Ancestral Immersion Retreat

Four transformative days of cultural exchange, deep connection to the land, community, and yourself.

Each year, we gather in community with elders and guardians of traditional knowledge from the Caribbean and Abya Yala. Through ceremony, wisdom-sharing, healing practices, food, music, and ritual, ancestral traditions bring us back in connection to our roots and the land.
About the Ancestral Immersion Retreat

Ancestral wisdom in community, returning to our origins.

This Retreat is an annual gathering dedicated to remembrance, learning, and spiritual transformation through community and self-knowledge. Over four days, participants enter a sacred space where indigenous traditions are not just observed. We incarnate them.
Rooted in community life, ceremony, and connection with nature, the Immersion Retreat invites deep reflection, healing, and reconnection with ancestral memory through shared practices guided by traditional leaders, elders and knowledge keepers.
Four Days of Deep Immersion

What Makes This Retreat Unique

  • Cultural exchange with elders and guardians from the Caribbean and Abya Yala
  • Daily ceremony, ritual, music, and ancestral teachings
  • Connection to land, water, fire, wind, and spirit
  • Community-based learning in a traditional Yukayeke setting
  • Intergenerational spaces for children, youth, and adults
Speakers & Featured Guests

Elders & Guardians of Ancestral Wisdom

The retreat is guided by elders, healers, thinkers, and cultural guardians who carry and protect ancestral knowledge across generations.

Alvaro Tukano

Nación Yepã Mahsã - Brasil

Abuela Brinella

Nación Arawako Karibe-Ayiti

Alfonso Peralta

Nación Arawako Karibe-Ayiti

Upri Q’uyllur R’iti Prem Tárika

Nación Quechua-Perú

Laura Cisneros

Nación Arawako Karibe-Kubanakán

Rafael Garcia Bidó

Nación Arawako Karibe-Ayiti

Luisa "Ciguapa" Castillo

Nación Arawako Karibe-Ayiti

Esteban polanco

Nación Arawako Karibe-Ayiti

Chef Marcos Ramirez

Nación Arawako Karibe - Ayiti

2026 Retreat Programming

Four Elements Guiding the Path

Each day of the retreat is guided by one of the four ancestral elements. We live together in a traditional Yukayeke, honoring the forces of nature represented by each Semí and ancestor.

Day 1

Wúnabu | Earth
We arrive, ground ourselves, and open the retreat with the Ateweihuni, the sacred opening offering. This day anchors us to the land and to the community.

Day 2

Oniabo | Water
We connect with our inner waters and the waters of Mother Earth. Elders and grandmothers share teachings on birth, rebirth, cyclical renewal, and the mysteries of life.

Day 3

Watu | Fire
We deepen our relationship with plant medicine and spiritual alchemy for self-knowledge and transformation. Teachings include sacred sites, rituals, petroglyphs, and ancestral pictography of the Wákara and Batey.

Day 4

Awaduli | Wind
We enter the subtle world of dreams and heart-opening. We dream together as a community and close with a grand Areyto, embodying our ancestral memory through movement, song, and celebration.
THE RETREAT EXPERIENCE

A Living Journey of Learning, Nourishment & Ceremony

Throughout the retreat, participants move through a shared rhythm of learning, nourishment, connection, and celebration. Each moment of the journey is designed to cultivate presence, embodied knowledge, and collective remembrance.

Daily Rhythm of Community Learning

Mornings begin in silence with meditation and connection, surrounded by the natural landscape. We gather in the Caney to study cosmovision through the Arawako language, with daily deep-learning sessions, ancestral symbolism workshops, crafts, body painting, and learning areyto songs and dances accompanied by maraca, fotuto, and mayowakán.

Food as Memory & Ceremony

Our meals honor Caribbean culinary memory, prepared with traditional ingredients by Chef Marcos Ramírez, native of the Cibao. An artisan market offers native snacks and beverages and remains open as a space for cultural exchange and gathering. Evenings are dedicated to drums, songs, stories, ceremony, teachings, and sacred silence around the Fire.

Embodied Cultural Transmission

Each day we weave the Arawako language, movement, and memory into daily life—transforming the land into a living school of Indigenous remembrance, nestled between mountains and river.

Celebrating Together

We reunite as one family around the Sacred Fire to recover and honor our collective memory. Elders and leaders share teachings and stories, and we enter ceremony with the guardians of traditional medicine.

We close in Areyto, reawakening the ancestral memory that lives in our bones and blood—singing, moving, and honoring all those who came before us.

Walk the Ancestral Path With Us

This retreat is an invitation to remember, to heal, and to embody ancestral wisdom in community.
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