
Retreat Leaders
& Group Collaborations
Planning, Building & Serving Your Retreat with
Mount Shasta Guide Michael Chudzik
Bringing experience, ceremony, local knowledge and USFS permit safety to your best rereat ever.
Mountains of Experience ~
a permitted guide who will complement your leadership and your vision
Planning a retreat or workshop on the Mountain? Let me help you co-create something unforgettable.
As a permitted guide and rite-of-passage retreat leader - I love seeing another retreat leader and group have the greatest experience the mountain could ever bring.
Walking in the Mountains mystery for close to 20 years; living in my own 5-acre forested retreat location on Mount Shasta - where I walk, sleep and pray everyday with the Mountain; knowing her secret places where she speaks the clearest - is an experience level that I can offer you, as a guide, a planner, an adjunct teacher, and a ceremonialist to give you the retreat that onlt years of experience can give.
But Why Hire A Permitted Mount Shasta Guide?
As inviting as Mount Shasta calls, she still has many things that she and her guardians want you to know and honor. Event permits vs US Forest Service fines, weather changes and seasonal fires that mean sudden location changes that only a local guide can fix, places forbidden to walk when taking groups, back-country first aid and most of all safety of your guests - allow your retreat in a rugged mountain wilderness where she sets the terms are part of coming to meet her. Not being well planned can quickly cloud the beautiful vision she beckoned you with.​

What our working together could look like:
I am guided by over 20 years of coaching and co-leading retreats, I came upon something I greatly love, and that is being a guide and adjunct teacher for other retreat leaders and their groups, because it gives me opportunities to meet visionaries from all parts of the world and their interesting guests.My role as an adjunct to you and your retreat is to make you look like you have given your clients the greatest experience of their lives.
From private Despacho ceremonies, Indigenous Medicine Wheel teachings, to Hawaiian Huna black-bag timeline healing ceremonies, to sacred site pilgrimages and hidden gem places not on maps - I walk beside you with reverence for your work and devotion to the Spirit of this place.
With deep lifetime roots in both North and South American ceremonial traditions, having lived and worked on reservations, working with local Native communities, my service calling is to offer what compliments your vision and support who you are as a leader in the eyes of your clients; to bring a peaceful, spiritual anchoring and practical presence and teaching wherever and whenever it fully complements you to desire it.

To Help You Deliver the Retreat Experience of a Lifetime, I offer:
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Site consultation and planning
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Co-facilitation or teaching support
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Ceremony or guided day trip offerings
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Forest Service permit coverage (as applicable)
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Let’s collaborate:
Reach out to begin the dialogue.​
​Where We Begin -
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Let's start with a 30-Minute Discovery Call
Contact me at the phone number below. -
We will talk about the amount of service that is right for you and your vision.
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Get Ready for Sacred Integration to happen when we connect together with the Spirit of the Mountain and her vision for you.
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Contact
Let's design a Rite-of-Passage for you.
or you and your life partner.
or you and your group
(503)679-2165