Plant Kinship Journey
A 29-days immersion into deeper relationship with a plant, with nature, and with yourself.
Join us online or/and in-person.
Plants have been our companions, medicines, foods, materials, teachers and kin for thousands of years.
And yet most of us have learned to look at them without really seeing them.
We may know their names. We may know their properties and what they can give us.
But what happens when we begin to relate to a plant as someone (sacred & sovereign) — rather than something?
This is where the journey begins.
For one month, you will enter into a deeper relationship with one plant teacher of your choice — such as Birch, Rose, Nettle, Oak, Blue Lotus, Mugwort or Yarrow.
This practice is akin to a soft Plant Dieta (dieta suave), drawing inspiration from our soon-to-be decade of working with and facilitating plant Dietas, as well as mixing this with the more feminine, soft, embodied approach of deep connection in everyday life.
Through ceremony, guided practices, teachings, sound and reflection, you will be invited to slow down, listen and discover what becomes possible when you approach a plant through relationship rather than through your mind.
And because the journey unfolds alongside your ordinary life, you don't have to leave the world behind in a retreat to go deep.
You bring the practice home.
Two ways to enter the journey
The Online Journey
A fully online month-long journey with weekly live sessions, guided practices, teachings and audio journeys — designed to bring depth, devotion and plant kinship into your everyday life.
The In-Person Journey
Everything in the Online Journey, with an added layer of embodied, in-person work: a full-day Plant Kinship Ritual in nature on 6 February in Vestsjælland, plus one individual Body Healing & Attunement session.
The heart of the journey is the same. The way you enter it is yours to choose.
What happens when you relate to a plant as a teacher?
This kind of relationship can touch surprisingly many parts of our lives.
You may begin to notice the ways you relate to other people.
Where you rush to give.
Where you hold back.
Where you find it difficult to receive.
Where you have forgotten how to listen to your own needs.
You may discover that spending time with a plant changes something about the way you move through your day.
Perhaps you become more attentive.
Perhaps you begin to recognise patterns you couldn't quite see before.
Perhaps you simply find yourself breathing more deeply beneath a tree.
There is no particular outcome you need to create.
The relationship itself is the practice.
A deeper way of learning from nature
There is a difference between learning about plants and learning from plants.
You can read about a plant's properties, traditional uses and identification.
That can be valuable.
But plant kinship asks for something more intimate.
It asks you to pay attention.
To develop familiarity.
To become receptive.
To return again and again.
What happens when you spend enough time with a plant that you begin to know it through relationship?
When you stop approaching nature only as something to understand, use or consume — and begin to approach it as something you can be in relationship with?
This is where devotion comes in.
Devotion is not about believing in something blindly.
It is about giving something your attention, care and love.
Returning. Listening. Showing up again.
Letting a relationship become meaningful over time.
And something begins to shift.
The plant becomes more than an object of study.
Nature becomes more than a place we visit.
And we begin to remember that belonging is not an idea.
It is a relationship.
“This place is rare.
It is full of deep wisdom, respect, love and embodiment. Eva Maria and Stephan holds such a beautiful space together and separately.
It feels so spacious and fully alive. I love how they give every proces fully time to evolve and how they use the power of nature so skillfully, that pure magic must happen.
They are very good teachers, that gives all information you could ever need in a clear and light way.
They create music, that goes really deep on all levels, because it springs from that kind of authenticity, that only people that has gone through deep processes and continues to grow throughout life, can carry... ”
So what actually happens?
We begin with an preparation session, easing into the connection and getting clear on intention and establish the container. After a week we’ll share an Opening Ceremony, where we open the field, and enter consciously into relationship with your chosen plant teacher.
Over the following month, you will be guided through practices, teachings, sound and reflection. Both energetic, bodily and practically with your chosen plant. This includes access to our online Plant Kinship Guide with guided audio, videos and practices to return to throughout the journey (and beyond).
Every week, we meet online to deepen the work together — clearing the energy, align, centering and deepening the connection. We’ll also answer questions, exploring what is arising and supporting you in developing your own relationship with the plant.
At the end, we gather for a Closing Ceremony — closing the container, integrating what has happened and bringing the experience back into the wider landscape of your life.
Afterwards you will have access to our integration masterclass, to support your integration even further.
If you choose to attend the in-person parts, we’ll have a deep dive full day ritual in the middle of the journey as well as an individual herbal treatment and body-healing-attunement session in person.
