBER 5 - 8, 2026
3-Night in-person immersionWe gather on a beautiful island just an hour from Vancouver for a 3-night retreat to anchor in foundational teachings through deep ceremony and the sacred rites of the Earth.
This retreat offers plant ceremony, integration circles, and collective ritual. Resting in cozy accommodations, we forge our community container.
Receive the Sacred Rites of Earth
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STILLNESS OF WINTER
DECEMBER 2026 - JANUARY 2027
Live online classesWinter Solstice is a teacher, inviting descent away from a world gripped by digital noise, and into the mystery of stillness to listen to the soul’s needs.
We commence our first microdose cycle with Hawthorn, a plant medicine that provides vital protection and heart-support to move between worlds.
By aligning with this still point, you stop the outward doing to tend the inner dreams that hold meaning for the year ahead.
Microdose Cycle with Hawthorn
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The Imbolc Gate
FEBRUARY 2027: Threshold of Birth
Live online classes
Moving from the stillness of the Earth to the movement of the Wind, our practice shifts from Shamanic Journey work to Conscious Breathwork.This tool allows you to explore altered states while clearing accumulated emotional energy and regulating the nervous system.
At the portal of Birth we clear limiting soul contracts to step into the field of our divine potential.
Working with ancient Celtic protection rituals and learn to safeguard what is newly quickening in your life.
Learn Conscious Breathwork
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Quickening of Spring
MARCH - APRIL 2027
Live online classesIn the East, we face where we have abandoned our authenticity to maintain attachment. We examine relational patterns that keep us stuck in a life lacking support and reciprocity.
Through the sacred rites of the Wind, we meet the Seers and reclaim the power of visioning to embody a true yes and a true no.
Supported by a microdose cycle with Honey, you welcome the sweetness of life and heal your child parts to reclaim a life that actually feels like your own.
Microdose Cycle with Honey
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The Bealtaine Gate
MAY 2027: Threshold of Fertility
Live online classesMoving from the Wind into the Fire, we shift from conscious breathwork to Ecstatic Trance Dance, learning to access the body's voice through movement medicine.
In this initiatory gateway we retrieve and heal the Adaptive Child and Teen parts embodying the spiritual libido needed for transformation.
This threshold invites you to reclaim the fire of the Full Heart and your creative nature, turning raw passion into sustainable fuel for your life’s work.
Learn Ecstatic Dance Journeying
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Spring Community Retreat
MAY 20 - 23, 2027
3-Night in-person immersionWe return to the lush forest of our island for a 3-night retreat to embrace the expansion of Summer and focus on wisdom teachings through deep ceremony and the sacred rites of Fire.
This retreat offers plant wisdom ceremony, integration circles, and collective ritual.
Our community container invites you to celebrate and direct your creative fire toward personal evolution, ensuring your growth is sustainable.
Receive the Sacred Rites of Wind + Fire
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Expansion of Summer
JUNE - JULY 2027
Live online classesThe medicine of the South is the central flame of inner revolution.
Just as the ancient Celtic smiths transformed raw earth into crafted beauty inside the sacred forge, this season offers a healing reunion of your inner feminine and masculine.
We enter a microdose cycle of Holy Rose, the ancient teacher of compassion and expander of the Full Heart. You will learn to once again trust your body and the Earth as a wise source of power, waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf you can act.
Microdose Cycle with Holy Rose
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Summer Break
AUGUST 2027
The spiral requires digestion and integration. There are no classes during August, providing a deliberate pause to embody the teachings and practice with the Medicine Hearth.
We rest in the medicine of the sun and the natural rhythms of the season, preparing for the upcoming harvest and transition into the West.
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The Lughnasadh Gate
SEPTEMBER 27: Threshold of Harvest
Live online classesMoving from Fire to the Water, we shift from ecstatic dance to the craft of Soul Singing where we soften and release blocks to expressing our unique divine frequency as a descendant.
Crossing the threshold of mid-life, we enter the season of winnowing, discerning what stays and what must be surrendered to the cleansing waters.
Through deep ancestral healing rituals, we dismantle the generational patterns that have prevented our authentic expression. This awakens the Clear Heart to welcome the collective ancestral voice of the Oran Mór (great song of creation).
Learn Soul Singing
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Refinement of Autumn
OCTOBER 27: The Deep Imramma
Live online classes
In a culture that demands we hold on and achieve more, the West offers us the permission to grieve and the courage to let go.This is where we stop running from our regrets and instead use them as a wake up call to live more fully. It's where we face the reality of death not as an end, but as a master teacher showing us the urgency of loving well.
We enter a microdose cycle of Rosemary, the keeper of ancestral memory, to ground our lived wisdom and walk the mythic path of connection with the Wise Adult.
