Where The Medicine Meets YOU---- Wherever YOU Are!
A FULLY Virtual, FULLY Alive 8 day journey with Sam & Maria- road trip transmissions, live ceremonies, Shamanic journeying, energy healing, INner child activations & a community of humans doing the REAL work with a playful spin. Together. From Everywhere.
Lifetime Access ⭐ ALL Recordings ⭐ Telegram Community
⭐Adventure Begins 9/21/26 & Closing is LIVE Zoom 9/29/26 ⭐
✅You're curious what it actually looks like behind the scenes when medicine women channel, journey, and read energy — not the polished highlight reel, the real process, unfiltered, in motion.
✅You can't remember the last time you did something just for the pure, unfiltered joy of it. Not to grow. Not to heal. Not to be productive. Just because it felt wildly, unapologetically GOOD.
✅Your inner child has been knocking for a while. The toddler who wanted to play. The teenager who wanted to be seen. The dreamer who got filed away under "someday." The explorer that wants to trust their intuition.
✅ You want in on something big without booking a flight, taking PTO, or committing to anything you can't undo — just your phone and eight days of spontaneous fun connection.
Intuitively Guided
We trust our inner knowing above ALL else. This idea came through clearly —allow others to experience the container virtually first, so the in-person Playground in 2027 is built on a rock-solid foundation. The energy created within the virtual container will be a potent portal to the in-person experience coming in 2027. Plus having Sam & Maria together in the same physical location (since they run their parts of the business from opposite sides of the map), will create a vortex felt far beyond the "confines" of the internet.
Honoring The Collective
We see the financial shifts happening for so many humans right now. Going virtual means we can offer the FULL potency of this medicine at a fraction of the cost — because you deserve access regardless. We're ALL worthy of getting support that we need, and living a life of joy, peace & ease. But let's face it, we totally get that "money" is a huge factor for many of us, and we don't want it to deter you from living the FULL life YOU truly deserve! The virtual experience promotes abundance for ALL!
Accessible Everwhere
No flights. No hotels. No time off work. You can receive this medicine from your living room, your garden, your car, or the comfort of your own bed. Geography is no longer the gatekeeper. And you know what's even better? If you miss any (or ALL) of the LIVE messages or workshops, you'll still have access to the replays...for LIFE! And TRUST us, the energy is just as potent whenever you are able to tune in. Because the container is already built, so the power of the field continues to amplify, and YOU'RE able to get exactly what you need, when you need it!
Energy Has No Address
Land healings. Activations. Channelings. These transmissions don't require you to physically stand on the ground. It's ALL energy — and when we come together with common intention, we create magick regardless of where our bodies are.
And, here's something worth knowing about Maria & Sam: they have built nearly their entire 5 1/2 year healing practice online (with some consistent in-person work). Energy healing, intuitive readings, mediumship, Akashic Records, land & space clearings, Shamanic journeying, Transformative coaching, and their beloved Yin Yang events — all offered virtually, all transformative, all received by clients across cities, states, and time zones who felt every single transmission as if they were sitting right across the room. Virtual is not a compromise for them. It's the container they know most deeply. And it's the foundation of Branches.
Your Schedule, Your Way
The entire experience will be on telegram with LIVE ZOOMs. Replays dropped in telegram. So, arrive when it aligns for you. Catch the replays when it doesn't. The medicine doesn't expire. Your lifetime access means this container is ALLways open whenever you're ready to receive it. Energy doesn't "run-out". In fact, the auric field of this intentional space continues to build, amplify & activate more realities, as more energies become aligned with it. Everything happens withIN Divine YOUniversal Timing. And THIS portal to joy & adventure is READY when YOU are!
Building 2027 Together
This virtual experience IS the foundation for the full in-person Embodied Medicine Playground coming in the middle of 2027. You're not missing the real thing — you're helping us build it. And you'll get first access when it launches next year! In following along with our road-tripping, desert dwelling kid-like adventures this September, you'll help us co-create the most badass visions & vacay vibes for the 2027 retreat. How FUN does that sound to your inner child?
Road Trip Magick
Maria will hit the road from New Mexico with her 2 dogs on September 21st to meet Sam in San Diego.. Get REAL time updates from their individual road trip adventures, and then as they journey together, out & about in the California Desert and coast for the entire week. Receiving intuitive messages from the lands & spaces they visit, connecting with new people, places & experiences and activating the inner child explorers that live deep within them.
When you register, there will be a form where you can drop intuitive hits of places for them to stop on the road.
