open the channel of your voice
Heartsong Plant Medicine Retreats in Lake Atitlan
A unique opportunity to dive deep with the sacred plant medicine allies!
Aug 7-15, 2024 & Jan 23-31, 2025
Heartsong Plant Medicine Retreats in Lake Atitlan
Aug 7-15, 2024 & Jan 23-31, 2025
✨A unique opportunity to dive deep with the sacred plant medicine allies! ✨
Experience deep healing, profound insights, and inspiring guidance on how to live your life to the fullest, step into your true power, and embody your highest self at the Heartsong Plant Medicine Retreat in Lake Atitlan. Release old traumas, blockages and limiting beleif systems that hold you back! Open your heart, share your voice, learn new medicine songs, and expand yourself in this safe, sacred container!
Led by three of the MYF’s core members: Jahendo, Sunny, and Hawk!
Pricing is super affordable compared to similar retreats, and we have accessible payment plans available! Retreat includes three nourishing meals a day (may be less for ceremony days), comfy accommodation (tenting, dorm room or private), all medicine ceremonies, all integration circles/activites, and extra workshops to open our voices and connect with our HeartSong!
Due to the Nature of this sacred work, you must reach out to us personally to inquire about more information, please put “Medicine Retreat” as the subject.
Please let us know your interest in this retreat, share your intentions, and any experience working with plants previously.
Grandmother Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca — also known as the tea, the vine, and la purga — is a brew made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub along with the stalks of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, though other plants and ingredients can be added as well
This drink was used for spiritual and religious purposes by ancient Amazonian tribes and is still used as a sacred beverage by some religious communities in Brazil and North America, including the Santo Daime.
Ceremony Flow
This will be the first ceremony of the retreat, to clear and cleanse away blockages, limiting beleifs, traumas and more. Opening your channel to better receive the medicine of Huachuma in the next 2 ceremonies!
Jahendo is trained and initiated with the Huni Kuin tribe of brazil. He’s studies deeply with Yawanawa, Shipibo, Santo Daime and countless western mentors. The ceremony is a unique blend of all these styles, primarily Huni Kuin, giving you a well-rounded approach to this beautiful healing journey!
Ceremony begins at 6pm with a quick orientation. Then we open the space with a prayer and the first cup. 45min noble silence after first cup and the lights go out. We then will spend about an hour singing traditional chants (icaros, saites, and pakaris) with just the voice.
Then we will have the second cup, where we invite the guitar and other instruments in. The songs will be primarily Haux songs from the Amazon jungle in Brazil from the Huni Kuin, Yawanawa tribes, with some portuguese as well. Half way through we will call for Hape time (a shamanic tobacco snuff used for cleansing) in the center. After Hape time we will turn on some candles and lighten up the mood.
After a while we will call for the 3rd and final cup, after which we will sing english songs and bring more light, joy, softenss and celebration. Towards the end we will open the space for others to share music. We will close with a very special dance to get us back in our bodies. When ceremony closes there will be fruit and soup available for all to enjoy!
Ceremonial Cacao
Cacao is a beautiful, gentle, heart-opening medicine. She connects us with our prayer, opens our voices to sing, brings a lot of joy, and helps us to lighten up!
Cacao is a vaso-dilator, meaning that it increases the size of the veins to allow more blood (energy) flow. This enable us to open our hearts, feel our energy and connect with our community. It also contains Theobromine (food of the Gods), which is a stimulant with a sustained energy (unlike caffeine.) Also contains Anandamine (the bliss molecule) bringing more happiness and connection. Guatemalan cacao has VERY little caffeine, which is not noticeable at all. It’s also high in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals!
We will be closing our retreat space together with Mama Cacao around our Sacred Fire. To release the directions, give gratitude to all of the medicines, give offerings, make prayers, call in what we will be taking with us from this retreat, and sing devotional songs of the heart! We will work with cacao to open our hearts, learn how to use her as an integration medicine, and connect as a community one last time!
