Plant Spirit Medicine School
Ontario, Canada
Since 2017
8 day- Local plant & tree
Attunements/Dietas
July 3-10th 2026
or book a 1:1 personal experience.
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​Join us for 8 days on the land.
Plant attunements are an ancient tradition found on every continent around the world.
Since antiquity they have been practiced by your Ancestors in different forms.
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You will work with the spirit of a local plant or tree and get to know who they
are in a deeply profound way. You can choose white pine, yarrow, or mugwort.
You will be matched with a plant suitable to you or you can request one.
They are listed at the bottom of this page.
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All about attunements.
For 7 days you will be in solitude. The 8th day is the beginning of integration. You drink the tea of a plant or tree to connect with their spirit. You will be dieting the plant or tree. When you give up your everyday actions and routines you can open to the gifts of the plant you are dieting in a profound way. During this period of time you abstain from regular life and eat very simple foods.
It is a time to connect to the plant spirit consciousness.
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By having a simple diet you create the intention to quiet the body physically, emotionally, and physically. This involves abstaining from foods with strong energies.
Your plant communication skills will grow.
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In stillness the plants speak. They speak to you in your day and night dreams.​
There is big trend of online dietas/attunements where folks continue their
everyday life and meet on zoom. Being in person is the ideal choice to deepen
your plant & tree connection, rest, reset,
be away from daily distractions,
and be fully present.
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Who is this experience for:
One or more may apply.
*You feel the call to connect with the spirit of local plants and trees.
*You work with plants in your daily life.
* You want this attunement to be part of your healing journey.
*You feel a call to connect to Ancestral ways.
* You simply feel a the call to join.
*You know online is not the way to experience a plant attunement,
and want to be in person on the land.
*You feel called to be in solitude while camping.
*The plants are visiting you in your dreamtime.
*You want to go deeper into your personal healing journey.
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"Blessed we are to dance on this ground with the rhythm of saints to carry the sound. We hold a prayer for the Earth, for the ones yet to come -
May you walk in beauty and remember your song.
Remember why you came here. Remember your life is sacred.
Remember why you came here, remember this life is sacred." Peia.
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"To learn to see, to learn to hear, you must do this - go into
the wilderness alone. For it is not I who can teach you the
ways of gods. Such things are learned only in solitude. "
Don Jose Matsuwa
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What to expect?
8 days, 7 nights.
July 3-10, 2026
Opening ceremony & land acknowledgment
Rustic Camping & outhouse
Simple foods/meals provided
Plant baths
Time to rest & journal
Renewal
Closing ceremony
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You will have a 1:1 free 45 minute integration
call after the attunement with Julie Gaia.
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Donation:
$1700 low income
$2700 Regular price
$3700 Benefactor price.
(This helps others who can not pay the full fee.)
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​There is a deposit of $500 to hold your space.
(Each year 2 pay what you can spaces are available. Please inquire.)
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Please send me a message via the contact link.
A phone call will be your registration to see if this
attunement is the right fit for you.
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Frequently asked questions
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Q/Do we ingest teacher plant medicines like
ayahuasca or tobacco during the attunements?
A/No we do not. This is only done by Medicine
peoples trained to do this.
You will only be drinking your plant or tree.
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Q/What do we do all day?
A/Each person is in solitude and not talking to others. You can be in your tent,
bring a hammock, or rest in the meadow. You can stretch, sleep, rest,
journal, play an instrument, sing, make art, & write songs.
-Two simple meals will be brought to your tent.
-Each afternoon you will drink the plant or tree you are working
with and have an opportunity to speak with Julie Gaia.
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Q/ Can I just do 4 days?
A/ No, you must commit to the full 8 days.
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Q/ Can I play music or journal during the attunement?
A/ Yes you can play a musical instrument and journal.
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Q/ Can I join with my partner/spouse?
A/ Yes, you can, however you will be in separate areas with no
contact during the attunement.​
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Q/ Do I need previous experience to join?
A/ No, anyone is welcome to apply to join.
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Q/ How do I sign up?
A/ Please use the contact link to book a phone call
to see if this attunement is the right fit for you.
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Q/ How can my loved ones reach me during the 8 days?
A/ You can give your loved ones the hosts phone number.
If there is an emergency you will be notified.
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Q/ Where do we sleep?
A/ You provide your own tent and camping gear.
You will be camping in a peaceful cedar forest.
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Q/ Can I drink coffee?
A/ No, during the attunement no caffeine is essential.
You will be eating very simple foods and resting each day.
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Q/Where does this event take place?
A/At a private home near Markdale, Ontario.