Kaleidoscope Desert Play
One of the many places Sam & Maria will venture to is Kaleidoscope Desert, which is a 5-acre sanctuary where rescued animals, art, & wild desert beauty come together to create a space for healing, wonder, & deep connection. Together they'll connect with & channel the animals and share their insights & real-life moments with ALL of you. See sanctuary website below for more information, to get a look into the experience, or to donate to this 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Yin-Yang Closing Event
On September 29th, Sam & Maria close out their week-long journey in a LIVE virtual ceremony. They share insights & experiences from the road trip, give REAL time channelings & mini-readings to participants & also offer some group coaching. If you've never experienced one of their signature Yin-Yang events, THIS is ONE you don't want to miss! Come together as a community and help us ground in the activations from this experience and co-create a vision for the in-person Playground Retreat in 2027! We want your input & reflections from the virtual adventure to help us build the foundation for our next in-person one. Complete the survey when you register & we'll review as many as we can before we all come together on September 29th!
Inner Child Activation
While Sam & Maria are traveling through California, they'll be experiencing the things that light up their toddler, school-age & teenage selves- activating ALL versions of their inner children. You'll even get to share in some of these experiences with them in REAL time. You'll also get to choose your own adventures as you'll get access to "Roots & Remembering," which is a downloadable play-workbook (will also be available for hard-copy purchase) that will serve as your embodied medicine companion throughout the experience. This retreat is ALL about reclaiming our JOY & giving ourselves permission to PLAY.
Land Healings & Activations
Energy has "no address" remember? Receive Joshua Tree (and surrounding areas) land activations wherever you are. Also be part of the collective healing that we ALL bring to these spaces. You'll get all every download that Maria & Sam receive from the lands & also bring your own healing energy & gifts into the spaces that need it most right now. You'll really FEEL like you're right there with us.
Shamanic Journeying
Immerse yourself into the world of Shamanic Journeying (a form of intentional & transformative meditation). Sam & Maria will guide you through a series of journeys throughout the week where you'll meet Spirit Guides, tune into a facet or facets of YOUR embodied medicine, connect with different version of your inner child, astral travel to the lands in California that we're working with & so much MORE!
Intentional Sacred Ceremonies
Join Maria & Sam as they open sacred space together — virtually, yet fully connected. They'll call in the Directions, invite the Elements & other Helping Spirits to join us, and hold space for a ceremony of Release and Connection, no matter where in the world you're joining from.
This is medicine meant to be felt in the body, not just witnessed on a screen. That's why Cacao is woven through our time together — heart-opening, grounding, and deeply ceremonial. Ahead of our gathering, we'll send you a curated list of trusted sources for organic, ceremonial-grade Cacao, so you can prepare your own cup and sip alongside us in real time, in the comfort of your own home. Bring your intentions. Let's create a sacred container together — from wherever you stand on this Earth.
Somatic Embodied Movement
The body speaks a language all its own — one that doesn't rely on words. In these offerings, we slow down enough to listen. Together, we'll drop into the Nervous System, tune into what the body has been holding, and move whatever's been asking to shift. This isn't performance or perfection — it's permission. Permission to shake, sway, stretch, release. To let stagnant energy find its way out and ALIVENESS find its way back in. Through guided somatic movement & intuitive dance, we create space for the body's own wisdom to lead, honoring it as a living archive of story, emotion, and Medicine.
Come as you are, in whatever body you're in today. No experience necessary — just a willingness to feel, move, and come home to yourself.
Community & Connection Fun
A private Telegram channel with the whole group — talk live or just pop in when it calls you. Live activations and channelings land for everyone at once, so you're never receiving this solo. All call replays will be here and any resources we share. Also, your badass downloadable adventure book, Roots & Remembering will be here too. Forever access to this channel and community. A safe space to connect, unwind and get loose.
Here's what we know to be TRUE after years of holding HEALing spaces---virtual & in-person:
You don't have to physically be there to
When humans come together with common intention — regardless of physical location — something REAL is created. A field. A container. A collective energy that each participant is genuinely part of. The land transmissions you receive from California in September aren't diminished because your body is in another city. Energy isn't determined by geography. Neither is healing.
The most powerful healing happens when barriers come down.
When you remove the financial pressure of flights and hotels, the logistical stress of travel, the guilt of taking time away — what's left is someone who can actually be present. FULLY. Open. Ready to receive. That's the container we want to create. Not one that requires extraordinary privilege to enter, but one that meets you exactly where you are.

