Joshua Tree, CA
3 night Mushroom Medicine Retreat
Friday, June 7th - Monday, June 10th
Arrival @ 5p, Departure @ 10a
Investment $600 (shared room), or $950 (solo room)
Payment plans & partial scholarships available.
Return to wholeness + Embody your divinity.
Bliss Temple is a group oriented, retreat style, healing experience through the respectful, ceremonial use of plant + mushroom allies including support before, during, & after your journey.
We believe that learning how to work with your body + emotional well being, while embodying unconditional love + conscious communication throughout the process are some of the key elements of healing. It is our goal that this medicine & overall experience will help you access & unlock these tools for deeper healing, & for the greater good of all.
At the foundation of our work, everything is built upon experience & wisdom. This wisdom is rooted in a reverence & respect for the mushrooms, that have been utilized by humanity throughout the lines of time.
Schedule a 30 minute Heart-to-Heart connection call with Rio to learn more.
What happens in a medicine journey is that we connect to a spiritual intelligence beyond our ordinary comprehension. We are embarking on a journey back to wholeness. In order to be healthy & whole, we must be in touch with ourselves, our communities, & our environment.
There is a cleansing of the energy body that happens, which can also be described as a cleansing of the emotional body. Ceremonial access to a mystical state of consciousness can allow us to directly address our past, & present, with greater peace & understanding, in order to navigate moving forward. This medicine heals the mind-body connection by healing the emotional body. There is a softening & expansion that occurs, allowing for broader acceptance & access to one’s deeper emotional self.
Beyond the initial colors & fractals, the medicine may be inclined to show you your life, through visions, feelings, intuition, thoughts, & memories. The medicine may guide you to reflect upon, & even relive certain life experiences, those that have impacted you most deeply, & those that interfere with your progress. This might include everything since birth until now, experiences from before birth, as well as future possibilities. This is where most of the “inner/shadow work” occurs. This is where you work with the medicine to heal the story of your life, integrating your mind, body, heart, & soul. It may be challenging at times, however extremely rewarding.
You will receive:
How to enroll:
Friday Evening, June 7th - Arrival Day
5p: Suggested arrival & check in / settle into rooms
6p: Dinner
7p: Informative welcome ceremony
8p: Partner connection practice #1
9p: Fire ceremony & vocal activation
10p: Breathwork Journey w/ Soundbath
11p: Wind down for bed
Saturday, June 8th - Ceremony Day!
7a: Embodied Movement, breath work, sound bath
8a: Light breakfast
9a: Arch Rock - Joshua Tree Medicine Walk w/ partner connection practice #2
2p: Inward/alone time before ceremony
3p: BEGIN CEREMONY
9p: Light dinner / spirit food
11p: Wind down sound bath & bedtime
Sunday, June 9th - Integration Day
7a: Embodied Movement, breath work, sound bath
8a: Breakfast
9a: Sharing circle w/ talking stick
11a: Hypnotic Womb Healing Experience
12p: Lunch
1p: Partner connection practice #3
2p: Group Past Life Regression
3p: Integration time
4p: Goddess adornment photoshoot (1-2 hours)
7p: Dinner
8p: Closing fire ceremony & vocal activation
Monday, June 10th - Departure Day
8a: Breakfast
9a: Pack & get ready to leave
10a: Departure
Aftercare:
We acknowledge that every woman is at a different stage financially, and we have a deep desire to meet you where you're at. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you need a customized payment plan. You may also apply for a partial scholarship if needed. All rooms share 2 large bathrooms.
Please fill out the enrollment form to sign up and specify which sleeping accommodations & payment option you'd like.
Please email blisstemplehealing@gmail.com with any questions.
Private King/Queen bedroom:
$600 / split with a bestie.
$950 / solo.
Bunkbed:
$600 / each.
Payment Plans:
Pay in full.
2 x bi-weekly payments.
3 x bi-weekly payments.
4 x bi-weekly payments.
$950 / solo.
$600 / split with a bestie.
This is a 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on 5 acres that can accommodate up 10+ women.
"Working with Rio was like nothing I had ever been a part of, and everything that I had been missing in my life. She has it down to a beautiful science and you can tell that she is doing her life’s work through her sacred offerings. I have opened up to life because of these healing groups, and started to set aside sacred space for myself through daily ritual and self reflection because of the encouragement from Rio. She is absolutely changing the world, and it’s such an honor to witness."
