About Us
Hola Family From Afar,
We have spaces available for an upcoming 3-night gathering April 3rd-6th, including 2 nights with Grandmother.
Retreat Flow:
*Thursday night:* Soft arrival in the afternoon, dinner followed by intuitive cacao dance
*Friday:* Kambo (optional) served in the morning, relax and enjoy the day, shamanic soplada cleanse with mapacho and agua Florida, opening circle, meditation 1 in the evening.
*Saturday:* Relax and enjoy the morning, Ceremonia Circulo de Palabra discussion circle with ambil and mambe served in the afternoon, meditation 2 in the evening
*Sunday:* Closing integration circle with cacao
*Contribution:* $700 for the 3 nights with a $200 dollar deposit to confirm attendance. An extra $100 dollar contribution for Kambo.
Retreat Details:
Meditations are held rooted in the Shipibo tradition and begin as day fades into night and spirit comes out to play. The meditations are adorned with Shipibo icaros, mantras, Sanskrit and Eastern incantations, other medicine songs from around the world, and a myriad of musical and sound healing instruments including piano, guitar, handpan, flutes, singing bowls, chimes and more. The icaros are woven rhythmic songs calling in our Master Plant allies to help us heal and return to ourselves. The sanskrit, mantras and incantations call in Eastern deities and wisdom to remind us of our true nature- inherently awake and basically good. All of the music, sound, and vibration are shared with the intention to communicate open states of being beneath the conceptual mind to the core of our being.
Facilitators:
Ceremonies led by Misa, supported by Gabrielle.
*Misa:*
A decade ago, Misa traveled to the Peruvian jungle and immersed herself in the ways of an indigenous shamanic tribe of Shipibos. Through an initiatory process, she began to tune into the inherent intelligence and wisdom of the natural world. Upon returning to the States, she felt a strong calling to delve into meditation and train her mind to access the deeper non-conceptual rhythms and communications of the Earth. Misa took Buddhist Monastic Vows and spent many years immersed in retreat, seeking the ability to listen and open to the natural world. Today, she continues to travel bi-yearly to the jungle to continue her studies with the Shipibos, working with master plant allies such as Noya Rao, Blue Lotus and Mapacho. She weaves her contemplative Buddhist studies and musical background into her retreat offerings. Misa believes that all the large-scale problems of this world are symptoms of a deeper root cause. War, environmental destruction, political discord and so on, are merely symptoms of a profound disconnection from ourselves, our communities and the earth. She believes that as we begin to mend these basic disconnections, we will automatically find ways to live in harmony. Misa has found South American Shamanism, Eastern wisdom traditions, and music from the heart to be powerful allies in her dedication of service to a more harmonic world.
*Gabrielle:*
Gabrielle has had a dear relationship with the magic of the natural and unseen worlds from an early age. She was able to bridge that relationship with modern-day practice with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology, with an emphasis on Psychedelic Therapy for PTSD. During that time she also completed reiki master training. Gabrielle has continued her plant medicine practice under the Lopez Shipibo lineage in Amazonian Peru, with the master plants Noya Rao and Bobinsana as her teachers and allies. She works closely with the angelic realms and walks between the worlds with gifts of clairvoyance and acoustic vibrations. Gabrielle underwent trauma-informed training for Somatic Plant Medicine Integration, a modality that helps journeyers fuse their ceremonial experiences with their lives moving forward for enhanced healing as a whole person. Â She is especially interested in expression through arts and movement, and believes that somatic practices such as dance and vocal toning can help move energy and make space for profound inner alchemy to occur.