And that's part of why this retreat lives virtually. Sacred space shouldn't require a plane ticket, a "readiness," or the "right" circumstances to show up. Wherever you are — your living room, your car, your quiet corner of the world — you can enter this circle exactly as you are, without needing to travel to find safety, presence, or TRUTH. The container comes to you. Because this Playground was never about watching two women hold space from some finished place. It's an invitation to sit in the same circle we do — to play, to fall apart a little, to be witnessed exactly where you're at. The one still grieving. The one who forgot how to have fun. The one who's never had a room this safe to just BE in. Every version of you is welcome here, and we'll bring our whole selves too. Together, we'll co-create a space where ALL of our INner children can run FREE.
No credentials needed. No "Spiritual resume." No requirement to have your life together. Just a willingness to play in your TRUTH, with people who won't flinch at any of it.

"Embodied Medicine" isn't a single modality — it's a universal framework, and it moves through each of us differently.
At its root is a simple understanding: Fear left unfelt becomes DIS-ease. When we disconnect from our bodies, our stories, our TRUTH, that disconnection doesn't just stay in the mind — it lives in the body, it calcifies, it shows up as pain, as patterns, as blockages. LOVE is the antidote. Not love as a concept, but LOVE as an embodied energetic way of BEing — the willingness to feel, to soften, to come home to yourSELF again & again.
For Maria, Embodied Medicine predominantly shows up as Vulnerability & Authenticity — her Humanness, worn without apology. It's what happens when a nurse who's held space in Hospice settings also holds space in ceremony, and lets both truths exist in one body. For Sam, it looks like uncovering all that is not, and radically accepting the beauty of who our souls truly are — the gifts within that far exceed any human conditioned belief. It's the soul dancing in the body for a badass human experience, held by deep acceptance, boundaries, and a wide-open heart. Love that isn't transactional or conditional. Alive, freeing, joyful, and a little quirky.
Together, their Medicine looks like two women choosing to show up real, unfiltered, & whole — because that's what gives you permission to do the same.
Embodied Medicine is what happens when you stop performing wellness and start feeling it. When fear gets metabolized instead of suppressed. When LOVE isn't just spoken, but lived — in the body, through the body, as the body.
This is the thread that runs through everything we offer. Not healing as an idea but healing as something you feel in your bones. AND TRUTHS that you live every single day.
This is where it gets good. And this is what Sam & Maria know from their own lived experience. They didn't build this retreat from theory. They built it from their own transformations. The medicine from The Embodied Medicine Playground doesn't have a shelf life. It doesn't peak on the last day and fade by the time you're back in your regular routine. It does something far more interesting.
It evolves with YOU.
And here's what that looks like in REAL life:
🌅 In the weeks after — you notice things. The way you light up doing certain things. The way your body relaxes into joy in moments it used to brace against. The way your inner child — all of the versions of her, of him, of them — starts showing up uninvited in the best possible way. Reminding you that play isn't something you have to earn. That fun isn't frivolous. That the teenager who wanted to dance at 2 AM was onto something.
🌿 In the months after — the integration deepens. The downloads you received from this experience start making sense in new ways. The relationships you formed in the container reveal themselves as the kind that can grow, not fade. You find yourself making choices from a different place — not from the wounded self that needed to heal, but from the whole self that knows how to feel. The adult wisdom and the child's freedom — finally working together instead of against each other.
🌟 In the years after — you look back at who you were before this experience and you recognize the distance traveled. Not because a single retreat fixed everything, but because it cracked something open that kept opening. A permission you gave yourself that you never took back. The twelve-year-old who got dismissed finally feeling heard. The sixteen-year-old who turned the volume down finally getting to turn it ALL the way back up — wisely, freely, beautifully! 🎉
The retreat is the beginning of something truly special. But your embodied medicine is the rest of your life.


This is what happened when we gathered on the sacred land of Tico Time River Resort for the first Embodied Medicine Retreat, in August of 2025. What began as a gathering of strangers became something far more rare — a community of humans who remembered, together, what it means to be fully alive.
We laughed until our stomachs hurt and cried until our hearts cracked open. We sang and danced without apology. We dressed up in costumes and let our inner children completely take over. We painted rocks, planted a tree, and pressed our hands into the earth to connect with and heal the land beneath our feet. We shamanic journeyed into the depths of ourselves, moved energy through breathwork, yoga and sound baths, opened our hearts in sacred cacao ceremony, and sat around the fire sharing the truths we'd been carrying. We released what no longer served us — in ceremony, in the river, in each other's presence. We cooked and ate family dinners together, swam in the river, and yes — went down waterslides with the kind of unfiltered joy that no healing modality can replicate.
