athera healing sabbatical

A structured container for nervous system repair, somatic restoration, and sacred reconnection

These programs are designed for people who need time away from daily life to truly heal, rather than trying to heal while remaining inside the same environments that created their trauma. All Sabbatical work is held in Sedona, AZ and must be booked three-six months in advance. Emergency situations are considered.

3 or 6 - Month Trauma Healing Immersion

A somatic + ceremonial trauma healing sabbatical.

❋ Trauma Processing
A guided process of safely revisiting, understanding, and releasing stored traumatic experiences held in the body and nervous system. Through somatic awareness, emotional integration, and compassionate witnessing, the body is supported in completing what was once overwhelming.
❋ Lifestyle Rebuilding
The intentional reconstruction of daily life after trauma, burnout, or major life transitions. This includes rebuilding healthy rhythms, boundaries, nourishment, environment, relationships, and routines that support long-term stability and wellbeing.
A body-centered approach to healing that restores safety, sensation, and regulation within the physical body. Through gentle somatic practices, the nervous system learns to move out of survival states and return to a natural baseline of ease and presence.
❋ Somatic Restoration
❋ Nervous System Regulation
Techniques that support the body in shifting from chronic stress states into balance and resilience. These practices help stabilize the autonomic nervous system, allowing individuals to feel safe, grounded, and capable of responding rather than reacting.
❋ Embodiment Practices
Experiential practices that help individuals reconnect with the wisdom of their body. Through breath, movement, sensation, and awareness, embodiment supports living from an integrated place where mind, body, and intuition are aligned.
❋ Spiritual Reconnection
A process of restoring one’s relationship with meaning, purpose, and the sacred. This may include reconnecting with intuition, nature, ceremony, personal beliefs, or a deeper sense of belonging beyond trauma and survival.

Psycho-Somatic Tools & Modalities for Mental Health

Guided Sessions

  • Trauma-educated, somatic-based guidance tailored to meet the body where it is.

Intuitive Energy Medicine

  • Subtle field healing to clear stagnation, restore flow, and reconnect you to your energetic blueprint.

Attunement to the Body & Nervous System

  • Support for chronic illness, dysregulation, and the deeper somatic roots of emotional patterns.

Inner Child Healing & Exploration

  • Meeting the younger parts of you with safety, compassion, and embodied repair.

Parts Work

  • Reintegrating fragmented aspects of self so your system can operate with coherence and clarity.

Core Wounding Repair

Mother / Father Wounds

  • Re-patterning attachment imprints that shaped early identity and nervous system responses.

Sisterhood / Witch Wounds

  • Healing persecution imprints, feminine competition, visibility fear, and generational wounds around being powerful.

Shame & Self-Worth Wounds

  • Transforming internalized narratives that create contraction, self-betrayal, or self-silencing.

Relational Patterns

  • Repairing people-pleasing, codependency, boundary collapse, and relational survival strategies.

Somatic Experiencing & Embodiment

Breath work

  • Transformational breath practices that unlock stored energy, emotion, and somatic memory.

Energy Work

  • Clearing blocks within the subtle body while supporting nervous system balance.

Trauma Release

  • Gentle unwinding of survival responses, somatic imprints, and held protective patterns.

Womb Release & Activation

  • Restoring connection, vitality, and safety within the womb space.

Nervous System Regulation

  • Techniques to stabilize, down-regulate, and expand resilience.

Neural Reorganization

  • Re-patterning brain-body pathways to support new emotional, physical, and behavioral outcomes.

Energetics & Subtle Body Work

Generational & Lineage Healing

  • Clearing inherited imprints, ancestral trauma, and patterns carried in the bloodline.

Feminine & Masculine Balance

  • Restoring harmony between inner polarities, power, receptivity, and grounded embodiment.

Energy Center Alignment

  • Clearing blockages, recalibrating the chakras, and reconnecting to your intuitive pathways.

Womb Healing & Feminine Restoration

Healing Sexual Trauma & Violation

  • A trauma-educated, compassionate path to reclaim safety, voice, and sovereignty within the body.

Divine & Dark Feminine Initiatory Work

  • Reconnecting to the primal, intuitive, and archetypal feminine expressions within.

Fertility, Cycle Health & Endometriosis Support

  • Root-cause exploration for hormonal, reproductive, and womb-based concerns.

Yoni Steam Protocols

  • Herbal steam therapy to support womb cleansing, cycle regulation, and energetic renewal.

Sacred Medicine Work & Subconscious Rewiring

Plant Medicine Ceremonial Support

  • Trauma-informed, somatic-centered preparation and integration.

Kambo, Hapé, Sananga & Mapacho

  • Cleansing, grounding, purifying, and awakening tools used with reverence and integrity.

Nervous System & Cellular Health

Herbal Medicine for Emotional & Spiritual Detoxification

  • Custom herbal support to nourish the adrenal glands, lymphatic system, kidneys, GI tract, endocrine system, hormones, and cellular regeneration during deep healing work.

daily rhythm for sabbatical participants

Daily 2-4 hour sessions 4-5 days per week. You and Patricia will discuss what 'time off' looks like during your sabbatical. Full time mentorship is part of this container during and outside of sessions. This will be discussed on a discovery phone call.
During time spent outside of sessions / ceremony, you will have a dedicated schedule to support your nervous system every morning, afternoon and evening.
Some days will be shorter or longer due to the nature of the experiences.                        This container is curated and created based off of your needs and desires on this path.   You will meet your edge.
You will be challenged to face yourself.
You will be guided, supported, and held in love and safety. 
You will work with Patricia each day to ensure you are in right relation and integrity with each step of the process.

who this program is for:

Ideal candidates:

• people recovering from burnout
• complex trauma survivors
• nervous system dysregulation
• spiritual seekers needing integration
• people transitioning life phases
• healers and facilitators needing deep reset

screening requirements

Important for safety. Participants will be screened for:

• severe psychiatric conditions
• active addiction
• medication conflicts
• medical conditions
Medical and therapeutic support may be required.

program environment


The environment matters as much as the practices.

• nature-based / land connection
• quiet and private
• therapeutic spaces
• ceremonial spaces

pricing structure

3-Month Sabbatical

$30,000

6-Month Sabbatical

$54,000

1-3 month ongoing virtual integrative support is mandatory post sabbatical and decided upon in the final week of the sabbatical. Price is not included in the above.
*Scholarships opportunities may be available on a limited, need-based basis and can be discussed if appropriate. Please note that insurance is not accepted. These offerings are high-level, deeply supportive intensive containers and require a significant investment and commitment in deep healing work.


NEXT STEPS

PAYMENT PLAN / TRAVEL / LOGISTICS

  • Please submit your application. Once your application is received, Patricia will reach out to set up a call to ensure this is an aligned experience for both of you in the next steps of your process. You will then solidify a schedule and personalized payment plan. A contract and deposit invoice will be sent after this call to finalize your registration.
  • You are responsible for your travel and accommodations. Patricia will provide a few Air b n b options for you to book. A mix of the work will be done in Patricia's medicine room and at your air b n b.
  • TRAVEL: The Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is a two hour drive to Sedona. You and Patricia will discuss options for getting around town while you are staying in Sedona.
  • You are responsible for your food. Patricia will provide post medicine ceremony meals, snacks, herbal tea and water during your stay.
  • Patricia will offer a list of grocery, restaurant, and shopping references upon your arrival.
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