EMBODYING THE ALTAR
9 DAY PLANT MEDICINE, EMBODIMENT & CONSCIOUS DANCE RETREAT
MUNAY SONQO RETREAT CENTRE – SACRED VALLEY, PERU
SEPT 28 – OCT 6, 2024
9 DAY PLANT MEDICINE, EMBODIMENT & CONSCIOUS DANCE RETREAT
MUNAY SONQO RETREAT CENTRE – SACRED VALLEY, PERU
SEPT 28 – OCT 6, 2024
Join us for a transformative retreat designed to open or deepen your connection with the sacred altars of Fire, Water, Air and Earth and master plant teacher Huachuma (San Pedro cactus) through embodiment practices, conscious dance and ceremony.
“Embodying the Altar” is a unique opportunity to integrate the teachings and insights of this master teacher into your daily life, bridging the gap between head, heart, body, and soul.
This retreat is for those ready to engage deeply with the animist forces of nature and psyche through ceremony, ritual and embodiment practices.
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
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WHAT TO EXPECT
△ PREPARATION △
Contextual learning on working with plant medicines, setting personal intentions, how to pray and enter into dialogue with the more-than-human world, and practical tools for connecting with your body, breath, and the animist forces of nature.
△ PREPARATION △
Contextual learning on working with plant medicines, setting personal intentions, how to pray and enter into dialogue with the more-than-human world, and practical tools for connecting with your body, breath, and the animist forces of nature.
△ CEREMONIES △
Three Huachuma ceremonies with a highly experienced facilitator, to support and direct the journey space and guide us deeper into connection with this master plant teacher. Despacho ceremony with a local wisdom keeper, tea ceremony and traditional land offerings.
Three Huachuma ceremonies with a highly experienced facilitator, to support and direct the journey space and guide us deeper into connection with this master plant teacher. Despacho ceremony with a local wisdom keeper, tea ceremony and traditional land offerings.
△ INTEGRATION △
Post-ceremony support through embodiment practices, art therapy, music, nature connection journaling, group sharings and nourishing foods.
Post-ceremony support through embodiment practices, art therapy, music, nature connection journaling, group sharings and nourishing foods.
△ ACTIVITIES △
Daily conscious dance sessions, creating elemental altars and rituals, ceremonial hike to a local sacred site and Luxury Spa session including sauna, steam, hot tubs & salt cave.
Daily conscious dance sessions, creating elemental altars and rituals, ceremonial hike to a local sacred site and Luxury Spa session including sauna, steam, hot tubs & salt cave.
INCLUDED ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
△ One group preparation call before the retreat
△ Conscious Dance – 5 Rhythms with Lucine Eusani, Dancing Freedom with Phoenix Onesong, and Open Floor with Caitlin Wood
△ Three Huachuma ceremonies guided by a local and highly experienced facilitator, Miguel Mendibre
△ Despacho offering to the land and ancestors with a local Q’ero Elder
△ Qintu offerings to the land and ancestors
△ All locally sourced, organic meals
△ Luxurious shared accommodation at Munay Sonqo (limited single & twin rooms available for an additional fee)
△ Transport to and from sacred sites and local villages
△ Support from a highly experienced, trauma-informed facilitation team throughout the retreat
△ Two group integration calls after the retreat
△ One group preparation call before the retreat
△ Conscious Dance – 5 Rhythms with Lucine Eusani, Dancing Freedom with Phoenix Onesong, and Open Floor with Caitlin Wood
△ Three Huachuma ceremonies guided by a local and highly experienced facilitator, Miguel Mendibre
△ Despacho offering to the land and ancestors with a local Q’ero Elder
△ Qintu offerings to the land and ancestors
△ All locally sourced, organic meals
△ Luxurious shared accommodation at Munay Sonqo (limited single & twin rooms available for an additional fee)
△ Transport to and from sacred sites and local villages
△ Support from a highly experienced, trauma-informed facilitation team throughout the retreat
△ Two group integration calls after the retreat
And so much more…
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
THIS RETREAT IS FOR:
THIS RETREAT IS FOR:
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Individuals who are ready and willing to connect with or deepen their understanding of the profound healing potential of master plant teachers.
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Those seeking to embody and integrate their plant medicine experiences into their daily lives to serve their families, communities, and the world.
