About this Retreat
Sage is a guide in expanding consciousness and integrating through the body, breath, and connection to Earth. For many generations, her Lusitanian and Anatolian lineages have been creating spaces so that life can flow.
Sage’s initiation into the path of sacred space began when she was seeking healing for almost a lifetime of severe chronic Lyme disease, depression, and trauma. For over a decade, she has studied the transpersonal: meditation, shamanic cosmologies and medicines, depth psychology, and consciousness. She holds a BS from Georgetown University and a MA in East-West Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and she is trained through the Awe Foundation in Transpersonal Psychedelic Therapy with a strong focus on deep ecology and shamanic cultures. Her approach is in deep reverence for our resiliency and radically trusting in life’s initiations as the path of awakening. Through the alchemy of inner-reconciliation, we become medicine for the collective and stewards of the mystical.
Sage's work brings together modern trauma resolution science and spiritual healing. She apprentices closely under Onanyá Pablo (a Shipibo spirit doctor), and works with the traditional Shipibo modality of channeled Ikaros, learned from the plants after years in master plant dietas. She has also pilgrimaged many times over the years to learn from multiple other indigenous families of South and Central America in their ancestral lands. She has been leading international medicine retreats for over six years - both in-residence and hosting at various retreat centers. Sage is also trained in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Conscious-Connected Breathwork, Systemic Family Constellations, the Holotropic Paradigm, Axiatonal Alignment, and Ecopsychology.
With the preservation of indigenous wisdom close to her heart, she founded a nonprofit, Caya, dedicated to supporting indigenous voices, sustainability of their ancestral lands, and healing scholarships.
Matthew is a gifted musician with over two decades of experience mastering the guitar. He was drawn to the path of ceremony to heal trauma, grief, and chronic illness experienced in his life. As he awakened on this path, he began to recover the healing wisdoms of his Mexican curandero and Native American ancestors. He brings this connection into his work, especially through tobacco clearings.
Matthew provides support through the therapeutics and meditation of music, as he is fascinated in the vibratory nature of existence. Vibration is everything: it is what we are made of, it is in us and all around us.
Alongside sacred sound, the practices of yoga, breathwork, and holistic health have been transformative in his life. Matthew's education in ecology and physics inform his focus on connecting the art and science of healing and consciousness evolution.
Matthew is a truly gifted musician who has recorded with leading artists in the world of medicine music. He channels the pure spirit of spontaneity in his devotion to sacred sound, healing, and beauty.
Details of this retreat
Illuminate consciousness. Initiate a new era of your life. | We are a portal for self-exploration and healing. We hold small-group, consciousness expanding retreats in a safe, attuned, and profound environment. Our path bridges ancestral wisdom, ritual, and therapeutic care.
We invite you to join us for a weekend to heal and explore the nature of consciousness. Through two sacred ceremonies, release rituals, and a reconnection to our elemental nature, we find our way home. We learn to walk a new, ancient way. And we remember the love within.
Our retreats are a sanctuary for spiritual seekers to safely and sincerely explore their connection to the Divine. We welcome people of all faiths and paths who feel the call to journey with us. Our work's roots are from the Amazon rainforest of South America, where for many centuries, indigenous tribes have connected to the sacred through communion with nature and chants called ikaros. We are blessed to carry the ancestral lineage of the Shipibo, radical nonduality, and other ancient and global teachings that are echoes of a fundamental truth. Throughout this retreat, we explore consciousness and we cleanse limiting patterns that have blocked us from uniting with our innermost truth.
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Our approach to expansion and healing implements sacred ceremony with an inspired path of integration in mind, body, and spirit that is informed by many years of intensive study and skilled service. Our intention is grounded in illuminating the Self. We deepen so that we can expand into all we are.
We understand that Earth, our bodies, our minds, our feelings are inherently connected. We open safe spaces to expand your consciousness and heal across many paradigms. And in doing so, your healing serves the world.
The Roots of Our Work: Healing with a reconnection to the power of Earth. Reawakening ancient rhythms to align with your purpose. Illuminating the Self to co-create a harmonious world.
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Prior to registering, please message us directly here or at awaken@iluminaretreats.com. There is a mandatory interview and health screening process. We will also share information about our spiritual nonprofit church, answer any questions you have, and give you access to our retreat PDF/activities/testimonials. While we are new to Retreat Guru, we are established retreat guides with 8 years of experience hosting international and domestic groups.
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Financial Investment:
We are a nonprofit and participation is considered a donation. The donation is a contribution and therefore non-refundable. If you notify us within 21 days of the retreat, your donation is able to be transferred 1x to a future event.
We put our trust in participants to choose the donation for your own participation, based on an estimation of your income and financial possibilities. If you are not sure where you fall, use your heart to decide.
“Abundance offering” is for those who would like to contribute to making these offerings accessible to a wider community. “Balanced offering” is the standard rate and helps us sustain operation expenses of running these events. “Access offering” is for those with limited financial resources, where the full donation would create a barrier. Or you can choose a custom amount that feels in alignment for you.