Your month includes:
Preparation session & support for preparation
An Opening & Closing Ceremony with acoustic healing sound (online)
Weekly live sessions with Eva Maria & Stephan (online)
Teachings in Plant Spirit Herbalism & Shamanism
Individual guidance, attunement and energetic clearing
A Plant Kinship guide course including
Guided audio & video practices
Daily rituals for connection
Practices for developing a relationship with your chosen plant teacher
A step into singing with your plantally (icaros and medicine songs)
A supportive community to journey alongside and whatsapp group
Access to our Integration Masterclass course - Guidance for bringing this work & connection even deeper into your everyday life & relations
And then there is the part that cannot really be put into a curriculum:
You live it.
You meet your plant in the morning.
You sit with them after a long day.
You bring a question into the relationship.
You listen.
You return.
You let something unfold over time.
This is not about fitting transformation neatly into an hour of practice.
It is about allowing the practice to become part of your life.
Depth in the middle of life
There are many ways to go deep.
Sometimes we step away from ordinary life and enter a dedicated container where everything around us supports the process (e.g. on our deep retreats or Nordic Dietas in the Swedish forest).
Sometimes depth happens through a continuous relationship & devotion that unfolds while we continue living our “ordinary” lives.
Plant Kinship belongs to the second kind.
We are interested in what happens when depth meets the breath of everyday life.
The depth is VERTICAL:
Meditation.
Silence.
Devotion.
Ceremony.
Deep healing relationship with plants & the more-than-human world.
The breath is HORIZONTAL:
Your home.
Your work.
Your relationships.
Your body.
The people you love.
The things that need doing.
The ordinary Tuesday.
This journey brings the two together.
Deep inner and spiritual work does not only belong to extraordinary places and extraordinary moments.
It can happen while you are living your life.
And perhaps even more importantly, you get to discover what the practice changes about the way you live that life
Plant Kinship as a Dieta Suave?
The Plant Kinship Journey has many similarities to what is called a Dieta Suave, or “soft dieta”: a dedicated period of intentionally entering into relationship with a particular plant.
You may even hear previous participants call it a Dieta in conversation.
At the same time, we are careful with the word Plant Dieta, because traditional plant Dietas carry specific cultural and ceremonial traditions, protocols and dietary practices. We want to honour those traditions by being precise about what we are doing — and what we are creating anew.
So, while this journey is deeply inspired by the practice of Dieta, Plant Kinship is our own contemporary weaving of that practice: bringing plant connection, ritual, devotion and spiritual practice into the fabric of everyday life.
And we believe this matters.
Because deep work does not only happen when we ordinary life everything behind and go to the jungle for 2 months.
There are many ways to enter into a profound relationship with a plant. This one is designed to happen in life — while you are parenting, working, living with a partner, pregnant, caring for others, or simply moving through a full and ordinary life.
It is softer in its form, but not necessarily lighter in its depth.
The Plant Kinship moves deeper into the horizontal space, where a traditional Dieta moves firstly in the vertical plane (and afterwards needs to be integrated in the horizontal space).
It is another way of making space for a plant relationship to take root — gently, practically, and over time.
And perhaps that is one of the gifts of this kind of journey: you don't have to step away from your life to discover another way of being in it.
If you are looking for a deeper, more traditional immersion into plant dieta practice, you may also want to explore our Nordic Dietas.
“I just finished a Kinship Journey with Stephan and Eva Maria. It far exceeded my expectations.
I have never before experienced spaceholders capable of carrying and sustaining such a clearcut and pure intention to empower others.
From the beginning I could feel that so much love, care and hard won experience had been put into designing the structure of the programme.
Throughout the 34 days I felt they were always there as a subtle presence supporting my ongoing process. In my experience this is real empowerment and re-connecting to yourself, at your pace, and within a safe and very sacred container.”
What you may experience
Throughout the month, you will be supported in:
Slowing down and attuning deeper to nature (within and around)
Deepening your relationship with your chosen plant, which in turn might be a door-opener into the greater wisdom of nature and other plants
Listening to subtle guidance from the natural world & your inner wisdom
Exploring personal and ancestral patterns
Cultivating presence and embodied awareness
Strengthening your sense of belonging to the more-than-human world
Bringing your spiritual practice into everyday life
Healing through plant intelligence and body wisdom
There is no promise of a particular experience.
No fixed destination.
We create the conditions for a relationship to unfold — and listen to what it brings.
A Winter Immersion
This Plant Kinship Journey takes place in the depth of winter.
We are not entering into kinship in the height of summer, surrounded by abundance, flowers and green leaves. We are entering the quieter season — a time of roots, stillness, darkness and deep rest.