Microdose Cycle with Rosemary
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Final Retreat & Celebration
OCT 9 - 10, 2027
2-Day in-person immersion
We gather for our final retreat by the river at the foot of the coastal mountains to honour the deep bonds of our community.This is the homecoming of our year long journey, the sacred alignment of our inner and outer worlds.
Through the sacred Rites of Sovereignty you are invited to take up the mantle of your humanity as a harmonizing presence ready to face the complexity of our times without turning away.
You complete your journey connected to the living web of nature, community, ancestors, and lineage.
Your Essential Revolution
This program is for you if...
You are tired of the mainstream narrative and want to create a life rooted in meaning, and purpose, from the Essence of who you truly are.
You are curious to explore, or have already explored microdosing or plant medicine and want to build a relationship of reverence with the medicine, and with nature.
You have been longing to connect more deeply with your ancestors, with the guidance available to you, and to become a change-making descendent who breaks ancestral patterns.
You have been exploring spirituality, ritual and ceremony and are ready to dive deeper to establish a daily practice of spiritual living that supports your evolution in this lifetime.
How does it work?
Since 2006, the Essential Revolution has supported hundreds of people to find a soul-affirming course correction to the pure, unique medicine of their soul.
Through the deeply practical spiritual path of animism / shamanism, this unique offering is informed and nourished by the cosmovision of the Celtic Medicine Spiral, Andean energy technologies, plant medicine, somatic embodiment and relational living.
The Format
The Essential Revolution is hybrid program encompassing both live online community classes, and in-person retreats to support your momentum and growth.
Live Virtual Gatherings: We meet twice monthly on Zoom for wisdom teachings, ritual, and council; about 3.5 hours a month. To honour the seasonal rhythm of the spiral, we take a collective pause in August.
Community Retreats: Three immersive in-person retreats to deepen our work in sacred community with the Land.
Residential retreats: Two 4-day, 3 night in-person retreats (Nov and May)
One final 2-day in-person retreat (Oct)
CATERED
RESIDENTIAL EXPERIENCES
In-Person Retreats
Important Dates & Your Accommodations
November 2026, May 2027, October 2027
—Winter Community Retreat
November 2026
Accommodations and meals included
Bowen Island, BC
—Spring Community Retreat
May 2027
Accommodations and meals included
Bowen Island, BC
—Final Community Retreat
October 2027
Dinner included
Lions Bay, BC
ADDITIONS
Apprenticeship Welcome Package
You will receive a package of beautiful supports to nourish your soul and bring the sacred into your journey of transformation. In your package you will receive: a locally handcrafted ceremonial candle, Essential Revolution journal, cloth and tie for your Medicine Hearth and more.
Medicine Community
Our community gatherings provide a trauma-informed sacred container to support and amplify your journey through the sharing of everyone’s wisdom, including your own! The community space also supports your internal accountability and helps you remain engaged.
Spiritual Mentorship
You’ll have unlimited Spiritual Mentorship with Angela and Community Assistants through email and chat, as well as in the community WhatsApp group. You’ll also receive two 60-minute individual mentorship sessions. Additional 1:1 sessions are available at a reduced rate.
YOUR GUIDE
As a Spiritual Teacher and Ceremonialist, Angela Prider leads transformational events and ceremonies around the globe, supporting thousands of people from all walks of life to rediscover and trust their sacred inner landscape.
With more than 25 years as a Somatic Healer, Family Systems Counsellor and Shamanic Plant Wisdom Practitioner, Angela weaves together extensive science-backed training with ancient wisdom and traditional ceremonial practices.
What I’ve learned over the past 20 years of sharing the Apprenticeship is that it is a very personal pilgrimage and powerful catalyst that initiates a process of inner revolution leading to outer evolution.
That change is significantly more effective because it has been birthed from a community container that’s powered and sustained by time-tested, ancient practices utilized by humanity all over the world for thousands of years.
—Angela
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The apprenticeship changed my life. It reminded me of who I am and what my purpose is, and taught me that I am never alone on this earth walk. Throughout this past year of study I have fostered my relationship with the spirits, my ancestors and my guides, I have deepened my connection to the dreamstate and begun to receive guidance. I am forever grateful to this work and to Angela.
—Sky Bray, Web Designer, DJ, Vancouver
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Angela creates such a fundamentally safe and supportive setting for us to do the work while being supported by a diverse and non-judgemental community.
—James, Theatre Teacher
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Angela is a gifted space holder and spiritual teacher that I'll continue to recommend.
