Women's Retreat: Amanita Muscaria Embrace Your Fruiting

Women's Retreat: Amanita Muscaria Embrace Your Fruiting 

Amanita Muscaria Ceremonies 

WHEN: 10-12  October 2024

SETTING: New Forest National Park

A space to connect deeply to yourself with a small group of women in a safe and welcoming environment. In this retreat you will connect to your wholeself mind, emotions and body to powerfully experience the wisdom of your creative power, your womb. This is an invitation to connect to your ancestors and your own nature, held by the ancestors of the land and the nature all around you. This mushroom will help you let go of what is holding you back from who you choose to be NOW.

A women only retreat, for those who wish to balance their hormones, work with their fertility, connect more deeply with their ancestors, detox and ready their physical, mental, emotional and energetic bodies for their next evolutionary growth. 

Facilitated by a trauma informed and highly experienced guide. Limited to 10 women. 

Amanita Muscaria is a powerful physical detoxifier, while supporting the emotional body in childlike wonder, where fear can be met with curiosity and your heart can be held in empowering ways which support the development of a healthy relationship with your ego.

Working with the Fly Agaric is very different from working with other herbs and mushrooms. The first evening we will have a “welcoming in” low dose tea ceremony which is gentle and euphoric. We will have a sharing circle and songs around a fire getting to know each other and building connections which will help establish feelings of safety for the larger dose journey on Saturday. Rather than being a visual journey experience, it helps you dive deeply into your psyche with strong somatic or physical sensations which encourage bravery and wonderment where fear and constriction once were. It helps the body to sweat and shake, while removing toxins with the emotional and psychological detox.

October is celebrated throughout Indo-European cultures as a time of the thinning of the veils and connection inward with self and ancestors. 

This retreat is curated to create a safe space for you to dive deep. Included is zoom preparation and integration sessions before and after the 3 day event guided by Avi Esther, mushroom/herb medicine ceremonies on the Thursday through Saturday with integration on the final day, all set within an extraordinarily magical glade.

This will be an intimate safe space for you to journey in grace and find a new relationship with your strength and vitality.  Space is very limited so please RSVP please claim your place.

PREPARATION AND INTEGRATION: I offer 1 x 60m preparation call during the week  leading up to the retreat, 1 x 60m online integration circle one weeks after the retreat. 

Once attendees are confirmed, we will send out a poll to determine the best times for these sessions.

These will be virtual and facilitated over Zoom.

The retreat will be in the heart of the Ashdown Forest, Sussex, an off-grid, nature-based, wellness-inspiring space for us to connect deeply with ourselves and the Mythos of this work.

Conveniently located in between London and Brighton, this lovingly handcrafted space provides the comfort you need while staying on the land inclusive of a wild spa providing us with a totally unique nature immersion experience designed to rewild and reclaim your mind, body and spirit.

All food, drinks, and journey herbs will be provided.

COST: £1,133 - £2,222:  - we request you pay the highest amount within your means, so as to subsidise those who require aid

A £555 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place in the circle, booked here or by direct deposit link. If you need to discuss costs or payment plans please reach out. 

The remainder will be paid with cash or deposited before the start of the retreat.

A BIT ABOUT: Avi Esther, began learning to facilitate altered states of consciousness in 2010 with shamanic tantric practitioner training, followed by ‘Birth into Being’ facilitator training in 2011. She ran transformative workshops using breath and movement to induce trance and trained other practitioners to facilitate till 2017. She used these healing skills and knowledge to help prepare women and their partners for childbirth while assisting as a doula for many women in labour. She began facilitating mushroom ceremonies in 2017 by request from a group who witnessed her powerful facilitation skills.

By comparison to helping a panicking, pain-filled woman in labour; calm, find her centre and naturally birth a child as a psychedelic sacred rite of passage…. mushroom ceremonies are easy to facilitate. This background also helps amplify safe and joyful rebirth energy. 

Since then she has guided many journeys for people, both with and without substances. She has researched chemistry and biological mechanisms, Searched out myths and stories from the old world to listen for the motifs of the sacraments she works with, Amanita Muscaria and its medicinal allies. A bioregional herbalist, she understands how to honour the ancients of the land who worked with these entheogens alongside the science and ethical practices. Through integration practices, Avi Esther helps make the experience relevant and meaningful for each person and group by supporting their relationship with themselves and nature rather than putting her “way” onto them.