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Chelsea is a ceremonialist and facilitator of healing and transformation.

She assists others by creating sacred space for awakening through ritual, ceremony and Sacred Sacraments, with the purpose of reconnecting to Divine Essence and personal power.

09/04/2026

Belonging as birthright.
Because we are nature.

We are not standing outside of the living world trying to find our way back into it. Our bodies are made from it. Our lives are held by it. We have never actually existed anywhere else.

And yet I notice how easy it is to separate myself. Sometimes through the grief and shame that raises around being a human in this time.

I look at what humanity has done to the Earth, at the ways we have consumed, extracted, destroyed, forgotten, and I can feel the impulse to imagine humanity almost as an intrusion here.

As though the Earth would be better without us.

As though our harm somehow proves that we do not belong.

But I don’t believe that story anymore.

I think that story can become another form of exile.

Because the answer to harmful relationship is not the absence of relationship. It is learning how to be in relationship differently. To remember that being human is not a mistake. That we are not some aberration outside of nature. That we, too, have a place in the living world.

And that place carries responsibility, yes, but it also carries love and belonging.

To belong means there is something here for us to tend, to protect, to listen to.

It means our presence can become nourishing rather than extractive.

It means we can participate in regeneration instead of only grieving destruction.

It means we can become good relatives again.

We do not have to transcend our humanity to become sacred.
We have to inhabit it more fully and remember what it truly means to be human.
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09/01/2026

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Healing, for me, is becoming less about endlessly working on myself and more about remembering what it means to belong.

To be human is to be relational. To be part of something larger than the individual self.

Maybe wholeness was never meant to be achieved alone.

Maybe healing is the return from separation into relationship.

08/26/2026

The medicine of your ancestors is not dead. It still lives within you stil. But you have to become it.

This New Year, we gather at Mount Shasta for Praying with the Ancestors, a four-day ancestral healing retreat devoted to reconnecting with lineage and claiming more fully the medicine we are here to carry in these times.

So much ancestral work focuses on what was wounded and passed down. Those wounds are real, but they are not the whole inheritance. We also inherit gifts. We inherit protection. We inherit ancient wisdom and the spiritual wealth of those who came before us.

We inherit ways of honoring life. Ways of being in right relationship with the Earth. Ways of remembering that we belong to something much larger than ourselves.

We gather just after the winter solstice, in the season of descent into shadow. Our ancestors had rites of passage that brought them into the shadow to do the work that could not be done on the surface. They went there to claim their medicine and their power.

We will cross the threshold of the new year in ceremony, releasing what needs to be released and reconnecting with what has been carried forward through us.

You do not need to know your genealogy to begin this work. Thousands of ancestors walk beside you. You are guided by those who came before.

Praying with the Ancestors
December 31, 2026–January 3, 2027
Mount Shasta, California

Comment RETREAT and I’ll send you the details.

08/12/2026

Still taking in the beauty of these days together with Mama Shasta.

The perfect circle always seems to find one another. Each person arriving with their own prayers, their own stories, their own medicine. Each offering a piece of themselves, witnessing and being witnessed, as we walk this multidimensional spiral together.

This retreat, we journeyed around the Medicine Wheel.

Shedding our skins with Serpent.

Walking into the shadow with love and grace with Jaguar, finding the courage to leave the territory that feels safe and walk into the unseen.

Drinking from the nectar of life with Hummingbird, remembering ayni, sacred reciprocity, and listening for the wisdom of the ancient ones.

And with Eagle, opening into greater vision. Remembering that letting go is necessary in order to fly.
The medicine of Eagle reminds us that seeing is the act of perceiving reality. Vision is the act of co-creating it, of dreaming the world into being. Eagle brings vision and a new path.

We cleansed in the waters. We laid beneath the stars. We offered back to the Earth, with gratitude and love, what was no longer ours to carry, placing it into her body and knowing that she will do this, too, for us 🙏

Walking the wheel reminds us that we are mapmakers, cartographers of the soul.

We may follow the maps of others for a time. Eventually, those maps become incomplete. We begin creating a map that expresses not the truth of others, but the truth we have directly experienced. Standing in our truth, without the need to submit, or reject, the truth of another.

So much gratitude for the plants, for the healing and wisdom they bring.

Gratitude to Mama Shasta. To the waters. To the star brothers and sisters. For Pachamama Mother Earth. For every person who completed the circle. For the infinite love emanating from our own hearts.

What a beautiful thing it is to remember together and to walk each other home.

07/09/2026

Healing comes with responsibility because life itself comes with responsibility.

We were given life.

We were given breath, a body, water, food, plants that feed us and heal us and teach us, ancestors whose lives made our lives possible, and the living Earth who has held us every day of our lives.

This is the first gift. Our own life. To be alive on this Earth.

Part of the sickness of the modern world is that we have forgotten the value of this gift of life.

We have forgotten the sacredness of our own lives, and because of that forgetting, we have forgotten the sacredness of all life. Our societal structures have taught us to relate through ownership, entitlement, hierarchy, control, and extraction. They have taught us to forget that life is not something we own.