And through ALL of it, something deeper was happening beneath the surface. Each person began to tune into their own embodied medicine — the unique ways love and passion want to express themselves through them in this lifetime. Not someone else's version. Not the version the world assigned them. Theirs. Wholly, beautifully, unmistakably theirs.
This is what the Embodied Medicine Experience looks like when it's FULLY ALIVE. And we're going back, only THIS time we're doing it from Cali!
No question is too small. We want you to feel completely confident before you dive in. Here are the ones we hear most often.
Great question — and the answer is: multiple ways, because medicine arrives through many channels. Here's exactly how we'll connect with you throughout the week+ experience:
💻Zoom live calls, ceremonies & workshops — scheduled LIVE sessions where Maria & Sam facilitate ceremonies, nervous system work, shamanic journeys, group coaching, & MORE. You can show up live or catch the replay.
🌀Spontaneous & intuitive drops via Telegram — this is where the real magick lives between sessions. Maria & Sam send voice notes, video clips, channelings, land transmissions, and downloads the moment they arrive — unscripted, unfiltered, and fully alive.
💬Telegram group & community chat — your home base for ALL things retreat. The group is where ALL communications from Sam & Maria will be posted. There will also be a separate community chat for all participants to connect with each other, share your reflections, ask questions, and feel the community container forming in real time.
📖A downloadable digital PLAY-workbook — "Roots & Remembering" is a companion guide to deepen your experience with reflection prompts, integration exercises, and medicine notes throughout the journey. A hard copy version will also be available for purchase if you prefer something you can hold in your hands.
You don't need to be glued to your screen all day. The medicine meets you where you are — live when you can, replay when you can't, and always with lifetime access.
Life happens — and we designed this experience knowing that. Every single LIVE session and transmission is recorded and available to you forever. You will never miss medicine because of a scheduling conflict, time zone difference, or simply needing to show up when the time is right for you.
Join live when you can — the real-time energy and community connection is always special. Catch the replay when you can't — the transmission doesn't lose its potency. Your lifetime access means this container is always open, always waiting, always ready to receive you when YOU are READY.
The virtual experience begins when Maria hits the road from New Mexico on Sept 21st. She & Sam will come together that evening in Joshua Tree and welcome everyone into the container via Zoom & Telegram.
Sept 22-26th: Sam & Maria are visiting the lands of Joshua Tree (and surrounding areas) --daily transmissions, spotaneous LIVE drops & scheduled ceremonies & workshops shared throughout
Sept 27-28th: Road trip back to New Mexico--integration content, land transmissions & LIVE drops continue as they road trip together
Sept 29th: Yin-Yang LIVE virtual closing event--integration, road shares, live channelings/healing, group coaching & MORE! The whole community closes the portal together.
🌟Scheduled LIVE session times will be shared in the Telegram community ahead of each ceremony or workshop. Everything else arrives spontaneously — which is exactly how intuitive medicine is supposed to move. 🌵
Not at all — and we love that you asked. Even though it's called the Embodied Medicine Experience, we will not be serving or facilitating any plant medicine or psychedelics (with the exception of Mama Cacao in our virtual ceremony 🍫 — prepare yours at home and join us live). We will however teach you how to journey to the energy/essence/Spirit of some medicinal plants that can work as your allies in your own healing process.
The most powerful medicine we're working with is YOU. Your embodied medicine — the unique way love and passion want to express themselves through you in this lifetime. This is a fully sober experience. We're simply here to help you remember what was already inside you all along.
Yes — The Embodied Medicine Playground is a unisex retreat, and that is entirely intentional. Maria & Sam deeply value the harmonious balance that both masculine and feminine energies bring to the healing container. The yin and the yang together create something more whole, more potent, and more transformative than either could alone.
This retreat is for any human who has been doing the inner work — the healing, the shadow, the grief — and is finally ready to give their inner child a turn. If you're ready to reclaim your sense of wonder, joy, and play and weave that energy back into your everyday life to love more fully, you belong here.
We hear this question a lot — and we want to answer it with honesty: yes. Genuinely, yes.