Medicine served by Jah & Sunny, who collectively have 15 years worth of experience guiding cacao ceremonies in multiple different contexts and containers.
This retreat will include:
❇️8 nights
❇️3 Plant Medicine Ceremonies (1 Jurema, 2 Huachuma)
❇️1 Cacao Integration
❇️Yoga/Meditation everyday
❇️Integration Circles
❇️Sound Healing
❇️Medicine Song Practice
❇️Sacred Sauna
❇️Delicious Plant Based Meals
Daily Schedule
Day 1
⚜️Arrival
⚜️Opening Prayers
⚜️Fire Ceremony
Day 2
⚜️Yoga/Meditation
⚜️Medicine Orientation
⚜️Jurema Medicine Ceremony
Day 3
⚜️Integration Circle
⚜️Sacred Sauna
Day 4
⚜️Self Practice
⚜️Huachuma Medicine Hike: 3 altars
⚜️Sacred Fire
Day 5
⚜️Integration Circle
⚜️Sound Healing
⚜️Yin Yoga
Day 6
⚜️Yoga/Meditation
⚜️Medicine Song Practice
⚜️All-Night Huachuma FirePrayer
Day 7
⚜️Epic Sunrise at the Dock
⚜️Sacred Sauna
⚜️Chillout & Sing
Day 8
⚜️Integration Circle
⚜️Freetime Integration
⚜️Closing Cacao Ceremony
⚜️Song Circle
Day 9
⚜️Yoga/Meditation
⚜️Final Integration & Departure
What You'll Gain From the Experience:
🙏 Release old traumas
🙏 Let go of limiting beleif systems and negative patterns/energy
🙏 Remove blockages and stuck/stagnant energy
🙏 Gain clarity on your life path and purpose
🙏 Fell inspiration to create the life of your dreams
🙏 Learn new songs, and feel inspired to sing more
🙏 Unlock your magical abilities, and step into your power
🙏 Discover more of your gifts, and share your medicine
🙏 Connect deeply with Spirit, Mother Earth, the Elements, Yourself and Community
🙏 Gain confidence to live your truth and express yourself authentically
🙏 Have an international community with continued connections, friendships and collaborations!
What Makes This Retreat Different:
This retreat stands out from 1-off ceremonies or weekend immersions, because it’s an extended length of time, which allows for deeper reflection/chill/integration time, as well as more time to connect with community, and the land/lake! We believe that integration is 80% of the work, which is why we have 1 full day in between all ceremonies, with added integration activities like sharing circles, saunas, sound healings, and more!
Another thing that really stands out, and why people love sitting with us so much, is that we infuse joy, fun and playfulness into each ceremony. We take this work very seriously, with much sacredness, respect and reciprocity, and focused awaresness when needed. That being said, we love being playful at times to lighten the mood and show our humanness and the enjoyment of life!
Huachuma (San Pedro Cactus)
Huachuma, or San Pedro, is seen as the Grandfather medicine of the Andes. His active alkaloid is Mescaline, which is NOT a tryptamine. It’s in the same family as Cacao and MDMA, with similar heart opening benefits, with it’s own unique subtle energy. In large doses can be psychedelic & visionairy, tho those aren’t it’s primary affects. The effects can last anywhere from 8-16 hours depending on dosage. You will have the choice of how much medicine you’d like to drink.
The main effects of huachuma are heart-opening, deepened state of awareness, profound connection to Nature and deep communion with Spirit. He offers us a deep focus, stillness of the mind, focus. He opens us up to our Prayer, what we want to create in this life, our purpose, our patterns, and how we can become a better person! The most magical effects are that of Clarity of Vision, and revealing our Truest Self and how to embody that.
There will be 2 opportunities for us to journey with Grandpa Huachuma, each of which will have a different flow. The 1st journey will be during the day (10am-10pm,) in which we will be hiking to sacred sites. The 2nd journey will be an all night “FirePrayer”, we will be around our Sacred Fire singing/praying from 6pm-6am. Each ceremony is further described in the paragraphs below.
