10-Day Embodying True Nature Intensive

The 10-Day Intensive Embody True Nature retreat weaves ancestral living wisdom traditions supported by Jungian transpersonal psychology to provide a foundation to both discover and develop the innermost purpose of one’s life.

OVERVIEW

Join us in Peru’s Sacred Valley near the city of Cusco – an ancient capital of the Inca empire for a hero’s journey of self discovery into the infinite human potential. Together we will transcend the layers of our individual and collective conditioning in order to know and trust our eternally brilliant and indestructible true nature. In this process we immerse into the magnificent realm of Mother Nature through the native indigenous foundational practices of remembrance, initiation rites and sacred plant ceremonies while establishing intercultural bridges, seeing the emergence of awakened consciousness in all beings everywhere. Our purpose is to create a space where all participants, including ourselves, can continually discover and implement a life of greatest purpose and deepest meaning.

Beyond humanity’s diverse stories and personalities there’s a profound mystery within each of us that the organism is longing to be re-initiated into – a fully conscious evolutionary journey of return to the source. A resurgence of interest in these beyond-personal states may seem a novelty and yet living wisdom traditions facilitating the rites of passage on this journey are rooted in times immemorial, long before written history. Living examples of real people embodying the evolutionary blueprint of higher consciousness have been at the conception point of all ancient spiritual lineages. A direct metaphysical experience that’s skillfully shared may awaken the evolutionary potential necessary for society to transcend the fear-based animalistic survival mode. Few traditions still maintain an uninterrupted stream of embodied living wisdom in the form of an awakened consciousness experience. These lineages of direct transmission have been carried through the sands of time as catalysts of a greater evolutionary purpose embedded in the genetic memory bank of the collective subconsciousness. Yet without a necessary degree of spiritual maturity accompanied by experiential guidance relevant directly to one’s current life circumstances, the higher organic intelligence cannot emerge consistently.

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CEREMONIES

Ancestral shamanic ceremonies involving sacred entheogenic plant medicines are attracting multitudes of people from all layers of society nowadays. There is something deeply enthralling about a dimension ungoverned by the logical mind and conceptual thinking. Experiencing a greater whole rapturing in the mystical divine union of direct contact with the raw forces of nature may be an inherent intuitive longing to awaken expressed through the many alarming issues of the current society. While different people have different ideas what pursuit of happiness entails, the underlying state itself is an indescribable, yet deeply familiar blissful wholeness, nurture and safety imprinted in the cellular memory by the unconditional love of the mother nature’s womb.

This retreat begins a profound consciousness transformation and involves a serious self-realization process. The process includes physical, mental, spiritual and emotional detoxification. Participants should be willing and able to face without compromise, personal inhibitions, repressed emotions, fears, habitual patterns and other obscurations of consciousness that often accumulate in the human subconsciousness for many years because of the conditioning of modern society.

During the retreat there will be a few sacred plant ceremonies. The sacred plant medicines we work with included Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Coca all of which can support the the journey through spiritual insight and unraveling the divine intelligence of nature in one’s being. We do not have a set number of ceremonies as we find it essential to base this on the process and needs of the group.

PRACTICES

The retreat schedule will depend on the individual process of each participant. The days around the ceremonies are dedicated to creating a deeper understanding of Mother Nature’s language with the help of different modalities, such as:

