Sacred Immersion Training Program

A one-of-a-kind experience for those desiring ​and ready 
to ​hold sacred space for deep healing with plant-spirit medicine.

Stay Tuned for Spring 2024 Information!

In the interest of extending the reach of our training,
we are excited to now offer to travel and share our training with communities around the country.

Questions: Please email michaelene@constellationhealingarts.com

We began our Sacred Immersion Training Program (SIT) in the fall of 2022. Since then, we have revamped our offering to include all interested in learning to hold safe and sacred space with our plant allies, included more pertinent content and immersive opportunities, and lowered the investment to make it more accessible. Our SIT Program is a one-of-a-kind experience for those ready to include safe and sacred, transformational plant-spirit medicine therapy in their repertoire. 
It is three days of learning virtually, with some Zoom gatherings for connection and supervision, and 5 days in-person so that you may experience the ceremony and sacredness first-hand. 
"This is an amazing learning opportunity to discover and understand a way to help people like no other modality. And these two sweet, gentle, caring souls have wonderful gifts and so much to offer. They not only teach the mechanics of the process but their specialty is the spiritual aspects of this training. And to me, that is the most important part of this training." ~ WN
"Michaelene Ruhl, PsyD is a voice I trust. Her background in psychology, Family Constellations, and ceremony - plus just her endless kindness and brilliance - contributes to that trust." (See more from Jeffrey below)
                                                                                            - Jeffrey Davis, Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder
Beware, the renewed fascination with psychedelics. Let's not take another reckless trip.

There's a lot of conversation and activity these days related to psychedelics, plant medicine, and micro-dosing. 
It's a fascinating phenomenon for me to track as Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder. Watch skeptical journalist Michael Pollan's Netflix documentary How to Change Your Mind, and you'll soon be tracking wonder in profoundly disruptive ways. Watch the film Fantastic Fungi, same. 

The medicinal potential and the (and I use this word purposefully) revolutionary healing potential demands more of us to pay attention. But...
some people are treating plant medicine again like pills to pop for fun trips. And I've come across a few people, not-so-balanced, claiming themselves as "trip guides."

What are we missing? What cautions should people take? Who qualifies as a "guide"? Could these guides learn the art & science of holding sacred space for people's integration?
I've worked with Michaelene's business for a few years through Tracking Wonder's Inner Circle MasterMind. She asks us to slow down and remember the sacredness of the medicine, the experience, and especially the integration. She aslo destygmatizes the value of plant medicine in ways that have opened my mind.

Integration = how do people make sacred meaning of their experiences so they're able to adjust and transform on multiple levels.

She and her business partner/co-facilitator also have designed and delivered transformational trainings expressly for health care practitioners, therapists, and others who want to learn how to hold safe and sacred space for people who integrate plant medicine into their healing journeys.

You might share this information with anyone you think could benefit - health care practitioners, therapists, and others.
And definitely follow Michaelene if you want a reliable, caring voice in this conversation.  - Jeffrey Davis, Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder
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In our current healing and psychological world, we have seen that traditional therapies and pharmaceuticals no longer or have not worked for many of our clients, especially over the last few years. It seems to have brought about more and more frustration and feelings of helplessness on our parts as practitioners and surely for clients. Therefore, we and they need more options other than prescription medications and/or CBT, meditation, talk therapy, narrative therapy, etc. 

We have spoken to many experienced healing practitioners who have a desire and passion to learn more about transformational plant-spirit medicine, holding safe and sacred space, and how to use them both therapeutically to bring hope and support to their clients who are stuck or who have been labeled with "treatment resistant depression," and the like.

Some also have shared they do not understand or weren't ever taught how to create and hold safe and deeply-held space for their clients (or for themselves) in any particular way and would love to learn more.

It is for those reasons and more we have decided and are honored to offer this Sacred Immersion Training Program. It's time to connect your clients to their deepest parts of themselves for transformational healing in a safe and sacred environment filled with compassion, caring, and authenticity. 

