Healing Your Roots
“When silence no longer serves you,
when healing calls your name,
I will be waiting for you
here in the shadows
to show you another way”
The medicine woman is a weaver between worlds, here to return the sacred to ordinary life. She arrives with an invitation to grow our roots deep into the earth so that we may rise tall and strong and commit both to our healing and our expansion.
A 2-Day Winter Retreat
MEDICINE WOMAN RETREAT
Saturday December 12: 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
Sunday December 13: 12:oo pm-6:00 pm
At Vyana Wellness, Cambria &
Hearst Beach and Forest, San Simeon
Exchange: $222
WHAT AWAITS YOU
“We do not become healers. We came as healers. We are! Some of us are still catching up to what we are.”
Join us for a 2-Day immersion in yoga and ancient medicine ways. We divide our time between beautiful Vyana Wellness in Cambria and the trails and beaches of San Simeon, CA.
We come together to share sisterhood, magic and the beauty and power of our medicine.
So much is possible when we gather from all walks of life and form circles of love, trust, support and non judgment. Having female bonding time supports our health, wellness, healing and happiness.
During this 2-Day winter retreat, you will have a unique opportunity to trade the demands and busy-ness of our modern day world for the pristine nature and wildlife in Cambria and San Simeon. Both are big healing forces that can facilitate transformation and growth in and by themselves.
You will be able to nourish your body, mind and spirit using a variety of healing tools, including:
Yin yoga
Guided circles and shamanic ceremonies
Crystal sound baths
Cacao
Guided meditation and breathwork
Altar crafts
Delicious and nutritious organic snacks
Deep sisterhood in an intimate container
Medicine woman is the great transformer. She teaches us to take the pain, loss and grief and transform them, recycle them, transmute them into healing, into art, and into compassion, into hope, into medicine, into pure love for ourselves and others.
Tapping into our deep knowing and deep listening…
We have crafted a retreat program for you with the following goals in mind:
Divine feminine embodiment: Practices and crafts that anchor you into your own feminine essence
Reclaiming balance to your root chakra: Healing ancestral wounds and retrieving the unique medicine past down through your maternal and paternal lineages
Power stacking: Becoming introduced to your inner circle of helping spirits, your medicine council.
Embracing cyclical wisdom: Fostering a deep connection with the natural world
Return to deep harmony in your body: with slow, meditative long-held yoga poses
Building community: Cultivating a network of supportive individuals committed to ongoing personal growth and truth-seeking.
Tune your vibration: with deeply restorative therapeutic sound baths
RETREAT PROGRAM
(Subject to minor changes)
SHAMANIC CEREMONY
Shamanism is the most ancient form of healing practiced by humans worldwide (40 000 years or more) and a way to connect with your deeper self through communion with nature and compassionate helping spirits.
Immerse yourself in the scenic wilderness of Lake Nacimiento and commune with ancestral and elemental forces to heal and reconnect with your inner cycles and seasons.
With Victoria’s loving guidance and many years of experience in supporting healing processes, you’ll be able to safely explore the spirit realms and learn more about healing your sacred womb through the ancient art and practice of shamanic journeying.
YIN YOGA
Yin yoga with Ana is a slow meditative practice designed to nourish the body and quiet the mind.
Poses are held for several minutes, allowing the body to gently soften and release.
The practice works into deeper connective tissue, supporting mobility, circulation, and spaciousness in the body.
With fewer transitions and more stillness, Yin invites you to turn inward and cultivate presence.
It is a beautiful practice for slowing down, restoring balance, and reconnecting with yourself.
CRYSTAL SOUND BATHS
Awaken your inner Medicine Woman in these meditative crystal bowl sound baths - a soft, sacred space to reconnect with your body and feminine energy.
Bathed in sound, breath, and gentle presence, you’ll drop into your senses and remember the beauty of simply being.
Sound healing is a deeply restorative practice using therapeutic sound and vibration to quiet the mind, regulate the nervous system, and invite the body into deeper relaxation.
CRAFTS & ALTARS
The incorporation of crafts into ceremonies and rituals is a deeply rooted and ancient practice.
Our female ancestors gathered around fires to tell stories, make art, and braid each other’s hair.
Together we will unlock the magic of our wild creative selves.
We will prioritize self-care and deepen our connection with the Earth Mother.
When you embrace your inner artist and dreamer the wondrous starts to emerge. You begin to experience more joy, abundance, and love.
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
OUR SHARED SPACE
We have the beautiful studio at Vyana Wellness in the heart of Cambria. The forest and beaches of San Simeon called to us for the ceremonial parts. This deep medicine retreat is the perfect opportunity to slow down, soften, and invite the medicine of winter returning to our deep roots.
