Sacred Pathways Retreat Preparation
Welcome! We’re excited to guide you through the preparation process for your retreat. Below, you’ll find a selection of documents we’ve carefully prepared to support you. Wishing you a meaningful and inspiring journey ahead!
Travel arrangements
The first guide is for you to sort out your travel arrangements. When we are clear about when and how do we get there, our managers can relax, so that we can shift to inner preparation.
Inner preparation
This guide is prepared by our retreat leader, Cali Ornelas. You’ll learn about her “Staying Present” approach to inner preparation, which is a foundation of our Sacred Pathways Retreat. Please read this guide thoroughly.
Dietary & Mental & Emotional
This PDF with dietary, mental and emotional guidelines will help you prepare your body and mind. You’ll find a number of suggestions related to the pre-retreat diet and some useful advice on how to make sure that your inner landscape is prepared.
The Ayahuasca Guide
The Huni Kuin
In this guide, you’ll learn about the Huni Kuin people, their history, spiritual practices and ceremonies. It’s important to be aware of the information we have prepared for you because all our ceremonies will be held within the Huni Kuin tradition.
Plant Teachers & Somatic Therapy
We invite you to watch two interviews with somatic therapy masters – Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine. These interviews are a part of our 3-month online training “Integrating Somatic Techniques in Therapy” and we are sharing them with you because there’s a lot of wisdom relating to healing with psychedelics and plant medicine.
We think it will be beneficial for you to watch these interviews. As a bonus, before the interviews start, there is a 30-minute recording of a Guided Somatic Exploration session, a movement flow guided by Elia Mrak, a Qi-Gong and dance teacher. A wonderful practice for your time of preparation.