—Monica, Founder of Head + Heart
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Working with Angela as a mentor is like having a soft place to land with someone who knows and understands in a deep way, the intricacies and specific things that come up within my practice, my personal life, and the intersection where these meet… Animism has not felt like something I am "learning" but rather a coming home with a wise master guiding the way for me.
—Nikiah Seeds, Ancestral Healer, Teacher, Author, New York
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I have learned so much about being at peace with myself and the world around me, and I am deeply fulfilled by the Animist way of living in reciprocity - especially with nature. I feel myself as a part of the magic of life around me and I feel supported by it.
—Jessie Phoenix, RTC & Folk Medicine Practitioner
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Your INvestment
$7888 CAD / $5750 USD
What’s Included
Two in-person 4-day residential retreats
accommodations and meals provided
One in-person 2-day non-residential retreat
dinners provided
23 community classes on Zoom throughout the year - two per month - for lessons, practice and questions
A dedicated Student Portal with all of your classes and readings in one place
Live online support and guidance throughout the year with Angela and her team
Zoom classroom
WhatApp Community group
Two 1:1 online spiritual mentorship sessions with Angela
discount on further sessions
Your support package
locally handcrafted ceremonial candle
Essential Revolution journal
cloth and tie for your Medicine Hearth, and more
Transmission of sacred rites at the five seasons/directions/elements
Participation in ceremony and ritual throughout the year:
elemental blessings,
water purifications,
fire ceremony,
and somatic embodiment.
Teachings and practices on the path:
shamanic journeying to learn to navigate the unseen realms,
connect with spirit guides, archetypes, and ancestors,
conscious breathwork,
ecstatic trance dance,
soul singing,
wisdom teachings,
shadow work,
and energy alchemy.
Your NEXT STEPS
Sign up for the waitlist‣ Watch for your invite to the next live webinar on Zoom with Angela (in June).
Once you have attended, book in a connection call with Angela. This is an opportunity to explore a few things:
Is this a good fit? Do our philosophies gel and align?
Are you ready to commit to a 12 month immersion?
What particular learning needs and goals do you have? Angela will want to know these so she can best support you.
Where are you at on your own journey? Angela will want to make sure she can meet you there.
What are your financial needs? There are a limited amount of spaces with some accessibility pricing for those who need it.
Once you have your connection call, you’ll be directed to the application and registration area of the website.
FAQ
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Good internet connection. A space at home where you are undisturbed and can sit or lay down, dance and move.
A small area for your altar space.
A journal and pen, and bandanna/eye covering.
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No experience is needed however, you will have to complete a health screening to ensure this program is a good fit for you.
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Journeying is a skill that takes practice. Over the period of the program, you will have lots of opportunity to develop and discover your unique way of navigating and receiving guidance from the unseen realms. There is also space available to ask questions and receive suggestions on how to develop your journeying.
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Many of the wisdom teachings and practices are cross-cultural and archetypal. Participants are encouraged to explore their ancestral roots. This adds to the community learning as a whole.
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The nature of the apprenticeship program is experiential and community oriented. If you need to miss a lesson, an audio recording can be made available for you. That way you can catch up.
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Upon registration you’ll receive a Zoom protocol that is deeply rooted in self-care practices.
As a neurodivergent person with sensory sensitivities, Angela has created a protocol to prevent Zoom fatigue and overwhelm.
The protocol provides many tips so you can best take care of yourself and still remain connected and engaged.
Because this is a shared container, everyone (including you) brings wisdom that enriches the experience. Sharing insights and challenges also provides normalization and validation amongst our community which enhances our growth and learning.
It is never a requirement that you share outside of your comfort zone and no one is ever forced to speak. You are always free to pass.
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Angela stays on the Zoom call to answer questions for 15 mins afterward sessions. We also have a WhatsApp group for questions, and you are welcome to send an email.
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This is a journey for your personal development and not a course for professional training.
Course materials, information, ceremonies, and wisdom-teachings fall under the copyright laws of Canada, and are not to be reproduced in any way for commercial use.
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This course is for your personal spiritual development and not a professional training. It’s not designed to teach participants how to work with others or teach others. However, it is the pre-requisite for the Practitioner training so a great place to start
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Yes, Angela offers a Practitioner Program. The apprenticeship year is one of the pre-requisites needed to apply for that program. You can read more about that here ⇢
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Please complete your registration form, and access tuition and deposit information here ⇢
Apprentice to your heart, your essential nature, and the calling of your unique medicine.
Ready for the Revolution? Secure your place on the 2026 waitlist for first-access to registration and tuition details.
To begin our work together, I’ll send you my Guided Journey with Rosemary Spirit—a deep somatic ritual to help you de-stress and reconnect with your essential nature.
Joining the waitlist ensures you receive first-access to registration and early-bird tuition rates.