The Luminous Journey Retreat

With Your Guide + Facilitator Denise Braun-Stargazer, MA, LPF

 

The Luminous Journey Retreat

A Plant Medicine Retreat for Women

Join us for a 5-Day Inclusive Women’s Retreat in Taos, NM
We gather April 2-6, 2025

Deposits are now being graciously accepted for this sacred getaway designed to re-spark clarity, help you find community and heal your spirit.

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Join us in the heart of the southwest as we explore the energy and healing power of Taos, NM. Our luxury accommodations will include a multi-use grand room, large open concept gathering spaces, a walking labyrinth and more. Each guest will receive their own private room (shared bathrooms) accented with soft, neutral surroundings.  Our property for this weekend will be part of an historic Lodge which has traditional adobe walls, high viga ceilings, rambling verandas, and plants/portals. With three acres of natural landscape, the property boasts apricot, apple, peach, plum, and pear trees and splendid views of Taos Mountains.

Join us in the heart of the southwest as we explore the energy and healing power of Taos, NM. Our luxury accommodations will include a multi-use grand room, large open concept gathering spaces, a walking labyrinth and more. Each guest will receive their own private room (shared bathrooms) accented with soft, neutral surroundings.  Our property for this weekend will be part of an historic Lodge which has traditional adobe walls, high viga ceilings, rambling verandas, and plants/portals. With three acres of natural landscape, the property boasts apricot, apple, peach, plum, and pear trees and splendid views of Taos Mountains.

Event Registration

The Luminous Journey Retreat: $3600/per person
You will enjoy the privacy of your own room. Room assignments will be made before you arrive.

Payment Scheule:

A $500 non-refundable is required to secure a place in the Luminous Journey Retreat. The following is the (3) payment breakdown which will be billed via PayPal on the dates listed below:

Payment 1: $1100 on October 20th, 2024
Payment 2: $1100 on January 20th, 2025
Payment 3: $900 on February 20th, 2025

Pay In Full Rate:

If paying for your retreat in full at the time of registration, we happily deduct $100 from the full investment price. Your payment would be $3500. Please reach out to Denise at bringonhappiness@gmail.com

Sponsor a Scholarship:

We graciously accept payment for a scholarship for another retreatant which may not be able to pay their way due to hardship. Please reach out to Denise at bringonhappiness@gmail.com

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What’s Included?

While being supported by four professional and fully certified/licensed plant medicine facilitators, you will experience:

  • Three meals a day (plus snacks!) prepared by a professional chef who focuses on sustainable agriculture and seasonal fare. Coffee, tea and water are provided. All meals are gluten-free and predominantly vegan.
  • 4 nights and 5 days luxury accommodations in private retreat center.
  • Sound bath healing ceremony with Tibetan singing bowls.
  • Labrinth walk and ceremonial ritual.
  • Plant medicine ceremony to include the medicine itself, safe and ethical facilitation practices and post journey circle gathering.
  • Nightly altar work and women’s circle gatherings (we will share, laugh, cry, sing, and move)!
  • Optional guided yoga practice on morning 4
  • Optional massage or tarot reading (an add-on investment)
  • Post plant medicine ceremony integration day with your facilitators
  • Final day celebratory brunch (including champagne if you so desire)

 

What’s Not Included?
  • Your transportation to and from the retreat center
  • Optional massage or tarot reading
  • Travel Insurance (we highly recommend and please review our cancellation policy before registering for this event). Your registration and deposit for this retreat are NON-REFUNDABLE. Please acquire the level of travel insurance that is appropriate for your personal situation.
  • San Geronimo Retreat Center and the facilitation team is not responsible for lost or stolen items. Please only bring the necessities to this event.

Denise Braun Stargazer, MA, LPF

Denise Braun-Stargazer, MA, LPF is a published author, trauma and forensic therapist, shamanic practitioner and psilocybin facilitator. Denise has more than 25 years of experience working with groups, agencies and one-on-one clients all over the world. As a retired college professor, her passion is to educate and guide healing, as well as help others discover breakthroughs with the help of plant medicine. Denise is an invited and fully initiated practitioner of earth medicine from the Q’ero lineage in Peru.

Denise holds a masters degree in clinical psychology and psychopathology, and has lectured across the US for both collegiate and private speaking events. In 2018, Denise received the Legacy of Leadership Award in California which recognizes outstanding contributions from clinicians who educate and train first-responders in Crisis Intervention. Denise attended Innertrek in Portland Oregon and also holds a license as a psilocybin facilitator. Denise lives in Portland with her family, their golden retriever and four cats. In her free time Denise loves forest hikes, sushi, painting and singing.

Rachel Ackerman

Rachel is a social worker, psychedelic facilitator, and community tender. Her clinical background includes over a decade of experience in social work, crisis intervention and trauma-informed therapy. Certified in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy & Integration, Rachel has undergone years of extensive training to ensure she provides safe and skilled care to others. Her path to this vocation was not merely professional but deeply personal, having experienced firsthand the profound and transformative healing power of psilocybin.