Please continue to read below for more information, the logistics, the tuition, and how to apply to become a part of our Sacred Immersion Training Program. We are looking forward to connecting with you and supporting you in this safe, sacred way so you may support your clients in breaking through their barriers and suffering to move forward in life.  

Become part of an ancient healing modality where...

  • You discover the deeply-held intentions within you, your clients, and the plant-spirit medicine.
  • Your clients will receive gifts that may accelerate their healing.
  • You have an opportunity to grow both personally and as a practitioner, helping others begin or continue on their own path to healing.
  • Discovering even more of your gifts could grow your practice in a new way and help the world heal one patch of the planet at a time.

Is this for you?

What we're offering...
You’re a committed healing practitioner with significant expertise, yet…
  • You have the desire to bring your clients into a deeper state of healing and conscious awareness.
  • You have a call to hold safe and deeply-held space so that your clients have more insight and understanding into their life purpose.
  • You would like to offer your clients more than the medical model's limited options and prescription medications.
  • Your expertise may have reached its limits with some clients’ chronic ailments.​
  • You may feel the call to have more resources to assist clients who are stuck in their unhealthy patterns and you desire to create that space of healing in your practice.​ 
  • You sense something sacred happens when deep healing occurs.​
  • You will experience ancient and current advanced methodologies to hold safe and sacred space for deep healing.
  • You will be steeped in how to detect your clients’ different states of consciousness.
  • You will learn ways to integrate plant-spirit medicine therapy in your repertoire.​
  • And you will experience transformation and growth as a practitioner AND personally.

Why we created SIT...

Michaelene

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My own journey has instilled a passion in me to be in service to others using my established and growing gifts. It is an honor to hold safe and sacred space so others may begin or continue to heal and hold that space for you so we all may have a positive impact on others' healing and the world.

As the study of plant-spirit medicine grows, it is IMPERATIVE that we remember and HONOR the Sacredness of the plant-spirit medicines, where they came from, and the indigenous peoples’ wisdom and cultivation as well as the ancestral and community connections, and the Sacredness of clients and their experiences.
 
The interest in plant-spirit medicine has bloomed exponentially and as in past experiences in my life around healing modalities and alternative approaches to the medical model, the sacredness of said things often gets forgotten, put aside, dismissed, or capitalism takes a front seat. For me, this is a travesty and one of the reasons I wanted to create a training for others who would like to do this healing work. It is putting people/clients and the plant-spirit medicine first. 
 
I also believe that the more people we have out there willing and qualified to hold safe space deeply in this way the better for individuals, societies, and the world. Sacredness, respect, honor, and the ceremonial holding of space should always be at the forefront when working in this way. 

Martina

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When Michaelene invited me to co-facilitate this Sacred Immersion Training one of the first questions I asked myself was WHY would I embark on this journey?

As I sat with this question I was reminded that my first teacher on my healing path was a shaman trained in The Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. She taught about AYNI which means reciprocity, the relationships that exist among people as well as their relationship with Mother Earth, Pachamama. I learned that being in right relationship included not just our human relations but our relationship with all of Pachamama's inhabitants, animals and plants. Over the years all the teachers that I have studied with have added depth to this understanding for me. 
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For so many people our Western allopathic paradigm has not been successful in addressing healing and transformation from pain, suffering, trauma and illness. I have witnessed this first hand in my years as a RN in the medical community. Now many people are turning to plant spirit medicine to seek help and healing of the body, mind and spirit.

​Having spent many years doing this work for myself in a sacred ceremonial way I felt the heart call to become part of a training that honors and teaches the importance of creating sacred space and being in right relationship with these plant spirit teachers. To understand the need for wisdom and discernment when doing this work. To hold a safe and ceremonial healing space to unlock our own inner wisdom, self healing capacity and to connect to Spirit in our own authentic manner.

