St. Croix Healing Arts Center

Journey of the Gift Seeds

 

Journey of the Gift Seeds

Rose River Retreat, River Falls, Wisconsin

September 27, 2025 (8:45 AM-5 PM CT)

The Gift Seeds

A journey of self discovery that awakens the truth of your identity, enabling you to embrace your own unique power.

Yearning for more balance amidst change?

Ready to discover your hidden inner resources?

Wanting to bridge separation in a divided world?

Close-up of a green plant with a spiral-shaped tendril.

Join us for a special journey where we’ll uncover the truth of our identity and embrace our own unique power. The Journey of the Gift Seeds will reveal our true inheritance – gifts received at birth as well as those passed down from generation to generation by our families, ancestors, and culture. As we are guided through this journey, we’ll see the natural emergence of our life purpose and the yearnings of our hearts.

Our inheritance is like a lost treasure waiting to be discovered. Recognizing this inner power opens new vistas, allowing us to see things we never saw before, ignite hope, and unlock new potential in our lives.

This ceremonial retreat will help you understand who you are uniquely here to Be and what you are uniquely here to Do.

Through guided visualizations, meditations, music, time in nature and contemplations in the labyrinth, you will be led through various embodiment activities within sacred spaces to help you connect with your unique gifts. During our time timing together, you will open these Doorways:

Discover the Gift Seeds of your true nature

Experience a new and embodied view of your unique potential

Learn how to activate your core capacities

Acquire practices to help you cultivate those seeds deep inside yourself and to use them in your daily life

What’s included:

A one day guided experience in the beauty of nature

Snacks, beverages and lunch

Sunset over a lake with a colorful sky and calm water surface

“To discover gifts that are intrinsic to my whole way of being was inspiring. To now use them consciously is incredibly empowering.”

Meet your guides:

Nicole Pugilese, Paula Coyne, and Krista Porvaznik bring a unique richness, breadth, and depth to their ceremonial offerings. After years of study, all three have guided offerings rooted in ancient Earth Wisdom and have received their World Bridger certification, enabling them to share the Journey of the Gift Seeds.

Pricing

Payment & Cancellation Policy

Register for the Journey of the Gift Seeds: $500

Payment in full reserves your spot

The exact location of our retreat and information about what to bring will be sent when you register.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations received by 9/19 will receive a half refund.

Cancellations on or after 9/20 are non-refundable but your registration is transferable to another person of your choosing.

*Disclaimer: We are not Medical Providers (Physicians, Psychiatrists, Nurses Practitioners, etc.). By attending the class, you agree and acknowledge that we are not providing health care, medical, or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any physical, mental or emotional issue, disease or condition.

 

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Sep 27 2025

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Instructor

  • Krista Porvaznik
    Krista Porvaznik
    Krista Porvaznik
    Krista Porvaznik

    Krista brings a unique richness, breadth, and depth to her transformative offerings, and wears several hats such as:

    · The Founder and executive/team coach of Ceiba Coaching and Consulting, using tools such as Positive Intelligence
    that foster mindset shifts, happiness, and overall wellness.

    · A Guide and Yoga Instructor for worldwide transformational retreats and pilgrimages through Temple Doorways.

    · A World Bridger who guides a powerful experience to remember one’s core capacities, called the Journey of the Gift Seeds.

Sacred Direction

medicine-wheel

North

North represents winter and also a sense of trouble, hardships, and sadness. As winter is the season of waiting and surviving, the Cherokee word for North literally means cold. North is the color blue. The animals representing the North include white buffalo, moose, and bear. These animals are a reminder to be patient with the seasons.

In the sacred north direction you stand in your own light instead being bound by the roles that you fill.  Learn to live in gratitude to discover your true gifts by connecting to the collective unconscious.  Use ancient technique of soul retrieval to call back the parts of your soul that broke away due to trauma to create wholeness and harmony in your soul.  Included in this direction you will be making your own drum for journeying.

Sacred Direction

medicine-wheel

West

West represents Autumn and the final harvest as the end of a cycle. The West is black and it represents the death of summer’s cycle. The animals of the west include the beaver for teamwork to prepare for winter and the snake to remind us of how to shed our old skin for transformation.

In the west examine what you hold inside of your shadows and bring it out without fear of what may be discovered.  See how negative energies held in your luminous energy field affect your health and wellbeing.  You will learn how to map and release ancestral imprints and past life karma.  Learn to listen to your inner voice and trust your intuition so you can accept guidance from the Spirit World. 

Sacred Direction

medicine-wheel

South

South represents Summer and is a time of great abundance. The summer holds fertility, passion, growth, joy, and peace. The color is white. The animals of the South hold the lesson of strength, courage, and pride. The eagle with her keen sight and the wolf, proud to be part of the tribe.

You start your journey around the Medicine Wheel by looking to the sacred south direction by exploring the foundation in energy medicine practices.  In the south, the snake teaches you to shed the past, like its skin, so you can emerge renewed.  This act of releasing things that no longer serve a purpose keeps you moving forward in life.  Moving past old stories allows you an opportunity to write a new life story.

Sacred Direction

medicine-wheel

East

East represents Spring and symbolizes victory, success, and power. After a long winter, the renewed sense of life emerges. The color is red and it symbolizes protection. Red beads were used to call forth the red spirit for strong love relations, to heal from illness, and to pray for longevity. Animals of the East are birds in flight such as the owl, hawk, and hummingbird. Words are offered to the East so they may fly and soar with Spirit.

The east you will examine your life’s journey to see how the choices you make in life becomes woven into the stories of those around you. Learn to die consciously and be reborn to a life you create every step.  Explore the gifts Creator has for you and embody your Higher Self in your true calling.