Our relationship with plants is always held within the greater cycle of the seasons. So this is an invitation to go inward with nature. To find sanctuary. To listen beneath the surface.
It might snow. It might be cold. It might feel quiet.
And that is part of the journey.
Because this is not a month where we rush towards blossoming. It is a time to deepen the roots.
And when spring comes, bringing its light and green abundance, you may find that your deeper attunement allows you to experience that emergence in an entirely different way.
This journey is not an ending. It is the beginning of a longer relationship — one that can continue to deepen, season after season.
In-person depth
The full Plant Kinship Journey happens online, with weekly live sessions, guided practices, teachings, audio journeys and the support of the container we create together. For those who feel called to bring the journey even more deeply into the body and the land, the in-person version includes 2 parts to expand the experience:
Meeting the Wildness Inside & Around
A Plant Kinship Ritual in Nature · Saturday, 6 February · Vestsjælland
On the New Moon and Solar Eclipse in February, we will gather in nature for a full day of ritual and deeper plant connection. A day to step out of the everyday rhythm and into the landscape — to journey more deeply with your plant teacher, the season, the land and yourself.
We will work with nature, ritual, embodiment and the particular wisdom of this time of year, creating space for something to shift, settle or reveal itself.
A full day to go deeper — together, in the wild.
Individual Body Healing & Attunement
This also includes an individual body-treatment and session with Eva Maria or Stephan, created to deepen the connection between your body, your plant teacher and the process you are moving through.
A more personal space to listen to what is unfolding, work with what is ready to move, and bring the journey further into the body. This includes a herbal treatment and a body-session.
Together, these two additions offer something the online journey cannot quite provide on its own:
A deeper meeting with the land, and a more intimate meeting with your own body.
Both are optional. The online Plant Kinship Journey is complete in itself — these are invitations to go further if you feel called.
“Kære Eva og Stephan, TAK for jeres facilitering af Plant Kinship Journey. Det har været en stor gave.
Jeg har fået meget ud af de 34 dage, og er nu ved at implementere i hverdagen.
Faktisk vil jeg helst bare forsætte med de daglige praksis, dedikationen og forbindelsen.
Alting er blevet mere levende, ikke mindst er jeg selv blevet mere levende.
Den store transformation kom under udesidningen. Fra at overgive sig til og finde tryghed i mørket til at møde lyset med glæde, forventning og en ny følelse af at være her i livet. Fra at føle sig alene til at være omgivet af alle vores plantevenner. Oplevelsen af at være forbundet med det mirakel som naturen er. ”
Practical Details
The kinship journey in total is 5 weeks in total - which includes 1 week of preparation time and 4 weeks of Plant Kinship.
It includes
1 preparation session online
2 Ceremonies (opening & closing) online
3 weekly Plant Kinships sessions online
The plant Kinship Guide (online course) including guided audios, practices and videos
Community Whatsapp group to inspire, share and support
Access to our Integration Masterclass course
Dates (online)
Preparation Meeting: Tuesday 29th of January 16.30-18.30 CET
Opening Ceremony: Tuesday 26th January 19.00-21.30 CET
Attunement & Plant Kinship session (incl. Q&A): Tuesday 2rd of February 16.30-18.30 CET
Attunement & Plant Kinship Session (incl. Q&A): Tuesday 9th of February 16.30-18.30 CET
Attunement & Plant Kinship Session (incl. Q&A): Tuesday 16th of February 16.30-18.30 CET
Closing Ceremony: Tuesday 23th February 19.00-21.30 CET
One note on the dates:
As of now we are still flexible with the online dates, so if you reeeeaally feel called to attend, but cannot attend these specific dates or times of day, we are open to small time-schedule dates for the first couple of signups.
In-person ceremonies & sessions
Meeting the wildness inside and around: A Plant Kinship Ritual in Nature - Saturday the 6th of February (Vestsjælland)
On the new moon & solar eclipse in February - we will offer a space to journey deeper with your plant, with the seasonal wisdom and with yourself. This is a full day ritual in nature.
1 individual body-healing-attunement session to deepen the connection, healing and embodiment
Exchange
Price:
Plant Kinship Journey (online) = 5800 kr.
Plant Kinship Journey (online) including in-person ritual & individual session = 7800 kr.
Yes, it is possible to pay in installments :)
Your place is secured with a deposit of 1.680 kr. (30%).
After registration, you will receive an application form so we can learn more about you and your experience with plant connection.
Cancellation policy:
Cancellations made more than one month before the start date are eligible for a refund of the deposit minus a 10% administrative fee (up to 1.000 kr.).
After that, no refunds are possible. You can read our legal notice here.