RUHE ZAMEEN
A plant medicine retreat where Sufi remembrance meets Zoroastrian reverence for the earth — carried not as borrowed aesthetics, but as lineage. An immersive return to Gaia consciousness, held on the land itself.
"Fire is not the god. Fire is the witness."
The root chakra of the world,
meeting the wound that heals the root
Mount Shasta has long been named by spiritual traditions — and held for millennia by the Wintu, Shasta, and other indigenous peoples of the region — as the Earth's root chakra: the grounding point where the planet's energy anchors into matter. It is a place associated with stability, safety, and belonging — the same territory the root chakra governs in the body.
This season carries its own root-level invitation. Chiron, the wounded healer, is moving through Taurus — the sign of the body, the land, the material world, and our sense of worth — for the first time since the late 1970s. Where Chiron travels, old wounds around safety, self-worth, and our relationship to the Earth surface so they can finally be tended rather than defended.
A root chakra mountain, met during a root chakra transit. We could not have planned a more precise alignment — we simply noticed it.
Two lineages,
carried, not borrowed
Long before either tradition had a name, there was a woman with her hands in the soil, listening. The Sufis answered what she heard with sema — the turning dance, the body as remembrance. The Zoroastrians called it reverence for the elements: fire, water, earth, air, each one sacred, none of them owned.
These aren't traditions we studied from the outside. Zoroastrianism's own roots trace back to ancient Persia and to Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan — the land Farah's Afghan and Iranian heritage comes from. Sitora is Tajik, carrying that same Zoroastrian lineage through her own line. Ruhe Zameen brings these threads back into the same room the way they likely always sat together along the old Persian trade roads — not merged into something new, but held by two women who both actually carry them.
Four pillars,
one immersive container
Fire as witness, not deity. Practices rooted in reverence for earth, water, and air as living, sacred, and worthy of relationship rather than extraction.
The turning, the breath, the repetition that returns you to yourself. Sufi practice as a way of softening the noise until what's underneath can be heard.
Ceremony held with intention and care, in relationship with the land it comes from — not as a shortcut, but as a conversation.
Time on the land itself — not as scenery, but as teacher. Understanding how to work with a place instead of simply occupying it.
This is not a retreat
you attend. It's one you enter.
Five days held for women ready to understand the land as a living relationship, not a backdrop.
Held by two women
who live what they teach
Farah works at the intersection of spiritual intelligence, business strategy, and energetics — drawing on her Afghan and Iranian heritage, rooted in the same Zoroastrian Persia this retreat honors, alongside sacred geometry, alchemy, and astrology. Her work centers embodiment as the bridge between inner transformation and lived, material change.
Sitora is Tajik, with roots in Zoroastrian tradition, and is a mother, herbalist, astrologer, artist, dancer, and writer who has spent the last decade facilitating transformational retreats and mentorships rooted in astrology, herbal wisdom, and channeled transmission — work she describes as an "ode for collective sovereignty... devoted love for Mother Earth."
Curated for energetic alignment
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