Journey to Self
With Josue, Ronit and Stephanie McKenzie
April 23 - 30, 2024
Join us on this journey to self-awareness through indigenous plant technologies guided by caring and experienced masters of ceremony. Each day of this experience has been specially curated to provide support and nourishment for the journey of your lifetime. This indigenous plant technologies retreat is not for those merely interested in indigenous plant technologies, but for those who are truly ready to face their shadows and engage with themselves on an inner-worldly level. This indigenous plant technologies retreat will feature ceremonies . Daily practices and meditations along with herbal baths led by experienced facilitators and sweat lodge gatherings will help you prepare and integrate this intense experience of plant medicine ceremonies.
Our Shaman tribe is a multi-ethnic diverse partnership that brings a modern approach to these ancient practices and ceremonies. We come from Costa Rica, India, Israel and the United States. We gather the first night for a gentle opening to help you land from the physical journey with a long grounding yin yoga practice with meditation. Dinner follows with a bountiful spread of vegan delicacies specially created to support the plant medicine experiences. The second day continues with grounding and anchoring in the environment to allow for intention to be very clear before we journey through the ether. We will open and close the day with guided practices of mindful movement, breathwork and meditation. The meals are sequenced in honor of your body’s needs to digest this experience. No worries. Just eat. On day three a feeling of reverence arrives as we make the final preparations through herbal baths and dedication of fasting with intention. Then we surrender to the guide of the Shamans and listen to their songs and experience indigenous technologies.. The remainder of the day will be dedicated to rest, recovery and reconciliation with the truths of the experience. A gentle day with gentle foods. The fifth day we return to our mats and allow ourSelves to receive the outpouring of benefits these journeys bring. We continue with mindful movement, breathwork and meditation for integrating what we learn. Day six we celebrate with a Cacao ceremony guided by Rosa from the BriBri nation. Then we feast and dance with live local Caribbean music.
This retreat will feel like an eternity and a split second all at once. It’s awesome. It’s powerful.
What is included:
7 nights 8 days accommodations
All meals and drinking water
1 Welcome Dinner
1 Beach Day Picnic
4 Gentle and Grounding Yoga Classes
2 Guided Meditations
2 Breathwork Sessions
4 Ceremonies with opening and closing circles
1 Herbal Baths for cleansing and protection
1 Celebratory Dinner
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
7:00am | Yoga | Yoga | REST | REST | 9:00am
Ceremony Closing |
8:00am
Ceremony |
Yoga | |
8:00am | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | 10:00am
Ceremony
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Breakfast | Breakfast | |
10:00am | Salt Baths
Punta Uva Beach |
12:00pm
Herbal Baths Dedication of fast Breathwork and Meditation
5:00pm Ceremony
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Onward Journey | |||||
1:00pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
Lunch
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Lunch | Lunch | ||
5:00pm | Opening Circle with Yoga | Yoga
6:00 pm Orientation |
Yoga |
5:00pm Ceremony
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3:00pm
Closing Circle with Yoga |
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7:00pm | Welcome Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Fare-the-Well Dinner |
Leaders
Josue found his path in life in the meeting of music, medicine and integration. His journey started as an apprentice during Ayahuasca retreats with a gifted Peruvian Medicine Woman. He soon was given the responsibility of holding ceremonies and retreats himself. His journey continued when he embraced the traditional Lakota Vision quest, a ritual of prayer, fasting and isolation in nature. From the assimilation of these various experiences, the vision…
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Ronit is a gifted Yoga and movement teacher and gently helps participants maximize the benefit of the plant medicines through conscious movement and breath work. Ronit also shares her knowledge of deep juice cleansing and other transforming detox tools. As a dedicated Moon Dance practitioner, she practices this beautiful prayer ritual of the Mexican tradition. The Moon Dance gathers women from all over the world during the full moon. The…
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I sought refuge from a very early age in the quiet moments within a child pose held in a dark closet. I found freedom in losing my way in the forest. I’ve felt the vastness of diversity while floating upon the warm sea. I gained clarity from moments of silence that stretched for days and then years. I understand the shifting nature of a human mind. I’ve learned that nourishing…
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