Medicine Dollmaker’s Healing Retreat

"Navigating the Unknown - Rooting into Fall"
October 3-7, 2025 – Seaside, Oregon

Early Bird Registration is Open!


Join SoulCraft Art© Fiber Artist, Jerri Shelton and

Transformational Leader & Spiritual Catalyst, Dr. Melissa Bird

for an empowering Medicine Dollmaking Healing Retreat on the beautiful Oregon Coast.

Enjoy Four Days of Soulful Creativity & Intuitive Healing


Through the ancient art of spirit dollmaking and sacred ceremony, this is your time to reconnect with your inner wisdom and embrace your most authentic self—the parts longing to be truly felt and seen.

Perhaps you:​

  • Feel your heart longing for a more vibrant connection to life

  • Desire change and personal transformation and don’t know where to start 

  • Are seeking emotional release and a process for healing

  • Want to express yourself authentically through a medium that truly resonates

​What if you Could:

  • Find a sense of complete renewal.

  • Feel more empowered through the process of healing rituals and artistic expression

  • Regain a sense of connection over your own narrative and emotional well-being

  • Activate change through a fun, creative journey

  • Express yourself authentically and allow your deepest truths and desires to come out to play

Unwind and Reconnect

This is your time to deeply relax, savor personal moments, and revel in the joyful warmth

of communal sisterhood.

Journey Within: Embrace, Heal, Transform

Join us for a transformative Medicine Dollmaking Healing Retreat in Seaside, OR – October 3-7.

Imagine a nurturing sanctuary at the beautiful Starry Night Inn and Spa—a supportive haven guiding you through a sacred journey into the season of darkness.

Using the magic and teachings of the Fall Season, we’ll retreat into the earth’s womb and connect with our deepest intentions for growth, change, and renewal.

Through the Soulcraft process of spirit dollmaking, meditations, and healing rituals, we’ll ground ourselves and create a space for deep reflection. Together, we'll explore the transformative power of grief and loss, turning these experiences into sources of strength and wisdom.

What is a Medicine Doll?

Medicine Dolls—also known as Spirit or Healing Dolls—are archetypal symbols that embody the sacred bond between nature, spirit, and Self. These magical, faceless creations serve as powerful vessels for your prayers, gratitude, and healing energy. Crafting a Medicine Doll offers you a unique way to express and honor your inner truth—whether it’s the playful inner child, the fierce protector, or the wise sage. This creative act becomes a transformative ritual, inviting you to embrace your multifaceted self and set the intention for change, clarity, and renewal.



BONUS! : A Deluxe Medicine Doll Felting Kit is included with all of the materials needed to make your Soulcrafted Spirit Doll. You’ll even have enough supplies to take home and continue creating after the workshop too!

 

Which Option Works Best For You?

  • Where: The Starry Night Inn, Seaside, Oregon

  • When: October 3-7, 2025

  • What’s Included: All workshops, supplies and teachings, beautiful, cozy private rooms & accommodations for 4 nights, plus all your meals and beverages completely catered. You provide the transportation and the rest is taken care of.

  • Cost: Reg. $2500 - Get Your Early bird pricing today and save $250 through 5/30/2025


    *Make your $500 deposit here

    OR * choose a convenient payment plan below

    SPACE IS LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS

 

Here’s the schedule...

Friday:

4:00 Arrival and Relaxation
6:30 Dinner and Introductions

Saturday-Monday:


8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-11:30 Morning teachings and ritual
11:30-12:45 Lunch together
1:00-4:00 Doll making and ritual
4:00-6:00 Integration and down time
6:00-8:00 Dinner together and evening ritual

 
Tuesday:

​8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Morning meditation and closing ritual
10:00-12:00 Check out

Here’s What Other’s Are Saying About Their Experience……

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Perhaps You’ve Found Yourself Saying….

“I know I need change, but I don’t know how to get started.” The uncertainties of the last few years have taken a toll on our central nervous systems in ways that we are just beginning to understand. If you feel spiritually, physically, and emotionally exhausted you are not alone. The ceremonies and rituals that we will engage in together will guide you through a personal transformation that will help you connect with your inner well of strength and courage.

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"I'm not very artistic or creative." It is a common misconception that art is reserved for the "artistically inclined." The truth is, the most beautiful Medicine Dolls often emerge from a space beyond artistic labels. The SoulCraft Art© process invites you to move beyond the chatter of the mind and into the realm of instinct, intuition, and profound connection to the divine. This process activates your internal guidance system allowing you to align your actions and creative expression with your highest values and purpose.

What If…..

Your perceived lack of artistic skill is an advantage? The Medicine Dollmaking journey is not about perfect shape and design; it's about authentic self-expression that flows from a deeper, more instinctual place. Not all Medicine Doll’s are ‘pretty’. They are meant to express what is authentically coming through as a soulful expression, and that is what makes each doll energetically beautiful and magical.

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You could silence the mind chatter and tap into your innate creativity? Creating a Medicine Doll is an intuitive process, guiding you to quiet down and trust your inner wisdom rather than getting caught up in perceived artistic limitations.

 

The Medicine Dollmaker’s Healing Retreat: 
"Navigating the Unknown - Rooting into Fall"
October 3-7, 2025 – Seaside, Oregon

We offer easy PAYMENT PLANS

*Make your $500 deposit here

OR * choose a convenient payment plan below

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 10 - DON’T MISS OUT!

The Retreat Experience

Becoming more centered and content in our lives requires deep healing and soul searching.

When you discover the essence of your spirit you begin to transform your life so that you experience more faith and surrender.

Through the ceremonies of spiritual and emotional exploration you will:

  • Use the season of the Fall to create balance and transformation in your life

  • Explore how to live a more spirit driven life

  • Become enlightened to your connection with the darkness of fall and the womb of the Earth

  • Explore with humility and compassion how you can honor your calling, while becoming comfortable with the unknown

During our time together you will be guided through ritual, creation, and contemplation to explore what it would feel like to dive deep into faith and surrender to your deepest understanding of your soul.

The Medicine Spirit Doll Experience

The process of creating a Medicine Spirit Doll inspires and instills a vision for change, evoking a strong desire to tell one's story, even in moments when it may not feel safe to speak it yet. More than a crafted figure, she draws out untold stories, echoing from the well of our deepest truth. 

A trusted companion and witness, she encourages perseverance, empowering women to stand tall in their journey of reclamation, finding strength through creative expression and manifesting dreams.

FAQ’s

  • The Starry Night Inn's Victorian Lodge features three guest rooms located upstairs and complimentary amenities downstairs, such as continental breakfast, snacks and pastries, beverages, board games, TV/VCR with a cult classic VHS collection. Our lobby also features a toaster oven, microwave, Keurig, filtered water station and more. Cabins offer both freedom and convenience with private entrances and parking directly in front of each unit. Three cabins are adjoined and positioned alongside the Victorian lodge, conveniently situated just two blocks from downtown and four blocks from the beach.

  • 1. If the retreat is canceled by the organizers due to COVID or for any other reason your full payment amount will be transferred to a future retreat within 1 year of the scheduled retreat start date.
    2. If you cancel due to any personal reason up to September 15, 2025 you will be eligible for a 25% refund.
    3. Should you cancel for any personal reason after September 15, 2025 you will forfeit the full amount.
    4. All payments are final and all payment plans are a legal commitment to pay in full.

  • If you live outside the area and need to book a flight, this link should help you decide your best route:

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