Mission & Devotions

​Our mission and devotions are:
  • To prepare those desiring to create and hold the safe space and grounded-ness of this people-centered process.
  • To teach/prepare those wanting to learn about the sacredness that is plant-spirit medicine
  • To support others in creating their own definition of sacredness, their own person-centered process, and sense of responsibility and respect for the plant itself and the process
  • To create intimate, safe and sacred spaces for people to learn, grow, and heal by supporting them in learning to create the same for themselves
The Sacred Immersion Training Program is, in total, a hybrid of Zoom and in-person 5-month program (51 hours) and is a immersive experience for healing practitioners ready to include safe and sacred, transformational plant-spirit medicine therapy in their repertoire. We are looking forward to sharing this safe and sacred space with you so that you may share it with others.
This training in no way promotes, condones, or facilitates illegal activity, and is strictly for educational purposes only. It is designed to provide education from our personal and professional experiences.

Benefits, Objectives, Experiences

Sacredness

To us, Sacredness is ​calm expansion, being grounded and present, having intentionality, conducting and participating in ceremony and ritual, and connection to Life Source - something greater than ourselves and something that we can hold for each other.

Core Learning Objectives

  • Expand your knowledge about energy, sacredness, and your versatility as practitioners in aiding your clients in areas of depression, anxiety, and trauma.
  • Learn about the process of using plant-spirit medicines safely, therapeutically, and sacredly with your patients and clients from initial meeting, preparation, and immersion to integration.
  • Learn about plant-spirit medicine and sacredness on the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
  • Learn more about yourself as a person, practitioner, and sacred space holder.

Benefits

  • Expand your practice in a whole new way.
  • Learn to hold safe and sacred space for your client's journey.
  • Support and accelerate your clients' healing journeys.
  • Grow your versatility as a practitioner in aiding and supporting your clients in gaining some relief in areas of depression, anxiety, trauma, and finding meaning in their lives.

Transformational Healing

Research of this modality has shown the ability to break through walls that have been there for many years, helping yourself and your clients to move forward while processing trauma and decreasing symptoms of challenging emotional experiences. In our SIT Program, we honor and support you in finding the sacredness of what it means to be a practitioner that creates and holds safe and sacred space for themselves and others.  ​

​Our in-person weekend required sessions are transformational, informational, ceremonial, and experiential. One bonus of this program is that you get to do some healing for yourself while learning how to dive deeply with others through their sacred journeys. 

Community & Connection

Our intention is always to create safe and sacred spaces so that everyone receives all they need at any moment in this process. This is what we hold for our SIT Program as well; a deeply healing journey personally and with others in community.  

We promote community and connecting throughout this training in many ways, for example: holding meetings in between weekends, our 4-month monthly cohort supervision meetings, emails, and while we are all sharing ceremonial, safe and sacred space on the weekends.

Immersive & Integrative

Our ​SIT Program is an immersive experience in many ways. It is our belief that we learn best by experiencing and immersing ourselves into what we'd like to eventually to hold for others. You will learn how to create, prepare, and hold safe and sacred space on the different levels of consciousness: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual - for yourself, your cohorts, and your clients.

You will also learn more about transformational plant-spirit medicine and how it works with those levels of consciousness. You will explore more about yourself as a person, sacred space holder, and practitioner as well as define what sacredness means and looks like to you. And you will learn the practical and the sacred in a created by community connections with others and more deeply with yourself.

