Land-Based Healing Retreats

Our annual retreats create space for rest, grounding, and collective healing—balancing stillness with movement, reflection with embodied experience. They remind us that we are never separate from the earth, our ancestors, or each other. These gatherings offer a consistent opportunity for our community to return, reconnect, and deepen their relationship to land, body, and wellness.

Guided by community healers, cultural practitioners, and knowledge keepers, these retreats uplift Indigenous ways of being and knowing. Together, we engage in ceremony, storytelling, plant medicine education, moments of stillness, and gentle, land-guided movement that supports physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Honoring the land as a living relative.

Open to Indigenous kin seeking connection, cultural nourishment, and a supportive environment to strengthen wellbeing, our Land-Based Healing Retreats reflect UIC’s belief that healing is communal. Through shared movement, ceremony, and time on the land, participants are invited to listen to their bodies, move at their own pace, and reclaim movement as a source of care rather than pressure.