Welcome! Below is our upcoming schedule;
2026 New York Winter Retreats
January 23rd-25th (optional 3rd night)
2026 Arizona retreats
February 12-15th 3 day shadow work (10 spots available)
2026 New York Retreats
February 27th-March 1st optional third night available (10 spots available)
*** You are invited to join us on our next community integration call on February 1st. Please email us for the zoom link!***
Please e-mail us for more information.
Our mission is to provide a safe, honest and sincere space for people of all walks of life to come and heal. We believe in the combined power of plant medicine, community and emotional vulnerability. These key elements are the fertile soil for beautiful transformation to occur in our lives!
Maharani Medicine first opened its doors in 2018– since then, we have served at over 110 retreats. We are proud to be a culturally diverse hub for seekers of all kinds. We are honored to be of service to anyone with a desire to grow, learn and heal regardless of background, age or creed.
Here are some things that set us apart from other groups:
Our Retreats are for you if…
We are a “mobile ministry”. This means that we split our time between Upstate New York and the high desert of Arizona. We feel the call to be in service to both sides of this country. We also hope to someday soon travel to other states and offer our retreats in more locations.
In Arizona, we are hosted by community members on their properties. For our New York offerings, we have a beautiful property in the woods that we hold our retreats in. Because we host small retreats, we don’t have the need to have a large retreat center. This means that our accommodations are humble and communally shared.
For more information on our ceremonies and community visit us www.maharanimedicine.com
Please message us if you’d like more information about our retreats or upcoming schedule. We are always available to talk about this work if you have any questions. Thanks so much for reading and many blessings!
Our vision is to become compassionate, pure, healthy, and unconditionally loving people. Through prayer, meditation and the foundational support of our ancestors and their medicines, we humbly walk this path.
In a world shrouded by illusion, our Medicine bursts through the shadows as a shining light. We call upon the guidance of our sacred plant teachers to shed hardened layers around our heart built by the suffering we have endured.
Through dance and song, we shatter resistance keeping us from a righteous and all pervading Spiritual Relationship with life. Our ancient Amazonian Medicine combined with communal celebration yields profound healing for our selves and the entire planet.
We strongly believe in the Great Spirit that dwells within all living beings. This Spirit is alive, deeply caring and calling us home to the Present Moment. We embrace all religions and creeds. All roads lead to the same One, loving and ever-present Being.
Our Mission is to provide a sacred container, as well as education and support for those who are called to Plant Medicine. Ceremony is a state of mind that can embraced every single moment of our lives. We seek to help others cultivate this way of being through integrating spiritual experience.
We also believe that human connection is a powerful gateway to the soul. Maharani Medicine offers a community space for all people to share and grow.
We honor ourselves by truly integrating our Plant Medicine journeys. In choosing to remember Love on the daily, we help the world heal. It is our prayer that we can support people, whether they are preparing for ceremony, sitting in ceremony or integrating afterward. We want every person we meet to thrive and find great internal success. We invite you to join us!
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KrisBright
June 20, 2023 at 9:57 pmI am so grateful to have been able to join the Maharani Medicine Circle! I was absolutely blown away by how genuine, caring and hospitable Eliana and her facilitators were.
It was my first time sitting in ceremony, and I could feel immediately that Eliana had nurtured a sacred and safe place for the medicine.
I will forever be blessed by my experience and the new family I have found, by the lessons I learned, and the insight I needed to continue down my path.
Chettabizkit
June 12, 2023 at 10:04 pmHey homie I was literally just talking about you to some of my yoga students this morning (good things, I promise) and then I saw your post. If your open to it, maybe we can catch up sometime soon, I think about you guys a lot and it’d be nice to reconnect. Either way, I hope this helps:
I will never forget the weekend of May 17-19, 2019. That was the weekend that my life changed forever.
A few years ago, I was in a very dark place in my life. The company I worked for had recently been sold and I was out of a job, I was in an abusive relationship that isolated me from my friends and family, I was slowly killing myself with alcohol and other various substances in an attempt to numb my loneliness. I had always felt like there was something greater out there waiting for me, but I felt stuck in cycles/patterns of abuse, inflicted by those around me, but mostly by myself. I felt like I had been abandoned by God and left to suffer all alone for the mistakes I had made in life.
I had heard about various plant medicines and how they were great at helping people find direction in life, but after years of searching high and low, far and wide with little to no results, I was ready to give up. I decided to try one last time and I put “the call” out to the universe by asking the internet for suggestions on how to make this dream manifest. Within an hour, I got a response on a Reddit post from some stranger telling me to send them a message. That stranger was Eliana.
