51200 Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico
Up to 2 in group
4 Days Package (3 nights)
About this Retreat
Luke DeStefano, IHP2
Co-founder, Ceremony Facilitator, Meditation & Breathwork Guide, Qi Gong Adept
Luke is an Integrative Health Practitioner, plant medicine retreat facilitator, and ceremony guide, with over 20 years of experience in creating safe spaces for personal and collective healing. His service in the healing arts is guided by a passion for empowering individuals to discover the innate wisdom and untapped potential of their own body, mind, and spirit.
In addition to his dedication to health and wellness, Luke serves as a psychedelic preparation and integration guide, ceremonial musician, Kambo facilitator, massage therapist, and breathwork guide. He is also an initiate of the Dharma Mountain lineage of Mahayana Buddhism. His passion for the sacred arts has led him to immersive studies in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Laos, Nepal, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Areas of Expertise
- Ceremony Facilitation & Musicianship
- Holistic Health & Wellness
- Meditation, Breathwork, QI Gong & Buddhist Studies
- Music & Sound Healing
Credentials
- Over 20 years experience in ceremony facilitation & apprentieship
- Initiate of the Dharma Mountain lineage of South Vietnamese Buddhism
- Breathwork Facilitator training (Wim Hoff)
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Alexa Iya Soro,
MA Holistic Counselor
CAGS Expressive ARTS therapy
Medicine Facilitator & Psychotherapist
With a skilled therapeutic and heart-centered approach, Alexa empowers you with tools and practices essential for your continued growth and self-discovery through her work with ancestral medicine, talk therapy, somatic and mindfulness practices, Alexa utilizes Depth Psychology, Internal Family Systems, Relational/Cultural Therapy, and Yin Yoga Therapy, incorporating sacred medicine work and techniques such as nervous system entrainment, neuroscience-psychoeducation, and the appropriate implementation of mythology, ritual, and ancestral connection.
Alexa holds a Master's degree in Holistic Counseling & Eco-Expressive Arts and a Bachelor's degree in Humanistic Psychology from Brown University. For over 10 years, Alexa has been on the path of ritual healing, grief processing, and plant medicine, studying under world class teachers from both indigenous and western approaches.
Areas of Expertise
-Psychedelic Integration & Ceremony Preparation
-Grief Companionship
-Ceremony & Ritual Facilitation
Credentials
- 5-MeO-DMT facilitation training, Tandava
- Brown University - BA Psychology
- Naropa - Buddhist Applications of Therapy
- Salve Regina University - Masters Holistic Counseling
- Internal Family Systems Certified
- Ancestral Healing Facilitator Training with Daniel Foor
- 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
- Cacao Facilitation Training
Details of this retreat
A private ayahuasca or psilocybin retreat, held for one person or one couple at a time at La Fuente, our adobe homestead above Valle de Bravo. Which medicine is right for you is decided together on the intro call. There's no group to fold into and no schedule to keep up with: the days are shaped around you, and the ceremony sits at the center of them.
It begins before you travel: an intro call, a medical review, and guidance on your intention and a dietary lead-in, so you arrive ready rather than braced.
At La Fuente you're fed from the garden. The stay is three nights with one ceremony night, or a night longer with two ceremonies and a rest day between them. Ceremony is held in a candlelit room with live, channeled sound through the night, never a playlist. Mornings bring breathwork, movement and meditation; afternoons are for rest and the garden.
Before you leave you have an integration session with Alexa, so what opened takes root in ordinary life.
Prices, the same whichever medicine:
- One person, 3 nights, 1 ceremony: $2,000
- One couple, 3 nights, 1 ceremony each: $3,400
- Each extra night: $250 per person, $400 per couple
- A second ceremony: $1,100 per person, $1,800 per couple
Airport transfer, the steam dome and cold plunge, Thai yoga massage and online integration sessions after you leave can be added.
Every retreat starts with a free 30-minute call, and a medical review comes before anything is booked.
Sacred Counsel does not administer, supply or handle any controlled substances. Ceremonies are held by independent facilitators operating under local law; we hold the preparation, the container and the integration.