• Remembering *foundation – Release of personal history – an energetic remembering, dissolution of subconscious limitation and letting-go of emotional tensions held in one’s past.
• Primordial Breathwork *foundation – Amazonian tribal activation of cellular memory and a Tibetan modality based on the Heart drops of Dharmakaya practices that bring about a cathartic release of deeply-seated emotional obscurations.
• Individual and collective shamanic transpersonal dreamwork *foundation – Working with the Ashuar tribal and Jungian transpersonal approach towards recognizing the universal, associative and symbolic communication of human sub-consciousness relating to spiritual evolution of one’s being.
• Symptomatic Dance *foundation – Communication with the symptomatic language of the organism for the recognition and resolution of the dis-ease origin.
• Sacred geometry *foundation – Deepening our archetypal relationship with Nature and the universal flow of energy.
• Individual plant medicine diets – The participants will be given specific medicinal plants that help to cultivate essential natural qualities.
• Sharing circles – Relating to the universal process of consciousness transformation, expressing itself uniquely through each participant.
• Qigong, Yoga, eastern meditation practices – Activating deeper vitality and a realignment of energetic channels of the organism.
• Traditional Chinese Medicine – Complementary support for the deeper realignment of energetic meridians and healing on all levels.
• Processing, reflecting and integrating – Getting to know the self through the process of being with one’s self immersed in nature.

* notates foundational practices

The retreat is specifically developed and intended for the participants to face and challenge themselves in the most direct and harmonious way, as observed in many ancient cultures and indigenous spiritual traditions around the world. This approach helps us to become a human being in a human body while recognizing, transforming and letting go of stale concepts, habitual patterns, repressed emotions, inhibitions, fears, traumas and all other energetic limitations on the way to becoming a totally free luminous being overflowing with universal love and compassion.

Accommodations/Location

Our 10 day retreats are held in the magical and majestic Sacred Valley instead of our center deep in the Andes due to this shorter format and in order to accommodate participants who may not be able to make the hike. For those inspired to join us at our remote center check out our 33-day Embodying True Nature retreat.

We will be based above the village of Lamay at the beautiful Aldea Yanapay. There are 3 lodging options.

1. Shared Room with Bathroom – These rooms will be shared between 2 or 3 people. Bedding is included.
2. Shared Communal Room (without Bathroom) – These rooms will be shared between 4 people the bathrooms are outside of the rooms. Bedding is included.
3. Camping – in Personal Tent or sleeping in a communal room with your own bedding (indoor camping).

Contribution

The contribution for this retreat is based on a sliding scale:

EARLY BIRD CONTRIBUTION (apply before January 1st, 2021)

• $1350-1850 USD Sliding Scale: Shared Room with Private Bathroom
• $1250-1750 USD Sliding Scale: Shared Communal Room (without Bathroom)
• $1000-1500 USD Sliding Scale: Camping

CONTRIBUTION

• $1550-2050 USD Sliding Scale: Shared Room with Private Bathroom
• $1450-1950 USD Sliding Scale: Shared Communal Room (without Bathroom)
• $1200-1700 USD Sliding Scale: Camping

Please note that we must meet our minimum number of participants by January 12th in order to move forward with this program. Please register before this date if you can and wait to purchase travel tickets till after this date.

A deposit of 30% is due in full at the time of registration. If we are not able to accept you into the retreat, the deposit will be refunded. Please review our refund policy below before registering. Contribution includes all food, instruction, guidance & personal support, ceremonies, plant medicines, accommodations in the Retreat Center location. Any profits are devoted to the continuation of this worthy cause for the benefit of all beings.

Terms & Refund Policy

• We accept 30% deposits via credit card which are made during the online application process. If you are not accepted to join for the program, your payment will be fully refunded.
• Your remaining balance is to be submitted in cash (USD) on the first day of the program. Alternatively you are welcome to pay with a credit card with an added 3.9% merchant fee.
• Your deposit is refundable if you cancel before January 1, 2021.
• For cancellations after January 1, 2021 deposits are non-refundable and will only be transferable to a future program if we can fill your place in the retreat. We will try our best to do so.
• The contribution is non-refundable and non-transferable once the program begins.
• We must meet our minimum number of participants by January 12 in order to move forward with this program. All payments will be fully refunded if the program is canceled.
• Due to the unpredictable and unstable global situation with Covid-19, last minute cancellations are possible. If this retreat is canceled due to Covid-19 restrictions, your deposit will be refunded.
• Additional terms are outlined in our “Terms, Conditions, Release Of Liability & Assumption Of Risk” document which each participant agrees to by submitting an application.

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