Sam & Maria have built nearly their entire healing practice online — energy healing, intuitive readings, mediumship, Akashic Records, space & land clearings, shamanic coaching, and their signature Yin Yang events — all delivered virtually, all deeply felt, all genuinely transformative for clients across cities, states, countries and time zones. This is their wheelhouse. They've been watching virtual connection change lives for years.
The Telegram community is alive from day one — real humans, real shares, real connection building in real time. The LIVE Zoom sessions create space for faces, voices, and the kind of presence that reminds you that healing in community doesn't require everyone to be in the same room. Energy has no address. And when humans come together with common intention — wherever their bodies are — something real is created. We've seen it happen over and over again. 🌵
Beautifully little. Here's what you'll want to have ready:
💻📱A device — phone, tablet, desktop or laptop for Zoom & Telegram
✅Telegram app — free to download, this is where the community lives
🍫Cacao for the ceremony — we'll share our recommendations for sourcing ceremonial-grade cacao ahead of time
📔A journal — for integration, reflection, and capturing the downloads that come through
📖Your "Roots & Remembering" PLAY-workbook — included digitally with your registration; hard copy will be available for purchase
💚An open HEART & zero agenda — the most important thing you can bring
No travel. No packing. No time off work required. Just you, your device, and your willingness to receive.
A few things make The Embodied Medicine Experience genuinely YOUnique:
💻The virtual model: The virtual platform allows for an even MORE LIMITLESS experience making it accessible from ANYWHERE in the world!
🩺🌱Two Nurses who are also Shamanic Medicine Women: Sam & Maria bring the precision of clinical nursing AND the depth of shamanic practice into every space they hold. They innerstand and embody both worlds — the physical and the energetic — in a way that is genuinely rare.
☯️The yin-yang energy: One activates. One grounds. Together they hold the full spectrum — and the healing that happens in their combined presence is something you feel, not just understand.
🌟JOY as medicine: Most retreats focus on the shadow. This one honors both ends of the spectrum. Your inner child runs the show here — and that is not an accident. It is the medicine.
Yes — and this is the part that makes us so excited! 🥳
The full in-person Embodied Medicine Playground is coming in 2027 — a multi-day desert retreat experience in a location TBD, with all the land healing, animal connections, fireside chats, cacao ceremonies, shamanic journeys, creative play, and community magick you've been reading about.
This virtual experience in September 2026 is how we build that foundation — TOGETHER. We believe in experiencing what we create before we invite others into it at that level, and this journey gives us — and you — exactly that.
✨Everyone who registers for the September 2026 virtual experience gets first access to the 2027 in-person announcement — before it's open to the public. Annnnnd you'll get a special discount too. Consider this your backstage pass to what's coming next! 🎟️
We want to answer this one with full transparency — because yes, $199 is really all this costs. And when you innerstand what that actually means, we think you'll feel what we feel every time we think about it: genuinely excited for you.
Here's some context. A single 60-minute LIMITLESS session with either Maria or Sam — covering mediumship, Akashic Records, energy healing, chakra work, intuitive guidance & more — is $250. One session. 60 minutes.
A 60-minute Yin Yang LIMITLESS session with both of us together is $444. And a 90-minute virtual Yin Yang Event is $44.
Individual 1:1 coaching programs with either of us run into the thousands of dollars.
Over the course of this week+ virtual experience, you will receive wisdom, transmission, healing, activation, and guidance that draws from every single modality we each offer — mediumship, Shamanic journeying, energy healing, Akashic Records, intuitive channeling, somatic practices, nervous system work, coaching, land medicine, and the unique alchemy that only happens when Maria and Sam work together in their yin-yang container. Not in a diluted, surface-level way. In the fully alive, deeply intentional, following-the-energy way that has always defined how we show up for the people in our space.
$199 for 9 days of that — with lifetime access to every transmission, every session, every download, forever — is not a compromise. It's our commitment to making this medicine as accessible as possible to as many humans as need it right NOW.
This is a full yes at a fraction of the cost. And it keeps giving long after the portal closes. 🌵🌟
Because your inner child has been waiting long enough. 🌵👦👧
The Embodied Medicine Experience exists for one reason: to help you reclaim your inner child unapologetically and weave that energy back into your everyday life — so you can love more fully, live more boldly, and remember that healing was never meant to be only hard.
This is the 2nd Annual retreat. Last year's participants left Tico Time River Resort transformed — knowing how love wants to move through them in this lifetime. That knowledge doesn't leave you when the retreat ends. It grows WITH you. Your inner child is ready. The only question is — are YOU?