Women's Retreat: Origin
Sweet Feminine Strength
Something powerful happens when women gather together, connecting with one another and with the Earth. Each woman in the circle becomes a living mirror, reflecting the wisdom and beauty of the feminine. The noise fades away, and what has been waiting patiently begins to speak.
Join us from July 18–25, 2026, for a retreat designed by women, for women.
Our Guides and Elders:
Lina Nieto, healer and co-founder of Finca Ambiwasi.
Grandmother Muidokuri, from the Huitoto community of the Amazon territory, who works with ancestral plant medicine, womb healing, and direct connection with Mother Earth.
Paola Bocanegra, healer and systemic therapist with more than thirty years of experience working with family systems.
And a wonderful and powerful team of women supporting this journey.
Yagé Ceremonies Led By:
Taita Juanito (Inga)
Grandfather Albertino (Cofán)
What Begins to Open
Remember that you are nature, and nature is you.
This is a moment to focus on yourself—to immerse yourself in self-trust and intuition. To return to more natural ways of living, slow down, reconnect, express yourself without judgment, and rediscover the freedom to play. To deepen your relationship with your feminine essence through sacred medicinal plants.
During our time together, we will explore the cycles of a woman’s life, the roots of inherited behaviors, and the wisdom that resides within the body. We will examine what nourishes your life, what no longer serves you, and cultivate new ways of moving forward with greater clarity, connection to the Earth, and confidence.
Have you ever found yourself so immersed in the roles of wife, mother, daughter, sister, leader, or caregiver that you lose touch with yourself and no longer know how to return home?
This women’s retreat is a sacred space—a time to place the roles of everyday life on pause, to step away from the constant doing and caring for others, and simply be. It is an opportunity to explore yourself deeply, reconnect with who you are, and return to life feeling more whole, lighter, stronger, and happier.
Through Yagé ceremonies, ancestral plant medicines, womb healing, systemic therapy, and the teachings of Indigenous elders, each participant embarks on a journey into her own depths within a safe and supportive environment.
Your ancestral heart knows the way.
What awaits us during the week?
Three Yagé ceremonies (Bufo ceremonies will be offered to women who are menstruating).
Plant saunas specially prepared for women.
Purging medicine to cleanse and prepare the body.
Systemic therapy and family systems work to explore relationship patterns connected to the roles of daughter, sister, partner, mother, leader, and more.
Dance, music, and weaving, representing the fullness of the soul within this tradition.
Massage, plant baths, and bodywork practices to reconnect with the body, release tension, and nourish yourself.
Teachings on ancestral plant medicines and the stages of a woman’s life—from maiden to mother to elder.
Integration workshops.
This retreat may be for you if…
You long to reconnect with your body, intuition, and inner wisdom.
You feel one chapter of your life is ending and another is beginning.
You are carrying grief, exhaustion, emotional heaviness, or overwhelming responsibilities.
You are ready to explore ancestral patterns and relational wounds with support.
You crave time in nature, ceremony, and authentic connection with other women.
You feel called to work with plant medicine in a safe, trauma-informed, lineage-based environment.
You seek clarity, guidance, serenity, or a deeper relationship with yourself.
The Experience
As women, our lives move through cycles and seasons. We journey through the phases of maiden, lover, mother, and grandmother, shedding identities and discovering new expressions of ourselves along the way.
Our growth is not linear. We move in spirals, balancing between letting go and holding on, releasing and receiving. We question, fall, and begin again.
This retreat offers an opportunity to look closely at what we have inherited, what continues to serve us, and what we are now ready to release.
As women, our knowing is older than time itself. When we are given the opportunity to reconnect with nature, we become it.
We remember who we are and where we come from. When our bodies feel safe, they begin to speak. We discover that everything we need already lives within us. We hear the subtle whispers that guide us. We realize that we are both the answer and the prayer.
When we engage in this work, we find freedom. We remember and give ourselves permission to let our hearts guide our actions.
Beauty walks with us, through us, and all around us.
How the week unfolds
Our week together will include womb work, plant medicine, family systems therapy, and direct teachings passed down through this lineage.
Yagé, known by many as ayahuasca, is at the heart of the ceremonial work. This sacred brew, carried through an unbroken 5,000-year lineage of the Inga and Cofán peoples, enters the body with its own intelligence, meeting each person in a unique way.
The medicine enters the rooms you carry within—places unexplored, hidden, and waiting. As you consciously step into them, something begins to shift.
You will work with this medicine three times during the retreat.
Alongside Yagé, the tradition works with a constellation of Amazonian medicines: ambil, mambe, cahuana, and sweet cassava (yuca dulce). While these medicines are not psychedelic, they are powerful in their own right, each serving a unique purpose—grounding, clarity, nourishment, and sweetness. Together, they support the work before, during, and after ceremony.
Plant saunas created specifically for women will also be offered, using bitter plants first for purification, followed by sweet plants for receiving and integration.
Through family systems work, participants explore inherited relational patterns and unconscious ways of being shaped by family and ancestry. Together we ask:
Which of these patterns are truly mine, and which am I ready to release?
Through dance, music, weaving, and shared reflection, we remember the soul—the parts of ourselves that cannot always be reached through words alone.
We will also gather in what this tradition calls an Encuentro de Saberes (Women’s Circle)—a gathering of wisdom. Women sitting together, speaking honestly, listening deeply, and remembering that each person arrives carrying her own knowledge and truth.
If You Feel the Call
If you feel called or have any questions, please contact us:
Email: info@ambiwasicenter.com
WhatsApp: +57 301 432 6941