Mercedes and I got together to plan our June 2025 Ayahuasca retreat and decided to continue our tradition of working with the energy of the Summer Solstice. Solstices have been regarded as significant events for many ancient cultures worldwide, representing a time of rebirth, harvest cycles, celebrations, fertility, and the divine. It could be said that the Solstice was a universal marker of life! With that in mind, we designed our retreat to support reconnecting to the sacred.
Our intention for the June 2025 Ayahuasca retreat is that you will:
- Reclaim and learn how to relate to the sacred.
- Strengthen your connection with nature.
- Increase your self-knowledge by seeing the wounds, but also the gifts and potential.
- Know yourself in all four bodies: what you think, what you feel, what you say, and what you do.
- Receive a deep cleansing of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
- Reset your central nervous system.
- Heal wounds and traumas from the past.
- Feel self-love and forgiveness.
- Reconfigure your body’s natural cycles and rhythms.
- Awaken your creativity and spontaneity.
- Feel a sense of belonging to Mother Earth and unity with the whole.
The June 2025 Ayahuasca retreat is a perfect blend of working with ancestral traditions, nature, and more modern practices that support healing and transformation. In addition to two Ayahuasca ceremonies, the activities we’ll participate in are focused on working with subtle energies that support the recovery of our vital life force.
We’ll begin the retreat with a Shamanic Opening Circle where we will share ancestral medicines that open our hearts and connect us to our word so that we can set intentions for the experience. Gathering in a circle holds symbolic, energetic, and practical significance across cultures, spiritual traditions, and group dynamics. In shamanic or energy work, circles contain and amplify energy. When we come together to share the intentions we hold in our hearts, we create subtle energy that works with us to co-create the experience we’ll have.
Each participant will receive a flower essence prepared to support their intention. Flower essences work on the emotional body through vibrational healing and support emotional processing and release. Flower essences contain the energetic frequency of the flower and can increase our self-awareness, bring clarity, and address grief, fear, anxiety, and emotional stagnation by bringing suppressed emotions to the surface for release.
Nature is our greatest ally throughout our June 2025 Ayahuasca retreat, and we appreciate all of the different ways we can work with it. We love sharing plant baths as another powerful way to harness the healing wonders of nature.
Before beginning, we share a plant bath for cleansing. The combinations of local plants in this bath not only serve as a way for you to connect with the new territory you’re in, but it’s a powerful ancestral method to remove negative energy. It’s an energetic sweep, again, working with the vibration of plant energies to reset your energetic field and protect against formal and informal black magic. With our last ceremony, we share a plant bath that supports our flourishing and the calling forth of blessings for our lives and the path forward.
Although we’ll be surrounded by breathtaking nature throughout the retreat, we’ll take a day to immerse ourselves in the vibrancy of it at one of Ecuador’s beautiful national parks for a ‘Caminata de Poder’, or conscious walk often performed in nature or sacred places to engage in deep presence and mindfulness. It’s a way to connect with the earth, align your energy with your intention, release blockages, and draw power from the natural elements like the sun, wind, water from the many streams and waterfalls we’ll pass, trees, mountains, etc…
We’ll create altars to honor the solstice, aligning ourselves with the cosmic energies of the sun and nature, creating a portal for transformation and manifestation. And, will participate in an offering ceremony to balance our energy of giving and receiving, and cleanse karma.
Everything we’ll engage in will support the cultivation of clarity and connection to ourselves, and opening up to receive the sacred medicine of Ayahuasca.
And, we’ll blend in some modern techniques that similarly support us. One example is bioenergetics, a powerful body-mind approach that helps release trapped emotions, stress, and trauma by working with the body’s energy, breath, and movement patterns. It’s a practice that unblocks stored energy in the muscles, fascia, and nervous system and promotes emotional balance, mental clarity, and increased vitality.
We’ll also facilitate circles and workshops to support the integration of our experiences.
This retreat is such a special moment of the year for us, and we’re excited to share it with those who want to embark on the journey with us!