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Ceremonial Drum Making Retreat For Practitioners 

Horse Medicine
 July 1-5, 2026

Join Nina and Mandy at the Earth And Star Sanctuary
and Farm in Colorado's Southwest,
for a Ceremonial Retreat in Nature.

Join us for a special ceremonial retreat for Practitioners. 

(non-practitioners are welcome too... we will be learning by experiencing, all are welcome! )

 

Part 1: We will be diving into the sacred medicine that HORSE has to offer us. Learn to make a horse hide drum with materials from a no-kill sanctuary. Sit in sacred fire ceremony, as we learn about connecting to the energies and spirit of your drum. Once our drums are dried, we play our drums in a singing to life ceremony.

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Part 2: Drum Journey. Experience a sacred drum journey deep to the earth as we ground and open to going within to receive visions, messages and connections to the spirit of Horse. Learn how to guide others with grounding meditations with the drum. 

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Part 3: Learn about Horse medicine. 2026 is the year of the Fire Horse. It is also a 1 year, the time for new beginnings. 

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Horse meets you where your spirit is. It mirrors what you carry. It refuses to lie to you. And when it chooses you, it reveals pathways between the seen and the unseen that cannot be accessed through force, only through reciprocity. Horse carries the medicine of truth and freedom. Horse helps you let go of past hurts, fears and mistakes that keep us in the past and brings in new beginnings, new emotions, new inspirations and a returning to yourself. 

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What a sweet, gentle, and powerfully transformative medicine!

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~Our Schedule~

  • Day 1, July 1: arrive anytime before 5:00 p.m. You are responsible for your own travel arrangements to Walsenburg Colorado. The Nearest airport is Colorado Springs COS, which is about 1 1/2 hours north of the land. 

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  • Airport pickup and drop-off is available for an extra fee of $50.00 each way.

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  • Airfare is not included.

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  • Please allow yourself enough time to find a camping spot and set up your tent before it gets dark.

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  • We will start our first Campfire Feast at 5:00 pm. We all Kokua (everyone works together) for meal prep and clean up. We will be eating a rustic vegetarian menu, with the great possibility of a pizza

  • night, and freshly baked bread in our outdoor oven.

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  • All Meals will be prepared over the fire. 

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  • Our first day is filled with setting up camp, resting and relaxing in nature, followed by campfire fun and epic stargazing.

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  • Day 2, July 2:

  • Greet the sun and the morning with hot coffee and tea. 

  • 8:00-9:30 Breakfast

  • 9:30-12:00 Drum Making ~ Make a 13" Horse hide drum.

  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

  • 1:30-5:00 Sacred Fire Ceremony

  • 5:00-6:30 Dinner

  • 6:30-9:00 Stargazing around the campfire

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  • Day 3, July 3:

  • Greet the sun and the morning with hot coffee and tea. 

  • 8:00-9:30 Breakfast

  • 9:30-12:00 Morning Program, Drum Journey.

  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

  • 1:30-5:00 Time in nature, integration, reflection, relaxation.

  • 5:00-6:30 Dinner

  • 6:30-9:00 Stargazing around the campfire.

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  • Day 4, July 4: Greet the sun and the morning with hot coffee and tea. 

  • Breakfast

  • Nature Adventure to visit the land of dragons.

  • Dinner, and our final star gazing.

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  • Day 5, July 5: Greet the sun and the morning with hot coffee and tea. 

  • Breakfast

  • Closing circle

  • Pack up and head out by 2:00 pm.

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​​​​​We will spend our time sitting in nature, basking in the sun, feeling the wind on our faces, experiencing deep silence, and being amazed by the pure dark, star filled skies. Every morning there is a beautiful sunrise, and every evening a beautiful sunset. 

 

​Our evenings, we will sit around the fire, then sing and laugh and gaze at the stars. 

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Surrounded by mountains including The Spanish Peaks and the Sangre De Cristo mountain range, the sanctuary is raw high desert terrain and super high vibrational energy. There is wildlife that comes through, and some jackrabbits that live in the bushes. The birds sing all day long, and sometimes a wild horse wanders through, as well as herds of deer and elk. 

 

 

 

Our Camping area has 10 cleared spots perfect for pitching a tent. 

There is a clear path to the restroom area, and to the kitchen and water station. 

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Our current restroom has nice quality composting toilets, an outdoor water station for handwashing, and some solar showers. We will make sure these areas are private.

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Our kitchen is an out door kitchen, where we can cook over a fire pit, the stone pizza oven, or propane stove. We will have water for cooking, kitchen washing, drinking, and showering.

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NOTE: We are in the high desert of Southern Colorado. The great southwest! There is cacti. We do have a good amount of cactus on the land. Eventually there will be lovely paths to walk with no cactus, but for now, please bring boots or shoes with thick soles and take care of where you step.

Donation: 

$1500.00 

A $500.00 non refundable deposit holds your spot.

Final payment is due by April 31, 2026.

There are no refunds after May 1, 2026.

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Sorry, pre-sale prices do not apply to this retreat.

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Space is limited to 10 people. 

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A welcome letter will be sent out after your registration is complete. It will have information on the land, terrain, and weather. It will also have a list of things to bring and not to bring.

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Please bring your own camping gear. 

No gear? Camping gear is available to rent. 

To see a list of what's available and the rental price CLICK HERE.

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NOTE: The Sanctuary and Farm is in its very raw and wild stage. There are no fences, it's just us out in nature. Expect wildlife, and cactus. There are flies and bugs. 

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  • This is a community Kokua event,(Everyone works together) and we will all help to prepare and cook meals, and clean up.

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  • This is a pack out what you packed in event. 

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  • This is an alcohol free event.

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If you have any questions or would like to register, please contact NINA

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To learn more about our other events offered at our Sanctuary and Farm,

visit the SANCTUARY Page.

Or our EVENTS PAGE.

Meet your practitioners

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Nina Kirby ~ Nina is an alternative healing practitioner and retreat facilitator. She combines her knowledge of indigenous life ways and her love of nature to create healing journeys with ceremony. These experiences in nature bring one back to a place of connection to themselves and to the Earth and Stars. Nina specializes in many healing modalities that teach others how to heal themselves. Her passion is helping women heal from abuse and trauma.

Learn more about Nina HERE

Mandy Bunny ~ I'm Bunny, a lifelong seeker of what it truly means to be alive and authentic. From a 16-year corporate career to years of studying yoga and zen philosophy, I've explored how mind, consciousness, and human civilization shape our inner and outer worlds. Now in my 50's, I live as a conscious observer- meeting life's ups and downs with more presence than reaction. I integrate spiritual practice with coaching and entrepreneurship to create spiritual empowerment programs for individuals and organizations who wish to remember their deeper essence and live from their most authentic self. Learn more about Mandy HERE

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