Group Ketamine Retreat: Tending the Sprout 3/21/26
Tending the Sprout: Supporting What’s Beginning is our March group ketamine therapy event, created for those in a tender season of healing. Sometimes healing doesn’t arrive as a breakthrough, but as a quiet shift within; not as a dramatic revelation, but as a subtle softening. A small inner stirring toward something new. When something inside you is beginning to change, even if you can’t quite name it, it deserves care, not pressure.
This immersive, trauma-informed group offers space to support what is emerging without rushing it. Rather than striving for clarity or forcing transformation, we gather to rest, receive support, and gently tend to what is newly alive within. Small beginnings are sacred. You don’t need to have it figured out — only a willingness to show up and listen inward.
If you feel something gently beginning inside you — even if it’s small — this is a space to support it with patience, warmth, and trust in your own timing.
Why Join This Retreat?
Creating inner balance is not about perfection, it’s about being in honest relationship with your inner world, tending to it with care, and learning how to return to center when life inevitably pulls you off track. This retreat creates space to:
Regulate your nervous system – soften stress and find breath and grounded presence.
Stay rooted in your truth – hear your own voice; not the noise of others' expectations
Protect your energy – When you're balanced internally, you can set boundaries without guilt, hold space for others without depletion, and lead or guide from a well-resourced place.
Support spiritual growth – Just like the earth follows cycles of light and dark, your own inner rhythm needs both stillness and momentum, joy and sorrow, action and rest. Balance helps you honor every part of your journey, not just the shiny or productive ones.
Bridge body, mind & heart – Inner balance isn’t just mental clarity—it’s embodied wholeness. When your body, heart, and mind are in harmony, you’re more available to yourself and those you love and support.
What Makes This Retreat Unique
Unlike our regular group therapy sessions, this retreat includes restorative yoga before the medicine journey, guided meditation, and music helping prepare both body and mind for a deeper, more balanced experience. You get more than medicine. You experience a whole luxury journey complete with all comfort items, certified guides, advanced practice providers.
Come as you are!
Leave enlightened, relaxed, and awed!
In addition, we’ll hold a preparation call on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM (via Zoom), where you’ll be invited to reflect on prompts such as:
Where am I overextended or undernourished right now?
What helps me return to myself?
What would balance feel like in my body, breath, and heart?
WHAT'S INCLUDED
- Expertly guided meditation & curated music by Sara Whaley
- Duration: 4-hour immersive psychedelic group event
- Medical Assessment: Medical clearance for safety (new participants)
- Medicine: included (Ketamine IM)
- Luxury comfort setup: All comfort items included (6" mats, eye masks, blankets, pillows)
- Emotional Support: Certified psychedelic guides
- Medical Support: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and RNs
- Music: To enhance the psychedelic experience and facilitate a deeper journey
- Meditation: Guided meditation for mindfulness and relaxation.
- Snacks/Drinks: A variety of snacks and drinks
- Virtual 45-60 minute Integration group meeting - 7 days post group event
The Flow of the Day
- 10:00 AM – Arrival (check in and vitals taken)
- 10:30 AM – Introductions, group agreements, questions answered, & meditation
- 11:00 AM – Break & connection time
- 11:10 AM – Restorative yoga to prepare body & mind (low movement stretching and relaxation)
- 11:30 AM – Intramuscular Ketamine administration, ceremony & guided journey
- 1:10 PM – Landing, snacks & integration circle
- 1:45 PM – Closing circle
- 2:30 PM – Departure
Capacity - maximum 9 people
Registration Process
- Complete medical intake questionnaire by clicking Register and complete application
- Pay your deposit to hold and secure your spot ($100 deposits are non-refundable after your medical assessment completion)
- Complete required medical history and medical consents
- Schedule a required virtual intake assessment for final medical clearance (new participants)
- Attend a required 60 minute Zoom group preparation meeting - scheduled 7pm the Thursday before each event
This event has limited capacity, but we do encourage our community to share with friends, partners, family, therapists, and colleagues. Couples and family members exploring ways to support are encouraged to attend.
PRIVATE GROUPS CAN BE SCHEDULED WITH A MINIMUM OF 6 PARTICIPANTS
Psychedelic Saturday - Enter the journey
Certified Psychedelic guides - medically supervised
Guided Meditation - Music - Integration....medically supervised
YOUR GUIDE
Sara Whaley, Director of Patient Care, Certified Psychedelic Guide
With over 20 years in the healing arts, Sara Whaley has guided more than 1,300 individuals through over 6,000 IV ketamine treatments, totaling 6,500+ hours of direct psychedelic therapy experience. Her background spans behavioral health, addiction counseling, trauma-informed yoga therapy, meditation, and integration coaching, positioning her at the forefront of comprehensive mind-body care.
Sara completed Naropa University’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies program and is an advanced E-RYT 500 yoga instructor with extensive training in yoga, Yoga Nidra, yoga therapy, mindfulness, and meditation. Her lifelong dedication to these disciplines has taken her to India multiple times to deepen her study and refine her teaching.
Sara also serves as Director of Patient Care at Rocky Mountain Mind and Body and as Expert Faculty with the American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists, and Providers (ASKP3), where she educates clinicians on best practices in Ketamine-Assisted care. Sara is also the visionary behind immersive ketamine therapy retreats, thoughtfully integrating contemplative practices with experiential group work.
Come let Sara and her team of guides take you to another level.
YOUR MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Steve Gittelman, PMHNP, CRNA
Steve is the co-owner and Clinic Director of Rocky Mountain Mind and Body and is a double board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist. We have surpassed 16,500 IV Ketamine infusions since 2017 making Steve and his team experts in Ketamine therapy.
Steve has over 40 years of healthcare experience. His clinical expertise encompasses pediatric, cardiovascular, neurosurgical, trauma, obstetrical, and psychiatric patients. He has extensive Ketamine administration experience in practice settings that span Level 1 trauma centers, rural critical access hospitals, large regional hospitals, out-patient surgery centers, flight nursing, and office based healthcare settings along with his own Ketamine clinic.
Steve is the co-owner and Clinic Director of Rocky Mountain Mind and Body and is a double board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist. We have surpassed 16,500 IV Ketamine infusions since 2017 making Steve and his team experts in Ketamine therapy.
Steve has over 40 years of healthcare experience. His clinical expertise encompasses pediatric, cardiovascular, neurosurgical, trauma, obstetrical, and psychiatric patients. He has extensive Ketamine administration experience in practice settings that span Level 1 trauma centers, rural critical access hospitals, large regional hospitals, out-patient surgery centers, flight nursing, and office based healthcare settings along with his own Ketamine clinic.