medicine mama retreat

How does a weekend getaway connecting with both western and indigenous plant medicine experiences sound, to you?  

In sisterhood, we'll be crafting a healing salve made from Juniper berries we gather ourselves as well as lavender from the local lavender farm that we'll visit together. 

We'll be in the forest together, digging our hands in the Arizona dirt, for quartz crystals. 

We'll be enjoying an herbal bath bar, and a candlelit bath, all to ourselves. 

We'll be using food as medicine, enjoying delicious meals prepared together and by our hosts. 

We'll craft Juniper smoke bundles, to bring this retreat energy home, and to cleanse our living space.

And, we'll be learning about and enjoying plants as medicine, for our minds, bodies, and spirits, around the fire. 

If this is for you, register today! This intimate retreat is for 10 ladies. We can't wait to gather with you!

Our retreat begins on Friday evening and ends Sunday late afternoon.  

It includes beautiful shared or private accommodations for two  nights, all supplies and materials, as well as healthy dinner Friday evening, healthy & organic breakfast Saturday morning, healthy picnic lunch Saturday afternoon,  and healthy & organic breakfast Sunday morning.  

Dinner on Saturday evening will be at a local steakhouse in Payson, and lunch on Sunday will be at a local restaurant in Pine (where we will all cover our own bills). 

Medicine Mama Retreat is a collaboration between Jennifer Hoeprich of Magical Mama, LLC and Andrea Taahaabaah Twitchell of Taahaabaah Therapeutic Services, LLC.   

Ms. Andrea Twitchell is the owner and sole-provider at Taahaabaah Therapeutic Services, LLC in Tempe, Arizona. She offers an integrative approach to whole health by supporting community members with an indigenous and clinical perspective in how to live a balanced lifestyle reflected in a harmonious mind,

body, and Spirit - Hozo.

Ms. Twitchell has over 15 years of hands-on and continuing education experience in the field of Therapeutic Massage and Somatic Polarity Therapy. She has an extensive knowledge of anatomy and physiology. She is also deeply connected and attuned to the subtle energetic fields of the body such as the chakra systems,

energetic lines, reflexive points, cranio-sacral rhythm, and nervous system.

Bodywork is Andrea’s 1st love and she brings a special intuitive quality to her presence and touch.  

Taahaabaah also holds a Dual Master’s Degree in Clinical Counseling and Art Therapy from Southwestern College, Santa Fe, NM. Andrea focused her graduate work around Indigenous healing practices and philosophy; Early Intervention Services; and the exploration and implementation of various therapeutic

modalities such as Eco-psychology, Psycho-Spirituality, Attachment Theory, Expressive Arts Continuum, and Jungian ideology.

Since 2019 Ms. Twitchell has been mentoring and healing with various plant medicines, stepping into the role as a Medicine Carrier. She operates on the spectrum of food as medicine for everyday healing; to various herbs and plants like as cannabis and hapé; to psychedelics such as psilocybin, ayahuasca, bufo alvarius, and San Pedro (mesciline). Ms. Twitchell offers various modern day ceremonial services to support individual and group members in developing deeper levels of consciousness for a totall sense of well-being.

Jennifer Hoeprich is a Certified Professional Midwife, Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, Certified Meditation Teacher, Reiki Master, and Graduate of the Yogini Priestess Path.   In 2013, she launched Magical Mama, to create powerful year-long containers for mothers to deeply connect with other mothers, and to themselves.  Over the past 18 years, she has held space for exponential growth and expansion for over 1,000 mothers through birthwork, Magical Mama Circles and retreats, group classes, and private Hypnotherapy, Reiki & Sound Healing sessions. She has facilitated over 250 sister circles and 18 transformational weekend retreats since 2013, and has expanded her work to include Magical Maidens Program for pre-teen and teen girls and Magical Momboss for Mom Entrepreneurs. 

Tobacco is a sacred plant used by North and South American indigenous peoples for

tens of thousands of years. Tobacco is used in its various forms depending on the local

environment and the culture it is prescribed to. It is used to give thanks to Mother Earth

and to send prayers to our Ancestors via Father Sky. We will be using 2 traditions

throughout our medicine retreat.

Hapé Circle

South American Shamanic Snuff

Clearing, Connecting

*Ground Tobacco Ash

*Various Amazonian Vegetation Ash

*Social gatherings, mediation, celebration

*Ceremonial uses

Learn how to:

*Hold Space

*Set intention

*Ground, purge, connect

Loose Leaf Tobacco Prayer Bundles 

North American Smoking Plant

Protection, Prayers to the Ancestors

*Loose leaf tobacco

*Ceremonial uses

*Masculine energy

*Social gatherings, mediation, celebration

Activity:

*Make 4-7 bundles

*Set intention(s)

*Burn, send prayers

Additional optional plant medicine offerings at retreat will be discussed at the Pre-Retreat Medicine Preparation Info Circle in Tempe on April 15, 2023.

In sisterhood, Jen will support you in crafting a healing salve made from Juniper berries we gather ourselves, in the forest, as well as lavender from the local lavender farm that we'll visit together. 

We'll be enjoying an herbal bath bar, and a candlelit bath, and Jen will explain the health benefits of the plant materials and extracts provided. 

We'll be using food as medicine, throughout the retreat, enjoying delicious meals prepared together and by our hosts. We'll circle up to discuss kitchen herbs that can be beneficial to our health.  

We'll also craft Juniper smoke bundles, from the Juniper we will respectfully collect at Diamond Point, to bring this retreat energy home, and to cleanse our living space.

We are in a gorgeous location, in Payson. It includes two kitchens, a three-person sauna and jetted bathtub!  We have one private room option, four bottom bunk options, three top bunk options, and one air mattress or floor bed option.