Ethnobotanical Garden Bike Ride
A Mindful Garden Journey by Bike
Join us for a beautiful day of connection, culture, and cycling! This guided ride takes us to an ethnobotanical garden in Southeast San Diego, where we’ll explore the healing power of plants, movement, and community.
🌿 Learn about the cultural and medicinal uses of native plants from Juan of Queer Sol Collective.
🧘♂️ Flow through a gentle mindful movement session led by Brian from Movement Matters.
🥗 Enjoy a delicious plant-based lunch prepared by a local chef, surrounded by nature.
Come ready to ride, learn, and grow together
Something Beautiful
The Queer Sol Collective & Indigenous Regeneration present: Something Beautiful
Join us for an afternoon of community medicine — where collective voices meet cultural practice — on Indigenous land.
MATA’YUUM 2025
Annual Retreat Fundraiser
What:
We invite you to join us in a safe container for Queer folx to gather in community and heal through a variety of modalities which include plant medicine, storytelling, earth stewardship, shadow/mirror work, indigenizing practices, authentic self-expression, art exhibits, movement, and celebration. This retreat is designed for Queer folx of all genders and all ethnicities.
Where:
Shelterwood Collective. Shelterwood is a 900-acre Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and Queer-led community forest and collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers. Shelterwood is based on unceded Southern Pomo and Kashia territory, above what is now called the Russian River in Northern California.
When:
June 26th at 7pm - June 29th at 10am
*Arrival begins at 4pm on 06/26/25. Opening ceremony at 7pm.
*While we encourage participants to be in community the entirety of this gathering, we understand that some may need to leave early or arrive later. This is allowed and we encourage everyone to attend in the ways that feel correct for them.
EVERYTHING IS MEDICINE
Offering formats:
Ceremony, Rituals, Community Activities, Art Exhibits, Sacred Altars, Dance Parties, and Workshops.
Medicines:
Sacred Tobacco, Cacao, Kambo, Sound Therapy, Yoga, Meditation
Other therapeutic amenities include:
Sauna, jacuzzi, creek, hiking trails.
*Food (Breakfast + Dinner) and accommodation included.
*Body Work/Massage available for an additional fee.
*Tattoo/Ink available for an additional fee.
Community As Medicine For Us All
A truly decolonized system is one that embraces queerness as both natural and necessary for an integrated way of life.
By joining us this weekend, you not only stand in your power with us,
but in collaboration with us, as an acting contributor that further develops and evolves the Indigenous methodologies that will
disrupt, decolonize, and ultimately restore.
This restoration effort does not occur with one single act or method, rather, it requires many acts cooperating in unity to create a methodology that interrupts colonial authority and replaces it with sovereignty. Hand in hand, we will restore balance and heal through the integration of “community as medicine” for us all.
