self-Renewal Andean Retreats

Experience a weekend of connection and bonding with the healing energies of Mother Nature at a majestic recreational facility located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Restore inner balance and learn easy self-healing techniques so you can put your intuitive insights into practice.

• Connecting with the 4 elements for total wellbeing

• Sacred Ayni (reciprocity) & Ayllu (community)

• Learning to co-create with living energies

• Hands-on learning techniques

• Despacho ceremony

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Limited availability of private accommodations: 

• 3 Rustic bungalows, each with a full bed*

• $ 330 

Shared Group Dorms:

• 2 Dorm rooms in the lodge with multiple bunk bed*

• $ 260

Camping 

• Bring your own gear

• $230

* Shared Bathrooms in Lodge

* Please make your reservation and payment by August 15, 2024. 

Overview Weekend Agenda

Day 1

• Welcome, and overview of the agenda for the day.

• Land acknowledgment and honoring ancient keepers of wisdom that inhabited the Blue Ridge Mountains at the Chakana (four directions) sacred site.

• Sun/Fire–connection at the Sun/fire sacred site. Hands-on group experience.

• Lunch.

• Earth–connection at the Pachamama sacred site. Hands-on group activity.

• Individual and group exercises to remain centered energetically. Working with refined and heavy energies while creating harmonizing with the elements. 

• Water–connection at Mama Qocha Lake. Hands-on group activity.

• Honoring the individual. Free time to wander and appreciate the multiple sacred sites at the Land Celebration.

• Dinner.

• Ceremony of connection with Mother Moon--Mama Killa–cosmic feminine element, receptivity, ayni/balance between masculine and feminine (receive and give light).

Day 2

• Breakfast.

• Wind--connection at Wayra sanctuary. Wind, essential for life via breath; connection to mind, thoughts, teaching, and spirit. Wind instruments and chakra (ñawis) cleansing hands-on group activity.

• A short Tinku journey of encounter with oneself at Apacheta sacred site. 

• Centering with Life source: Exercise where we connect with and honor our own higher selves at the Tree of Life sacred site. Hands-on group activity of centering and alignment.

• Lunch.

• Despacho Ceremony: A communal ceremony of harmonization, thanksgiving, and connecting with all that is.

• Wrap-up and Close: Reinforce that a Native/Inka seed has now been planted in each person and it’s up to them to nurture it through ongoing practice.

• Sacred fire ceremony - Farewell.