Meet Us
Susan Ross
Retreat Leader, Trauma Informed Sacred Medicine Practitioner and Integration Specialist
Born in Washington, D.C., Susan grew up immersed in the structured intensity of Western systems - systems she would later come to understand as both shaping and limiting the human experience. While her professional path began with a foundation in IT, law and conflict resolution, including degrees and certifications as a systems analyst, mediator, arbitrator, and Harvard IOC fellow, her deepest evolution emerged through personal healing and reconnection to her lineage as a medicine woman.
Susan has lived in Costa Rica for several years. The land’s rhythm, vibrancy, and spirit called her home and offered a space where her work as a ceremonial facilitator, trauma-informed practitioner, and integration specialist could fully come to life. Sacred jungle medicines did not provide a quick path to healing; they initiated a sacred return to wholeness. Her deep commitment to ongoing personal work and ceremonial study allows her to guide others through shadow and light, through death and rebirth, because she has walked those paths herself.
Susan is not simply a facilitator of sacred medicines. She serves as a bridge between realms. As an oracle, she holds the gift of sight and sensing, moving fluently through liminal space to help others access the unseen, the unresolved, and the unremembered. Her containers are built on safety, integrity, and deep listening. They are grounded in a trauma-informed framework and elevated through sacred intuition.
Her academic and professional background spans over a decade of work in positive neuroplasticity, holistic coaching, and somatic healing. She is a certified professional life coach, a positive neuroplasticity practitioner, and a certified instructor in yoga, meditation, and breathwork. She has also done humanitarian and outreach work throughout Latin America and Africa, cultivating cultural awareness and reverence for ancestral wisdom across many lands and traditions. Her approach is rooted in diversity, inclusion, and a fierce devotion to creating spaces where all identities and traumas are welcomed with compassion.
What sets Susan apart is not only her extensive training but also her humility, lived experience, and unwavering integrity. She knows that trauma does not simply disappear; it evolves. Her work centers around helping others alchemize pain into purpose, fear into freedom, and grief into grace. Through deep integration support, she helps clients embody the teachings of ceremony and apply them to everyday life… because real transformation happens not just in sacred space, but in how we choose to live.
She continues to sit with the medicines herself, not as a leader looking down, but as a humble student walking alongside you. She believes the most powerful guides are those who never stop listening, surrendering, and remembering.
Her retreats are a reflection of this deep path: sacred, safe, and alive with possibility. Whether you are meeting the medicine for the first time or returning once again, you will be held in a space where judgment dissolves and your soul is invited to rise. The sacred journey begins not at the altar, but the moment you choose to come home to yourself.
Our Sacred Guides
We are excited to offer this incredible team of consciousness explorers to co-create individualized healing journeys for each participant. Everyone will be met where they are and held in a safe environment to go beyond our fears and reach ultimate personal and collective freedom. Each ceremony will build throughout the week and is consciously curated for growth and unleashing the fire within. Like the Phoenix, together we will rise out of the flames and into a newness of life. If you don't spread your wings, you will not discover how far you can fly.
