Spring Equinox Plant Medicine Retreat
With Katie / Retreat Facilitator / Huachumera and Miguel / Curandero
March 18 - 25, 2025
8 Day Spring Equinox Retreat in the Sacred Valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador
March 18-25, 2025
Discount if you come with a friend!
Embrace renewal this Spring Equinox with our transformative Healing Plant Medicine Retreat. As the earth awakens, so can you. This sacred journey invites you to reconnect with nature, release old energies, and restore balance through the powerful guidance of plant medicines. Surrounded by the vibrant energy of spring, you’ll experience deep healing in a serene, supportive environment.
Led by experienced facilitators, our retreat offers a safe space for personal growth, introspection, and transformation. Through sacred ceremonies with Ayahuasca and San Pedro, guided meditations, informative and healing workshops, and Spring rituals, you will unlock inner wisdom, cleanse emotional blockages, and cultivate clarity for the season ahead.
This is your opportunity to step into the new season with renewed vitality, purpose, and connection to your authentic self. Whether you are new to plant medicine or experienced in the practice, this retreat is designed to support your unique journey of healing and growth.
This transformational retreat is full of powerful ceremonies, cleansings and activities, along with nourishing food, snacks, and rest time, so you can go deep into your inner nature.
Retreat includes:
– All accommodation and food in a beautiful, private home in the mountains with shared and private rooms
– Nourishing meals made with local, fresh ingredients – VEG & VG options available
– 2 Ayahuasca ceremonies
– 1 San Pedro ceremony
– Optional Wilka ceremony (extra)
– Cacao ceremony
– Energetic cleansings
– Ritual plant baths for energy cleansing
– Guided meditations & yoga
– Spa visit
– Talking circles and time to meet individually
– Hiking to sacred mountains, rivers, waterfalls
Workshops:
Spring Equinox ritual
Shamanic beliefs and practices in Ecuador
Pranayama breathing exercises
Learn about the mind/body/spirit connection for maintaining balance
Plant Medicine Ceremonies
We will gather together in Plant Medicine Ceremonies. Ayahuasca is often compared to a wise Grandmother, and like an onion, she can help you find your center and let go of what no longer serves you, as well as helping to heal physical and mental illness.
Grandfather San Pedro is the healing masculine energy, helping you find alignment and open your heart once more, ready to take flight. We will meet with Grandfather San Pedro next to Granfather Fire in beautiful, unique ceremonies
Mama Wilka is a rare, sacred medicine that comes from the Huilko tree in the Andes. Miguel is one of a handful of people who know how to work with this medicine. Huilka is a medicine taken as a snuff, and is very visionary, intense and short. The experience usually lasts about 1 hour. This plant contains 5MEO DMT. Wilca is known to heal terminal illness, and is especially helpful for those with addictions. She teaches us about ourselves and the Universe and helps show us clearly our path in life.
We will provide preparation support, and we hold circles during our plant medicine retreats to discuss any questions you may have in advance. After our plant medicine ceremonies, we also have sharing circles, so you can share any pearls from your ceremony experience. Some people have sat in ceremonies previously, whereas, for others, it is their first time meeting with the plant medicines.
Optional:
Huilka seed reading with Taita Miguel – before or after on Zoom, or at retreat. Ask questions about your life, work, relationship, connect with loved ones who have passed over
Virtual limpia (energetic cleansing) – We can do a limpia for you via Zoom before the retreat if you wish, or after. We will do them at the retreat, but it can be helpful to start aligning your energy or help with any health issues you might be experiencing even before you arrive.
About the Leaders
Katie / Retreat Facilitator / Huachumera
Katie Founder + San Pedro Ceremonialist Founder of this center, a spiritual medicine guide, and ceremonialist of Wachuma, San Pedro. Born in the US, she has been holding space in ceremonies and retreats for 6 years now. She has studied under the guidance of her partner, taita Miguel, a mestizo shaman, as well as with […]
Learn more about Katie / Retreat Facilitator / HuachumeraMiguel / Curandero
Taita Miguel Curandero Taita Miguel is a curandero, or taita, from Ecuador, with 28 years of experience working with sacred plants like Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Wilka. After a difficult childhood and youth, he found healing with the medicine San Pedro. He began helping taitas of the Andes, and then some years later began doing […]
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