Rainforest Medicine Council Gathering (7 Nights)
With Jonathon Miller Weisberger ~ Ethnobotanist, Julian Keenan Grow L.Ac. and Andrea Deanne - Yoga & Massage
April 20 - 27, 2019
Experience Ancient Amazonian plant medicine ceremonies for personal, community and planetary renewal. Held in accordance with the millenary, time-tested, wellness tradition the “Multicolored People.” Integrated with yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Our location is the enchanting Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat (aka Guaria de Osa Ecolodge) located on Costa Rica’s treasured Osa Peninsula, a paradise well known for its vast diversity of animal and plant life. Tucked perfectly between a pristine beach and the thriving rainforest you will also find yoga, wellness modalities, therapeutic massage, comfortable accommodations and three delicious natural meals daily.
The 2019 Council Gatherings are being facilitated by Jonathon Miller Weisberger, author of Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon. The experience he brings as an adept ethnobotanist, conservation pioneer and rainforest guide with decades of delving deep into the pulsating heart of Rainforest Medicine traditions bring these retreats to the whole next level!
This 7-day retreat includes:
• Comfortable shared accommodations at Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat. Private rooms are also available at an additional rate.
• Three natural wholesome meals daily, except on fasting days where one simple dieta friendly meal is served.
• Delving deep into the heart of ethnobotany and local medicinal plants
• Introduction to an ancient ceremonial indigenous plant medicine science
• (2) sunrise renewal ceremonies with alkaline rich rainforest medicines
• (2) overnight traditional healing ceremonies with rainforest medicines
• (2) Aura cleanses with medicinal flowers
• Rainforest, paradise beach and river hikes
• Swim, snorkel and surf at our beach front location
• One on one preparation/Integration guidance (if requested)
• Daily Yoga class
• On site massage therapist (additional rate)
All attendees will receive a “dieta protocol” information package for ceremonial preparation and are required to fill out an application.
About the Staff
Jonathon Miller Weisberger ~ Ethnobotanist
Ethnobotanist Jonathon Miller Weisberger has spent the past twenty-nine years studying rainforest plant medicine traditions. Since 1996 he has organized biannual “Rainforest Medicine Councils,” experiential workshops journeys, for “Personal, community and Planetary Renewal,” that have offered participants an intimate opportunity to meet and learn from cultural adepts, the mighty rainforest and the omnipotent plant teachers! […]
Learn more about Jonathon Miller Weisberger ~ EthnobotanistJulian Keenan Grow L.Ac.
Julian Keenan Grow is an acupuncturist, herbalist and MSTOM. He is the founder of Sacred Silence Acupuncture, a private acupuncture clinic in Brooklyn and Sacred Silence Medicinals. Julian also performs community acupuncture at Bedstuy Acupuncture and Massage. Julian’s passion for the archaic roots of acupuncture and Chinese medicine originating as a shamanic art allow him […]
Learn more about Julian Keenan Grow L.Ac.Andrea Deanne - Yoga & Massage
Andrea Deanne Yoga: Andrea has been teaching yoga since 2014, when she opened a yoga co-op on the small island of Utila, Honduras. She has since taught in retreat settings in Belize, Sri Lanka, and her home base of Maui, and has spent two seasons in India and Nepal going further into the philosophy and […]
Learn more about Andrea Deanne - Yoga & MassageCategories : Ethnobotanical Immersion, Plant Medicine, Rainforest Medicine, Yoga