METASEQUOIA
NOBILITY || GNOSIS || AWAKENING || ARCHIVAL MEMORY
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA
SEPTEMBER 11TH - 19TH
PRIMORDIAL GRANDMOTHER
“A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.” -Fredrik Backman
SEEING THE LONG WAY
The Grandmother is a bridge. She connects the present to the time from before our memory, or our mother's memory. The Grandmother is a weave of threads that generate lineage. She guides the soul's way and sees the long path, helping to illuminate where it is we continue to miss the mark and remain in our waking slumber.
WISDOM FROM BEFORE TIME
The gift of the Grandmother is a remembrance of the nature of life that unifies opposites and transcends belief systems, problem sets and ways of thinking which are too small for where we're going. In this way, the Grandmother is a master guide helping life to grow. Without coaching or force, she takes our hand and walks us right into a more evolved perspective, one that is anchored in a wisdom before our time, and which understands the river of life's many transformations.
DAWN REDWOOD
METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES // YAWANALEH
Metasequoia Glyptostroboides is a tree of enduring vision, power and life-force. The Dawn Redwood evolved in the cretaceous period when dinosaurs walked the Earth and is thought to be one of the dominant canopy trees coving the North Pole, when it was still a swamp and not yet capped by ice.
The Metasequoia is a unique species in that it is considered to be a living fossil, unchanged for 60 million+ years, like a time-capsule of an age of the Earth long gone. Her powers to teach from this place are extraordinary.
METASEQUOIA POWER
WHO SHOULD DO THIS & WHY?
METASEQUOIA MASTER TREE DIETS ARE FOR:
⁜ Those Ready to Heal.
⁜ Students of Mystery.
⁜ Seekers of Wisdom.
⁜ Walking Deeply & Gently.
⁜ Harmonizing The Physical Body.
⁜ Spiritual Seekers.
⁜ Growth.
⁜ Shedding a Layer.
⁜ Discovering More of Ourselves.
⁜ Cultivating Deeper Practice.
⁜ Surrender.
⁜ Breaking Through.
⁜ Radical Responsibility.
⁜ Transforming Difficult Aspects of The Self.
⁜ Learning.
⁜ Creativity.
⁜ Prayer.
⁜ Embodiment.
⁜ Practicing Self-Mastery.
⁜ Empowerment.
⁜ Soul Medicine.
⁜ Transforming the Mind.
⁜ Energy.
SET & SETTING
GROUNDED PERMACULTURE // YUGAMBEH COUNTRY // GOLD COAST HINTERLAND, QLD, AU
Cedar Waters Regenerative Living Hub
52-acre site managed by Grounded Permaculture Action Party Inc.
Nestled in a mountainous landscape, Cedar Waters Regenerative Living Hub is surrounded by ancient forest, caves, and crystal-clear creeks that flow into serene swimming holes. We will be camping adjacent to the pristine waters of Cave Creek, which flows alongside the site after falling through the infamous Natural Bridge.
Grounded Permaculture Action party is a not-for-profit community organization on the mission to regenerate our sacred connection to country, community and culture.
Our diets with Metasequoia will be self-camped on Cedar Waters' 52 acres of wilderness.
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ― John Muir
EXCHANGE
SELF-CAMPED:
AU$ 2200
(A tent, camping mat & sleeping bag are required.)
INCLUDES:
8x Night Tree Diet
Daily Liter of Metasequoia Tea
8x Tobacco Ceremonies
Daily Meditations
2x Organic & Vegan meals per day
6x Week Post-Diet Integration Container
3x Integration Calls
3x Months of Free Access to Sacred Tree Keepers Members Portal
THE SCHEDULE
DAY 1
2 - 5pm - Check-in
6pm - Medicine Harvest
7pm - Opening Tobacco Ceremony
DAYS 2 - 8
7am - Group Tobacco Prayer
10am - Breakfast
1pm - Primordial Breath
4pm - Dinner
7pm - Group Tobacco Prayer
DAY 9
8am - Diet Close
10am - Closing Meal
12pm - Depart
THE PROTOCOL
STUDYING LEGAL SACRED PLANTS WITHOUT PSYCHEDELICS
Deep study with plants connects us to the wisdom of the natural world in a way that is grounded and real. The most powerful way to engage this work is through sober, focused containers, while sitting in shamanic meditations with our plant teachers. To facilitate this enduring and traditional form of study, we turn to the ancient technology of tobacco.
ANCIENT TREE MEDICINE
1L of Sequoia Tea is consumed each day. The medicine slowly builds inside the body, cleansing the liver and nourishing the digestive organs, electrifying the mind and strengthening connective tissue.
Through our shamanic meditations with tobacco we weave the medicine of Sequoia into our being and awaken to the teachings of the plants.
WHAT TO EXPECT
THE VIBES OF A MASTER TREE DIET
Sacred Tree Diets are spaces for quiet remembrance. Processes are private, individual, inward, gentle and spacious. Medicine is served twice per day and an afternoon meditation divides breakfast and lunch. Noble silence will be observed in common areas throughout the day. Each night, we gather and sit with tobacco as a group.
The lands we work on are always spacious and accommodate for daily sunbathing, yoga, and journaling while contemplating the sunset. All meals are traditional plant diet preparations and are hand prepared, clean and simple: saltless oatmeal and boiled green plantain in the morning and vegetable soup in the late afternoon.
Medicine processes are typically very gentle but can sometimes be intense and will often include physical purging (vomiting), the processing of strong emotions, and the onset of physiological changes. Our space will be cared for by highly adept space holders. Safety, privacy and cleanliness are the highest priorities. This tree diet can also be undertaken as a complete fast, without food.
BOUNDARIES & INTEGRATION
A 6-WEEK PERIOD TO WEAVE THE MEDICINE WITHIN
During our Tree Diet, the following Boundaries will be held with strict discipline:
Sex, Masturbation, Drugs, Alcohol & other Medicines including pharmaceuticals, Phones & Screens, Work & Communication with The Outside World. Cosmetics & Scents, Soap & Toothpaste, Salt, Meat, Sugar, Dairy, Oil, Spice and Talking (outside of sharing circles.)
For 14-days following our Tree Diet, the following Boundaries will be held with strict discipline:
Sex, Masturbation, Ejaculation, Substances & Medicines including Alcohol, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Strong medicinal herbs including medicinal mushrooms, Shamanic medicines & Plant Medicine Ceremonies, Pork, Shellfish, Red meat, Dairy, Fermented foods, Canned or Preserved foods such as Smoked Fish, White sugar, Iced / Freezing Cold drinks, Spicy (Chilli Peppers), Caffeine, Heavy Oils // Deep Fried Food, Seed Oils and Processed Food.
INTEGRATION
Sacred Tree Diets are strong medicine processes that can have life-changing impact on our wellbeing. Ensuring the safety, efficacy and positivity of a Tree Diet requires holding an integration period for 6 weeks following the closing of our container.
3x Community Integration Calls
6x Weekly Check-ins on our STK Portal
1x Private Call with Mockingbird
3x Months of Complimentary Access to the STK community
Including Breath practices, a Chant Library, Group Recipe Thread
& Community Support
