Each year, we gather in sacred 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 become lived experience.
The retreat is guided by elders, healers, thinkers, and cultural guardians who carry and protect ancestral knowledge across generations.
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.
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.
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Álvaro Tukano, known as Doéthiro, is one of the most important Indigenous thinkers and leaders in Brazil. He played a fundamental role in shaping the Indigenous rights movement that began in the 1970s and continues to this day. A Kasike (chief), healer, author, and teacher, he is a guardian of the wisdom of the Yepã Mahsã (Tukano) people.
Anthropologist, ancestral lineage healer, and guardian of wisdom focused on the healing of collective trauma.
Indigenous leader and Guardian of Andean Ancestral Knowledge. Founder of KILLA WARMI, the School of Feminine Ancestral Wisdom of ABYA YALA.@sacerdotisasdelaluna
A mujer mestiza from Cuba, with heritage that includes Yoruba, Taíno, and Spanish roots. Founder of “Unfolding Senderos” and practitioner of conscious dreaming, Laura describes herself as a community builder and art historian.
Rafael García Bidó is an electrical engineer by training. He is also a poet, essayist, and university professor and is recognized as an investigator of Taíno culture, weaving together engineering, literature, and indigenous heritage studies.
Luisa Castillo (“Ciguapa”) is a Dominican artist, poet, and educator who channels her cultural heritage and mythology through music and storytelling. Adopting the moniker “Ciguapa, ”a legendary folkloric figure, she reimagines it as a symbol of creative power and emancipation. Alongside her artistic work, she contributes to education as a teacher at a bilingual school in Punta Cana.
