Revitalize the Practitioner: A return to the heart of practice
When we gather in community in this way, we don't just heal our individual wounds - we begin to repair the fabric of connection itself, and open to new possibilities.
Today many people are awakening to failures in our healthcare, as our modern world is laden with the burdens of increasing chronic disease, limited access to resources, and more deeply rooted disruption in emotional, physical, and social wellbeing. We are increasingly aware of our lack of ability to live well, and to express abundant health, joy, and happiness.
Within this overwhelmed system our healthcare practitioners often feel isolated, burned out, frustrated, depleted, and detached from the compassionate service and human connection they believe in. This program, Revitalize the Practitioner, is a weekend retreat to tend the wellbeing of the practitioner and equip them with self care practices that will not only restore them but rekindle the vital nature of their compassionate service.
Our Story
Over the past decade, the Eagle Condor Mystery school has attracted many healthcare practitioners who found a home for our hearts in this community. We encountered new perspectives, tools, and renewable resources that have provided deep self healing, as well as a remarkable impact on our view of the practice of healthcare. We have grown in our self care, resilience and connection to vital, life-sustaining resources. We are grateful for the profound impact of Andean Nature Mysticism in reconnecting us with harmony in our natural world, inside and out.
Having experienced profound personal transformation, several of us have now come together, creating a specialized program to revitalize the healthcare practitioner.
The Invitation
We reach out to you as a healthcare practitioner to join us for this immersive community experience. This exploratory weekend retreat invites practitioners to restore yourselves with a return to your body and the earth, supported by practices of Andean nature mysticism.
Beyond the modern healthcare paradigm exist cosmologies of living relationship with nature, which offer vitality and sustenance. Andean nature mysticism engages our living ecosystem and nurtures the seeds of compassionate service within each of us.
Amidst growing imbalance and unsustainable stress, our systems are strained, and people within them are often feeling crushed. The pain many practitioners are feeling is not a personal failure, but the uncomfortable awareness of a need for change.
What if the key to new healthcare solutions is contained within the seed of this awareness? Andean nature mysticism opens new ways to compassionately meet this pain and unlock the path forward to more compassionate care, not only of ourselves but also for others, and the planet.
In a world that often feels fragmented and uncertain, we're being called back to connection. This is the ancient way of living in harmonious relationship with nature which has been upheld by people in the Andes for millennia.
Re-vitalize the Practitioner is about remembering your deepest dreams and cellular knowing, transforming inside and outside. This is an invitation to come home to yourself, to touch the thread of interconnection which has never left you.
Many healthcare practitioners recall an early heartfelt desire to support others in living well. The dream of comfort, peace, and health for all living beings often motivates this choice of career path, and drives commitment through the hardships of study and adversity.
Curious… learn more:
Join us for a free zoom call on Sunday, August 2, 2026.
Meet Cynthia and Hope.
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Hear stories and personal experience, and learn more about the gifts of these wisdom teachings
Who We Are
Cynthia Bergh, DC
Hope Kronman, MD, PhD
In collaboration with:
Cammy Benton, MD
Teresa Baltzell, LAc
Magdalena J. Fosse, PsyD, PhD, CST
Rich Minuski, DC, MSN, AGNP
Details:
Friday, September 11, 2026 6pm -
Sunday, September 13, 2026 3pm
Cost: $750-$1,250 sliding scale
Millbrook, New York
Included fresh, wholesome food:
Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner, Sunday breakfast and lunch
Coffee, tea and snacks provided throughout
Where to sleep:
Lodging can be privately reserved on Airbnb in Millbrook, NY, and in the surrounding area. We are happy to connect you with other participants to share housing. This can be indicated on your registration.
Limited on-site community lodging is available for a charge. Free on-site camping is also available. Please indicate on your registration if you would like to reserve on onsite bed. Prices for community housing range from $50-$90/night, and must be paid in advance.
Registration:
$250 non-refundable deposit will secure your space in this limited space program. Remaining balance paid at the program.
Teresa’s invitation
Cammy’s experience…
In Rich’s words…
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What’s next:
Re-imagine Care: An Eagle Condor Mystery School for Healthcare Practitioners
5 Weekends of immersive learning, meeting approximately once per month
Weekend 1: Awakening: fortification of the embodied experience, reconnecting with the earth
Weekend 2: Descent: working with the shadow, new paths to compassion, accountability and forgiveness
Weekend 3: Discernment: practices in healing techniques
Weekend 4: Rebalancing: deep apprenticeship in the tools and techniques of nature mysticism
Weekend 5: Emergence: working with the celestial realms and intelligences, reimagining practices of care and service.
Personal mentorship to guide your journey.
Extensive online resources with background teachings and materials for self-paced study.
A supportive community to foster growth and connection.