Nourishing the Soul
Remembering, Awakening, Belonging
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Paintings by Jerielle Young
July 6-8, 2025
Bend, Oregon area
Gather in sacred space to slow down, breathe deeply, and listen. With the guidance of plant medicine and skilled support, this weekend invites you to reconnect with spirit, earth, and your inner truth. This retreat offers a potent space for healing, clarity, and awakening. Please note that these journeys can be challenging, all of it in the spirit of your own transformation. We never know what the wisdom will bring.
Our Retreats Help You:
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Reconnect with yourself - body, mind and spirit - in the present moment and listen for what is opening in you.
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Honor your pain and struggles with respect and an open heart.
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Align with your essence and true path.
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Discover new opportunities and open portals of transformation.
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Awaken your inner power, passions, and capacity for love, while further opening to the beauty of who you are.
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Cultivate healthy individual and community relationships, while honoring our deep connection with the earth and the elements.
Diana integrates the ancient spirit wisdom of the Five Element Chinese medicine model, while Renee brings her clinical understanding of polyvagal theory of the nervous system, and breathwork, along with her medical knowledge, to support the journey. By creating an intentional space, we allow participants to tap into their inner spiritual intelligence, fostering profound personal transformation.
Our Intentions
While we honor the wisdom of the plant sacrament to guide the unique unfolding for each individual, our gatherings offer an opportunity to:
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Release blockages, pain, and suffering, opening the door to freedom and fulfillment.
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Deepen your ability to pursue your dreams and live your life’s purpose.
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Accelerate your personal evolution and align with your soul’s mission.
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Access ancient wisdom and apply nature’s teachings to your journey.
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Experience lasting transformation in your life
Gathering Logistics
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Cost: $750 + $70 food fee (payable by check or online to Divine Earth Church, a 501(c)(3)tax-exempt organization), includes $120 minimum annual membership fee.
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Location: TBD. Sleeping arrangements will be semi-private . Shared bathroom.
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Preparation: A group Zoom call before the retreat
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Schedule: Begins at 4pm on Sunday, July 6 ; ends at 11am on Tuesday, July 8.
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What to Bring: Comfortable clothing, blanket for your journey, journal, pens, art materials (if desired), a special object for the altar, indoor slippers, and warm layers.
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Meet the Facilitators
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Diana Fried is a dedicated practitioner of emotional and trauma healing, transformation, awakening, and the pursuit of happiness. In 2005, she co-founded Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB) to provide acupuncture healing in disaster-stricken and underserved communities worldwide, including the U.S., Haiti, Nepal, Mongolia, Ecuador, and Mexico. She sees deep trauma healing through plant medicine as a foundation for personal and global peace.
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Trained in Five Element acupuncture, Diana uses this modality to heal relationships and facilitate energetic transformation. She has studied Council practice through the Upaya Zen Center and the Center for Council, enhancing her ability to guide group processes. A graduate of the Upaya Zen Center Buddhist Chaplaincy program, Diana has explored Buddhist spiritual practices since the 1980s. Diana is certified in the process called Happy For No Reason, and was a staff member of Spring Hill which held Opening the Heart workshops.
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Through Your Life Medicine (yourlifemedicine.net), Diana leads groups, workshops, and international pilgrimages focused on healing and transformation. She is certified in Plant Spirit Medicine through Eliot Cowan and has organized plant medicine ceremonies in Oaxaca, Mexico, based on Huichol traditions. Diana continues her deep personal work with plant medicine, guided by teachers trained in the Navajo tradition, among others.
Renee Grandi has spent 22 years practicing rural family medicine in far Northeastern Oregon. She has been certified for 21 years with the American Board of Family Medicine and practicing Environmental and Integrative Medicine for 8 years. She has training and interest in Trauma Healing using modalities such as Integrative Listening System, Somatic Healing, Poly Vagal Systems work, Tension Release Exercises, Breathwork and Psychedelic Retreats.
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Renee is a graduate of a 10-month training program in Psychedelic Therapy with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Boulder, CO. She is eligible to be a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon.
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Renee is a founding minister of The Divine Earth Church with over a year’s experience leading 4 day and 1 day psilocybin retreats at least monthly for up to 8 participants. She also has 12 months experience guiding oral ketamine sessions for individual members of the church. Guiding is a passion and ministering to those from birth to death has always been her calling.
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She loves dogs and spends much of her free time caring for and fostering huskies and running sled dogs in the winter. She is married and has one adult daughter.
Diana Fried and Renee Grandi, facilitate sacrament-based spiritual retreats using plant medicine . We operate under the Divine Earth Church (DEC) in Enterprise, Oregon, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. As Ministers of the Church, we guide participants in transformative experiences. Partaking in a sacrament ceremony is protected under the religious freedom act as members of the Church.
Welcome to Transformation that Lasts!