Women's Healing Retreat, Peru

Retreat Highlights

• Traditional Q’ero Despacho Ceremony in the mountains of Ausangate: This is a traditional ceremonial offering of prayer to the spirits of the land in Peru. Maestra Mercedes and her Husband Jostino are native Q’ero shamans, one of the last living descendants of the Incas, who will guide you through this sacred experience in the powerful mountains of Ausangate. It’s a special and powerful way to ask for blessings of good health, protection, and prosperity, while deepening your connection to the mountains and the spirits of the land. If you’re looking to connect with indigenous culture here, I cannot recommend this experience enough. These maestros are the real deal!
• Huachuma Ceremony: Huachuma is a legal, native medicine to the high andes of Peru - a cactus, known as the Grandfather spirit. He is a powerful plant teacher and healer, used to treat physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments. The experience is often described as heart-opening and can provide insights into one’s life and personal growth. Huachuma brings you out of the mind into the depths of the heart to help you experience the pure power of divine, unconditional love to help you heal on a soul level, remember the truth of who you are and connect you deeper with nature.He will show you where the limitations and the patterns for your ego are getting in the way of living up to your full potential. The medicine provides great support in releasing suppressed traumas, emotions and the pain in your heart so that you can return to your natural state of being and welcome in greater levels of peace, freedom and connection in your life. He will help you harmonize your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual body. The ceremony will take place in a special location by a beautiful river at the base of Puma Huanca - a special mountain here in Sacred Valley, with Avalon and I holding space for you throughout the entire experience. At times, you'll have quiet moments to connect with the medicine on your own, while other times will involve music, prayer, and open discussions to support whatever comes up for you. After we will return home for closing fire ceremony.
• Sound Healing Ceremony: A special, privately curated Sound Healing Ceremony guided by Avalon held in the coziness of the house. The ceremony is weaved with crystal bowls, crystal pyramids, flute, drum, harmonica, sacred songs and personalized light language.
• Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Aleider: A traditional sweat lodge is an ancient healing ceremony that invites purification, offering a journey inward and into the womb of Mother Earth. Through this ceremony, we connect with the four elements, their spirits, our ancestors, guides, and the cycle of life and death. It is both a rebirth and a celebration of life. When we emerge from the lodge, we are renewed with greater clarity, fresh energy, and cleansed from various energies. The experience is designed to be safe yet can also be challenging. The sweat lodge is guided by Aleider, a storyteller, voice alchemist, and medicine man. Initiated through the Celtic sweat lodge tradition, he also incorporates teachings from the Lakota tribe of North America. His work as a facilitator of Sacred Space, especially in connecting to the authentic voice, has deepened his understanding of prayer within the lodge. His ceremonies are beautifully crafted journeys into the heart, blending prayer, devotional singing, and storytelling in harmony with the elements and the wisdom of the medicine wheel.
• Luxury Spa Afternoon: Includes a dry chamber sauna, eucalyptus steam chamber, Spanish shower, massage room, a tub made with stones and quartz rocks (hand picked and brought down from the mountains by one of the owners) and pools with fresh water from the mountains naturally purified by salt from the maras. The space is created to recharge energy.
• Breathwork Ceremony: We will be working with three different Sacred Feminine Breathwork methods designed to heal your womb, awaken your creative power and the feminine intelligence within you. You will be held in an intentional, loving and ceremonial container while being guided on a journey deep within your soul and open the gateway to expanded states of consciousness where profound transformation occurs through the intimate meeting of self. Here are encouraged to freely express yourself in any way you need. Anything and everything is welcome in this space, unapologetically with out judgement. All the methods prioritizes re-establishing safety within the body by utilizing the Parasympathetic Nervous system. Breathwork is great to rebalance the emotional body, heal the pain body and activate your souls highest expression.
• Feminine Embodiment Workshops: Will be created based on the collective needs of the group. These workshops are designed to deepen your connection to your feminity and heal any sister/mother/masculine wounds you may be carrying.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Sydney

Sydney Foltz

Hello My love! I'm Sydney, I will be your guide during this incredible week together, holding space for you to awaken your power as a woman and reconnect with the divine essence within. About five years ago, I reached a breaking point—burnt out from the relentless hustle of being an actress and comedian in Chicago. Juggling multiple jobs, endless auditions, and big projects, I found myself thinking, There has to be more than this. That realization led me to the Amazon of Peru, where I sat in dieta with Shipibo maestros, working with Ayahuasca. Little did I know, this experience would become the catalyst for the most expansive and liberating era of my life. I returned from the jungle transformed, with an undeniable knowing that my true purpose was to live, grow, and heal in deep connection with Mother Earth. So, I took the greatest leap of my life—I quit my jobs, left my agency and podcast, sold all my belongings, ended my relationship, and moved to a new country with no plan, only trust. Since then, my path has been one of devotion—learning, training, and immersing in the sacred medicines of the Earth, specifically with Rose and Huachuma. I have received extensive training in Shamanic Reiki, Sacred Feminine Alchemy within the lineage of the Rose, Trauma-Informed Breathwork facilitation, Akashic Records and Plant Medicine Integration. My initiation with the spirit of Rose deepened through a powerful dieta—about 3 weeks full of solitude, fasting, and communion with her essence. This journey awakened my Queendom, strengthened my boundaries, deepened my connection with goddesses like Quan Yin & Mary Magdalene, and helped me heal ancestral wounds and childhood traumas and allowed me to step into my power in a way I could of never imagined. In the end, Rose extended an invitation—to devote my path to her teachings and guide women in awakening through her essence. I humbly accepted, and since then, my work has been in full service to her wisdom. Now, I reside in the Sacred Valley of Peru, a land of profound transformation. Surrounded by the Apus—mountains that serve as portals to the heavens—I have undergone my own deep rebirth. It is here that this retreat was birthed, woven in prayer and ceremony from the depths of my heart. Every detail has been intentionally curated to create a safe and loving space where all aspects of your feminine are welcome. This is a space to take off your masks, drop the armor, and surrender to the magic that already lives within you. I vow with all that I am that you will be divinely held and cared for as you awaken to the remembrance of who you truly are. Welcome, sister. This journey awaits you.

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