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2021

5-Day Healing Retreat at Feathered Pipe Ranch
Helena, Montana | JuLy 5-10th, 2021

A Functional Medicine Journey: 5 Days to Your Optimal Wellness

All individuals are worthy of respect and reverence for the deep, intangible meaning and purpose possessed by each of us; yet for many, this personal touchpoint for creating optimal wellness has been lost. Healing involves more than knowing information. Healing requires recreating our story, our wellness and indeed our meaning and purpose. It’s a personalized path, a dynamic dance of science and spirit.

There are new ways to envision one’s health. In this 5-day healing retreat with our faculty of Integrative and Functional Medicine thought leaders and clinicians, participants experienced their personal journeys - touring genetic influences, family histories, physiology, psychology, and day-to-day lifestyle choices.

The bigger picture of ‘You’ was revealed in interactive large and small group activities. Having learned more through the lens of Functional Medicine, participants left with ideas on how to cultivate better health and healing with simple skills to create significant shifts. Our daily large group experiences focused on utilizing the Functional Medicine model to create wellness.  Exploring genomic influences, environmental inputs including the microbiome, and the latest wellness literature, we reviewed programs and lifestyle choices offering diverse pathways to healing.  For the small experiential groups, we met in small groups of no more than nine and use mind body spirit wellness tools (stress reduction, guided imagery, and meditation to name a few) to recreate the stories of who we are and plot the path to individual healing.  Having learned more about ‘You’ through the Functional Medicine Matrix and the combined hologram of modern medicine and ancient traditions, participants left with ideas on how to cultivate better health and healing with simple skills to create significant shifts.

Beginning with dinner and a welcome gathering on Monday evening and finishing with a campfire on Friday, our daily topics included:

  • Monday – Our Journey in the World

  • Tuesday – Our Beginning

  • Wednesday – Our Past; It’s Gifts and Traumas

  • Thursday – Today’s Challenges and Promises

  • Friday –Transforming Our Tomorrows

Feathered Pipe, born out of the life-sustaining traditions of India and Native America, is an ideal site to hold our retreat our Functional Medicine Journey. Located just outside of Helena, Montana and surrounded by millions of acres of forest and mountains, our 5-day long retreat provided a focus for discovery work while providing many opportunities to breathe, wander, laugh and lounge in the uncommon space of grace that is the Feathered Pipe.