Shamanic Sacred Plants RETREAT Mexico Yucatan
Shamanic Sacred Plants RETREAT Mexico Yucatan
February 25 – March 3 (7 days)
You’re invited to attend Shamanic Sacred Plants retreat for a profound week of healing and transformation. This retreat is a great for people who had experience with the sacred plants as well as the introduction for people who are new to working with the sacred plants medicine.
Over the course of one week you’ll take part in 2 sacred plants ceremonies .
As well as participate in the ceremonies, you’ll have opportunity of body cleansing during the week.
The trip program Includes:
Silent Retreat
Orientation meeting about the sacred plants ceremony
2 sacred plants Ceremonies
2 Temazcal (sweat lodge) daily
Crystal Bed
Soul Recovery Ritual
Transportation (from and to airport)
Accommodation in "7 arrows way" center (2-3 people in big, full of light room (25m2)
Meals (Natural Vegetarian diet)
Cost of the Journey is : $1500
You may register online:
During the week we will be hosting 2 Sacred Plants ceremonies. This medicine is a sacred plant brew that has been used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years – primarily for healing, divination and spiritual awakening. Our ceremonies are conducted in the ancient traditions Native American - traditions "Camino Rojo" where all required step of the ritual is followed diligently. In our center, ceremonies are held inside the traditional Indian tipi or under the starlight sky and continues until the sunrise, Our shamans, presiding over the ceremony sing during entire time helping to achieve the deepest effect and result from the sacred ritual.
Temazcal, held the morning after, concludes your experience.
Ceremony with Sacred Plants is an intense, profound, and almost always a highly trans formative experience that could facilitate deep healing on all levels of our being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The ceremony is a doorway to inner worlds that allows us access to higher states of consciousness and the experience of spiritual awakening. To many people it reveals the multi-dimensional nature of reality and ourselves. It leads us back to who we truly are.
To ensure that you are fully cleansed by the end of the retreat you will be taking part not only in shamanic ceremonies, but also in other cleansing rituals and activities.
Our hope is that by the end of the retreat you would feel like a new person, fully cleansed of most of the negative and harmful toxins in your body, as well as be free from physical and emotional toxins.
Temazcal (Sweat lodge)
The Sweat Lodge Ceremony, now central to most Native American cultures and spiritual life, is an adaptation of the sweat bath common to many ethnic cultures found in North and South America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and Africa. It was prompted by the influence of European culture with its corrupting effect on native culture. With the introduction of alcohol and the inhumane treatment of native people, the need to re-purify themselves and find their way back to traditional ways of living became evident, as they were becoming increasingly poisoned by European culture. The Sweat Lodge Ceremony was the answer.
With the help of Medicine Men and Women, they could repair the damage done to their spirits, their minds and their bodies. The Sweat Lodge is a place of spiritual refuge, mental and physical healing, a place to get answers and guidance by asking spiritual entities, totem helpers, the Creator and Mother Earth for the needed wisdom and power.
A traditional Sweat Lodge is a wickiup made up of slender withes of aspen or willow, or other supple saplings, lashed together with raw hide, grass, or root cordage, although in some areas the lodge was constructed of whatever materials were at hand, from a mud roofed pit house to a cedar bark and plank lodge. The ends of the withes are set into the ground in a circle, approximately 10 feet in diameter, although there is no set size for a Sweat Lodge. That is determined by the location, materials available and the builder. The withes are bent over and lashed to form a low domed framework approximately 4 - 5 feet high at the center. The pit in the center is about 2 feet in diameter and a foot deep. The floor of the lodge may be clean swept dirt, or natural grassy turf, or may be covered with a mat of sweet grass, soft cedar boughs, or sage leaves for comfort and cleanliness, kept away from the central pit.
The lodge in former times was covered with the hides of buffalo, bear or moose. In this day, the animal skins have been replaced with blankets, plastic sheeting, old carpet, heavy gauge canvas sheets and tarps to retain the heat and the steam.
