Health & retreats
What does healing mean to you?
How will you know when you are healthy?
What do you need to do before you die?
These are the questions that open us into the dialogue of discovery that is focused on your health, listening deeply and thoroughly to all that has brought you to this moment. We take time to see clearly, to understand what’s happening and why.
This is the heart of our conversation: meeting you where you are, exploring what has brought you here, and outlining what is possible..
All health and retreat work begins with a Blueprint for Change —
a 2-hour conversation exploring where you are, where you want to go and what methods might best be of service on your way.
the first step
The Blueprint For Change
Before any journey can begin, you need a map.
The Blueprint for Change is that map — a comprehensive consultation that brings clarity, direction, and grounded understanding to your health.
Together, we review your current health circumstances, past treatments, lived experience, and all diagnoses you may have received from all kinds of practitioners. Following our meeting, you’ll receive a Blueprint report with clear recommendations for next steps, including treatment strategies, herbal and lifestyle guidance, and energetic assessments of everything from a Chinese medical point of view.
With all that in hand, you can choose wisely your next step, whether that step is retreat, mentorship or study, the path will open before you.
The Vessel of Retreat
When It’s Time to Step Away…
Sometimes, what’s needed is not more effort — but space.
Unlike your everyday life, Retreat Vessels offer a unique combination of the conditions for change providing time, presence, stimulation and undivided attention, things that are hard to find at home.
Each retreat is designed especially for you following your Blueprint and begins only when the moment is right.You might come for a single day of treatment and reflection, or for a deeper immersion spanning several days or weeks, a cycle designed around the natural rhythm of your body and the medicine that will best serve it.
Retreat most often includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, meditation or contemplative practice and lifestyle workshops — each chosen to match what is needed most.
Book a Blueprint for Change to determine if retreat is the right next step for you.
“Josephine has been an ally and teacher since the very beginning of my journey with cancer. Her doctoring — herb, diet, acupuncture, and other prescriptions — has been enormously helpful. But there is something else… I feel calm because I am supported by an informed and expansive view of my situation.”
— Katharine
ongoing support
Continued Care for the Long View
Healing doesn’t end when the symptoms subside.
For many, the true medicine begins following retreat — learning how to live in new alignment with health, energy, and choice.
Ongoing Support sessions are available seasonally or as needed, providing continued guidance, acupuncture, and herbal care to sustain your healing process over time.
Each relationship unfolds differently, but all are rooted in the same foundation: presence, clarity, and choice.
If you’ve already had Blueprint consult or spent time with me on retreat, you can use the link below to purchase ongoing mentorship packages.
how to begin
Let’s Walk Together
If you’re unsure where to begin — or simply ready for something new — start with a Cocoa Chat.
We’ll listen for what’s most true, clarify what’s next, and choose the vessel that will best serve your healing.