Life is something we belong to.

And because we were shaped by this world, we carry these patterns into the places we go to heal.

Ceremony can become another place where we receive without asking what our receiving makes us responsible for. Spirituality can become another language for the self, another way to circle our wounds, our patterns, our process, our pain.

That work is necessary. We do need to understand what we carry. We do need to look honestly at the places where we have been shaped by family, culture, and trauma. But healing that only turns us inward can keep us circling the self forever.

At some point, the path has to turn us back toward life.

Robin Wall Kimmerer asks, “What can I give in return for the gifts of the Earth?”

That question changes the whole orientation of the path. It interrupts the hunger for more.

It brings us back into relationship to this precious gift of life.

This gift is not a resource. This gift asks to be honored, protected, tended, and valued through our direct actions.

Initiation as teaches responsibility toward community, village, and culture.

And this is what I believe plant medicines have the capacity to initiate us into: personal power AND spiritual maturity, which means responsibility.

06/28/2026

The balance of power cannot be restored without women fully embodying our power.

MATRIARCH is a four-day women’s sacred sacrament retreat for women who know the return of the Sacred Feminine must also be lived through us.

For generations, women have been separated from the full expression of our power. We have been taught to fear it, distrust it, soften it, or hand it over. The world carries the consequences of that separation.

Feminine power gives life and protects life. It keeps power in relationship with care, responsibility, and the generations still to come. Its return is essential.

Held over Samhain on Palomar Mountain, this retreat will guide women through a ceremonial process with Sacred Earth Medicines, ancestral work centered on the maternal line, and direct work with the patriarchal conditioning that has shaped our relationship to power.

This is a call to women who are ready to embody feminine power in service to life.

Matriarchy is not patriarchy with women in charge. It is a return to balance. It asks us to hold power as a sacred responsibility to life.

The retreat is intimate and female-led. It is held through traditional lineage and shamanic initiation, with preparation and integration included.

October 29 to November 1, 2026
Palomar Mountain, California

Early bird registration is available through September 15.

Comment RETREAT and I’ll send you the full details. 🌿

05/29/2026

Love is the most profound medicine we will ever encounter.

Not because it is gentle or easy, but because love has the power to return us to what is true and whole. To open what has been closed. To soften what has been defended. To call home the parts of ourselves we once believed we had to abandon in order to survive.

This weekend on Palomar Mountain, we gathered for the work of soul retrieval.

We came to reclaim the parts of ourselves that had been lost, hidden, forgotten, or given away. To reclaim our power. Our joy. Our beauty. Our belonging. Our birthright of love.

And love was everywhere.

In the vulnerability of each person willing to be seen. In the depth of connection that formed within the group. In the way each person arrived as both student and teacher, carrying exactly what was needed for the circle.

We felt love In the oak, cedar, and sequoia trees that held us.
In the waters flowing on the land.
In the breath of the mountain air.
In the vastness of the views that reminded us to look beyond the edges of our own lives.
And in the hawks, who came again and again as guides of vision.

They helped us rise above the smallness of the personal self and see more clearly: our healing is never only for us. Our lives are woven into the lives of others, into the Earth, into the generations still to come.

To reclaim our power is not to turn more deeply inward in self-importance. It is to become capable of loving more fully. To become responsible for what we now know. To carry what the plants, the land, and the spirits have shown us into the way we live each moment.

We left holding a vision in our hearts of love. A vision of human beings remembering their place within the living world, having known that remembrance deeply through this experience together. A vision of what becomes possible when we no longer abandon ourselves, and from that wholeness, no longer abandon one another or the Earth.

My heart is so full from this weekend. So expanded. So humbled by the love that moved through this circle and by the beauty of Palomar Mountain, who held us so powerfully in this work.

May the love we reclaimed move through and far beyond our own lives ❤️❤️❤️

05/17/2026

The medicine wheel is one of the oldest maps we have for the journey of being human. It teaches us that we do not heal in a straight line, that the returns to darkness are not failure, that every death in our lives is a threshold and every return to the beginning is a return with more of ourselves intact.

This Lions Gate, I am gathering a small group on Mt. Shasta to walk this wheel together over four days in ceremony. I am an initiate of the Q'ero lineage and share this teaching with permission. We will move through all four directions together on one of the most energetically charged mountains in North America, with sacred sacrament ceremonies, shamanic teachings, integration circles, lodging and organic meals included.

This is for those who feel the wheel calling. For those who are ready to shed what Serpent is asking for, to walk with Jaguar into the shadow, to drink from the nectar of life with Hummingbird, and to rise into vision with Eagle and Condor. For those who know the journey is not linear and are ready for a map that actually honors that.

For the cycle breakers. The ones healing not just for themselves but for all who came before and all who will come after.

✨ Early bird pricing of $100 off ends June 25 ✨

Comment RETREAT for more info or click the link in bio to learn more and apply.

05/14/2026

For those whose soul is calling you back home ✨

04/29/2026

Deep gratitude and respect to Maria Sabina, who lived every word of this. May we all find our way back to this medicine and knowing. It truly is that simple 🌸🌻🥀

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