In many traditions the entrance to the sweat lodge faces to the East and the sacred fire pit. This has very significant spiritual value. Each new day for all begins in the East with the rising of Father Sun, the source of life and power, dawn of wisdom, while the fire heating the rocks is the undying light of the world, eternity, and it is a new spiritual beginning day that we seek in the sweat ceremony.
Between the entrance to the lodge and the sacred fire pit, where the stones are heated, is an altar barrier, beyond which none may pass except the lodge or fire keepers, to prevent participants from accidentally falling into the fire as they emerge from sweat. Traditionally this barrier altar is a buffalo or other skull atop a post, placed about 3 paces from the entrance and 3 paces from the fire, to warn of the danger. At the base of the post is a small raised earthen altar upon which are placed items sacred to the group or clan, sage, sweet grass, feathers, etc., bordered with the four colors, and a pipe rack for the chanunpa.
Common to all traditions, the sweat is the ideal of spiritual cleanliness. Many sweats start with the participants fasting for an entire day in contemplation and preparation for the sweat while avoiding caffeine, alcohol and other unhealthy substances. Prior to entering the sweat the participants are usually smudged with sage, sweet grass or cedar smoke as a means toward ritual cleanliness.
Bringing personal sacred items is allowed but some rules apply. Items such as Eagle feathers, whistles and medicine pouches are allowed and welcomed. You should not bring anything that is not natural into the Sweat Lodge, such as: watches, ear rings, gold, silver, eye glasses, false teeth, etc. In many cultures a female on her moon is not allowed into the sweat, but in some they are.
A Sweat Ceremony in many traditions usually starts with the loading and offering of the sacred chanunpa ~ "peace pipe" ~ in prayer, that the participants may know and speak the truth in their supplications of Grandfather, Earth Mother and the spirits. In other traditions, when you are called upon to go into the sweat lodge you will have some tobacco to offer to the sacred fire, saying a prayer or asking a question, the smoke from the tobacco carrying your request to the Great Spirit. As you prepare to enter the lodge the sweat leader smudges you with the smoke of burning sage, cedar, or sweet grass, wafting the smoke over you with an eagle feather. You then crawl into the lodge in a sun-wise (clockwise) direction, bowing in humility to Great Spirit and in close contact with Earth Mother, and take your place in the circle, sitting cross legged upright against the wall of the lodge.
When all are inside, the sweat leader calls upon the doorkeeper to drop the flap covering the lodge opening. The lodge becomes dark, and at this point the lodge leader announces that all are free to leave the lodge at any time if they cannot endure. (If you must leave, speak out "Mitakuye Oyasin," "All my relatives." The other participants will move away from the wall so that you may pass behind them as you leave in a clockwise direction.) He then asks for a short, contemplative silence. After the brief silence the flap is raised, and the leader calls upon the fire tender to bring in the heated stones from the sacred fire.
The Stone People spirits are awakened in the stones by heating them in the sacred fire until red-hot. They are swept clean with a pine or cedar bough to remove smoking embers which would cause irritating discomfort in the lodge. One at a time they are placed in the shallow pit inside the sweat lodge, placing first the stone on the west, then north, east, south, and in the center to Grandfather. Additional
stones are then placed to Grandmother and The People. After four to seven stones are in the pit, depending on tradition (and probably the size of the stones), the entrance is closed and sealed by the Sweat Lodge Keeper, who generally is also the fire tender.
Aglow with the luminance of the red hot stones, the ceremony begins in the lodge. The sweat leader sounds the Water Drum and calls forth the spirit guides in prayer from the Four Directions. The sweat leader then dips water and pours it onto the hot stones in the pit, producing large amounts of steam, usually one dipper for each of the four directions, or until he is told by the spirits to stop. Then he begins his prayers, songs and chants.
