Wings of Expansiveness, Hummingbird Heart Medicine Retreat
Flowering into infinite potential.
Women’s Huachuma Retreat – May 23-25, 2025
For-rest Retreat is located in Salmo, BC. Thirty minutes South of Nelson.
Join us for a full weekend Plant Medicine Retreat at the For-rest Retreat in beautiful Salmo BC!
This retreat is lovingly curated for women seeking spiritual growth, emotional healing, and mental clarity through the sacred power of San Pedro (Huachuma) – A gentle and profound master plant medicine teacher.
Led by experienced facilitators:
Eva, Chevayo and Johanna will guide in this immersive retreat and support you through a heart medicine Ceremony, yoga Nidra flow sequence, sound bath and voice alchemy practices as well as somatic integration sessions, nourishing meals, nature immersions, journaling and reflection, cleansing sauna, nature, sacred Earth Alter creations and a gentle hike where we will anchor our prayers and intentions.
Join us to reconnect to your true self and raise the frequency of your heart to flower into a wide expansiveness of becoming!
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
What you’ll experience
– A sacred Heart Medicine ceremony led by Eva, who brings (25 years in the Healing arts)
– Group sharing circles to help you prepare for your journey and integrate your insights
– Nature immersions for grounding, and a deep sense of embodiment
– Healthy, organic farm-to-table meals to nourish and rejuvenate your body
– Deep connections with other like-minded people seeking somatic healing and transformation
– Time for reflection, journaling, sauna and walking trails
– 2 nights of deep rest, recalibration and integration.
– Beautiful gentle yoga, somatic movement and sound healing sessions
– A transformational healing journey in the heart of the Kootenays, BC
Retreat Itinerary
Day 1- preparation
– Arrival 6 PM
– Light snacks offered
-Evening mellow Hatha yoga
– Preparation sharing circle
-Sauna
Day 2 – Ceremony
– Light breakfast at 8AM
– Meet in the ceremony space at 9 AM
-Gentle somatic movement
– Begin ceremony at 10 AM
– Space to be with yourself, share in circle, and be supported by facilitators
– Sound healing session and Shamanic journey
– Light snacks available near the end of ceremony
– Evening dinner around 7 PM
– Free time until bed
Day 3 – Integration
– Gentle yoga flow
– Breakfast
– Circle integration
– Gentle hike
– Sacred Earth Alter creation
– Lunch
– Closing Sharing circle at 1PM
– Depart by 3 PM
Post Retreat
– 11 day Huachuma microdose online container available for integration and ongoing magnification and deepening of the medicine.
The Yoga
Harmonize your inner and outer worlds through the transformative practices of somatic movement and yoga asana. Chevayo offers a sacred space where you can reconnect with yourself, cultivating a deeper understanding of the connection between your body, mind, and heart in gentle movement and yoga asana.
Discover the power of somatic practices that encourage mindfulness in every movement. Chevayo will guide you through techniques that enable you to listen to your body, release tension, and cultivate a sense of freedom and flow designed to honour your journey.
Discover breath as the bridge between the body and mind. Chevayo will interweave breath work techniques that enhance your practice, deepen your awareness, and promote relaxation. Allow your breath to guide you into deeper states of being and help unlock the wisdom held within.
Sound bath healing:
Indulge in the mesmerizing experience of a crystal bowl sound bath at our retreat. This unique session invites you to immerse yourself in the soothing vibrations and resonant frequencies of crystal singing bowls and tuning forks, offering a multitude of benefits for your mind, body, and spirit through vibrational healing frequencies.
The sound of crystal bowls is known for its ability to penetrate deep into the body, promoting relaxation and a sense of peace. Feel the vibrations wash over you, helping to release stress and tension guiding you into a more profound state of awareness and connection.
Meet the Medicine
Huachuma, also known as San Pedro, is the plant of self realization and heart harmony and healing. This Master plant invites us to awaken our conciousness. This benevolent plant Ally is here to help us evolve both personally and collectively. San Pedro is the medicine of Love, the medicine of our hearts that invites us to always seek out the sweetest nectar, just as the hummingbird does.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, as prophesized in the Hopi prophecy.
Huachuma is here to support our intergenerational healing in the most beautiful and genle way possible. The sacred master plants are concious inteligent beings here to support all of humanity. These ancestral medicines have the best medicine for us to heal our hearts, bodies, minds, and spirits.
Meet the Facilitators
Eva Eagle Tree
Eva Tree Blum is an Earth based Shamanic Energy practitioner, Ceremonialist, Mesa carrier, Reiki Master and Bio-dynamic CranialSacral therapist. She is a professional singer and songwriter with two original full length recorded albums, as well as the creator of Voice Alchemy sound healing techniques. Eva is a modern day Medicine Woman who carries the ‘Q’anchis Ilya’ -Rainbow lineage as received from medicine man, Master Puma Fredy Quispe Singona. She has been in the professional healing field for the past 25 years and loves to weave her modalities together to deeply empower and increase vibrational frequencies for healing and harmonizing Body, Mind and Spirit and to be of best service to her community.
Chevayo
Chevayo Roddick has 200 Hatha Heart RYT (Nelson BC) , 200 RYT Vinyasa Yoga (Tulum, Mexico). And continuing education in Anusara yoga alignment and Trauma informed yoga. She is a certified Sound Healer and Wilderness first aid attendant.
With an upbeat energy, she encourages students to develop an inner awareness of body alignment and breath during their practice in order to build a safe and strong yoga foundation.
Chevayo’ s offerings are intertwined with her diverse gifts, her unique off -grid upbringing and inspired by her love for the earth and all beings. Chevayo is passionate about helping people feel grounded and reconnected to their hearts. She hopes that her classes will bring you back home to yourself, help you feel the oneness of all things and reignite your love to move, breath and live a wild and playful life.
Johanna
Johanna developed a love of nature and trails while growing up in the Canadian Rockies, where she spent many years as a lodge chef and hiking guide, before moving to Colorado and eventually Salmo. Her lifelong dream has been to develop a property with trails and a gathering space where people can come to relax, be in nature and have space for personal growth. Johanna became a certified natural chef at Bauman College in Boulder, Colorado and is excited to prepare some delicious and nutritious food for the retreat.
When she is not busy managing For-rest Retreat with her husband Jon or running retreats with Chevayo, she can often be found working on building new trails on the property (or out enjoying the trails with her dogs Sunny & Buddy)
The Accommodations
If you have your own camping unit, you are welcome to stay for no extra fee. The yurt is also available to sleep in if you bring your own bedding.
Book one of our onsite accommodations at a discounted rate when you sign up for a retreat.
The Casita
1 queen bed, kitchen, detached bathroom with shower.
$85/night
The Caravan
1 queen bed and 1 twin futon, kitchen, attached bathroom with propane shower & composting toilet.
$120/night
The Cabin
1 queen bed, 1 double futon, 2-3 twin mattresses in the loft. Off – grid, 10 minute hike to access, outhouse. Shower access.
$140/night
