Medicine Walk

Join us for the VWC Medicine Walk
Saturday, May 17, 2025

This first annual Medicine Walk is a beacon for possibility and change. There is growing understanding that psychedelic medicines can help us heal deep wounds of separation, restore our innate powers, and connect us with our humanity and with each other. The time is now to inspire a global movement that can give us the connections we long for, and has the means to instill sound earth stewardship that creates sustainability for the next generations.

What is Medicine?

“Medicine” can be experienced through several modalities - breath work, drum journeys, sweat lodges, ingestion of psychedelics, and more - and facilitates personal healing. Many of us that have greatly benefitted from the medicine look for ways to give back. The Medicine Walk is an opportunity to express gratitude through action, with our whole body, mind, spirit and in community. The vision for this Medicine Walk came to VWC founder Jo Wunderly in a breath-work session.  

Planning a Medicine Walk

You can create a Medicine Walk by gathering a small group of people who feel called to join you. As the leader you’ll be the ‘ambassador’ for your group. As ambassador you’ll decide the size of the group and where your group meets for the walk. A walk can be anywhere from an hour to a day and can be easy or strenuous, and include sharing of a picnic.  

The walk is held in the spirit of the integration and reflection that happens after a medicine experience. Walkers are invited to consider these prompts for conversation: How has the medicine changed your life?  How does your change affect others? Because the Medicine speaks through many of us, when you’re in conversation with each other, notice sparks of inspiration that could help your community bring change forward.

Your Medicine Walk starts at 10am local time. If your group is open to share back photos and impact, we’ll post them on social media and our website to share the inspiration. Photos can include faces, or for greater privacy just show hands or feet in your landscape.

Supporting Others in Access to Medicine

In addition to the walk, there is an invitation to offer a donation towards giving back to the medicine community (this is optional). Donations are tax-deductible and 100% of proceeds from the VWC Medicine Walk will be granted to support three funding priorities:

    • indigenous medicine keepers

    • access to psychedelic care

    • access to psychedelic training  

  In this first inaugural year of the VWC Medicine Walk, funds will be equally divided to support:

– Chacruna Institute, for their Psychedelic Plant Medicines and Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative
– Alchemy Therapy, to support sliding scale fees for psychedelic treatment in Oakland, California
– Center for Mindfulness Medicine, to support scholarships for their psychedelic training programs

Post-Walk Gathering at Root and Bloom Institute

Medicine Walkers are invited to gather at VWC’s Root and Bloom Institute in Berkeley, California, on June 7 for a post-walk celebration! VWC is currently developing Root and Bloom Institute as Bay Area hub for somatic and psychedelic training and therapy. More details to come.

How Do I Sign Up?

Get started by signing up to be a Medicine Walk Ambassador below! You can make it an intimate walk with one friend, or gather several for a group experience.