Rainbow Bridge Cacao + Plant Medicine Pilgrimage
Rainbow Bridge Cacao + Plant Medicine Pilgrimage
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Up to 14 in group
February 1 - 8, 2025
A preparation course valued at $109 is included with the retreat at no extra cost
Retreat Highlights
- We will have the honor of being with Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil Mayan Elders, Fire Shamans and Cacao Guardians to connect to the lineages of the medicines we share with the world, so we can be in right relationship with the cultures that have held the wisdom of awakening for millennia.
- We will work with Cacao, Ninos Santos, Family Constellations, Transpersonal Group Work, Prayer, Offerings, Fire, and Ceremony to reclaim our innate relationship to our body, and the greater body of the Earth.
- In this process we embody and open our channels so we can a become a potent vessel of service on this planet. Specifically, a lot of our transpersonal work will be focused on the Wounds of the Healer.
- Each full day we’ll have an opportunity to learn and listen with elders and work together within a wide range psychotherapeutic, transpersonal and mystical experiences.
- Along with all of this, we are leaving room for fun, play, joy, dance, and of course, some shopping in the local villages for handmade and organic handicrafts and ceremonial garb.
- We are also very excited to be able to come together in ritual around a very important holiday in Central America, Dia de Los Muertos. With the thinned veils and opportunity to closely explore our relationship with death, bones, and our ancestors, expect this passage to change you forever.
About this Retreat
Krystal is the Co-Founder of Kokoleka Collective, Trauma Integration Practitioner, Yin Yoga Teacher and Plant Medicine Educator and Journey Guide. She is currently pursuing her Master's Degree as an Integrated Psychedelic Therapist with AWE Organization. She specializes in working with women who suffer from depression, anxiety and trauma who to desire to become embodied, regulated and empowered in their feminine core. She currently resides in Guatemala and Kaua'i, where she supports native communities in bridging their ancestral wisdom with the modern world.
Carlos Inigo is the Co-Founder of Kokoleka Collective, Nature Immersion Guide & Men’s Work Facilitator who spends his time living between Guatemala and Kaua’i.
Ana Maria is a second generation Mayan Cacao Guardian, owner of Liquor Marron in Guatemala.
Details of this retreat
Join us on an initiation with cacao, the way of the Bridge, and the re-membrance of our ancestral heart.
This is a unique, one-of-a-kind pilgrimage that blends modern transpersonal psychology with ancestral wisdom to empower us to become bridges in what is emerging as a new story for humanity.
In this way, we can show up up humbly in service as Cacao Medicine Carriers, here to re-awaken the seed of the indigenous soul of the world.
In our hyper productive, consumption based capitalistic culture, many of our brothers and sisters are ancestrally starving, our indigenous roots drying up as we’re fed constant distractions, self-hatred propaganda, pharmaceuticals to numb us, and foods that make us ill.
Our hope is the initiation you complete here will ripple out into your family line, your community, and the collective, as a curing salve.
Our intention is to create a life-altering space to unlearn all the ways we’ve forgotten who we are.
In addition, we hope to give life to the art of the sacred rites of passage we lost through the process of colonization, homogenization and individualization.
Although many of us will never get the gift of being given a rite of passage with our own family line, we hope that this experience of initiation will bring you to your roots, creating a strong foundation inspired by your own ancestral traditions as well as the Mayan traditions we will commune and learn with.
This is a unique, one-of-a-kind pilgrimage that blends modern transpersonal psychology with ancestral wisdom to empower us to become bridges in what is emerging as a new story for humanity.
In this way, we can show up up humbly in service as Cacao Medicine Carriers, here to re-awaken the seed of the indigenous soul of the world.
In our hyper productive, consumption based capitalistic culture, many of our brothers and sisters are ancestrally starving, our indigenous roots drying up as we’re fed constant distractions, self-hatred propaganda, pharmaceuticals to numb us, and foods that make us ill.
Our hope is the initiation you complete here will ripple out into your family line, your community, and the collective, as a curing salve.
Our intention is to create a life-altering space to unlearn all the ways we’ve forgotten who we are.
In addition, we hope to give life to the art of the sacred rites of passage we lost through the process of colonization, homogenization and individualization.
Although many of us will never get the gift of being given a rite of passage with our own family line, we hope that this experience of initiation will bring you to your roots, creating a strong foundation inspired by your own ancestral traditions as well as the Mayan traditions we will commune and learn with.
Schedule
Sample Daily Itinerary
7am: Movement & Group Shares
8am: Light Breakfast
9:30am: Group Work & Activity
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Cacao or Fire Ceremony (away from retreat center)
7pm: Dinner & Rest/Sauna
7am: Movement & Group Shares
8am: Light Breakfast
9:30am: Group Work & Activity
1pm: Lunch
2pm: Cacao or Fire Ceremony (away from retreat center)
7pm: Dinner & Rest/Sauna
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Kokoleka Collective, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Directions
Getting there
NOTE: Please reference the correct dates corresponding to your booking.
Please book your flight to arrive at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala no later than 8am the morning of Saturday, October 26th, 2024 OR Saturday, February 1st, 2025. It is highly recommended to arrive on the evening of Friday, October 25th, 2024 OR Friday, January 31st, 2025 and share an Airbnb with other participants. This has worked great for our guests in the past.