Currently Rachel helps run one of the first legal psilocybin service centers in the United States and facilitates psilocybin retreats in the US and Mexico. She does this holding profound reverence and gratitude for this wise and ancient medicine. Rachel considers it the honor of a lifetime to support others on their healing journey with the medicine that has gifted her so much.

Rachel Ackerman

Rachel is a social worker, psychedelic facilitator, and community tender. Her clinical background includes over a decade of experience in social work, crisis intervention and trauma-informed therapy. Certified in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy & Integration, Rachel has undergone years of extensive training to ensure she provides safe and skilled care to others. Her path to this vocation was not merely professional but deeply personal, having experienced firsthand the profound and transformative healing power of psilocybin.

Currently Rachel helps run one of the first legal psilocybin service centers in the United States and facilitates psilocybin retreats in the US and Mexico. She does this holding profound reverence and gratitude for this wise and ancient medicine. Rachel considers it the honor of a lifetime to support others on their healing journey with the medicine that has gifted her so much.

Amanda Gerace

Amanda is a mother, nature-lover, dreamer, death/grief doula, massage therapist and experienced psilocybin facilitator, drawing from over 21 years in the healing arts. Her work is rooted in somatic practices and introspective exploration, and it is with a grounded curiosity, compassion, and nurturing presence that Amanda supports clients on their unique path to finding a deeper connection to self.

Amanda began work as a massage therapist in 2003 after graduating from the Phoenix Therapeutic Massage College in Flagstaff, AZ.
In 2020, Amanda became a certified end of life doula, and she holds a deep reverence for the ways in which grief and death shape us, teach us, and connect us to the cycles of life.

Amanda’s personal experience with psilocybin has been life changing. It has helped her to process debilitating grief, trauma and depression from the loss of her daughter and a near death experience and eventually come back to herself with renewed vibrancy and extreme gratitude for the mystery and magic of the mushrooms. After experiencing the healing potential, Amanda was inspired to work more closely with psilocybin, and she graduated from InnerTrek with the inaugural cohort of the first legal psilocybin facilitators.

YOUR LUMINOUS JOURNEY STARTS HERE…

 

We have intentionally chosen Taos, NM, as our retreat location because of its sacred essence. Nestled in the mountains of Northern New Mexico, Taos is both historic and charming. It offers a profound spiritual connection to the land, along with an array of churches, museums, and a vibrant community that nurtures our hearts. Discover more about Taos here: www.taos.org.

 

We believe that healing happens in community. The Luminous Journey Retreat is designed to bring together a group of heart-centered women to cultivate healing, ally with ancient plant medicine, and practice sacred alignment. We will gather as a women’s council of light, seeking ceremony for discernment and clarity. Together, we will embark on a journey that includes breathwork and sound healing, intentional movement through yoga, nourishing meals, creative exploration, labyrinth walks, and deep immersion into self-love and tender care.

 

Flight are available into Albuquerque or Santa Fe, NM. Taos is then a 70 mile drive north of Santa Fe. As a group, we will have an afternoon to walk around old Taos and explore what the city has to offer. Bring a good pair of walking shoes and your open-hearted curiosity for this adventure (weather permitting).

 Taos can be chilly in April. Sometimes it even snows! As we won’t know what the weather will be like until we get closer to our sojourn, plan to pack layers and be open to whatever mother nature has in store.

 

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Stargazer Living, Inc.
Financial Agreement and Cancellation Policy
To Include The Luminous Journey Retreat

Workshop and Retreat Cancellations/Refund Policy:
Deposits for workshops, retreats, and other special events are non-refundable at any time after receipt unless we cancel the program, you are not accepted for a particular program, or it is full. This excludes event cancellation due to acts of nature or force majeure. The balance of your special event fee is non-refundable unless we cancel the program, you are not accepted for a particular program, or the event is full. This excludes event cancellation due to acts of nature or force majeure. For registration cancellations made 5 weeks or more before the start date of a program, the deposit and all fees paid can be credited for a later program of the same type. This can be done only one time. However, an additional non-refundable deposit must be paid in order to hold space in the later program. For registration cancellations made less than 3 weeks before the start date of a program, all fees paid are forfeited. In the case an event is cancelled or postponed due to an act of nature including but not limited to fire, flood, and adverse weather; or force majeure, all fees paid are non-refundable but may be transferred to the new date for the event or similar event.

Financial Agreement & Policy for Non-Payment:
In the event that billing efforts fail, delinquent accounts may be subject to collections. Stargazer Living (aka Denise Braun Stargazer) will make every attempt to develop a payment plan with any client struggling to pay a past due balance prior to sending a balance to collections. Please sign and date below indicating you have been provided accurate information and understand the limits of service charges and billing information and agree to the Cancellation Policy and Financial Agreement and above.