Meditation for the Journey
Autumn Training Retreat
Somatics, Sound, and Story
A transformational weekend for coaches and serious practitioners
In Beautiful Berkshire County, MA
September 26, 27, 28
Join a group of like minded explorers
for a weekend of transcendent practice and ceremony
~ Explore guided somatic practices and visualizations that you can share with your clients.
~ Experience how sacred sound can deepen somatic awareness and release.
~ Enjoy ceremony in the gorgousness of New England Autumn
~ 15 people max.
Healing the Healer
Teaching the Teacher
Guiding the Guide
This intensive is designed to create a powerful container for people with emerging spiritual visions. The sessions will offer healers of all experience levels an opportunity to deepen their practice and care for themselves, knowing that they will take what they learn and experience back to their clients and communities.
You will be offered a weekend designed to explore the depths of your body, mind, and consciousness with simple clarity. The curriculum is designed to make you a more centered being as well as a better guide.
Friday:
We’ll open Friday with some sound healing. We’ll learn the bija mantras (single syllable sounds) of the chakra system, and how our voice can be used to express and release in ways that support catharsis while maintaining a regulated nervous system. This will transition sweetly into our drum ceremony to fully land you into our shared space.
Saturday:
On Saturday, we’ll explore the intersection of visualization and somatics as a wonderful adjunct to a journey. We’ll learn visualization and embodiment practices from the ancient art of yoga nidra, which supports a calm inner environment through our presence and guidance. We’ll participate in partner exercises that’ll help us deepen our somatic awareness and release tension through sacred sound, and enable us to move through blockages to true expression. culminate in our Saturday evening cannabis ceremony, where you will experience some of the tools you learned during the day.
Sunday:
We’ll begin our day on Sunday with a Qi Gong practice that includes the six healing sounds and how they can balance emotional issues. We’ll spend the remainder of our time together in integration, and will see how our stories can convey deep universal truths. We’ll discuss how stories enable us to confidently take our seats as teachers, providing deep value to our students.
What’s included:
- Lodging a the beautiful 9 Mountain Retreat Center
- Delicious organic and locally-sourced meals
- Meditation, yoga, dharma talks
- Introduction to guiding Yoga Nidra to support come up anxiety
- Chanting the chakras for somatic awareness and release
- Exploration of the 5 elemental sounds of TCM
- Cannabis ceremony with guided Yoga Nidra
- Drum Journey Ceremony
- Playing in nature/ nature walk
- Hot Tub
- Art making
- Autumn Leaves!
You’ll Also Receive:
- Trip Sitting for Friends and Family Ebook
- Essential Preparation Ebook
- Journaling questions for preparation and integration.
- A collection of educational links and resources.
- Collection of Music – Psychedelic Playlists.
When I was beginning my sacred medicine journey, this class helped me connect yogic principles to the medicine journey space. It brought some clarity on how I can use yoga and meditation into medicine journey preparation, facilitation and integration. Thank you Daniel🙏
The weekend intensive made me a better sitter, and by that I mean, back to sitting on my cushion with renewed vigor to watch the breath, to ground the body, to cultivate the mind. There was an ease to connecting with others in the class doing their own intensive personal work/self healing in the service of life. Daniel teaches with a gentleness and like any great member of a jam, he knows how to lead with the countless sources of wisdom that’s guided him and when to share in the groove and let the aliveness in others shine. Part psycho-spiritual tool kit expansion pack, part hikers’ rest stop along the life’s path. Join Daniel, you’ll explore yourself!
About Nine Mountain Retreat Center:
Nine Mountain Retreats intentionally crafts a warm homey space for exploration in the realms of human connection, spiritual practice, social change, embodiment and the healing arts.
Their team is dedicated to creating a nurturing, welcoming and supportive environment to assist individuals and groups as they discover new pathways of self-discovery, transformation and conscious connection.
Whether you’re craving community, seeking solace in nature or embarking on a journey of self-exploration, Nine Mountain provides a sanctuary where individuals from all walks of life can come together to learn, heal, and thrive.
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Meet Your Teachers
Robin Alexandra
Robin Alexandra is a compassionate and skilled guide dedicated to supporting personal transformation and deeper self-understanding. As a medicine woman, educator, coach, andmmultimedia artist, she weaves her deep connection to the Earth and its sacred mysteries into all aspects of her work.
With a trauma-informed approach and over 40 years of experience with psychedelics, Robin’s path has been shaped by mentorship in sacred plant medicine traditions, women’s circles, animist practices, and embodied modalities like meditation, Reiki, and yoga.
Through her work with the Tam Integration team, she offers transformational coaching, personalized microdosing protocols, and education in psychedelic preparation and integration. She also leads Tam’s weekly Women’s Psychedelic Integration Circles, creating nurturing spaces or connection and growth. Robin believes joy, play, presence, and creative expression are essential to a meaningful life.
Daniel Shankin
As a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He has worked people from all walks of life and is grateful to have been able to work with a diverse clientele. His methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. He offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life for themselves that is aligned with their deeper values and manifests measurable results that matter.
As the founder and director of Tam Integration, he’s committed to offering radically accessible and inclusive support and education for people who are wanting to transform, heal, and grow. Tam’s integration circles and online conferences enjoy a world wide audience and much critical acclaim.
He and his wife live in a tiny town in New England where they forage for mushrooms and throw rocks into creeks with their two small boys.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel 45 days or more prior to the retreat, we’ll refund 90% of your tuition.
Due to the nature of retreat rental, there are no refunds less than 45 days prior to the retreat.
Contact us via email at tamintegration (at) protonmail (dot) com. Proton mail is an end to end encrypted email service.
This is not therapy. This is a service for healthy individuals who are looking for additional resources to support their growth. This is NOT intended to be group therapy nor any form of professional therapeutic intervention.
We do not encourage or condone any illegal activities, the purchase, sale, transfer, or use of any illegal substances, or partaking in any unlawful activities related to illegal substances. Please do not bring, buy, sell, transfer, or arrive on any illegal substances, or swap information on how to acquire or use them. You may be asked to leave if you do not adhere to this request. Thank you for respecting our safe community space.