Courting Your Medicine
An In-person Rite of Passage for Therapists, Leaders, Teachers and Healers of All Kinds
3 Month Deep Dive into Finding and Embodying Your Sacred Purpose
We are all here for a reason; we each have unique gifts that are designed to help us to live our purpose in the world. The core of these gifts is what is known as your “Soul Medicine.” And your Medicine is needed on the planet––now more than ever before!
You may be a massage therapist, a Feldenkrais practitioner, a gestalt-trained psychotherapist, or a death doula, but these are not your Soul Medicine. Your Medicine is something deeper, more sacred––and often more hidden.
The trouble is most people never discover what their Soul Medicine is. Or if they know, they aren’t sure how to bring it into the world. They suffer the pain of feeling ungiven—their sacred fruits rotting on the tree. They get in their own way, trip over their shadow, get sidetracked with others’ expectations, or become lost in confusion, self-doubt, and fear.
If this is speaking to you, read on.
Courting Your Medicine is for therapists and healers of all types who have heard the beginnings of a Soul Call and are ready to court, embody, and live their Medicine into the world. It’s for those who long to be fully given and to truly and authentically serve (without leaving themselves behind).
In Courting Your Medicine, will engage in Soul-centered work in nature, deep imagery, embodiment practices, sacred mirroring, radical truth-telling, parts work, shadow work, journaling, art-making, and the spontaneous magic and awe of being human. We will use all of these to lift the veil and to glimpse, court, and embody our unique way of belonging to the world. In addition to the time together on the land, we include personalized "homeplay" assignments, online support calls and coaching, and culminating “ceremonies” to mark your initiation into your gifts.
If you allow it, this program can and will change your life.
Who This Program is For
Courting Your Medicine is for you if:
You have a desire for something greater, and have a sense that there is some as-of-yet unlived potency in you longing to be born.
You are ready to step more fully into yourself and are willing to work through the challenges you meet along the way.
You are a therapist or healer of any kind (acupuncturist, massage therapist, energy healer, mother, coach, psychotherapist,, etc. etc. etc).
You long to come into right relationship with your power—to neither hide from it nor slip into arrogance, but to own what’s yours to own.
You have a deep desire to feel more confident inside yourself and in the world, to feel the rightness that comes with knowing what you are here to do.
You are courageous—willing to go into the dark terrain of your own shadow to discover the hidden treasures there (this does not mean that you are not afraid!).
You are ready to show up completely and allow yourself to be changed in service of bringing your deepest offering to the world.
You are more committed to embodying your Soul than to staying safe or playing small (even if it is scary).
You are up to important individual and/or social healing and planetary change (even if you don’t know it yet).
You’ve done some basic psychological and spiritual work and are able to own (at least some of) your projections and break down your stories and use them for growth.
You have a sense that your challenges are opportunities to grow rather than simply obstacles and sometimes even celebrate and applaud your own difficulties (even while simultaneously cursing them).
You are grateful to have the opportunity to do your Soul Work and see it as a privilege.
You’ve resonated with much of the language you’ve seen here and have a sense (even though you don’t quite know why yet) that this training is for you.
What You’ll Get From This Program
You will not learn a particular modality in this program. You will learn how to unlock your Medicine and the optimal conditions for bringing your gifts forward.
We can’t promise you will walk away “finished” or “perfect.” We can promise you will walk away clearer than you’ve ever been about what is yours to offer, and with the deep confidence to live your genius into the world.
You will have the opportunity to heal power dynamics that would otherwise keep you playing small or puff you up out of arrogance.
You will learn the Code of You and receive your own Soul Medicine Operating Instructions.
You will have the opportunity to clear old contracts that no longer fit, release family dynamics and ancestral patterns that would keep you small, and remake your blueprint for life.
You will learn the secrets to live your Medicine for the greatest good.
You will receive the gift of being truly seen by a Soul community that has the capacity to mirror back to you who you really are.
You will have the opportunity to be deeply inspired, moved, wowed, and awed by an extraordinary group of people up to radical mischief and terrible goodness in the world.
You will learn to trust yourself and your own power.
You will receive the deep satisfaction of knowing who you really are and the tools, exercises, and guidance you need to birth your gifts into the world.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Program Outline
This three-month deep dive Rite of Passage program consists of two, 6-day in-person gatherings in Colorado, five online group meetings in between the intensives, and an integration call after the second live gathering.
When you join us, you’ll experience the following:
Identifying and clearing the “Demons at the Gate”, or the many beliefs, experiences and lineage patterns that get in the way of your knowing, trusting and offering your gifts in the world.
Deep explorations to know and embody your Medicine while being seen and supported by a supportive community of women, by the earth, and by your support in the unseen realms.
Discovering the “Care and Feeding” of your Medicine, in other words, how you will set up your life, your environment, and your daily rituals to best support the living of your gifts into the world.
Developing a roadmap for your “Delivery System”, i.e., how and in what format you want to offer your gifts to others, while simultaneously acknowledging the many ways that you are already and inevitably doing so.
Clarifying and committing to your next steps for living your Soul gifts in the world so that your very being can radiate your Medicine.
Between our two 6-day gatherings, you will also be supported to continue deepening into your Medicine through:
An invitation to engage in weekly experiential practices and processes
Five online gatherings with the entire Courting Your Medicine community
Two individual Soul Medicine Guidance/support sessions from the program assistants
Meetings with another person in the community (A Courting accountability buddy) to support one another's discoveries and the integration of all you are uncovering and saying “Yes” to
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Program Details
Next Program:
June 10-15, 2025 and September 6-11, 2025
Five group meetings in between these intensives
One integration call after the second intensive.
Location: Foothills outside of Boulder, CO
Price:
Regular rate - $4,860
Early bird rate - $4375 (if you enroll by 04/15/25)
Holiday special - $3985 (if you enroll by 01/31/25)*
*If you pay in full prior to 01/31/25, you'll get an additional $200 off the above holiday special rate
Prerequisites: none
Food and Lodging: Camping on the land is an additional $20/night facility fee (let us know if you need assistance with equipment rentals). There is no running water on the land, but there are camping toilets. There are also several hotels, AirBnBs, and campgrounds near the property. If you’re interested in this option, please let us know and we can help with recommendations. For meals, there are spots to set up camp stoves and store coolers for your prep or storage needs.
About Your Facilitators
With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.
She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing, and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at a graduate level.
Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches, and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.”
For nearly 30 years, Melody Mischke has been seeking to define her purpose and give it life in the world. She is a certified Transformational Coach, Heart-Based Meditation Instructor, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Writer, and Intuitive. She began studying meditation in India at the age of 18, has degrees in both Environmental Science and Contemporary Spirituality, and is a primary contributor to Banyan Botanicals’ written educational content. She founded both her private practice (Live In Resonance) and a partnership with her brother (Luminous You) to help guide others into a more intimate relationship with their innermost essence and purpose. She is a passionate skier, wilderness adventurer, and singer with a profound devotion to her family, to wild places, and to elevating consciousness on the planet. She lives in Evergreen, Colorado with her husband and son.
As a co-facilitator of Courting Your Medicine, Melody's highly-skilled capacity to hold sacred space, her grounded wisdom, and her razor-sharp aptitude for seeing your deepest gifts will help guide your journey.
Apply for Courting Your Medicine
To apply, click the link below to fill out an application and share your goals for attending the program. We’ll review your application and schedule a time to talk with you, share more about the program, answer any questions you have, and collaboratively determine if it is the right fit for you.
For questions or if you’d like more information, please contact us.
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