Participants will be departing in a group shuttle (provided) from an agreed meeting point in the city to the retreat space on Lake Atitlan on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 OR Saturday, February 1st, 2025at 9:00am. The journey to the retreat space from Guatemala City will be around 3.5 - 5 hours.
Please arrange your travels so that you can be on time for our shuttles. If you miss the group shuttle, we can help you arrange a private shuttle at your own expense.
Departure
We will be departing the retreat center at noon on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 OR Saturday, February 8th at 12pm.
The journey back to Guatemala City will be at 1pm and will take 3.5-5 hours, so we recommend booking a flight that leaves after 7pm on November 2nd, 2024 OR February 8th, 2025 or the next day (ideal).
Many guests will be staying for a day or two in the city together in an Airbnb, or a few days to do some traveling after. We recommend building your trip out to give yourself 2 days of padding to land into this experience. One idea is staying in San Marcos or checking out the town of Antigua, before or after the retreat for some amazing shopping, culture, food, and fun.
Guatemala COVID Entry Requirements
According to the Guatemala Embassy website, you do not need to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter Guatemala.
NOTE: Please reference the correct dates corresponding to your booking.
Please book your flight to arrive at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Guatemala no later than 8am the morning of Saturday, October 26th, 2024 OR Saturday, February 1st, 2025. It is highly recommended to arrive on the evening of Friday, October 25th, 2024 OR Friday, January 31st, 2025 and share an Airbnb with other participants. This has worked great for our guests in the past.
Participants will be departing in a group shuttle (provided) from an agreed meeting point in the city to the retreat space on Lake Atitlan on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 OR Saturday, February 1st, 2025at 9:00am. The journey to the retreat space from Guatemala City will be around 3.5 - 5 hours.
Please arrange your travels so that you can be on time for our shuttles. If you miss the group shuttle, we can help you arrange a private shuttle at your own expense.
Departure
We will be departing the retreat center at noon on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 OR Saturday, February 8th at 12pm.
The journey back to Guatemala City will be at 1pm and will take 3.5-5 hours, so we recommend booking a flight that leaves after 7pm on November 2nd, 2024 OR February 8th, 2025 or the next day (ideal).
Many guests will be staying for a day or two in the city together in an Airbnb, or a few days to do some traveling after. We recommend building your trip out to give yourself 2 days of padding to land into this experience. One idea is staying in San Marcos or checking out the town of Antigua, before or after the retreat for some amazing shopping, culture, food, and fun.
Guatemala COVID Entry Requirements
According to the Guatemala Embassy website, you do not need to present proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to enter Guatemala.
Accommodation
Each guest will stay in a double room which offers a little extra privacy and space you may need for this pilgrimage with your own full or twin sized bed and a shared bathroom with 1-2 other people. Each room is uniquely and thoughtfully designed throughout the property.
Retreat Price
Retreat Price
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Peace of Heaven is owned by a Guatemalan woman named Lesley who fell in love with Lake Atitlan nearly 20 years ago. Peace of Heaven is located in San Marcos, Lake Atitlan, which is a small town of around 4,000 people full of magic. From San Marcos, you can spot 5 of the Lake’s volcanoes: Atitlan, San Pedro, Toliman, Acatenango, and Agua.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
During this week, your body will be nourished with healthy, simple, yet exquisitely delicious and thoughtful locally sourced plant-based cuisine, prepared lovingly by our longtime dear friend.
What's Included
- 7 nights, 8 days of accommodation on a beautiful lakeside home called Peace of Heaven
- Mayan Fire Ceremony with Kaqchikel Mayan Daykeeper Walter Quicain
- Cacao Ceremony with Mayan Tztuijil Healers Sebastian and Ana Maria who also prepare their own ceremonial cacao
- Day trip to a secret & sacred Mayan Altar and a Cacao Forest located on the coast
- Ninos Santos Ceremony with the theme of initiation, death and re-birth
- 1 day Vision Quest & Fast to prepare your vessel for the initiation ceremony
- Daily morning silence with space for your own personal practice
- Daily Family Constellations & Psychotherapeutic group work which addresses some of the deepest Wounds of the Healer
- Daily Movement inspired by 5 Rhythms and other somatic based lineages
- Shopping Day in San Juan, Lake Atitlan’s gem for organic, hand woven fabrics & handicrafts
- Daily use of the temezcal to pamper and nourish your body
- Group Celebration Dinner out at a local European & Guatemalan Fusion restaurant
- Built in support of your process within your Daily Heart Share groups & our facilitation team
- 3 Preparation & 3 Integration Group Sessions to prepare you for this initiation and your re-entry in the world
- Opportunities to dive deeper 1-on-1 with our facilitation team before and after the retreat for deeper support if needed
- Private Group Shuttle & Boat to and from the Guatemala City Airport to Casa Paloma
- Healthy, organic plant based traditional meals prepared by our dear friend and local Mayan chef, Lucy
What's Not Included
- Airfare to/from the center and any additional activities or purchases you do outside of the retreat