Both ceremonies, medicine will be served by Jah with
1st Huachuma Journey ~ Huachuma Hike ~ 10am – 10pm
We will begin drinking the first cup and open the ceremony in our temple Jaguar Hall. We will open the space with prayers, intentions and songs, followed by a short movement exercise to bring awareness to our bodies and energy flow. We will then begin our hike, which has 3 pit-stops along the way. There is about 2hrs total of hiking, and we will hang out in each pitstop for about 1-3hrs each.
Our first pitstop is Grandfather Rock, an ancient Mayan altar with 1000s of years history being used as a sacred site for prayers, offerings and connection to the Spirit Realm. We will connect with the Earth, leave offerings, pray, sing Earth songs, and make a flower mandala together.
Then we hike up to the 2nd altar.
Our second pitstop is deep in the forest at an ancient Mayan water altar. In this space we will sing water songs, have a special water blessing ritual, honor the divine feminine, and drink our second cup of medicine. Then we will hike up to our third altar.
Our third pitstop, Base Camp, will be at the top of the mountain with a spectacular view of the lake and open skies. Here we will connect with the air element, sing air songs, make prayers, and chill out and meditate in silence. We will also serve the sacred medicine of Rapeh, which will bring grounding and clarity. We will sing songs from the Brazilian Amazon to help move the force of the medicine. After about an hour, we will then head back down the mountain and return to MYF!
There will be a short period of freeflow, with fruits available, option to swim in the lake, connect with the family, or be in your own space. This will be for about an hour.
Our final destination will be our Sacred Fire where we will anchor in our prayers, sing more songs, and connect with the fire element. There will be loads of offerings available throughout the night for you to pray for your life, your family, your business and continue to anchor in your intentions!
The ceremony will then close, soup will be available, sauna will be hot, and fire will stay open for prayers, and more songs!
2nd Huachuma Journey ~ FirePrayer ~ 6pm – 6am
This is our grand finale, and final medicine ceremony of the retreat. We will be all night around our Sacred Fire, praying, singing, dancing, and connecting with the elements. The medicine will give us plenty of energy to stay up all night, and WOW, the sunrise will be the most magical moment of our lives!
The night is divided into 4 rounds from sunset-sunrise. Each round will be based on an element. We start with Earth connecting to our bodies and the physical world. Then move into water to connect with our emotions, the gift of life, and the divine feminine. Then moving into the air element where we connect to our Mind, our vision, our meditation and our vastness. Then we move into Fire to welcome the rising sun. This is when we connect with our Spirit, our purpose and our passions and celebrate the sweet life we live.
Throughout the night there will be certain songs to connect with each element, lots of space for others to share songs, fun guided activities, places of silence and stillness, sound healing, and more. An abundance of offerings are available throughout the night to make lots of prayers and give thanks! We will end at sunrise with fruit, snacks, soup and a glorious lake swim and dock party!
Additional Offerings Throughout the Medicine Retreat:
Integration Circles: These circles will be offered multiple times throughout the retreat. This is a time where each person gets to share about their process, their experience within the medicine, any challenges or breakthroughs, and how these lessons can be integrated and embodied moving forward. The best part about a retreat like this is the added integration time and support. This gives more time to embody the teachings and lessons before returning out into the world again!
Meditation & Yoga: This is a beautiful way to bring the medicine fully into our bodies and minds so that we can use the medicine outside of ceremony. The real teachings the medicine gives us is how to live a better daily life, without the need for medicine. Meditation and Yoga is the perfect daily practice that can help us maintain stillness, reflect on our journey, expand our overall awareness and bring more presence. It’s also a beautiful ways to get our bodies feeling good between long ceremonies.
