🌿 RETURNING TO SELF 🌿
A Healing Journey Through Fire, Body, Spirit & Medicine

🔥 A Transformational 4-Day Healing Experience 🔥

Join us for a deep and immersive journey into healing, release, and renewal. This powerful workshop is designed to help participants:
✅ Release emotional burdens and limiting beliefs
✅ Reconnect with their inner child and community
✅ Set boundaries and reclaim personal sovereignty
✅ Engage in sacred fire ceremonies and medicine-making

Each day includes guided healing sessions, body talk meditations, and hands-on medicine-making, weaving together ancient wisdom and modern healing approaches.

📍 Open for organizations to book
📧 Contact: livehealthybehappywithamy@gmail.com, bluebelljquock@gmail.com
🌎 Website: https://www.amybolton.ca/-returning-to-self-a-healing-journey-through-fire-body-spirit-medicine
🤝 In partnership with Bluebell Quock

Here is an Itinerary of the 4 Day Healing Experience:

Returning to Self: A Healing Journey Through Fire, Body, Spirit & Medicine

Day 1: Unpacking the Backpack – Releasing What No Longer Serves

Theme: Releasing trauma, limiting beliefs, and emotional baggage

Land Acknowledgement

Elder/Youth Prayer Opening Songs/Drumming Specific to the Community

Morning Session: The Weight We Carry

• Opening Circle & Land Acknowledgement
• Introduction to the Backpack Concept: "What are you carrying that isn’t yours?"
• Group Sharing: Naming heavy experiences, grief, and limiting beliefs.
• Activity: Write down all the things you're carrying (grief, fear, trauma, shame) on individual pieces of paper.

Mid-Morning: Releasing the Burden

• Body Talk Meditation: Grounding the body, releasing tension
• Partner Exercise: Share 1-2 things from your backpack with a partner and verbally release them.
• Ritual: Burn the written burdens in a small outdoor fire. Speak out loud, "I release this from my backpack."

Afternoon: Medicine Making

• Medicine Focus: Herbal Smoke Cleansing Bundles (or Cedar Smoke Bundles)
• Participants gather herbs and create their own cleansing bundle to carry through the next 4 days.
• Intention: As they tie their bundles, they set intentions for what they wish to release.

Day 2: Healing the Roots – Inner Child & Lateral Kindness

Theme: Reconnecting with the Inner Child and Transforming Lateral Violence to Kindness

Land Acknowledgement

Elder/Youth Prayer Opening Songs/Drumming Specific to the Community

Morning Session: The Inner Child

• Guided Meditation: Connect with your inner child.
• Writing Prompt: "What did your inner child need most but didn’t receive?"
• Sharing Circle: Share as little or as much as feels comfortable.

Mid-Morning: Rebuilding Kindness

• Teaching: Lateral violence (harm within families, communities) vs. Lateral Kindness (support, empathy).
• Exercise: Identify 1 place in your life where lateral violence occurred. Reflect on how you can transform it.
• Group Discussion: How do we shift from lateral violence to lateral kindness?

Afternoon: Medicine Making

• Medicine Focus: Inner Child Comfort Tea Blend
• Ingredients: Chamomile, lemon balm, rose petals, peppermint, etc.
• Intention: This tea represents nurturing the inner child. Each participant makes a custom tea blend for their inner child.

Day 3: Boundaries & Breaking the Triangle – Stepping Into Sovereignty

Theme: Setting Boundaries, Understanding Triangulation, and Breaking Free

Land Acknowledgement

Elder/Youth Prayer Opening Songs/Drumming Specific to the Community

Morning Session: Triangulation (Bully, Victim, Rescuer)

• Teaching: Understanding the toxic triangle and how to break free.
• Activity: Map where you fall in the triangle in a current relationship.
• Discussion: How do we shift from victim/rescuer to personal sovereignty?

Mid-Morning: Boundary Work

• Exercise: Write 3 boundaries you need to establish in your life.
• Role Play: Practice having hard conversations and setting boundaries.
• Fire Ritual: Write down one relationship dynamic you need to release. Burn it in the fire.

Afternoon: Medicine Making

• Medicine Focus: Boundary-Setting Protection Tincture (Rosemary, Mugwort, Black Pepper)
• Intention: This tincture represents clear boundaries and self-sovereignty.

Day 4: Integration & Closing Ceremony – Moving from Pain to Power

Theme: Closure, Forgiveness, Acceptance & Moving Forward

Land Acknowledgement

Elder/Youth Prayer Opening Songs/Drumming Specific to the Community

Morning Session: Acceptance & Forgiveness

• Louise Hay Teaching: Forgiveness is for ourselves, not for them.
• Writing Prompt: Write a forgiveness letter (not to be sent) to anyone who has hurt you.
• Fire Ceremony: Burn the letter in a sacred fire, releasing anger, resentment, or blame.

Mid-Morning: Body Talk & Emotional Integration

• Body Talk Session: Use body talk meditation to integrate healing.
• Sharing Circle: Share breakthroughs, tears, and release.

Afternoon: Medicine Making

• Medicine Focus: Courage & Sovereignty Bath Soak
• Ingredients: Epsom salt, cedar, lavender, dried flowers.
• Intention: This bath soak represents closing the healing circle and integrating the experience.

Closing Circle:

• Share final reflections.
• Group commitment to lateral kindness and personal sovereignty.
• Invite participants to return for future workshops or healing circles.

Follow-Up:

• A follow-up circle 1 month later for integration can be offered virtually.
• Send participants home with a resource guide. (Louise Hay teachings, books on codependency, etc.)