Hayulima: Spiritual and Plant medicine retreats, Mindo, Ecuador
Up to 20 in group
December 3 - 8, 2025
About this Retreat
Ceremonial Leader
Salvador´s devotion to medicinal plants began at a young age in his homeland, Mexico. Since then he has worked with many elders and masters of different ancient traditions.
He is initiated into the practices and rituals of the Red Path such as the Sweat Lodge, Vision Quest, Sun dance, Star dance, limpias and various kinds of ceremonies. He is in service to the medicines of Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Peyote holding ceremonies in Ecuador, Mexico and around the world.
He is the guardian of the Hayulima Spiritual Sanctuary
Musician and healing guide
Grounding . Integration . Regulation
I started on this path with the intention of healing chronic mental and physical illness. Having tended to the forgotten parts of myself, I now share what I have learned.
I grew up and continue to live between New York and Portugal. Early exposure to multiple cultures has strongly influenced who I am. Extensive travel to drink from wellsprings of traditional knowledge has informed what I share.
I hold thousands of hours of training and experience as a healing arts practitioner and space holder. Much of this time has been spent as a Trauma Informed Yoga and movement Instructor (E-RYT 500+) and as a maker of healing songs and sounds. I regularly sit in ceremony and spend much of my life immersed in studentship with plant allies.
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Details of this retreat
Welcome friends,
Thank you for landing here. Calling the Muses is the result of a dream to create a space where we can commune in celebration of the dark passages we have passed through and awaken resting creative impulse. The ones extinguished by circumstance or confused minds, the ones we know are within us, waiting for the right environment to express and the ones we never knew were in there in the first place.
This is the place to conceive and grow.
We are meeting for 5 nights from December 3-8 2025 at the Hayulima Spiritual Sanctuary in Mindo, Ecuador. Deep in the terrain of the Cloud Forest, surrounded by vibrant, wildlife (as well as wild, life.)
If you are ready to create art from the depths of your story. To share in celebration with community. To move, speak, dance and create in new ways.
This is for you.
Learn more about the process, how to join and what to expect below.
With love,
C
our central exploration
Many of us have sat in the trenches of our healing work, talking, restoring and building our way back into the land of the living. This retreat is your next step. This is embodied liberation back to your creative essence.
A vital part of this is deep understanding and recognition of the healing power of the night, the darkness, the fertile psychic space from which all life comes.
In the darkness seeds of creation are planted. A matrix of potential and nourishment, the night is a fertile place we go to dream. To conjure new realities. To gestate the desires of our heart and birth them into the light of the day. Through proper relationship with the darkness we can come to understand ourselves and the world in a more beautiful way.
It is in the cool, all encompassing privacy of the darkness that we can process and tend to aspects of ourselves needing repair.
By familiarizing ourselves with the midnight of the psyche new parts of ourself may be reveled to the light