Come walk with us
The Medicine Walk
Share your gratitude, discover what you can give back
Join us for the VWC Medicine Walk
Saturday, October 4, 2025
This first annual Medicine Walk is a beacon for possibility and change! There is growing understanding that expanded states 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?
Planning a Medicine Walk
“Medicine” can be experienced through several modalities - breath work, drum journeys, sweat lodges, medicine plants, and more - and facilitates personal healing. Many of us that have greatly benefited from the medicine look for ways to give back. The Medicine Walk is an opportunity to reflect and express gratitude through action, with our whole body, mind, spirit and in community.
Create a Medicine Walk near you! As the leader - or ‘ambassador’ - you will invite others to join you and pick a location. A walk can be anywhere from an hour to a day and can be easy or strenuous.
The walk is not a medicine journey - it is held in the spirit of the integration and reflection that happens after a medicine experience. Choose a trail, bring a picnic, and find a place to consider these prompts for conversation:
• How have you benefited from the medicine personally?
• How does your change affect others?
• What is possible for you now, in terms of giving back to the medicine, the earth, your community?
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.
Medicine Walks start at 10am local time on October 4 (or October 5, if your schedule does not allow for a Saturday morning activity). 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!
More details will be provided to ambassadors as we get closer to the event.
Supporting Others in Access to Medicine
Join the Medicine Walk!
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 expanded states therapy
• access to training
In this first inaugural year of the VWC Medicine Walk, funds will be equally divided to support:
– Chacruna Institute, for their Plant Medicines and Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative
– Alchemy Community Therapy Center, to support sliding scale fees for ketamine assisted therapy in Oakland, California
– Center for Mindfulness Medicine, to support scholarships for expanded states training programs open to all backgrounds
Medicine Walks are happening across the globe! Be part of this first Medicine Walk and be connected to a global community of medicine walkers! Sign up as an ambassador and join us.