A few days later, I sat in the parking lot of a Walmart, feeling terribly alone, desperately trying to avoid having to go home to my abuser while Eliana and I had our introduction call. She asked me why I wanted to sit in ceremony and what my past experience was with plant medicines. I told her a little bit, but I didn’t go into details about my relationship because I wasn’t able to accept that I, a male, was being abused by my girlfriend. She told me she’d love to have me and that she’d send me an email with more information.
I told my girlfriend and my parents that I was going to ceremony and they all thought I was batsh*t crazy. “You’re going where to do what?!” “Have you ever met these people?!” “Are you joining a cult?!?!” Despite their concerns, I knew in my heart that I needed to be there. I had no clue what to expect, but I knew that what I was looking for was on the other side of this leap of faith.
Fast forward about 2 months, a surprisingly easy spiritual preparation diet, and a gauntlet of questions from my family that I didn’t know how to answer, and I headed from Philly to Upstate NY on a literal trek up a freaking mountain to an AirBnB where I was to meet a mysterious medicine woman for what would either be A) the greatest experience of my life, or like my now ex-girlfriend would routinely tease: my own ritual sacrifice.
I parked my car and felt an immediate sense of relief. I made it. I was greeted by a hug from 2 other attendees. We talked for a bit and then I went inside to meet the others.
I could write an entire book about what happened that weekend, but the big takeaway is this: one weekend with Eliana completely cured 12 years of depression. I had been completely realigned and it was shown to me that I was never alone to begin with. Even though I had turned my own back on God/what I knew to be true, God was right behind me the whole time just waiting for me to turn around. I remembered what I came here to do, I just had to step back into that role. Shortly after returning home I ended my abusive relationship and began my healing process. I truly believe that this wouldn’t have been possible for me if I had never trusted Eliana to take me on this journey.
A few weeks later, I had an accident that left me paralyzed. I felt the presence of Pachamama with me while I sat in my hospital bed and thought back to what she had shown me. I knew that this wasn’t the end of my journey. What might have caused me to give up previously, or even turn back to my ex for support, now gave me the motivation to get up and heal. With the help of my doctors, PT/OT and Spirit having my back, I had a full recovery in just under 5 months (I recently became an RYT-500!).
I knew that I had to give back to the community, so as soon as I could, I went back to ceremony. At this ceremony Eliana announced that The Lighthouse would finally have a home of its own, and she was looking for people to move in. Immediately I knew that I needed to be there. I took a couple months to get my ducks in a row, and I left home to move in with the stranger that saved my life. I helped facilitate ceremonies alongside Eliana for several months, providing energy work services and general good vibes. I got to know her and the community better and growing into the early stages of the person I am today before getting carried onto the next phase of my growth.
Eliana will always hold a very special place in my heart and I will always consider to be a sister to me. She saved my life, and she can save yours too.
10/10, would risk being sacrificed again
aykay
June 9, 2023 at 2:59 pmEliana provides a circle that is safe and caring with a deep respect for the medicine. She and the other facilitators carried a beautiful energy of loving kindness coupled with the encouragement I needed to confront my fears and dive into the shadows. The beautiful music, connection with the group, and receptive space to integrate the experience carried me through what was an incredibly healing and uplifting weekend. I recommend Maharani Medicine Circle to anyone looking for an intimate and sacred container to open themselves up to the many gifts Mother Earth holds for us.
Jonathan H
June 6, 2023 at 11:42 pmThis was my first experience with anything like this, and to say I was nervous would be an understatement. Once I decided to take this journey with Maharani Medicine Circles I was in excellent care, Before I showed up all my questions were answered and my concerns addressed. I was still nervous but confident that I was in safe and caring hands. The experience was amazing and intense. I won’t go into details but I feel my life and view was changed for the better. Even afterwards the care and support form Eliana and the facilitators was wonderful and it still is.. If this is your first time I cannot recommend going here enough. My biggest compliment is that I have recommended Maharani Medicine Circles to my Family and the people closest to me, I also plan or going back.
juliette_nyc
May 6, 2023 at 8:59 pmI have now sat with Eliana through 3 ceremonies and literally trust her with my life, body and soul. She offers a safe space, compassion to heights I’ve never experienced before, and incredibly thoughtful guidance. On top of this, her singing and musical talents are out of this world. This has been a life changing experience many times over. I have always felt safe, considered and held. I cannot recommend the Maharani circle enough.