Crystal Bed:
What is a Crystal Bed:
A Crystal Bed has 7 extremely clear and highly polished quartz crystals
Each of the quartz crystals has been cut to a specific frequency. Each crystal is aligned
above one of the seven human energy centers or chakras. Colored lights, chosen to
match the vibrational frequency of chakra colors, radiate light and energy through
the crystals to each respective chakra, ( energy centers of the spiritual and physical
body) and shine on and off in certain rhythms to cleanse, balance, and align your energy
Soul Recovery:
"Soul Recovery is a process by which we uncover an essential truth: that each of us are whole and complete expressions of Life – no matter what our history or experience might suggest.
As we grow up and learn the lessons of our parents, friends and communities, there are coded messages that embed into the development of our personalities. Some of these are very positive - others less so. Because the human brain is capable of taking seed ideas and turning them into full fledged belief systems and life patterns - it is vital that we revisit some of these ideas to insure that they accurately resonate with the lives we are attempting to build for ourselves."
"For example, most of us grow up with completely rational fears that serve to protect us during early stages of development. But later in life, many of these fear-based ideas become impediments to our highest creative functioning and spiritual development."
That is what Soul Recovery was crafted to address. In a step-by-step incremental process, Soul Recovery's 12 Keys are designed to resolve dependence, childhood trauma, issues of unworthiness, abandonment, shame, rejection, not-enough-ness, guilt and any other influence that is incongruent with your essential wholeness as a spiritual being having a human experience.
By addressing these impediments, you free yourself to reveal your highest potential in all areas of life – be they personal, professional or spiritual.
Soul Recovery is a 12 Week process that walks the reader through the necessary steps to address patterns of dysfunction that may have become entangled with their sense of self.
Because the work is done at the level of one’s identity, many challenges – from dependence and obsessive behaviors to relationship and prosperity issues - can be resolved for good.
Menu for the program with Sacred Plants
Fruits and vegetables are seasonal and subject to substitute by availability. Fermented products are NOT offered.
Breakfast is served at 8.00 AM, fruits – 11.00 am and 4.00 pm, Lunch – 1.30-2.00 pm depending on activities, Dinner – 7.00 pm
Day 1 Dinner:
Fish – fried or steamed
Sautéed Vegetable or Rice
Vegetable salad
Herbal drink
Day 2 Breakfast:
Hot cereal - oatmeal (or other grain)
Boiled eggs
Toast, butter, jam, honey
Herbal drink
Mid-morning:
Seasonal fruits
Lunch:
Vegetable soup
Salad
Toast, herbal drink
Mid-afternoon:
Seasonal fruits
Dinner: Not served, fasting in preparation for the ceremony
Day 3 Breakfast: Not served, only fruits before the Temazcal as part of the Ceremony.
Lunch:
Vegetable soup
Salad
Toast, herbal drink
Mid-afternoon:
Seasonal fruits
Dinner:
Sautéed vegetables/lentils/rice
Salad
Herbal drink
Day 4 Breakfast:
Hot cereal - oatmeal (or other grain)
Boiled eggs
Toast, butter, jam, honey
Herbal drink
Mid-morning:
Seasonal fruits
Lunch:
Soup with vegetables
Salad
Toast, herbal drink
Mid-afternoon:
Seasonal fruits
Dinner:
Sautéed vegetables/lentils/rice
Salad
Herbal drink
Day 5 Breakfast:
Hot cereal - oatmeal (or other grain)
Boiled eggs
Toast, butter, jam, honey
Herbal drink
Mid-morning:
Seasonal fruits
Lunch:
Soup with vegetables
Salad
Toast, herbal drink
Mid-afternoon:
Seasonal fruits
Dinner: Not served, fasting in preparation for the ceremony
Day 6 Breakfast: Not served, only fruits before the Temazcal as part of the Ceremony.
Lunch:
Soup with vegetables
Salad
Toast, herbal drink
Mid-afternoon:
Seasonal fruits, yogurt
Dinner:
Chicken or Fish
Sautéed vegetables/lentils/rice
Salad
Herbal drink
Day 7 Breakfast:
Hot cereal - oatmeal (or other grain)
Boiled eggs
Toast, butter, jam, honey
Herbal drink
Our Menu is designed to fit the needs of our program (gentle cleansing and detox) and also considering the main principles of food combining.
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