Sacred Sauna: in our sauna we practice silence, singing and praying. A perfect way to practice songs and get into a natural trance state. It’s also a beautiful way to sweat out any toxins and release any lingering energy from the ceremonies. Leave feeling reborn, refreshed and revitalized!
Sound Healing: sound is frequency, and by utilizing a variety of sacred instruments, these vibrations can heal us on a cellular level. It’s a great, relaxing way to integrate the medicine experiences, and get really good rest. In this sober state, we are able to receive visions, reflections, insights, downloads and healing that will assist us in the deep medicine work we will be doing! We will have 1x 2hr sound ceremony, as well as we will have multiple instruments and sound journeys infused into our medicine spaces. Hawk is our master sound healing with over 500hrs of training, and 1000s of hours of practices. He has 4 gongs, 7 crystal tones singing bowls, 10 tibetan bowls, 8 flutes, handpan, rav drum, chimes, and some fun surprises!
About The Facillitators:
Jahendo, Sunny, and Hawk are best friends and have been holding space in 100s of ceremonies together for the last 3 years. Their deep friendship and love for each other vibrates out into any healing space they’re in.
Jahendo
Jahendo is the owner of the Mystical Yoga Farm and hosts ceremonies there regularly. He has been working at MYF since 2015, learning and sharing his skills.
He is a professional medicine music and carries many heart songs, medicine songs, indigenous songs from the jungle, and icaros.
He loves choosing songs based on the way that they move energy and the healing force they carry.
He has been serving changa for over 8 years, and serving huachuma for just over 5 years.
He continues to deepen his work and do his own healing by sitting with shamans and medicine carriers all over the world, and does a yearly pilgrimage in Peru. He’s worked deeply with a number of traditions including Shipibo, Huni Kuin, Marakame (Huichol), Quechua, and many more. He incorporates a lot of these healing modalities into a well-rounded service to the divine. He has assisted in many Ayahuasca ceremonies, as well as Huachuma, Peyote and others, and believes it is a divine service to work with these medicines and work with their original carriers.
He is a 500hr E-RYT yoga teacher and has studied and helped in over 10 shamanic yoga teacher trainings. He loves infusing yoga philosophy into the ceremonial works.
His biggest passion is bringing joy and lightness, as well as focus and sacredness into his offerings. He provides a very safe, held and loving healing space for transformation!
Sunny
Sunny is the Heart Keeper and Manager of the Mystical Yoga Farm. She has been working at the MYF since 2018. She is filled with the pure spirit of the hummingbird, of joy, love, connection and play. She is a gentle yet powerful space holder, by active listening, being fully present, sharing heart opening music, and teaching playful yoga.
She first started working with plant medicines 6 years ago. She says, “In my first Huachuma ceremony I found a deep connection with my true essence and the elements around me, it opened my voice, heart, mind and spirit.” Since this experience Sunny has been sitting in different medicine ceremonies with indigenous tribes and people who have directly worked with the original medicine carriers.
Sunny has been assisting in Hucahuma, Changa, and Ayahuasca ceremonies for three years. In these ceremonies Sunny holds a motherly/sisterly/angelic presence, a safe space for those to be held and nurtured if they need that support. She uses music and her voice to help the medicine move through our bodies. She is available for 1-on-1 support, limpias, a hand to hold, and a bright light to look at when feeling lost in the dark.
Hawk
Hawk de la Roca is a ceremonialist, multi-instrumentalist and curious explorer of consciousness, frequency and the healing arts.
He loves to weave together mystical soundscapes that invoke deep relaxation and opens portals to altered states of consciousness and Soul Activation.
Hawk has lots of experience holding a safe space for people to open their hearts and heal, using sound as a tool to guide them. He creates an atmosphere where everyone can feel free to let go and experience the power of their inner voice to call in their purpose, dreams and magic!
Hawk began working ceremonially with plant medicines in 2014 and has studied with indigenous curanderos in the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rainforests of Peru and Ecuador. Hawk is also an experienced yoga teacher, song carrier and transformational retreat leader.