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Victoria Lagerström and Ana Culbertson share a mutual love of the healing arts, Mother Earth, and the sacredness of Zion Canyon. They each bring a unique set of skills that help create an unforgettable experience.
VICTORIA LAGERSTRÖM
Victoria is a shamanic healing practitioner with roots in Sweden and the US. After finding love overseas, Victoria relocated to the beautiful red rock desert of Zion National Park where she married American singer/songwriter Dave Tate.
It was on this new journey of self-discovery and transformation that she was introduced to shamanism and the healing effects of the natural environment.
Victoria graduated from the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition Apprenticeship Program – Peruvian Shamanic Arts For Personal And Planetary Renewal - in 2012. This in-depth two year cross-cultural program led by respected teachers Don Oscar Miro-Quesada and Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Ph.D. emphasizes personal healing as a necessary preparation for client work. More recent studies include “The Art And Practice of Shamanic Healing: A Three -Year Professional Training And Initiation” with renowned teacher Julie M. Kramer.
Mother of Eliot, active member of Central Coast holistic community, Victoria has a private healing practice in Los Osos, CA and teaches the ancient medicine ways of Peruvian and core shamanism through local healing circles and retreats.
“My connectedness to the earth’s healing wisdom and the divine feminine awakened me to my true path. I feel so grateful and excited whenever I have an opportunity to share these ancient medicine ways with others. The time is now to stand for love, hope, and positive change so that we may all experience greater harmony within and without.”
Ana Culbertson
Ana began her artistic journey as a full music producer and DJ in Los Angeles. After surviving a life threatening battle with cancer and enduring incredibly harsh treatments of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, her passion evolved from music to holistic healing for the last decade.
Now, Ana witnesses every day the profound transformative effects when yoga, conscious dance &sound healing infuse.
Ana completed her 500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Mira Costa College in San Diego. She also holds a certification in Health and Wellness Coaching (CPD Accredited). Her third Certification in Wildcrafting and Herbalism was earned as she lived fully off grid on Hawai’i’s Big Island.
She spent years studying meditation and perma culture in various eco villages in California, New Mexico and Hawai’i. All the while, Ana deepened her knowledge in meditation, studied and taught yoga and explored the nature of her own consciousness.
Currently, Ana offers beach yoga, conscious dances on the beach & crystal bowl sound healing on the Central Coast of California. You will see our incredible community of beginning practitioners to advanced yogis following her compassionate and passionate lead. Ringing in the mornings & sunsets with classes focused on mindful breathing, classic Vinyasa and Hatha flows; all in a loving, supportive environment.
“I have been taking my medicine: Art as medicine. Sex as medicine. Nature as medicine. Circles as medicine. Touch as medicine. Music as medicine. Movement as medicine. Prayer as medicine. Food as medicine. Colour as medicine. Tears as medicine. Silence as medicine. Love as medicine. Darkness as medicine. Will you join me?”
WHY MEDICINE WOMAN?
“Medicine Woman is she who has walked this world and healed for a hundred thousand years before the gleam of steel and the coming of the machines.
Medicine woman is the holder of the map to the mysterious road to healing. In one hand she holds the honey - the golden elixir of life, sweetness and healing to stomach and soul, balm to the aching body. In the other she holds a bone knife - to cut away the old, the dead, the decayed. She knows that healing needs both. She teaches impermanence, surrender, the beauty and potential of endless transformation. She swipes away the ego, the shell, the identity and asks you to see what lies beneath. And beneath that too...
She is in your bones. You are she.”
Medicine woman is a journey of self-discovery and remembrance. A wellspring of healing wisdom resides within each of us, as we all spring from the ancestral seeds of our grandmothers, born in this time to share the healing gifts unique to our blood and soul lineages.
The Medicine Woman Healing Your Roots Winter Retreat is an intimate gathering (space is limited to 12 participants) and a deep healing experience of the heart.
Cambria and San Simeon are both quiet and serene in the winter. A special kind of magic and stillness permeates the land and it is powerful medicine.
If you feel guided to say YES to this transformative gahering - calling us to reclaim our gifts, our ancestral roots, and our connection with Mother Earth, please register below and we will walk you through the process.
REGISTER AND PAY
To register and secure your spot at the Medicine Woman Healing Your Roots Winter Retreat December 12-13 at Vyana Wellness and outdoor San Simeon, please fill out the form below and make sure to include any dietary needs.
Exchange: $222
Any payments made are non-refundable.
We welcome your questions and concerns.
REGISTRATION FORM
“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.”