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Therapists, counsellors, coaches, mentors, and plant medicine facilitators aiming to deepen their embodiment and ritual practices to better support preparation and integration processes for your clients.
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Anyone ready to engage with and support their own personal healing, ancestral healing, and the healing of our greater web of connection through courageous self-inquiry and engagement.
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FACILITATORS
Our retreat will be guided by a team of skilled and experienced embodiment facilitators and plant medicine practitioners, ensuring a supportive and enriching experience for all participants.
Our retreat will be guided by a team of skilled and experienced embodiment facilitators and plant medicine practitioners, ensuring a supportive and enriching experience for all participants.
CAITLIN WOOD
OPEN FLOOR, EMBODIMENT & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
I am an artist, creative therapist, conscious movement teacher, DJ & ceremony woman.
OPEN FLOOR, EMBODIMENT & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
I am an artist, creative therapist, conscious movement teacher, DJ & ceremony woman.
I made my first pilgrimage to Peru in 2011 and have been learning with the mountains and the medicines of this land ever since. The wisdom of this place and its teachers have been instrumental in my own path of healing, and formed a foundational lineage of ceremony and connection for the work that I do and who I am in the world. I pay my deepest respects to the indigenous peoples of the Shipibo & Q’ero that I have been honoured to learn from, and for all that has been shared with me.
Following a similar timeline has been my study with Indigenous North American wisdom and ceremonial traditions, and ways
of praying, through various teachers of mixed lineage. These interweaving paths have been a source of profound personal healing for myself, and allowed me to contribute to the tending of the sacred and a deepening of soul work in the communities I work with. With the support of Indigenous teachers from North and South America, I have learnt so much about the interconnectedness of the human and non-human worlds, about healthy community, boundaries, and self-care, about how to support healing for others in individual and group experiences, and what it is to live a life of devotion and service to something much greater than myself.
of praying, through various teachers of mixed lineage. These interweaving paths have been a source of profound personal healing for myself, and allowed me to contribute to the tending of the sacred and a deepening of soul work in the communities I work with. With the support of Indigenous teachers from North and South America, I have learnt so much about the interconnectedness of the human and non-human worlds, about healthy community, boundaries, and self-care, about how to support healing for others in individual and group experiences, and what it is to live a life of devotion and service to something much greater than myself.
I feel that working somatically with the body is vital in order to ground the experiences of plant medicine ceremony. The movement practices of Dancing Freedom and Open Floor are well designed to support connection and learning and help to bring what we learn in these spaces into lived experience. I have been offering the medicine of dance through Dancing Freedom for 11 years and Open Floor for 5 years, with movement classes, DJ sets, workshops, retreats and one-on-one sessions in Australia, online and around the world.
A foundational training in Transpersonal Art Therapy back in 2012, with much professional development since has supported me in creating trauma-informed spaces that bridge the needs of those from modern Western cultures with the ancient wisdom of Indigenous traditions of healing.
My work over the last 13 years has led me to understand and value the importance of integration and preparation for working with plant medicines, including how to build frameworks of personal and community support in order to apply what is learnt in these spaces into daily life and lived experience. I am a strong advocate for community supported engagement with plant medicine traditions, as well as ecological and social reciprocity, giving-back to the communities and cultures that protect these plants and the ecosystems where they live.
I offer my respect and thanks to all of the Indigenous teachers and lineages that I have been honoured to learn from, and to the elders and traditional custodians of the lands on which I live and work.
LUCINE EUSANI
5RHYTHMS, INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
Lucine is an Embodiment Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Practitioner and Psychedelic Integration Specialist. She is delivering IFS Melbourne.
5RHYTHMS, INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS) & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
Lucine is an Embodiment Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Practitioner and Psychedelic Integration Specialist. She is delivering IFS Melbourne.
Originally trained as a mediator and with a Master’s degree in conflict resolution, Lucine spent a decade in South America working in mediation and conflict resolution, offering trauma informed embodiment and finally in Peru apprenticing in Amazonian shamanism, working as a facilitator at an Ayahuasca centre.
With decades of trauma informed embodiment practice and facilitation, she became a 5Rhythms teacher in 2016, and teaches weekly classes as well as international workshops.
She trained in Internal Family Systems therapy (Level 1) and is currently engaging in Level 2 IFS Training in Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) for couples therapy. She is also beginning her Step 1 Somatic IFS training in late 2024.
