MEDICINE SHIELD RETREATS 2026

 MEDICINE SHIELD RETREAT  #1:  

Sunday, Sept 20 at 5:00 pm - Wednesday, Sept 23 at 3:00 pm

Retreat #1 is FULL!   Please consider Retreat #2.

MEDICINE SHIELD RETREAT    #2:  

A  Rite of Passage

Wednesday, Sept 23 at 7:00 pm  -  Saturday, Sept 26 at 9:00 pm

With Starfeather: Spiritual Teacher, Creative Art Facilitator, Elder

LOCATION:  Quillayute River Resort  near La Push on the Olympic Penn. (Lodging is not included, see below.) Our Circle cabin is Unit #1.

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The Medicine Shield Retreat is an opportunity to step out of our everyday world, to pause and ask ourselves the big questions, Who am I? What is my purpose? What are my strengths, my gifts?

We are calling for a Vision and asking Spirit to work through our hands and hearts to teach us and show us the way.

A Rite of Passage:

We join together to support each other in what may be called a Rite of Passage. Carl Jung once said, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” And that is exactly what we are here to do in the beauty of Nature, aligned with the spirit of the land, river, forest and ocean.   We open our hearts and souls to the guidance that is within and around us. We awaken our connection to Spirit, our Guides and Ancestors and those who walked this Land before us.

Sacred Art:

A Medicine Shield is sacred art that is created by each individual for the purpose of insight, protection,

self-knowledge and healing. It is a process that helps to allow the emergence of awareness; it is not a

copied or commercial art form. Starfeather is the energy holder and elder guide of the retreat. She began

making shields in the mid-1980s. Each shield she has made expresses her journey to spiritual expansion on

her path of evolution. She has made over 50 Medicine Shields and offers a deeply loving, inspiring

presence as she guides this process with the retreat participants.

We begin in Sacred Circle. This way we connect with each other and in prayer and meditation with our guides and Ancestors.

Many art materials are provided to excite the visual senses and possibilities. We spend time in nature, on a Medicine Walk,  in silence to listen, feel, be. To connect. We create. And come together in Circle in the evening to

share, to drum and sing, and then to our own lodging to dream. 

What is the next step on this ever expanding, evolvingJourney? I am ready to open to the vulnerable place in me as I stand here asking. May I be guided, for I seek in earnest, with compassion for myself, for my highest and best good. I am ready.

I give myself this gift of a Rite of Passage for my next step in awareness, to become who I truly am.

Location: The Quillayute River Resort on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, is where the Retreat

Home Base is located in Suite #1. Some lodging may be available www.QuillayuteRiverResort.com for

participants. This location sits on beautiful river-side land that abuts a magical old forest.  It is just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, The Quileute Indian Reservation at  La Push and National Seashore beaches. 

There are several other locations very close by that offer lodging and camping including the Quileute Oceanside Resort https://quileuteoceanside.com/ , Manitou Lodge & camp ground https://manitoulodge.com/ , Mora Campground www.nps.gov , and 3 Rivers Resort www.3riversresort.net . Also available are various Airbnbs near Forks WA.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE! 

 Retreat fee only $335.  Reserve your place with advance payment of $100.  Balance due 2 weeks prior to Retreat.  No refund 5 days prior to event. Food and Lodging  are not included in the Retreat reservation or fee. Please be sure to make your own reservations. 

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