Sentinel Presents – Trauma As Medicine Retreat

Healing Through Presence, Accountability, and Embodied Wisdom

Trauma as Medicine is a ceremonial and integrative healing retreat grounded in a clear and powerful understanding: pain is not a failure, but an invitation to deeper awareness. When trauma is met with presence, responsibility, and skilled support, it can open the way toward wisdom, wholeness, and embodied freedom.

This retreat is not focused on fixing what is broken. Instead, it supports participants in remembering what is already whole.

The Principles of Trauma as Medicine

Trauma Lives in the Body

Trauma is stored in the nervous system, tissues, breath, and habitual patterns of contraction. For that reason, healing calls for somatic presence, regulation, and embodied awareness—not insight alone.

Power Is Restored Through Responsibility

This work does not reinforce a victim identity. Participants are invited to reclaim agency through a simple truth:

I may not be responsible for what happened to me, but I am responsible for how I meet it now.

Healing Happens in Relationship

Because trauma often unfolds in isolation, repair is supported within safe and intentional relational fields—with land, Spirit, and community.

Altered States Reveal; Integration Makes It Last

Expanded states of consciousness may bring insight, emotional release, and spiritual remembrance. Integration is what helps those experiences become lasting change.

The Role of Forest Medicine 🍄

Plant Spirit Healing is used in this retreat as a ceremonial sacrament and therapeutic catalyst, not as 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 unfolds through preparation and intention, skilled facilitation and energetic containment, somatic self-inquiry, and post-ceremony integration with accountability.

What This Retreat Includes

This retreat combines 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 the 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 are included to support continuity, safety, and real-world integration.

Registration: Please complete the separate registration form for the Sentinel.

*Please note this includes a preparation session as well as a post ceremony integration session. The link to book will be shared with you upon registration.

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-Inquiry – Guided exploration of identity, belief systems, and trauma patterning, supported by journaling and shamanic journeying.
• Fire Ceremony – A cleansing, prayer-based practice from the Inca Medicine Wheel tradition.
• Ecstatic Dance – Somatic, non-verbal movement for emotional release, vitality, and embodiment.
• Integration Circles – Facilitated group sharing to metabolize insight and ground experience into daily life.

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

Sarah Salter Kelly is a Spiritual Teacher with extensive experience in energy healing and hands-on practice. Her path is shaped by lived experience—especially healing from the homicide of her mother and learning to forgive the perpetrator—as well as thirty years of study in energy medicine, shamanism, restorative justice, and personal growth. She offers an integrated approach designed to support personal transformation and empowerment.

Since 2007, Sarah has maintained a private clinical practice, created a healing center, hosted monthly moon gatherings, developed and facilitated shamanic training programs, spoken at conferences, led retreats, and brought groups to Peru to work with indigenous healers. Her primary focus is curating plant medicine experiences for the healing of body, mind, and spirit. She is also the author of her first self-published book, Trauma as Medicine.