30 minutes south of Owen Sound.
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If you have other questions, please reach out.
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Yarrow /Achillea millefolium
Yarrow is native to the Northern Hemisphere. It is commonly used for protection and psychic shielding. It helps clarify boundaries between people and places. It helps people who are easily influenced and depleted by others and their environment. Yarrow is for those who can easily absorb negative influences, and may be prone to allergies and environmental illness. It acts an aura astringent. It prevents other peoples energies from bleeding into your environment. It helps you strengthen and solidify, enabling the ability to heal, teach, counsel, or follow your chosen path.​
Yarrow is physically is an excellent healer of wounds. It is anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. It stops bleeding and is an astringent. As an astringent it helps tone the blood pathways and assists in woman's health with the womb and reproductive area. It helps the digestive tract, promotes circulation, reduces fevers, and clears toxins.
​Yarrow is a friend to teach us how to connect to the cosmic consciousness within while being firmly rooted in our own energy field.
​White Pine/ Pinus Strobus
White Pine is a deep heart medicine. This magnificent tree is the tree of peace in the Haudensaunee Culture. It is native to Canada.
This tree invites us to love ourselves deeply and understand we are human and that we are not perfect. It can bring light back into the lives in people who can learn to forgive themselves. This tree helps one accept their faults and not cling to them.
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It is traditionally used as a medicine for the lungs and expelling mucous. It is for respiratory infections, colds, coughs, flus, and cleansing the blood from man made poisons. It strengthens digestion and is revitalizing.
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White pine helps us find the peace inside ourselves no matter what is happening around us and the ability to remember that we are worthy.
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Mugwort /Artemisia Vulgaris
Mugwort grows in front of the homes of witches. It has been loved for thousands of years throughout the world. Chinese medicine uses mugwort in moxibustion to help move stagnant energy.​
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Mugwort has a wild green witch energy that banishes the old stuck stories and brings in fresh and new spring vitality.
It has moon like receptive qualities. It enables greater awareness and clarity in the dream realms. It helps one integrate the dream realms insights into daily life. It may help balance the day to night transition. It connects overly airy aspects of oneself to be more grounded in the living day to day reality.
It calms folks like a wild Grandmother you wished you had growing up. She wraps you in her green wild wings and holds you.
It is mostly a woman's medicine and helps all flowing processes of the body. It connects the menstrual cycles to the lunar cycles. It brings warmth and fertility. Once a crone you can call upon her to alchemize your creativity.
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It is a digestive aid, bitter tonic, and helps expel worms, mildly sedative, calms the nerves, cystitis, colds, and coughs.
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Mugwort is an ally for a lifetime. It helps one tap into their own wild innate nature and heal the wounds of their ancestral lineages.
Rose /Rosa
Rose is the symbol of love. Rose grows all over this beautiful planet and shares her fragrant blooms with us. She loves grows along the oceanside and in peoples gardens all over the world.
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She is strengthening, and quietly inspiring. She can bring a feeling of heaven on earth. She brings pleasure to the eyes, warms the heart, softens emotions, and enhances sensuality. She is the divine feminine expression. She embodies confidence for those who feel insecure about their sexuality and for those who feel shame in their bodies.
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Her medicine physically tones and loves the skin, inside and out. She clears blemishes and skin issues. She promotes tissue repair and prevents infection.
She is a sweet balm of love that tends deep wounds. She clears toxins and boosts immunity.
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Her thorns teach us have boundaries while we bloom into the fullness of our expression. She has an uplifting and restorative effect on the nervous system.
She helps one feel whole once again.
Willow/Salix
Willow brings strength when one feels weak. Harmony and balance sing with her medicine. She stands as symbol of fertility and uncovering old grief.
She is of the water element and often grows in wet places & likes her feet wet. Willow tends to grief. She reminds us that if we break we can replant ourselves again.
It make take time to grow if we break. She teaches us that being flexible may be more beneficial than breaking. She teaches self-care.
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Willow is a wonderful tree to help you if you feel bitter or resentful. If you find yourself blaming others for your perceived misfortune she can help you. Willow assists in dispelling poor and destructive attitudes. She can help one see their negativity and accept responsibility for it, so they can change the outlook on their life, shape their own destiny, rather than being a victim of it.
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Willow was used to burn witches at the stake. You may feel feel that life is unjust and that you are still burning. Willow can help soften your pain.
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Willow is used as a pain medicine and analgesic. It brings downs fevers, and assists clearing toxins from the body. It is a sexual sedative and helps lessen sexual desire.
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Willow teaches flexibility and grace. She teaches you to reclaim your power.