"Thanks so much for dropping in and cultivating such a potent portal. I’ve been doing great since the event. I had some beautiful realizations that night, and I had a chance to act on Saturday, and slept really well that night. That was my first time doing traditional Hypnosis and I loved it!"
"Rio's guidance is radically illuminating. I’ve found profound healing through hypnotherapy, coaching, and energy work with her because she listens with full presence and asks such helpful questions for me to connect to places within myself I didn’t know needed more healing and awareness. While working with Rio I am shown what my true potential looks like as a powerful leader. She has helped me build my confidence in speaking my truth and move through parts of myself that feel timid and insecure. Rio has a way with working with the other worldly realms and has an understanding unlike many others in the self help/healing space. She is so committed to the truth and it’s felt through her entire process. I feel so seen and held by her without judgement. Soooo grateful for this powerful spirit in my life."
“Red tent gathering has me feeling so open, moved, cleared, seen, supported, loved. Just spent 10 hours in ceremony space with 13 other beautiful sisters. I felt major blockages be removed from my womb space in the work we did. Leaving me more vulnerable than I have felt in a while, totally cracked open and in surrender. I then realized how shut off from myself and the world I have been, jaded from my pain. I cried. Laughed. Loved. All of it. One of the biggest Takeaway moments though, was realizing how influential my ego has been in my reality. In so many ways it has been holding me back and I was blind to it! It feels crazy how clearly I am seeing myself, definitely slightly uncomfortable, but aware of it. And that is how the growth may begin.”
"I’ve worked with Rio for a long time and it is always such a beautiful experience! She provides so much comfort and holds an incredible amount of space for everyone to feel safe and open. She is so passionate and you can tell by the way she leads."
"I've been reworking some pathways in how I think about the narratives I have around growing up. Just shuffling around memories in a different perspective, and allowing myself to attribute more worthiness to who I was back then. I actually ended up doing a significant amount of partner work during the ceremony, and have been stepping into this role of commitment to another with a sovereign commitment to myself. All around a beautiful part of my healing journey."
My name is Rio Garcia, and I would first like to acknowledge those who came before me - my ancestors are from Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Hungary. I would also like to give a land acknowledgement as I currently reside on the Tongva, and Acjachemen territories of Southern California. I assist in guiding women through their healing journey while turning pain into passion, and trauma into art. I am here to be a pillar of service in helping you create the foundations for your conscious expansion, and I have a deep desire to witness you set your soul free, so that you can design the life of your dreams! My mission is to empower you to EMPOWER YOURSELF, and become a self healer.
I am the founder of Bliss Temple Healing Sanctuary. This community-focused group, originated as a way to bring women together to commune in sacred sisterhood, and respectful ceremony through our connection to the Divine. It has now evolved into something a little different → respectfully healing through the medicinal use of mushrooms.
It is important to me as a practitioner to provide you with a loving, nurturing emotional presence. In order for your medicine journey, and overall healing experience to be most effective, the practitioner must emotionally resonate with the journeyer. It is my goal to offer you the safest, bravest, most courageous space that I can. Allowing yourself to feel safe to journey deep within. It is also my goal to provide you with a LGBTQIA+, bipoc, sexuality/sensuality positive, female oriented, somatically educated, trauma educated space for deeper healing.
Although these medicines are sacred, they are not for everyone. Both the patient and the practitioner hold responsibility in the medical decision making process during our client intake & preparation. Clients on any allopathic medications, clients with a history of severe mental illness, or emotional disturbance, clients who have suffered severe trauma - all these must be taken into deliberate consideration and must be handled with great skill and sensitivity. And sometimes, it simply is not a good fit for a given individual to work with these sacred medicines at this time.
It takes a very special person who is willing to slow down, take the time, and put in the commitment & devotion to look within.
Have you really given yourself full permission to accept & heal your past experiences, in order to discover what's blocking you in the present, so you can create your beautiful future?
Are you ready to shed all the layers of who you were told to be, and discover your authentic self?
If you are ready to return back to wholeness, then schedule a call with me to learn more!
Infinite Love + Divine Blessings to You.
- Rio Garcia
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