As a certified IFS Practitioner she offers somatically informed IFS therapy sessions to individual clients (and soon couples). Her 1:1 work is informed by this diversity of life experiences; it is somatically guided & trauma informed, embedded in a deep respect for traditional plant medicines and healing practices, and firmly grounded in the IFS therapeutic model. She also has a specialisation in supporting people to integrate expanded state experiences, such as therapeutic psychedelics.
Alongside of this she is a mother to 2 beautiful children who keep her honest and humble, playful and on her toes!
PHOENIX ONESONG MAROLDA
DANCING FREEDOM, EMBODIMENT & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
Embodying The Altar – Peru Retreat 2024
With over 25 years of experience working with master plant teachers, Phoenix has a deep knowledge and embodied wisdom of several traditional lineages from the Americas. She is an apprentice of these ancient ways of working in ceremony and being in dialogue with the more than human world. Her experiences through an array of healing modalities and the cultures that hold them, has taught her that deep personal and ancestral healing happens through the body.
DANCING FREEDOM, EMBODIMENT & HOLISTIC INTEGRATION
Embodying The Altar – Peru Retreat 2024
With over 25 years of experience working with master plant teachers, Phoenix has a deep knowledge and embodied wisdom of several traditional lineages from the Americas. She is an apprentice of these ancient ways of working in ceremony and being in dialogue with the more than human world. Her experiences through an array of healing modalities and the cultures that hold them, has taught her that deep personal and ancestral healing happens through the body.
She advocates for embodied doses, supported by ritual, ceremony, an understanding of prayer, and somatic practices; in the plant medicine realm, as the foundation for long-lasting, balanced, and healthy relationships to self, others and life.
Phoenix emphasizes the importance of pre- and post-ceremony preparation and integration, as well as creating safely held spaces for deep personal and transpersonal transformation to occur.
Phoenix firmly believes that each of us has a unique role to play in our evolving culture and in shifting the current paradigm. She has dedicated her life to creating spaces and opportunities for people to unite, allowing them to bring their unique threads of our shared tapestry together. Combining her passion for dance, speaking her truth, ritual and ceremony, organizing intentional events, and communing with nature, Phoenix contributes to weaving our collective dreaming into the interconnected web of life. Her purpose is to inspire and empower others to share their gifts and reconnect with the unique role they are here to play. As both a lifelong student and teacher, Phoenix shares her vision for global synergy and collaboration.
Phoenix holds a Master’s degree in Education and Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. She is the co-director of Dancing Freedom and both an empowerment and psychedelic integration coach. Before leading Dancing Freedom, she spent 15 years as a school teacher, working with children from ages 3 to high school. She also founded Root to Rise: Rites of Passage, a journey for young women to transition to adulthood in a conscious, supported, and embodied way. Phoenix has taught classes, workshops and trainings to thousands of people around the world, including in the USA, Japan, Australia, Central/ South America, and Bali.
MIGUEL MENDIBRE
HUACHUMA CEREMONIES & TEACHINGS ON THE ALTAR
Miguel’s journey with huachuma began at the age of 17. That first experience led him to a state he had been searching for, one that felt more familiar and meaningful than anything he had known before; a perspective and way of relating to life from an open heart.
HUACHUMA CEREMONIES & TEACHINGS ON THE ALTAR
Miguel’s journey with huachuma began at the age of 17. That first experience led him to a state he had been searching for, one that felt more familiar and meaningful than anything he had known before; a perspective and way of relating to life from an open heart.
Since that first time, the call of his inner voice grew stronger, affirming that this was the path he was to walk on.
Following this call, he found his maestro and began training to hold space for others in ceremony. From then onwards, Miguel has developed and sustained a profound connection with huachuma, nurturing a relationship with himself and realizing that the plant reveals only what is already within.
This path has opened a life of infinite possibilities, profound teachings, and inner growth.
It’s been almost 20 years, now, that he has been walking this path and he feels there is no turning back. He feels that every ceremony is the best one and that there is nothing more than the here and now. Miguel is deeply grateful and in humble service to this master plant. He is also grateful for the opportunity to serve huachuma to others- as he has realized that our purpose as humans is to be in service to others.
Currently, Miguel holds ceremonies approximately once a week in the Sacred Valley and in Cusco