FAQs

What is included in the sit program?
  • 50+ hours of learning and supervision
  • 20 years of facilitator and plant-spirit medicine experience
  • Training manual
  • Recorded meditations
  • 3 Zoom date learning connections
  • 5-day in-person retreat style ceremony for learning and growing
  • Lunch for in-person dates
  • Opportunity to experience Family Constellations
  • Support within a sacred and confidential community
  • and more...
what is the application process?
  1. Fill out the online application ($18 application fee)
    1. ​You must sign a non-disclosure agreement which will be sent via email after receiving your application.
    2. Fall 2023 Application Window Open NOW
  2. 20-minute Online Interview conducted between TBD
  3. Intake/Questionnaire
  4. Deposit (due TBD)
when will my deposit be due?
Your deposit is due 3 days after your invitation to join us. This solidifies your space in the program.
when will my remaining balance be due?
Your remaining balance will be due on TBD unless you select one of the payment plan subscriptions.
how many people will be in the program?
We believe a small, intimate group will work best so anywhere between 4 and 10 people.
will i be able to miss any time?
No.  All dates and times are mandatory to complete the program as the information builds on itself. Illness, family emergencies, etc. will be considered upon an individual basis. (See exact dates and times in the logistics section below.)
are there reading requirements?
Yes. When you are accepted into the program, you will be emailed the list of reading requirements.
what other requirements are there?
  • Zoom Meet & Greet TBD
  • Zoom Teaching Gatherings TBD
  • ​In-Person Gathering TBD
  • ​Others will be discussed upon joining the program.
what about lodging and location?
  • Spring information coming soon.
what is the general schedule? 
​(may be subject to change)
Zoom Teaching Gatherings
  • 3 online teaching days in a row
​In-Person Gathering
  • ​5 days of in-person gathering 
What is the cancellation policy?
  • SIT Program refund policy: before TBD, partial refund of 50%
  • No refunds after TBD.
When is the next SIT Program offering?
Our next Sacred Immersion Training Program will be Spring 2024.

Sacred Immersion Training Program at your Sacred Site offering: We are also open to coming to your location to do the 5-day in-person training.

​Please email Michaelene or Martina for more information.

More Questions?

Application Process 

The application process is three-stage and each stage is one step closer to joining us for this sacred program. You will receive an email communication at each part of the process​ to invite you to the next stage. Please select the photo above or the button below to begin your application process. We look forward to connecting!

  1. Fill out the online application ($18 application fee)
    1. ​You must sign a non-disclosure agreement which will be sent via email after receiving your application.
    2. Spring 2024 Application Window TBD
  2. 20-minute Online Interview conducted in TBD, dates vary according to availability
  3. Questionnaire
  4. Deposit of $2750 due 3 days after acceptance.

After you receive your official welcome email, you must make your deposit in three days. An invoice will be sent to you. For logistics and dates, please see the next section below.

Logistics

Mandatory Dates

Zoom Dates
Meet & Greet
TBD
6 pm - 7:30 pm ET

3 Zoom Learning Days
10:00 am - 3:00 pm ET

TBD
In-Person Dates
Retreat-style 5 days
Weds 10 am - Sun 3pm

TBD
Cohort Supervision Dates​
On ​Zoom
​at 11:00 am ET
TBD
Our in-person session is informational, ceremonial,
experiential, and mandatory.

​One bonus of this program is that you get to do some healing for yourself, while learning how to dive deeply with others through their sacred journeys of life.

Location & Lodging

Michigan
​(and in the Spring 2024 could be at your Site)
​
The exact location and other lodging information will be given ​upon acceptance into the program. 

Tuition

Tuition includes:
  • 50+ hours of learning and supervision
  • 20 years of facilitator and plant-spirit medicine experience
  • Training manual
  • Meditation recordings
  • 3 Zoom date learning connections
  • 5-day in-person retreat style ceremony for learning and growing
  • Lunch for in-person dates
  • Opportunity to experience Family Constellations
  • Support within a sacred and confidential community
Tuition:  $5750
Deposit: $2750
Payment Plans
1. Deposit + payment in full
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2. ​Deposit + 2 payments 
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3. Deposit + 3 Payments 
Our next Sacred Immersion Training Program will be
​Spring 2024 and...

We now offer our Sacred Immersion Training Program at your Sacred Site:
We are willing and honored to come to your location
and facilitate the in-person training days.

​To connect with Michaelene or Martina for more info,
​please email by selecting button below.

Holders of Safe and Sacred Space
Michaelene Ruhl, PsyD
co-facilitator
"It is my honor to create intimate, safe, and sacred spaces for people to learn, grow, and heal by supporting them in learning to do the same for themselves and others."
Email Michaelene
Martina Molloy, RN, LMT
co-facilitator
"Each person is a unique being of body, mind and spirit and I incorporate all of my experiences to create safe, confidential, environments for personal healing and transformation."
​Email Martina